A Few Quickies for Hump Day

Hello world. The week is flying by, as usual. A few quickies for you on this lovely Wednesday:

1) Death Cab covered Freety Johnston's Bad Reputation a while back. It's a good tune, you can download it here. [Insert standard disclaimer about downloading music in this space]

2) As a corollary, check out the Sofa King's recommendation on good tools for music posted on blogs. The blogosphere has quite a lot of good music out there.

3) Finally, I'm going to see some music tonight myself. I'll be checking out the Fray, who is managed by a good friend of mine JDI.

4) Bird flu is rearing its ugly head once again. I'm not worried. I hardly ever eat raw birds.

5) This labor dispute in the NFL is starting to grate on me. As I understand it, the stalemate is over revenue sharing with players; the union is at 60% and the owners are at 56.2%. Split the difference and let's move on.

6) I love IMDB. And I love this guy's IMDB picture even more. But most of all, I love this movie. It stars Mike Norris (Chuck's son), Chad McQueen (Steve's son), and Don Swayze (Swazyehorse's brother). And it's called Death Ring. The joke pretty much writes itself.
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7) Wow, Takanami in Iowa City is good. I had some Kobe steak there last weekend, along with about a dozen other things. And speaking of Iowa City, here's a fun article about a good way to spend the weekend there from the NY Times travel people.

That's all for now. Hope your week is just spectacular.

T