I love this album and can’t believe I haven’t run into Nickel Creek before. Does anyone have suggestions of other music in this style I should check out? I’m particularly hoping to find some more progressive takes on bluegrass fiddle.

This is a very important story from the 20th century, and perhaps an allegory about the entire century.

I really like sourdough bread: is a complex, challenging and ultimately dangerous sort of bread, and I’ve only found satisfactory sourdough from San Fransisco. If I get it elsewhere, it’s just a loaf of tragedy.

I just don’t dig rye. I feel like it tries too hard to be special with those damn seeds but, seriously, it’s just trying too hard, and I’m not feeling that caraway vibe.

Potato bread is basically a plain white bread with delusions of grandeur. Sure, it seems more nuanced and delicious at first. But after a loaf or so, it’s just like another bland white bread, and perhaps even more disillusioning as what was once delicious – the taste of potato – is itself dominated with the blandness. By now I sorta wish I’d never bothered with potato bread. All that bread chewing got me to same point of disillusionment with the whole bread thing.

But still, I gotta eat bread, right? So anyway, Whole Wheat Bread gives good, tasty traditional pop-punk offerings. There’s nothing groundbreaking, but its pop-punk done right, and that’s more than enough.

If you need more ROCK in your life, the Bellrays are the answer.

Fantastic music. I’d hesitate to even call it “world music” because it just rocks.

A good friend got me this as a gift, and am therefore obligated to drink this over time and get a feel for what it’s like. (So, I won’t be using this for fixing up an icy class of Sad Programmer.

It was good enough through in one night. The writing has some short comings, yeah, but the voice is right and the pace is on target. If you knew anything about the punk scene – even if you were a young geek on its borders – every page will still resonate with you.

A good read, but damn brutal.