New episode going up late tonight or tomorrow. I’ll be in-studio with The Overnightscape’s incomparable host Frank Edward Nora, discussing the recent Scott Crawford/alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.abortion show at The Loop Lounge in Passaic, NJ, my music, and, knowing Frank and I as I do, probably a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with my music. There should actually be some music on the show too, including something recorded at the Loop show in all likelihood. Might even be something live in the studio too, if we can swing it. Tune in tonight/tomorrow, and every day, really, because Frank does an awesome show. It’s a great listen, and an honor to be on it.

The Overnightscape is also on MySpace:

http://myspace.com/overnightscape

…if you have the means, you should probably be at The Loop Lounge in Passaic, NJ.

Get Precious, the band I’m in, are playing. The O>Matics are playing. alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.abortion are also playing. For those of you who don’t know who they are, you’ll find out about them soon enough. For those of you who do know who they are, don’t tell the other people. They’ll find out about them soon enough. For now, all I can say to those of you who don’t know who alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.abortion are, especially if I know you, is that you’re really not going to want to miss them. I don’t ask people to do this very often, but trust me on this.

There will also be free video games, and Jesus Christ will be there. No, I’m not kidding.

It’s free. As in, there’s no cover whatsoever. Just pay for your drinks if you drink, and you’re good to go.

The doors at the Loop will open at 9:30. You’re going to want to be there as early as possible, because the place is going to be packed, and as I’ve said elsewhere and perhaps here, I’d like to see it packed with people I actually like.

I have spoken, and perhaps said too much. I hope to see you all there.

Story here.

I remember seeing a piece on Barry Halper’s memorabilia collection back in the late 1980’s in some sports magazine and being utterly amazed, and at this point, his collection was significantly smaller than it ended up being. A few years ago, I went to the Baseball Hall Of Fame, and at the time, unbeknownst to me before I walked into the building, they had the portion of his collection that he’d either donated or loaned to them set up in its own exhibit. Totally blew me away. It wasn’t just the items he had there, though they were astounding in their own right in many cases (so much that I’m not even sure where to start naming them; if you read the article above, it names some of them…). It was the care with which they were arranged in the exhibit, to replicate the pictures I’d seen a decade and change before, in that way that totally resembled a room filled with things a guy really loved. That had to be his doing rather than the Hall of Fame’s, because the Cooperstown folks can be very hit and miss with their displays (the current layout of the Hall leaves a lot to be desired, frankly, but I think it’s because they have a lot of items travelling with their “Baseball As America” exhibit), and because it just looked like it was all arranged with love rather than mere reverence. Any of you who collect things and display them will know what I’m talking about here. From the perspective of an individual collector who’s seen a lot of private collections, I’ve never seen anything before or since that equalled the work Barry Halper did, and I probably never will again unless more of his collection ends up in Cooperstown. This man loved baseball and its history more than just about anyone I can think of, and the effort and care he put into his own “Hall Of Fame” was nothing short of staggering.

However, more importantly than the “Oh my god, this man owns Babe Ruth’s camel hair coat!”-ness of it all (I’m pretty sure that was what jumped out at me the most from the Halper exhibit, thinking about it), from what I’ve read about him over the years, he was also a genuinely nice, very modest guy (and modesty can be in really short supply among collectors, as I’m sure many of you know), and I’m sure he’ll be greatly missed. My heart goes out to his loved ones.

New 50 Foot Wave EP, free! No, really! Kristin Hersh is giving it away!

My Big, Black Cock Radio (Sorta) on pandora.com: Pandora’s actually not that bad of a service, for being newish (funny, she doesn’t look newish…), and you can’t beat their customer service. Plenty of what you hear on this comes recommended by them and not me, but it’s a cool little toy nonetheless. Let me know what interesting things it plays for you.

My first attempt at the LiveJournal commenting record is approaching the halfway mark on the first post it’ll take to get there. I wanted the record for most comments on an individual post, but since LJ caps comments on all posts at 5000 now, I’m just going to keep adding posts identical to the current one until I get to at least a billion or so comments (possibly even a brazillion comments) just for the sake of themselves. I’d actually like the all-time comments received record, I think, but that could make a mess of my whole journal, so let’s start with this for now.

“Lesbianos, in my piano, starring Vincent Spano, but not Ray Romano!”

Ahhhh, the classics.

And here with a few messages, some of them possibly cryptic:

To my surprisingly loyal readership, I’ll be around more after the first of the year, hopefully, but until then, if you’re in the NYC metro area, you want to be at The Loop Lounge on Friday night, December 23rd when doors open at 9:30 PM. I can’t get into too much detail about why, but you want to do it. Trust me.

To the usual Monday night crowd, I don’t think I had any idea how much I missed you all until I was up in front of you last night. It was a little tough to handle, honestly, hence one of the reasons I was a little quiet. I need to see you all a lot more often, and will try my best to do so, even though it’s usually not easy for me to be there.

To Jamal, stay warm and be well. Here’s hoping you can figure out how to walk on water at least one more time. Hopefully someday, you’ll get to read this.