I had not one but two live listeners tonight. Always makes it a bit more purposeful. If you missed the live show, slip me your email address via the notify page and I'll hook you up. Make it a valid email address and check that email account after you sign up, as it's a two-step process.

Here's the tuneage:

1. Komeda - Boogie Woogie Rock'N'Roll   The Genius of Komeda
2. Mission of Burma - Nancy Reagan's Head   The Obliterati
3. The Gun Club - Sex Beat   Fire of Love
4. Be Your Own PET - Ouch   Be Your Own PET
5. The Fall - Behind The Counter   50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong
6. Pavement - Stereo   Brighten the Corners
7. Wolf Parade - It's a Curse   Apologies to the Queen Mary
8. Clinic - W.D.Y.Y.B.   Winchester Cathedral
9. Unwound - Mile Me Deaf   Jackson's Jukebox
10. The Kills - Sweet Cloud   No Wow
11. BOAT- Remember the Romans   Songs You May Not Like
12. Viva Voce - Faster Than a Dead Horse   Get Yr Blood Sucked Out
13. The Bats - Things   At the National Grid
14. Earlimart - Sounds   Treble and Tremble
15. The Raveonettes - I Wanna Be Taken   Pretty In Black
16. Teenage Fanclub - Born Under a Good Sign   Man Made
17. Shapes and Sizes - Goldenhead   Shapes and Sizes
18. Ms John Soda - No One   Notes and the Like
19. Heather Duby - Dullard Or Are You a Breakfast Alcoholic   Heather Duby
20. Psapp - Eating Spiders   The Only Thing I Ever Wanted
21. Mirah - Body Below   Advisory Committee
22. Halou - Tubefed   Wholeness and Separation
23. Oppenheimer - Saturday Looks Bad To Me   Oppenheimer
24. Jennifer O'Connor - I'll Bring You Home   Matador's Summer of Love
25. The dB's - Amplifier   Repercussion
26. Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - The Charging Sky   Rabbit Fur Coat
27. Feist - Gatekeeper (Do Right Mix)   Open Season
28. Regina Spektor - Fidelity   Begin to Hope
29. Camera Obscura - Come Back Margaret   Let's Get Out of This Country
30. The Concretes - Change in The Weather   In Colour

Yes! I'm an ordained minister now. You can be one too if you go to The Universal Life Church. Join me as I form the First Church of Indie Rock. The healing power of music is without limit.

I included album name in italics after each song this week. It helped me stumble through the playlist much more easily this week. Finally, for the newcomers to the site, if you want to find out how to listen to this particular show at your leisure, sign up for my notify list.

1. Rasputina - Rock and Roll    The Lost and Found 2nd Edition
2. Feist - Lonely Loney (Frisbee'd Mix)    Open Season
3. Say Hi To Your Mom - Snowcones and Puppies    Impeccable Blahs
4. Viva Voce - Special Thing    Get Yr. Blood Sucked Out
5. Regina Spektor - Edit    Begin to Hope
6. Sufjan Stevens - The Mistress Witch from McClure    Avalanche
7. Heather Duby - Never Even Made a Voyage    Heather Duby
8. Bishop Allen - Butterfly Nets The May EP   
9. Camera Obscura - Dory Previn    Let's Get Out Of This Country
10. Mojave 3 - Ghostship Waiting    Puzzles Like You
11. Frank Black - In The Time of My Ruin    Fast Man Raider Man
12. The Mountain Goats - Your or Your Money    The Sunset Tree
13. Psapp - The Words    The Only Thing I Ever Wanted
14. Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill    The Eraser
15. Thee Emergency - Total Energy    Can You Dig?
16. The Sammies - Trainwreck    The Sammies
17. Stephen Malkmus - 1% of One    Pig Lib
18. The Clash - Hitsville UK    Sandinista!
19. The Clash - The Sound of Sinners    Sandinista!
20. Tilly and The Wall - Bad Education    Bottoms of Barrels
21. The Crystal Skulls - The Hold Up    Outgoing Behavior
22. Belle and Sebastian - If She Wants Me    Dear Catastrophe Waitress

New stuff...old stuff...live stuff. "Old Pink" died. Upcoming shows to look forward to. Summer heads into its hot, humid, and hazy phase.

1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Deanna
2. Psapp - Hi
3. Psapp - Everybody Wants to Be a Cat
4. Sufjan Stevens - Dear Mr. Supercomputer
5. Feist - Mushaboom (Postal Service Mix)
6. Ms. John Soda - Hiding Fading
7. B. Fleischmann - Phones and Machines
8. Lali Puna - The Failure of the Leading Sign Industry
9. His Name Is Alive - Seven Minutes
10. Cansei De Ser Sexy - This Month, Day 10
11. Ladytron - High Rise
12. Mute Math - Plan B
13. TV On The Radio - Blues From Down Here
14. Editors - Fall
15. Viva Voce - Helicopter
16. Sleater-Kinney - Fortunate Son
17. Heather Duby - The Most Terrible Trip In The World
18. Mojave 3 - Running With Your Eyes Closed
19. Eux Autres - Wind and Windows
20. Syd Barrett - Octopus
21. Bishop Allen - The Chinatown Bus
22. The Year Of - Mantra
23. Love Is All - Make Out Fall Out Make Up
24. The Like Young - Writhe Like You Mean It
25. Mission of Burma - Man in Decline
26. Matmos - Stream of Sequins for Larry Levan
27. Mclusky - When They Come Tell Them No

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I spent some time this weekend moving a bunch of files over to the pat radio box. Let me know if there are any other songs or bands you'd like to see added to the random shuffle. Hope you're enjoying your summer. I am.

First, a shout to Ed of Chasing Infinity Radio at wruw.org. He's the one who suggested Fool the World to me, which I talk about in my first mic set.

The playlist:

1. The Pixies - Subbacultcha
2. Daniel Johnston - The Beatles
3. The Nice Device - Oh Me Oh My
4. Thee Emergency - Girl, You Should've Known
5. Be Your Own PET - Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle
6. The Sammies - Angry Robots Revolt
7. Eux Autres - Patrick Nil
8. Helium - XXX
9. Blondie - Rapture Riders
10. Flunk - Blue Monday
11. Kid 606 - Chickenfight
12. Benjamin Zephariah - Slow Motion
13. Say Hi To Your Mom - Sweet Sweet Heart Killers
14. His Name Is Alive - In My Dream
15. Rilo Kiley - I Never
16. Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists
17. Elvis Costello - Six Fingered Man
18. Harry and the Potters - The Human Housepipe
19. Kiddo - The Makeout Song
20. Voxtrot - Wrecking Force
21. Built To Spill - Conventional Wisdom
22. Dressy Bessy - I Saw Cinnamon
23. Halou - The Ratio of Freckles to Stars
24. Kinski - Newport
25. Sleater-Kinney - I Want To Be Your Joey Ramone
26. Sleater-Kinney - The Drama You've Been Craving
27. Sleater-Kinney - Male Model
28. Sleater-Kinney - God Is A Number

Even though I'd seen a 90 minute set by Elvis and Allen Toussaint at Bonnaroo, I have to see him when he comes through Columbus. For years he didn't come through here. 13 years, to be exact. ('89-'02) I should know. I lived through them all. Now he's here every summer with some other music legend, mining songs of the past as well his own back catalog. Last summer it was Emmylou Harris and the Graham Parsons songbook. This time around it's Allen Toussaint and Soul and R&B from the Big Easy.

But I'm straying from my original point...I'll get to the music in a minute. I couldn't justify paying whatever it was, I think $30, for a lawn seat, when I'd just seen him two weeks before. "But this is the whole show; not the Bonnaroo Digest Condensed Version," said the voice in my head. "He's coming through your backyard, practically. What's wrong with you?" So I did what every cheap bastard does. I tried to win tickets.

First time I was caller number #2. "Try again." Damnit! Next time I'm in the car driving to work with my carpool buddy and the morning deejay says it's going to be a trivia contest. No sweat, I think. I've got this. Nobody beats me at music trivia. Especially nobody beats me Elvis Costello music trivia. So like a good little boy, I actually wait until the deejay asks the question instead of just dialing and getting the ring until he picks up. He finally gets done blathering and asks, "What do Elvis Costello and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith have in common?' Simple. I punch the send button and wait while the phone rings and rings. Someone who dialed in before the question sniped me, goddamn it. Oh...by the way, Elvis and Tyler both banged Bebe Buell. Read her tell-all book if you're extremely bored.

Later in the day my lovely wife IMs me and says that once again she was caller #2 for the last pair of tickets they were going to give away. I got out of work early and my wife got home a couple hours afterwards. She suggested an early start on the Thurman Cafe for dinner. ( the place is always packed ) So we pile the family into the car and head down to German Village. We're there early enough and get seated. I'm enjoying my huge-ass, artery-clogging sandwich, when son number #1 answers the "Dad's enjoying his dinner too much" alarm in his brain and insists on going to the restroom again.

After spending a fortnight in the restroom waiting for my son to finish washing his hands and playing with the automatic hand dryer, I returned to our booth. My wife slides a ticket across the table to me. "I so got your back, man." I about flipped my lid. Someone came into the bar while we were in the john with three tickets to give away.

So she dropped me off at the "LC Pavilion" and I took a cab home after the show. I promise I'll talk a little bit about the show, but first let me do the annoying rant about staying sober at a show when people are getting steadily and purposefully drunk all around you. It's not like I've never gotten wasted at a concert before, but by and large concerts are like sacred events for me. I bring paper and a pen, keep a set list ( or try to -- It's really unnecessary in this internet age...I can always count on some obsessive in the crowd to be taking the set list down and having it posted somewhere on the 'net by the next morning. Oh...and here it is.) I make notes of things to remember, and try to block out distractions and study what is happening on stage.

There weren’t a lot of drunks on the lawn; really a tame crowd in comparison to other shows I've been to at the Pavilion. It's just remarkable to see the same people trotting across the grass with, I can't even call them glasses, tubs of beer...and then going back for rounds two, three, and four. I just think...damn, if you just want to drink beer and chat with your friends, save yourself the $30 and stay at home. Crank up This Year's Model and open your living room windows. 50% of the folks on the lawn are all about "Watching the Detectives", "Alison", and "Pump It Up" and pretty much yammered through all the new stuff. I was happy Elvis dispensed with "PIU" relatively early, and then did "Alison" early in his first encore. I think it thinned the crowd out a bit. He motioned for folks to come up closer to the stage during his encore. And people did, to the best of their ability. The lawn was barricaded from the reserve seats this time around. Still, I felt like for the last 20 minutes, Elvis had the crowd, maybe the nearer third of the crowd, completely in the palm of his hand, as he performed mostly songs that weren't his. It was a New Orleans love fest with an incredibly tight, smokin' band. I wrote last week about Big Sam Williams, the trombonist. He stole the show again.

Musical highlights: Great horn arrangement on "Chelsea". Elvis jammed, as best he can, on guitar during "Dust". "Detectives" featured a trumpet and trombone solo as well as reverbed vocals whenever Elvis sang "heart" at the end of the chorus. Steve Nieve finally got his chance to shine on a fantastic arrangement of "Clubland" during the encore. Elvis capped the show with a sing-along to "Sharpest Thorn". 15 minutes shy of three hours. Worth every penny.