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Once again, several of you have been pestering me about why I haven’t been listing my new album purchases here. I just forget to do it I guess. So, here are the things I’ve picked up since May 2010:

Jocasta Sleeps - Greatest Hits

Andrew Belle - The Ladder

The Depreciation Guild - Spirit Youth

Electric President - The Violent Blue

The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme

The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever

The New Pornographers - Together

Josh Ritter - So Runs the World…

Tonic - Self Titled

Aqualung - Magnetic North

Jeremy Messersmith - The Alcatraz Kid

B.o.B. - The Adventures of Bobby Ray

The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt

Caribou - Swim

Jennifer Knapp - Letting Go

The National - High Violet

Masaaki Suzuki - Bach Motets

Future of Forestry - Travel III

Wintersleep - New Inheritors

Band of Horses - Infinite Arms

LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening

The Black Keys - Brothers

A Silent Film - The City that Sleeps

Nick Jaina - A Bird in the Opera House

Sarah Jaffe - Suburban Nature

Damien Jurado - Saint Bartlett

Arms - Kids Aflame

Admiral Fallow - Boots Met My Face

Blackbird Blackbird - Happy High EP

Symfoniorkestern - Den Lilla Flykten

Trentemoller - Into the Great Wide Yonder

Ipanema - Ipanema

Andy Bell - Non Stop

Sleigh Bells - Treats

Bad Veins - Self Titled

Owen Pallett - Heartland

Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing

Keane - Night Train

This Will Destroy You - Self Titled

Page France - Hello, Dear Wind

The Do - A Mouthful

Washington - Rich Kids

Fyfe Dangerfield - Fly Yellow Moon

Barenaked Ladies - All in Good Time

The Apples in Stereo - Travellers in Space & Time

Teenage Fanclub - Shadows

Stornoway - Beachcombers Window

Meursault - All Creatures Will Make Merry

Ketch Harbour Wolves - Anachronisms

ardentjohn - On the Wire

The Mountains and The Trees - Hop, Skip, and a Jump

Hanson - Shout it Out

Against Me! - White Crosses

Twilight Eclipse - Soundtrack

Thrice - Beggars

Tommy Reilly - Hello! I’m Tommy Reilly

This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain

If These Trees Could Talk - Self Titled

Mates of State - Crushes

Deer Tick - The Black Dirt Sessions

Stars - The Five Ghosts

Nada Surf - If I Had a Hi-Fi

Magic Man - Real Life Color

Mittens - Deer Park Mirage

Tiny Cinema - Hotel Radio

The Five One - Road to SXSW

Dark Mean - Music Box EP

Greenland is Melting - Our Hearts are Gold…

Dan Lyth - Everything is Simple

John Shade - All You Love is Need

Aidan Knight - Versicolour

De Novo Dahl - Tigerlion

Pan Astral - Self Titled

Maps & Atlases - Perch Patchwork

Steel Train - Self Titled

Scissor Sisters - Night Work

The Candle Thieves - Sunshine and Other Misfortunes

Blue Giant - Self Titled

Wolf Parade - Expo 86

M.I.A. - Maya

Palpitation - Self Titled

Crowded House - Intriguer

Blitzen Trapper - Destroyer of the Void

Rae Spoon - Superioryouareinferior

Scouting For Girls - Everybody Wants to be on TV

James - The Night Before

Yukon Blonde - Self Titled

Alan Pownall - True Love Stories

Unwinding Hours - Self Titled

Against Me! - New Wave

Jamie T - Kings & Queens

Courteeners - Falcon

Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had the Blues…

Editors - In This Light and On This Evening

Foals - Total Life Forever

Theo - The Birth

Delphic - Acolyte

Ellie Goulding - Lights

We Are Scientists - Barbara

Hole - Nobody’s Daughter

Fionn Regan - The Shadow of an Empire

These New Puritans - Hidden

Unthanks - Here’s the Tender Coming

Sea Wolf - White Water, White Bloom

Bravery - Stir the Blood

Titus Andronicus - The Monitor

3OH!3 - Streets of Gold

Crystal Castles - II

Janelle Monae - The Archandroid

Galactic - Ya-Ka-May

Roots - How I Got Over

MGMT - Congratulations

Foreign Born - Person to Person

Tired Pony - The Place We Ran From

The Love Language - Libraries

The Innocence Mission - My Room in the Trees

Late July - Side Swept

Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises

Future Islands - In Evening Air

Mystery Jets - Serotonin

Alpha Rev - New Morning

Avi Buffalo - Self Titled

Delta Spirit - History From Below

Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can

Wild Nothing - Gemini

Suckers - Wild Smile

Cloud Control - Bliss Release

Bertolf - Snakes and Ladders

Lissie - Catching a Tiger

The Arcade Fire - Suburbs

School of Seven Bells - Disconnect from Desire

Who Knew - Bits and Pieces of a Major Spectacle

Darwin Deez - Self Titled

Miniature Tigers - FORTRESS

OK, wow…that’s alot. I like almost all of these, but there are a couple that are a total waste of time. I’ll let you sort it out on your own. For what it’s worth my favorites of the summer so far are Ketch Harbour Wolves, The National, Alan Pownall, Darwin Deez, Stars, Stornoway, and Free Energy. The Best of list for 2010 is shaping up very nicely.

You’re suggesting that if Ringo and McCartney had a baby with Ke$ha that it would be born as an existing artist we all know? How could that happen? Is it still a baby, or would it be born full grown, like, ready to perform? Would Ke$ha survive that? Is it a new version of the artist, and if so where did the original version go? If not and this artist somehow got in Ke$ha’s tummy full grown, were McCartney and Starr even necessary?

For that matter, why do the Beatles want to hook up with her? and why in the world haven’t Ke$ha’s handlers got her on birth control? Have they heard her songs?

Your question seems poorly thought out. Perhaps you meant something more along the lines of “what musical artist would it be like?” which wouldn’t require the actual presence of the artist at the time of birth. If this is what you meant, I’d have to say the baby would be like John Stamos.

But, given the unscientific, nonsensical nature of the question, I think the answer you’re looking for is pan flute microwave baby.

What can I tell you?

Grandma! I’m impressed that you figured out how to use your lectrik ‘puter to get on the World Wide Web!

TV is short for Television. Here’s a helpful link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television

By the way Grandma, you can play foursquare if you want. Lots of things that waste your time are still worth doing. Take rewinding your VHS tapes for instance.

What can I tell you?

Cadey’s Husband.

What can I tell you?

This question is too vague. Do you mean morally good arms, good tasting, good looking, well behaved, what?

For the sake of being able to come up with an answer, let me assume you’re referring to the taste. When it comes to eating arms, I would abstain regardless of how they had been prepared, their age, etc… Cannibalism is forbidden as part of my responsibilities as a pastor in the Baptist General Conference. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’m contractually bound to abstain from cannibalism even to my own harm (if I was stuck in a snowbound covered wagon, or whatever and had no food, I’m supposed to choose starvation).

Unless of course, you’re talking about Octopus arms, in which case I’d have the good ones. Seems like eating bad Octopus would mess up your stomach something fierce.

What can I tell you?

While Rev. Montgomery and Pastor Chan do have a similar teaching style and philosophy of ministry, I do not see them working together closely in the future as I’ve heard that Francis is moving to Asia and Rev. Montgomery is theologically opposed to airplane travel.

I do know that Rev. Montgomery is working on a new podcast that should be out sometime this summer. Pastor Chan meanwhile, has been releasing videos himself in a poorly veiled effort to compete with Rev. Montgomery’s online popularity.

Good luck to them both.

What can I tell you?

In an effort to extend an olive branch between the religious and scientific communities, I have decided to give you the data you requested.

My left leg can jump about 18 inches. My right leg can jump about 4 ft. But the two legs never do this at the same time under any circumstances.

If I lie down on my stomach with my arms stretched out above my head I can push down rapidly (pop ups) with my stomach and get my entire body off the ground about 1/2 inch. This is the only way in which I am ever completely airborne and it does not work if I’ve had anything from Jack-in-the-box within the previous 24 hours.

I’d love to see your findings when you publish your report. Thanks for letting me be a part.

What can I tell you?

Suicide.

What can I tell you?

I’ve been to the Holy Land, walked it’s dusty trails, and eaten it’s mashed up hummus and let me tell you, Moses got the better end of the deal.

Until I actually went there and saw it with my own eyes, I always assumed that God was punishing Moses by keeping him out of the Promised land. But to be honest, while I was there, I kind of wished I’d done something evil previously that would have caused God to restrict me from going.

As for Moses being “held back” in heaven…I think it probably depends on whether or not he was born before the September 1st cutoff date. Even if he was held back, I’m sure there’s some kind of Heavenly GED program or Quickstart program to get him caught up.

What can I tell you?

You know, it’s interesting because I’ve recently heard a lot of people criticizing social media, saying it’s narcissistic and self-serving or whatever.

I think there are a lot of people in the world who feel like it’s their job to criticize anything that people enjoy. I love the fact that sites like formspring, facebook, twitter, and tumblr give us the ability to share our thoughts and stay connected with people we might not get to see very often.

Can it be narcissistic? Sure, but so can organized religion, pet adoption, and Beauty Pageants if distorted and misused.

All that to say, I think all these people answering questions on formspring (and here I include myself) are smart, funny, attractive, insightful, brilliant, likable, interesting, creative, self-sacrificing, beautiful artists, who deserve our thanks and praise.

Social Media critics and haters on the other hand should be shipped off to Cuba, where I hear the wifi totally sucks.

What can I tell you?