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Paul Weller last night, work today.

Weller was excellent as always, even if the crowd took a while to get into it. Nearly got into a fight with a Brit who didn't understand why everyone wasn't going apeshit. I gradually came to understand where he was coming from, but pushing people and forcing your way ahead of them isn't usually the best way to get...
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Sometimes life just sucks.

On the upside, though, I managed to catch most of Maximo Park's in-store at Amoeba last night. That Paul Smith sure makes singing great seem effortless.

Feh.

GDLAND? You can read the first issue for free over Newsarama.com.

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If you're on last.fm, feel free to add me to your list of friends. Pretty cool site that I wasted far too much time poking around on this morning. I love seeing what other people are listening to.

In other news, Jamie did a quick interview-type thing for this site, so look at that. It's the fifth article or so down.

Still at work on a Friday evening after spending roughly four hours at the always-inviting Jupiter. That'll teach me.

The upside, though, is that while I'm finishing up the day's work, I get to listen to AS IS NOW, the latest album by Paul Weller. Last year's STUDIO 150 was a bit of a disappointment for me. (Not a huge fan of covers...
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And the last of my three Newsarama talks is up on that site now. If you're so bored you literally have nothing else to do, you can read that here.

Oh, and there's also this on Comicon.com's The Pulse.

The Eric Stephenson gab-a-thon continues at Newsarama today with this tastyinterview about the state of Image Comics. And that's "tasty," as in "mind numbingly dull discourse on comics and the people who make them" to you.

In other news, though, that new Black Rebel Motorcycle Club album is pretty damn good. Kinda like the Rollin' Stones in their LET IT BLEED period...

That LONG HOT SUMMER interview is up here.

The always awesome Brian Scot Johnson over at Khepri.com just informed me he's spotlighting LONG HOT SUMMER in the Image section of the site. If you're interested in picking the book up and don't live near a comic book store (or for shame! your store doesn't stock the book), you can buy online here. (FOUR-LETTER WORLDS is available for order on the site...
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I found this extremely entertaining. Your mileage may vary.