Not sure if musicians and comedians preternaturally get along together. But they definitely both hate cancer. So maybe this benefit for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society was more of a my-enemy’s-enemy-is-my-friend thing? Cancer-hating comedian Todd Barry hosted the Seattle event, which included past and present Sub Pop label mates Eugene Mirman, Isaac Brock, and James Mercer, alongside Neil Hamburger, Tig Notaro, Natasha Legerro, and Tim & Eric‘s Tim Heidecker. Seattle photographer Laura Musselman caught the event for us. Both Mercer and Brock performed sans bands; Modest Mouse recently announced a Friday spot at this year’s Pitchfork Festival, and Mercer’s prepping a Broken Bells debut album with Dangermouse.

Paul Banks has been having plenti of fun masquerading around under the name Julian, releasing a debut LP at just around the same time (again) as that other smart-dressing NYC contemporary with the same first name. For his part InterPaul’s been prolific of late — a stop at Fallon’s, a video with Emily Haines, some free MP3s — and plans to tour his Skyscraper around the world this November with a band that includes members of French Kicks and the Giraffes. In anticipation, the Interpol singer anchored the antics of the It Came From Brooklyn series’ latest installment, this past Friday night in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright Rotunda. Banks brought strings, horns, and interesting covers (America’s “Horse With No Name,” Pixies’ “Into The White”), taking the stage after funny things from Eugene Mirman, readings by Rivka Galchen and Hampton Fancher, and an opening musical set by I’m In You.

Ryan Muir delivers these beautiful shots. Look at them, watch some fan-captured footage, and check the Plenti tourdates.

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Our second year at Kutsher’s was rainier than the first, but that didn’t matter so much to us or, seemingly, the other attendees: If anything, this year felt more celebratory (and debauched) than 2008. You wouldn’t be faulted for noting a certain hippie vibe. Visually, there were the tie-dyed shirts and hoodies (purchased at the amazing lost-in-time gift shop along with cat-shaped thermometers) sported by Sufjan and his band, Animal Collective, and soon enough sprinkled throughout the audiences. Or …. the perpetually smiling guy with the white bag who tried to sell us “special brownies” half a dozen times. Or the crusty, barefoot couple dancing like mad (and like hippies) during Animal Collective. Or folks making out on couches, doing weird things in the swimming pool, etc. Or the ad hoc dance floor that broke out in the lobby on Saturday night (while tellingly, downtown NYC icon Alan Vega, no hippie for sure, played pool by himself twenty feet away). Maybe part of the vibe was built-in by this year’s co-curators the Flaming Lips. Wayne Coyne, in fact, may very well be the most positive vibing frontman you’ll see all year: When the Lips closed the fest with “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” it felt not only fitting, but you almost sort of believed the sentiments for one non-cynical moment.

It took a weekend to get to that point.

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New Zealand’s fourth-most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a cappella-rap-funk comedy folk duo joined forces for a tour through their deep (one-album-and-some-TV-shows deep) catalog at a sold-out Greek Theatre this past weekend. They played the hits — “The Most Beautiful Girl In The Room,” “Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros,” “Bowie” — and most of the rest, including “Sugarlumps” (which is sort of a response song to “My Humps,” but about balls) during which Bret tried to get some girls onstage, only to scream SECURITY when they took him up on it. Classic Aussie headfake. They’re Aussies, right? Opening the show were Flight Of The Conchords‘ occasional side-stars Eugene Mirman (check out his guide to modern life The Will To Whatevs, it’s great) and Arj Barker (who returned during the robot portion of FOTC’s set). Photographer Andrew Youssef took his camera to distill the humor in still frames, so combine those with this setlist to imagine the laffs:

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Just like last year, last night’s Bookeaters benefit was one of those all-time classic events, custom tailored for indie nerds and charitable lit geeks alike. Carl Newman, Grizzly Bear, Britt Daniel, Feist, Kevin Drew, Jim James, Demetri Martin … we’re still reeling. And so we really have no choice but to offer you an exhaustive blow-by-blow (don’t worry, pretty pics too!).

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As promised, here’s our last photo roundup of the shows we hit and folks we pestered on the streets of Austin during this year’s South By Southwest music festival. All in all we had a great time, saw some old friends, and constantly ran into Tim Harrington at the shows we chose to hit (again). If you were there, we’d love to hear what floored ya; we’ve talked up a couple of our picks already (Meat Puppets, New Violators, Lo-Fi-FNK, The Besnard Lakes, Deerhunter, and Menomena come to mind), but top honors go to Saturday’s Drag City treat of Bill Callahan at Central Presbyterian Church (with very special guest Joanna Newsom on piano). Bill gave us everything from Knock Knock‘s “Cold Blooded Old Times” to “Sycamore” from the phenomenal, forthcoming Woke On A Whaleheart, momentarily making the hardwood Church pews the most comfortable seats in Texas.

Other acts on the day included The Good, The Bad & The Queen at the FADER fort (nice to be that close to Damon, sorta sleepy overall though); Menomena and the black parade of The Polyphonic Spree at the blogger-curated Hot Freaks party (awesome job, guys!); and superb sets from Kings Of Leon, Spoon, and the photo-friendly Iggy & The Stooges at the Esquire showcase at Stubb’s. Once again, Jon Bahr delivered us some smashing shots, this time of Norah Jones compatriot Jesse Harris (with singer-songwriter Jessie Baylin), Donovan, and the lovely ladies of The Pipettes. And we spiced up the spread with some man-on-the-street shots to keep it infotaining. Enjoy! Until next year, Austin…

THE PIPETTES

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I’m as much of a comedy dork as I am a music dork. So every year at Bonnaroo I stop by the comedy tent. It’s air-conditioned. Some of my favorite comedians will be there this year, so I asked a few of them to put their iPods on shuffle and tell us about the first seven songs that came up. Yes, I know it’s been done before. But it’s usually FIVE songs. I asked for seven. It was so much fun I asked more comedians who aren’t even going to Bonnaroo to participate. So here’s the Stereogum Shuffle Seven. Apparently comedians like Aimee Mann.

PATTON OSWALT
Patton Oswalt killed as MC at Pitchfork’s thing during SXSW. I want him to MC my next show. He’ll be performing at Bonnaroo this weekend.

1. White Stripes – “Fell In Love With A Girl”
Fell in love with the video first, then the band. I live in the suburbs!

2. Outkast – “Myintroletyouknow”
I’ve got every song they’ve done so far in iTunes. Another one’ll probably pop up. Let’s see…

3. The Who – “Happy Jack”
This song always creeped me out in a cool way. I thought it was about some weird, huge-headed monster who lived in the sand on an abandoned beach, and mutant kids abused him.

4. Aimee Mann – “Par For The Course”
One of her saddest/angriest songs ever. When I first heard it, it applied a little too perfectly to my situation. At the time.

5. Ministry – “N.W.O.”
This shows you the beautiful flower that can grow in the vitamin-rich loam of insomnia, self-loathing and drug abuse.

6. Ennio Morricone – “Il Giardino Delle Delizie”
The title song from the Italian movie THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS. I’ve never seen it and don’t want to. This song created a much better movie in my head.

7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Rich”
I’ll take you out, boy!

PAUL SCHEER
Paul Scheer is the best thing to ever happen to VH1. Stereogum reminds him of Seth Cohen. He’ll be performing with other UCBers at Bonnaroo this weekend.

1. Mark Safan – “Win in the End”
Yes, I have every song from the Michael J. Fox film Teen Wolf on my iPod (Thanks Napster). The best thing about this song is that it has the lyric, “I was blinded by the pain, running wild through the rain, in a parody of ectasy” Wow! That’s deep!

2. R.E.M. – “Turn You Inside Out”
I spent many a morning waiting alone at my bus stop with a cassette tape of REM’s Green album in my yellow sports Walkman thinking, “No One Gets Me!” and having disdain for people who didn’t own Eponymous on vinyl. Now I do the same thing but the bus is replaced by the subway and the bulky walkman is now a slim iPod nano. Yup, I’m still cool.

3. William Shatner – “What Have You Done”
I initially bought this album, because I thought it was going to unintentionally hilarious. But surprisingly Has Been is an amazing album, seriously. However “What Have You Done” is one of the most depressing album tracks of all time as it poetically recounts detail by detail the true story of William Shatner coming home to find his wife, dead in the pool. Suffice it to say, it’s not the best song to stumble on while on fun roadtrip and your iPod is on shuffle.

4. Weezer – “Across the Sea”
Now that Weezer is officially through, I think it’s safe to say that Pinkerton is my absolute favorite Weezer album. “Across the Sea” is a constant reminder that no matter who you date here in America there will always be a much cooler Japanese Girl that you’ll never meet, across the sea, who longs for you. Damn You Japan! You’ve foiled us again!

5. Buzzcocks – “Promises”
This appearance of this song makes realize that I probably have too much Billy Joel and random TV Theme Songs on my iPod and not enough Buzzcocks. It’s time to free up some room for Pete Shelley and the Boys.

6. Frank Black – “Los Angeles”
I was a late bloomer to good music so the 1st time I heard this song was when it was used as the opening theme to the Zach Galifinakis Late Night Talk Show on Vh1. I don’t know what is more embarrassing; that at 25 I didn’t know about Frank Black’s solo work or that I was an avid viewer of Vh1 Late Night Programming. Anyway, I guess Zach is inadvertently responsible for opening me up to a whole world of great music. So thanks Zach.

7. Ice-T “The Girl Tried to Kill Me”
Before star turning roles in Law and Order: SVU and Leprechaun in the Hood, There was the “Hard Core O.G.” Ice-T. I distinctly remember buying this CD just to piss my parents off because it had a picture of Ice-T With a Shotgun in his mouth and two pointed at either side of his head. I didn’t even know his music but I wanted to get revenge for my parents throwing away my Poison album. It worked!

AZIZ ANSARI
Aziz Ansari was hilarious in Indie Clerk Assholes and delightful as MC of South By Stereogum. Once he punched a wall. He’ll be performing at Bonnaroo this weekend.

1. Radiohead – “Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong” Wow! How appropriate is this? I always love getting into the Radiohead hoop-la whenever they start touring/recording. This is a great track from the incredible Airbag EP. The chorus is “A beautiful girl can turn your world into dust.” Don’t let those bitches turn your world into dust fellas, it ain’t worth it!

2. Mix Master Mike – “Anti-Theft Device”
My friend David introduced me to this album my junior year in high school. I’d never heard anything like it. I used to love getting really stoned and listening to it. (Sorry ma!) I soon really got into the whole turntablism genre, particularly Return of the DJ Vols. 1 & 2, Cut Chemist Meets Shortkut: Live at the Future Primitive, and DJ Q-Bert’s Wave Twisters. I eventually even got turntables and became pretty decent at skratching. So – hey – next time you see me “DJing” off a laptop, don’t give me too much shit.

3. Smashing Pumpkins – “Soma”
Quick trivia – In 1997, the Pumpkins contributed a song to the soundtrack to what may be one of the worst films ever created, what film was it? Tick..tick…tick…Bzzzz… It was Batman and Robin! I’m sure a lot of fans were pissed at Billy Corgan for doing that, especially after seeing the video for “Everlasting Gaze” with the goofy Mr. Freeze stuff. I heard Corgan once was cornered about it and told the fans they needed to “CHILL!!!!” (Mr. Freeze voice) Hahahah! I love talking like Mr. Freeze! If you have a problem with that, then you need to “COOL IT!” (That’s 2!!!)

4. Beck – “Blackhole”
Whoa, the ominous, mysterious closer to Mellow Gold. I’m in a Holiday Inn, its about 1:32 AM and this is a creepy, dark song to be blasting out of my hotel room. You know what Beck song has great lyrics? “Nitemare Hippy Girl.” These are two of my favorites – “She’s a melted avocado on the shelf.” “She’s playing footsie in another dimension.” I was trying to convince a friend the other night how cool those lines were, but I don’t think she bought it.

5. Doves – “Pounding”
Uh… I don’t really listen to this song much… I remember a few months back some blog was getting real pissed at people because they were calling this band THE Doves, instead of Doves. Seriously, pick your battles dude.

6. The Beatles – “You Really Got a Hold On Me”
I had a huge crush on this girl my junior year in college. One night we were hanging out in my apartment and I pulled out my guitar and played this song for her. We started making out, and she said “Hey can you put on that song by The Doves?” I said, “First of all, it’s Doves, not THE Doves. Second of all, get the fuck out. NOW.”

7. The Strokes – “Reptilla”
Everyone in NY has their “oh shit dude, so we’re at this bar, turns out the guys we’re hanging out with are in the Strokes!” story. I have a pretty nutty one. Right around when Room on Fire came out, I was at this bar on Avenue A having a beer with Albert, the lead guitar player. Who walks into the bar but another common musician/East Village bar hopper – Ja Rule. He steps up to Albert and I and goes “Hey, you’re in that band the Strokes right?” Albert said, “Yes, that’s me.” Ja got a real angry look and said, “Hey man, Room on Fire sucks dick compared to Is This It. What a shitty followup. Room on Fire, more like Room Sucks Dick.” Out of nowhere, Albert pulls out a tire iron and just starts beating the shit out of Ja and screaming that Ja’s Rule 3:36 album was nothing compared to his debut Venni Vetti Vecci. I heard Ja got so scared of the Strokes that he’s never been east of 2nd Ave since.

SARAH SILVERMAN
Sarah’s “perversely adorable” (Variety) Jesus Is Magic is on DVD now. I saw the live show opening night a few years back, and watched the DVD yesterday. Still funny the second time. She was too busy shooting her new TV show to play my stupid iPod game, so I just asked her what she’s listening to now. I’m flexible! Here are her picks:

Rilo Kiley

Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins

Patty Griffin

Martha Wainwright

The Mountain Goats

The Streets

The Like

TODD BARRY
Todd Barry‘s Cities I’ve Never Performed In Before Tour kicks off this Friday. See him live in your town if you live somewhere he’s never been to. (He’s already been to Sesame St.)

1. Golden Earring – “Twilight Zone”
Not as good as “radar love” but good.

2. Bee Gees – “I’ve Got To Get A Message To You”
Maybe one of my favorite songs ever.

3. Prince – “Raspberry Beret”
I think his wife’s sister is a comedian, so he’s come into various New York comedy clubs. he was supposed to be in the audience at one my shows at the Gotham Comedy Club, but he didn’t show up. I bet he’s not much of a laugher.

4. Elvis Costello – “Chemistry Class”
I’ve probably seen Elvis Costello 30 times. Never seen him do this one live. I don’t think.

5. Aimee Mann – “Goodbye Daroline”
I love Aimee Mann. I’ve done several shows with her and Michael Penn. We ate at a boston chicken in New Jersey once.

6. Sex Pistols – “Silly Thing”
I don’t even know which album this is from. The Sex Pistols were a punk rock band.

7. Elvis Costello – “Night Rally”
I know, another Elvis Costello song. I first heard this on a collection of b-sides called Taking Liberties. But I downloaded it from the the CD of This Year’s Model where it appears as a bonus track. I just felt like being
boring for a minute.

EUGENE MIRMAN
Eugene Mirman‘s organized a fake protest against himself in front of my apartment a few weeks ago. I forgot to go, but later that night ran into him at the corner deli while I was buying paper towels. He said the protest was a success. Eugene’s CD/DVD En Garde, Society! is out now on Sub Pop.

1. Velvet Underground – “Some Kinda Love”
I love the Velvet Underground. I remember sitting in RePlace (a drop-in center/ crisis hotline where I volunteered as a misanthropic teen) listening to The Doors soundtrack and Heroin came on. One of the grown-ups that worked there said, “I haven’t heard Lou Reed in years.” And then I went and bought some Velvet Underground and that served as my bridge from sweet Metal to indie-alt something-or-other. And when I heard “Run Run Run,” I knew I was meant to be a comedian. Everything but the last part was true. Hey, Lou! Thanks for combining darkness and beauty with pretty melodies and discord (you too John Cale!) and for changing music for the best! (Don’t forget Mo and Sterling! Okay. I won’t! But fuck you Doug Yule! JK. I don’t know the details of the breakup).

2. Liz Phair – “Crater Lake”
I don’t know this song well. And I don’t know Whip Smart as well as Exile From Guyville. But Exile is one of the best albums of the 90′s. Or 80′s and 90′s. Or probably any decade. It really is an amazing album. So nothing else really matters. Very few people can say that they made one of the best albums ever, and I feel like Liz Phair can say that. So that’s nice.

3. Cat Stevens – “Hard Headed Woman”
It’s too bad DJ’s drove over Cat’s records with a steamroller when he became Muslim, because it probably raised Global Stupidity 7%, and that’s a shame. You know when this song gets passionate and he goes, “I know many fine feathered friends, but their friendliness depends on how you do!” I liked that part a lot in high school. Does he say feathered? I think he does. I don’t think he’s friends with birds, even now. Also, I am looking for a hard headed woman, so I always liked the song. One that will make me feel so go-oo-oood.

4. Motley Crue – “Too Fast For Love”
This is a great album. I think he just sang “Living on a jet, making love to someone else’s dream.” That’s pretty funny. This is The Crue’s best album. It’s wonderful, catchy glam-punk-metal. If you’ve never heard it and you like stuff like M Ward or Wasp, you’ll like love this record. In case I’m wrong, or lying, listen to it on iTunes before you buy it.

5. Jethro Tull – “My God”
This is the live version from the 25th anniversary box set, not the recording off of Aqualung, just to be clear. “People what have you done/ locked Him in His golden cage/ made Him bend to your religion/Him resurrected from the grave.So lean on Him gently and don’t call on Him to save/ You from your social graces and the sins you wish to waive!” Ian Anderson has been furious at the co-opting of religion for impure purposes for years. Even though journalists were calling him pretentious in the 70′s, Jethro Tull to me was probably what the Cure was to teenage boys who cried when they peed. Plus, as you can imagine, in the live version there is an amazing flute solo.

6. Morphine – “I Know You III”
Morphine was one of my favorite bands in college. I was very sad when Mark Sandman died. The same way that you were sad when JFK or Kurt Cobain died, I was very sad when Mark Sandman died. He was an amazing musician. If you’ve never heard “Cure For Pain,” you should go get it. And you should find the song “King Of Beers” by Treat Her Right, his first band (which featured a harmonica at a time when harmonica’s were rarely featured).

7. Robyn Hitchcock – “I Feel Beautiful”
This is a very, very pretty song. Play it for a girl you like and then she may take off her shirt for you (even if it’s at work!)

8. The Shins – “The Celibate Life”
They’re great. I don’t need to tell you that, someone else must have already. They will be the biggest band of 2009 and finally defeat rap-metal. At least for 12 years. One of them is very sweaty in person. You know who you are.

9. Weezer – “Tired of Sex”
I believe it’s rumored that Rivers doesn’t like this album (or maybe was sad it wasn’t a big hit?) I think it’s fantastic. Plus he’s right, it must be exhausting to fuck a different person each night but not fall in love. I don’t have a hit album and I find it hard to sometimes kiss people and not find someone who knows a lot about pragmatism, backgammon and Phil Ochs, so I can kind of relate.

Yes, Eugene went above the seven song limit. But wasn’t that all enlightening? OK, I’m off to Bonnaroo. I am hoping to have some sort of computer access there so I can fill you in from the site, but Amrit’s gonna be running things here at home base for a few days. If you’re going to ‘Roo say hi. I’ll be the pale blogger with the shitty camera.

From the new Paste:

EUGENE MIRMAN: My first concert was Guns N’ Roses opening for Aerosmith. It was awesome. I was in eighth grade. My brother took me. Could you imagine being 1,000 feet from Axl Rose and later Joey Kramer?! The best part? I got water in my knee and spent the next day in the hospital in surgery. (They cut my knee and drained it! Plus there was a med student who for 20 minutes kept missing the vein in my arm with the IV. She poked a lot of holes in me.) Still, thanks, Ilya (my brother), Axl, Slash, Mr. Tyler, Joe Perry and the rest of the gang for rocking so hard. I hereby offer $100,000 (an amount I don’t have) if Guns N’ Roses re-forms (with or without Steven Adler) and plays on SPIKE TV for 20 minutes.”

How about it Axl? That Botox isn’t paying for itself.

If you’re not busy uploading MasterCard’s MacGyver Super Bowl commercial to YouTube, you can catch Eugene in the flesh this Sunday night. He’ll be performing with Stereogum-fave Demetri Martin and a bunch of bands at something called the Banana Milkshake Fund-Raiser.

Otherwise, hit eugenemirman.com to hear the Marvelous Crooning Child sing Twisted Sister and the Pixies.

Eugene Mirman and David Cross go five rounds with Entertainment Weekly‘s Laura Gilbert.

ROUND 1
EW (Heineken): How long have you guys known each other?
Mirman (Dewar’s neat): I moved to New York four years ago, and we met maybe a year after that.
EW: So why’s David here tonight?
Mirman: I’ve guided him through hard times — but more specifically because I opened for him in D.C. for the recording of his album, and he did the liner notes for mine.

ROUND 2
Mirman (Irish Car Bomb [a shot of Baileys and Jameson dropped into a pint of Guinness]): We drop the glass in here?
Cross (Irish Car Bomb): Then chug. [Drinks] Belch.
EW (Irish Car Bomb): You opened for the Shins, right?
Mirman: Yes, I toured with Modest Mouse, too, and I’m about to do a tour with Yo La Tengo.
Cross: How’d Modest Mouse go?
Mirman: Fun. Most audiences were cool, I do a lot of videos, so people are hesitant, but then you do a video and they pay attention, then people are excited. On one, I edited myself in the Mötley Crüe Behind The Music. So it’s Mötley Crüe talking about how fucked up everything is, and then I’m like, “I woke up with 17 girls inside my dick!”

ROUND 3
EW (Irish Car Bomb): When did you move here from Russia?
Mirman (The Macallan neat): When I was about 4 … I’m pretty drunk.
Cross: I heard the Von Bondies did this Five Rounds thing and didn’t even drink all their drinks.

ROUND 4
EW (Heineken): What albums should someone buy if they wanted to fake being a hipster like you guys?
Cross (Heineken): Get one electroclash CD, whatever it is, then pretend you don’t listen to it anymore and you hate it. And you have to have something on the Vice label, the Streets or Death From Above 1979.
Mirman (The Macallan neat): It depends. Just how cool do you want to be?
Cross: It’s like when The New York Times writes about hipsters and they’re always a year and half behind. I swear to God they just wrote an article about the Blackberry. “Outside of hotshot office people and metrosexual people, most people don’t know about it.” What?!?! It’s been around for fucking years. Years. Not months, years! Several years. But “Hot off the press!”

ROUND 5
Cross (Heineken): Let me tell you what happened in London. It’s been several years since I puked from drinking, but in London we went to Crobar.
Mirman (dirty Tanqueray martini): Is that here?
Cross: In London, England, not London, Arizona. I said London like three times! Anyway, I did Irish Car Bombs, then Jägermeister shots and more beer. I woke up the next morning really out of it, with my glasses on the ground, stepped on. I go to the bathroom and there is a deep red, bloody purplish, massive amount of puke on the side of the walls, the side of the bowl, in the back of the bowl…
Mirman: And that’s when I remembered I murdered a kid! I never feel sick. The only time I’ll feel sick is if I have a lot of water.

ROUND 6
Cross (Irish Car Bomb): It’s “Five Rounds With…” but it didn’t say “Only Five Rounds.”
Mirman (Irish Car Bomb): Wow. We just fucking put the Von Bondies to shame! Let’s break a a record, too! I will be the first to start … with another Diet Coke!

SIDEBAR: EW stole Eugene Mirman’s iPod, put it on shuffle – and confronted him with the results…

“Pink Triangle,” Weezer
(from Pinkerton, 1996)
Mirman: I loved this when I was in college. I was never in love with a lesbian, oddly enough, but I’d be like, “If I was in love with a lesbian, I bet this is how I’d feel. But I’m not, so I guess I feel … differently.”

“Executioner,” Robyn Hitchcock
(from Eye, 1990)
Mirman: A lot of people think of him as eccentric, but I find he’s either very straight-forward or his absurdity is sincere – something I also try to do in comedy.

“Track 17,” Eugene Mirman
(from The Absurd Nightclub Comedy Of Eugene Mirman, 2004)
Mirman: This dance remix of my jokes just happens to be in my iPod. I’m not like, “God, I am really making a different with my song jokes!”

“I Saw Nick Drake,” Robyn Hitchcock
(from A Star For Bram, 2000)
Mirman: I guess I have 1,000 songs and 400 of them are Robyn Hitchcock, so he’s going to come up a lot. Nick Drake is awesome. You can ask anyone at Volkswagen. They’ll back me on this.

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RELATED HITCHCOCK LISTENING

Courtesy Yeproc Records:
Robyn Hitchcock – “Daisy Bomb” (from A Star For Bram, 2000)
Robyn Hitchcock – “It’s Not Dark Yet” (from Robyn Sings, 2002)
Robyn Hitchcock – “One L” (from Luxor, 2003)
Robyn Hitchcock (w/ Gilian Welch & David Rawlings) – “Television” (from Spooked, 2004)

Bonus:
Robyn Hitchcock – “Winter Love” (from I Often Dream Of Trains, 1984)
Robyn Hitchcock – “Globe Of Frogs” (from Globe Of Frogs, 1988)

A few years ago I was at Virgin Union Square, itching to buy a CD. I turned to Collin and asked him to select any disc he thought I should own. He picked Winter Love. That’s what got me started on this whole Hitchcock kick. So if you don’t like this post, blame Collin.

Also… The Soft Boys WFMU Session 10/25/02.