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“ Grab your boat, and get your cat… ”
How my brain works: somehow it formed this silly mashup of Life of Pi and “On The Sunny Side Of The Street”, and has been replaying it over and over today.
Regulation of membrane trafficking and organ separation by the NEVERSHED ARF-GAP protein -- Liljegren et al. 136 (11): 1909 -- Development
Yay, I’ve been published again! This paper came out of my former lab and was the main project I worked on while I was at UNC about 3-4 years ago. Unfortunately, only the abstract is available without a subscription.
Junior Boys - Red
Thanks to readers of this li’l blog who don’t give a toss about hockey for bearing with me during my recent fangirlishness wrt the Carolina Hurricanes. Shortly after I finished watching the Canes’ lovely win over Boston (during which Matt Cullen scored a goal that I’m sure was just for me) on the big screen at the back of the Cats Cradle, the Junior Boys took the stage. A rapturous dance party followed. This was the third time they’ve been to NC and the third time I’ve seen them here. Rapturous dance parties, every one.
Yesterday while driving to Raleigh, I noticed I was behind Grayson. My first thought was that he should have a bumper sticker that says “Follow Me To Brome”.
Sebadoh "Infatuation Or True Desire"
I’m re-blogging MP’s post here in order to take the opportunity to say that “Happily Divided” has long my favorite Sebadoh song (Lowenstein FTW). Other faves: “S. Soup”, “Homemade”, “Skull”.
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Sebadoh’s body of work is kinda all over the place, which makes some sense given that the band has a pretty sprawling discography and three primary songwriters. Aside from Eric Gaffney’s generally bizarre contributions, the general tone of the band is defined by Lou Barlow and Jason Loewenstein’s obsession with writing whiny, often passive-aggressive songs about girls. Sometimes they rock out, other times they are soft and tender, but no matter what, they usually come off as the neediest, most high-maintenence boyfriends of all time. Luckily, the songs are mostly quite catchy and awesome, so it’s not too annoying, though it may be hard to take too many of them in a row unless you’re in a full-on beta male shame spiral.Sebadoh “Infatuation Or True Desire”
License To Confuse / Ocean / The Freed Pig / Rebound / Can’t Give Up / New Worship / Give Up / Flame / Flood / Got It / Nothing Like You / Soul and Fire / Tempation Tide / Prince-S / Weird / Magnet’s Coil / Happily Divided / Elixir Is Zog / Gimmie Indie Rock / Ride The Darker Wave / It’s So Hard To Fall In Love / Brand New Love / It’s All You / On Fire / Drama Mine / Careful / Emma Get Wild / True Hardcore
Cullen’s line comes in for the post-score group hug.
We had awesome seats for game 3 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals - right up against the glass. Sitting up that close in the charged environment of a playoff game was insane. (Unfortunately, what it’s like in there after they actually win such a game will still be left up to my imgination.) Rather suprisingly, the RBC Center allows dSLRs, so I got a bunch of photos — click through for the rest.
Bright Young Things @ Slim’s, Raleigh NC.
Went out to the Bowerbirds/Bright Young Things show last night. Show was great — BYT play a very enjoyable brand of soulful power-pop, and I expect they’ll be very buzzy once their record comes out. Bowerbirds played as a four-piece, with former Ticonderogan Wes adding some killer bass lines and BYT singer Matt adding some lovely drums. They played a bunch of new stuff, which sounded very good, and announced that they’ve got a new record out on July 7. Yay!
By the way, this was my first time at Slim’s, and it’s a miserably smoky, cramped place. Bleh.
