Dated June 6, 2007 3am
Greenwich Village, NYC

Welcome to the official announcement for Issue #3 of Down The Rabbit Hole-Adam's Picks (and other assorted crap).

This issue took a little longer to get out than usual because we're smack dab in the middle of mixing the new album and my head about a million miles out in space right now. I've been wanting to write an update about everything that's going on with the band (because it's all pretty exciting) but between mixing what is essentially two totally different (if intertwined) albums at the same time and trying to get this magazine done, I just haven't had the free head space for it. Once we put this out today, I'll have a little more breathing room and I'll sit down and write you a little bit about everything.

This is an abbreviated issue. It's just music and movies. That said, it's still pretty cool and (honestly), it's not really abbreviated at all. The MUSIC section is entirely dedicated to my favorite songwriter Stew and his bands The Negro Problem and Stew. It's basically an album-by-album overview of their entire career and recorded output. It was a real labor of love for me to write about them and, as a special bonus, we asked their permission and embedded about 15 songs from all the albums so you can actually just push play and hear full versions of some of the songs I'm talking about. Maybe you'll understand why I love them so much. Let me just warn you that these can be a little hinky on Safari. They definitely work fine on Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox and they're working fine right now on my Safari but they don't always so if you have problems, just switch browsers.

Other than that, I write about one of my all-time favorite movies, Laura, and talk about Clint Eastwood some because there are some great ridiculously inexpensive deals on Eastwood Box Sets out there right now. I also tried to talk about a couple really cool Jesse James outlaw movies but I got so far off the subject that I wrote a two or three pages on sequels in general and James Cameron movies and 80's horror movies before I remembered what the hell I was doing and got back to the James movies.

Anyway, I'll keep this brief. I had a sort of crappy personal night life. I took a risk and ended up basically humiliating myself and looking like a total asshole in the process. Some days it's just not worth getting out of bed. Oh well, tomorrow is another day. Come take a trip down the Rabbit Hole and check out all the stuff that makes my life worth living. I'm listening to Stew right now and you know, even as bad as tonight was, I still got friends who make beautiful music. How bad can the world really be when you got friends like that?

This one's dedicated to Heidi and Stew for making the music that makes my life better every time I hear it and to Bill Allerton and Bill Forsyth for keeping the music of so many great bands alive all by themselves by running the two greatest record stores in the world out of one little closet of a shop in London. Nobody will ever know how much we owe it all to you.

So come on. Take a trip. Let's go...