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JERUSALEM & THE STARBASKETS/SKAREKARE RADIO split LP (APOP) Even Siltblog is wrong sometimes -- there was that Ukes of Space County LP, for example, which sits firmly in the "okay" pile around here (although I recently gave it another chance right after Roy Harper's Sophisticated Beggar, and the combo was a lot more flattering to the Ukes than I thought it was gonna be). For some reason I suspected that this Jerusalem & the Starbaskets/Skarekare Radio split LP might also go into this camp, I think mainly just because I assumed Skarekare Radio were one of those 2002-type yelp/squeal say-they're-no-wave-but-they're-actually-dance-punk bands. But on my last visit to Reckless, there this LP was, sitting in the used bin for a mere $5.99, and it looked so good in its worn but sturdy cloudy-sky-blue hand-painted sleeve, the name of each act scratched on its respective side, perhaps with fingernails, right into the paint, that I just had to buy it. And now, I'll be goddamned, but I can't get this Jerusalem side off of the player. I go up to put something else on and there it is, still sitting there on the turntable from last time, and I just play it again instead. This has happened like five times now. Which is weird because it's nothing obviously special -- just a little wistful post-punk guitar-pop, heavy on the distortion but not too, indeed with that rainy Christchurch afternoon feeling, even though they are just from Columbia, Missouri. Which is what makes it so special, because they've got rain and trees and grey skies and electric guitars in the Midwestern United States too, but for some reason it's rare when a band from here gets it just right. I liked the Skarekare Radio side better than I thought I would too, because it's not yelpy dance-punk, more like avant.... ritual.... play.... loud..... sorry, I haven't listened to it in awhile, like I said I can't seem to flip the record over.....

Last night a gaggle of us for a few minutes went completely fukkin global. While Kim and i tried to keep it together, Hiromi painted a room with what seemed like, through the internet, lots of browns. And then i had some serious doo doo dreams. But before that I let love in.