in is the opposite of out

Believe it or not, I've had a lot of things to say here, just haven't been motivated to say them. But I hate doing what I really should be doing right now, which is packing, so here goes:

• American Laundromat got a new website a while back. Yay! But apparently they're running out of Say It With Fire, so y'all better hurry and stock up.


• Um, what's the deal with the Sisters' official site?


• Kristin's probably been on tour with Gloria Deluxe in support of the new show, Must Don't Whip 'Um, although I'm really just guessing about that.


• The amazing Gina Vivinetto has a a blog of her own to showcase her musings and let the lame-ass St. Petersburg Times know once and for all what sorts of coolness it's missing. What, that's not enough Vivinettiness for you? OK, go listen to Gina sing in her wonderful band The Peabodies, or go listen to her sing in her wonderful early-1990s band Bullwinkle (what? no 400 Blows? or Oh My Stars? and did anybody else here not know that "Mess" wasn't always a-capella?), or hell, go hassle Boulevard magazine to see if they still have any copies of that back issue with her award-winning short story "Avert Your Eyes." Still not enough? Well, in that case you might be out of luck.


• The current issue of Magnet magazine includes XIII, by Pee Shy's old stablemates Home, in its cover story on "Lost Classics," the "75 underappreciated albums that have graced our pages over the last 14 years," blah blah blah. Uh, didn't the cable channel TNT used to brag about having the Lost Classics, or was that something else? Home's mention is very appropriate and deserving, and kudos to the editors for noticing XIII and not mindlessly joining the usual critical stampede for XI. But ya know, I keep looking and for some reason still haven't found the item about Pee Shy. 'Cause you know there's got to be one.

And best of all, best of all Vegas Hat Man, someone here posted the most tantalizing of rumors several weeks ago:

rumors are flying
they are in the studio weekly now
april 2007 will spring

I wonder: was that intended to be a haiku?

Finally, a treat. I never got around to posting anything about that magical, joyous event that was Come The Freak On 2006 in St. Pete, but here's some video from the second evening of Jenny performing "It's the Love." For anyone who never saw Pee Shy back in the day, it's a tiny glimpse of what you missed. Just squint and pretend that Cindy's somewhere off to the side holding an accordion, and that it's Mary instead of Eric holding the guitar:



By the way, Jenny totally rocked the clarinet on the Homehunters' song "Burden," too.