Talking Heads

No, seriously, I will be spending my morning staring at a bleak landscape where everyone is an amoral, hellbound jerk and where something bleak and irrational lurks around every turn, but I am referring to the New Jersey Turnpike, which is kind of like MEET THE PRESS if MEET THE PRESS offered you occasional opportunities to stop and have Cinnabon. Read More

Matthew Hoh will be on Washington Journal and bmaz has a preview of Chris Matthews for those of us who get it on Sundays. Read More

jamie stewart from xiu xiu : i have a nico button on my guitar strap and her excess eyeliner has been burning the dirge "janitor of lunacy" into my waking ears as of late, at least 20 times in the last week. until yesterday we have been on tour in scandinavia, russia, poland, austria, germany and czech. these grey locations held hands with her harmonium perfectly. justin ringle from horse feathers : i have been obsessively listening and waking up to this tune by gillian welch called "annabelle". it's a song about a sharecropper in alabama and it is so sad, beautiful and timeless that I can't help but listen more than once in a row. the harmonies in the chorus make my hairs stand up... beautiful song. tracyanne campbell from camera obscura : my favourite song at the moment is called 'one in a million' by steve miller . it's really beautiful. his voice is like honey in the sun and it totally melts my heart. the lyrics are quite simple and i guess corny but it's a great tune and the production is so good it really doesn't matter. i wish i'd written it. in fact i'd love to do a cover version of it. i was recently in stockholm visiting my friend victoria (bergsman) from taken by trees and we were singing it in the flat and talked about recording it. watch this space... stuart murdoch from belle and sebastian : every day when i leave the house and walk over the iron bridge and up to the glasshouses, i listen to "what for" by james . i have a habit of dropping back 20 years in my thoughts, and having a parallel soundtrack running in my head so that i may be walking in a street in 2008, but my head is in 1988. i don't know why that is. this is an up and hopeful song of the period from a band i used to care for deeply. as we slip into the autumn here, i am prepared to let my new song of obsession become "the game" by echo and the bunnymen . "everybody's got their own good reason why their favourite season is their favourite season". Read More

Fans and media continue to debate Patriots coach Bill Belichick's decision to go for it on fourth down, giving Peyton Manning short field position with two minutes to go in the Colts' 35-34 comeback win over New England. Read More

The musical transition that seemed to have just begun with Fear of Music came to fruition on Talking Heads' fourth album, Remain in Light . Read More

Fans and media continue to debate Patriots coach Bill Belichick's decision to go for it on fourth down, giving Peyton Manning short field position with two minutes to go in the Colts' 35-34 comeback win over New England. Read More

Of course, today, you should expect no end of mau-mauing of thise decision, from people who've screwed on their oh-so-serious faces and who speak with the distinct dialect of one who hails from a region where people routinely get the issues of the day all wrong. Read More

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Betcha this morning there'll be a whole lotta handwringing about the terror trials in NYC . Read More

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