A Head Full of Wishes

Britta has just posted her summer blog post over at deanandbritta.com
Just spent two days in Bryce Goggins’ Trout Studio in Brooklyn recording a bunch of tracks for the Warhol Screen Tests. Tomorrow, we will rehearse Galaxie 500 songs for our show on Thursday. It has been a busy summer. Not enough time for reading or [...]

Dean has answered ten questions for French pop magazine Magic - you can read the full questionnaire at deanandbritta.com
E: What was the worst thing you ever did to achieve your goals?
D: Play an acoustic set at the corporate offices of HITS magazine, a trade magazine for the radio industry, sometimes referred to as SHIT magazine.

metaphotographyphoto by Franck
As metadata is data about data, and metaphotography is photographs of people taking photographs then I'd have to assume that metablogging is blogging about being blogged.
I just implemented a delicious tagging system on A Head Full of Wishes (which I'll write up in more detail tomorrow) and posted about it to the Galaxie [...]

I just came across this very nice review of Galaxie 500's third album This is Our Music on Tiny Mix Tapes
These are perfect pop songs — funny songs, sad songs, love songs. Our Music’s two centerpieces, “Summertime” and Yoko Ono’s “Listen, the Snow is Falling” (they were a great weather band), achieve a majestic, burning [...]

Things I'd Rather Be Doing has an interview with Dean Wareham about Black Postcards...
I could barely play the guitar at that point, how could I be a professional musician? But then you learn and perhaps this is the lesson of punk rock that you don't have to be amazing players to cook up something beautiful. [...]

The New Yorker's music critic Sasha Frere-Jones reviews both Black Postcards and Liz Phair's NY Times review of Black Postcards in a post on the New Yorker Online...
Wareham’s book briefly recounts his childhood—there is an excellent line about a hat he wore as a schoolboy in New Zealand—and moves on to his beginnings as a [...]

Stranded In Stereo has a cool post about The Days of Our Nights", the album that Dean described (in Black Postcards) as "possibly the worst" of Luna's albums ("It's not for lack of trying that the fifth album is a bloated dud"). It has inspired me to give the album another listen...
"Is that your [...]