Last night, Jess and I met up with Erik and Gloria at The Map Room which proved to be far superior to the previous night’s escapades at Hop Leaf. Not only did they have Westvleteren on their menu, they had it available for a lower price and the bartenders were much, much, much friendlier. Chicago, this is your place to go. Lucas and Lodewijk, I had the legendary Westvleteren!! You are jealous! Erik and I were talking a bit about some plans to release Starflyer 59 vinyl, more information once we have things figured out. Erik was at CMJ beause he does radio for Thrill Jockey and it reminded me that while I was waiting to meet with our distributor, Redeye, my friend Wes just walked down the street. I hadn’t seen him in about a year. Anyhow, it was a really weird coincidence that I was standing on the street and he was just walking by on the way to another CMJ event. He works for Barsuk now in Seattle which explains his CMJ attendance. :::scott:::
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Some new titles have been added to the btv online store including the new Mt. Eerie split 7″, Starflyer 59 Last Laurel 12″, and Sufjan’s Illinois cd. :::scott:::
There is a nice review of Bosque Brown Plays Mara Lee Miller on Delusions of Adequacy (thanks for spotting it, Ken) and a really favorable one in the current issue of Bust magazine that I retrieved from the P.O. Box last night. There’s something nice in the current issue of Sonic about Bosque Brown, but it’s in Swedish. Krister needs to help us out with some translating. Insound is throwing around some hefty amounts of love for The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore, listing it as one of the best records yet to come in 2005. They’re selling Starflyer 59 Talking Voice vs. Singing Voice LPs over at Insound soon, along with most other btv releases, in stock now. Dave, Nicole, their son Vincent, and I went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Saturday. Willie Wonka seemed to scare Vince, but I thought this was a very solid remake, the darker Tim Burton world was very fitting to the somewhat dark style of the Road Dahl storyline. Sunday, I saw Ben’s display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and wandered around the modern wing a bit after. It had been a while since I’d met up with Cy…