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Current Music: Santigold, "High Priestess"

I guard the gates here

spatch took a picture of me driving last night. I am evidently in a crime film by Michael Mann.

I am continuing to listen to WHRB most of the time I'm in the car, since their classical programming is just as interesting to me as their late-night trawling of assorted deep cuts and novelties. Recent discoveries include 3rd Bass' "Product of the Environment" (1989), Eduard Tubin's Symphony No. 7 (1958), The Last's "Lies" (1980), Manuel de Falla's El retablo de maese Pedro (1923), and Billy Barton's "The Devil, My Conscience and I" (1958), which even following an unsuccessful attempt to play the Maddox Brothers and Rose's "Stop Whistling Wolf" (1957)—too many record scratches; even rockabilly doesn't deliberately hiccup that much—I was in no way prepared for.

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The Last's "Lies"?!?! I forget, did you know that they are very old friends of mine, and I used to go see them play all the time when I was 15-16 years old?

I forget, did you know that they are very old friends of mine, and I used to go see them play all the time when I was 15-16 years old?

I had no idea! I liked the song so much, I hunted the album it came from down as soon as I got home! Tell them I'm so glad it finally came out!

I used to have a homemade cassette of that album that I played a zillion times in 1980. Here's a clip from one of the first Last shows I ever attended. (My friend Lizanne and I are standing up by the stage on the left, but you can only see the back of our hair.)

There are a lot of great Last songs on YouTube. A couple of my many favorites are "Up in the Air" and "Unordinary Substance."

Here's a clip from one of the first Last shows I ever attended. (My friend Lizanne and I are standing up by the stage on the left, but you can only see the back of our hair.)

That's so cool!

There are a lot of great Last songs on YouTube. A couple of my many favorites are "Up in the Air" and "Unordinary Substance."

I am definitely enjoying what I am hearing of them. Thanks!