HESKEY SCORES AND VILLA WIN

Villa win 3-1 vs. Blackburn today in the Carling Cup Third Round.

I know it's a silly thing to be so excited about, but Heskey got one in the net and Ashley Young put in two in two minutes time.

It certainly brightened my day. I can't wait to see the highlights.

"I'm gettin' bugged drivin' up and down the same old strip / I gotta find a new place where the kids are hip..."

Houllier takes charge at AVFC today...

Gerard Houllier takes over at Aston Villa today during their League Cup clash against Blackburn Rovers. I'm massively interested to see his team selection, and I'm more excited about his evaluation on getting confidence restored at the club and changing the mentality.

"Villa is a club which is liked in Europe. It has an identity," Houllier said. "Aston Villa is known as [being like] Paris Saint‑Germain. This club is known to be a good club. I've not met anyone saying it's a bad club. What the club needs is more ambition, more biting teeth.

"When you are a good club everything is fine, the comfort is there. What we need to do is get out of this comfort zone a bit more and get the results. The passion is there [but] the ambition to win things could do well at this club. The image is that it's a nice club. We want to be a winning club. A nice, winning club."

Brilliant. Win some shit. Come on you villains.

Grinderman terrorize

New single out called Worm Tamer. Way too wild. Grinderman come to Chicago on November 22, San Diego on December 1. I have to be at one of those shows.

Insanely upset I haven't picked up the new record yet.

Running Out of Time

Always feel like I'm running out of time.

I picked up a lot of good new music lately and I'm really excited to start listening to more and more of it. I got a repress of the Spacemen 3 record Sound of Confusion, and it's incredible. It's strangely addicting--like everything else I want to listen to feels like a derivative of that record for whatever reason.

I have to stop by Hard Boiled Records soon in Chicago's Roscoe Village. The last time I was there I was waiting for my bike to be fixed, and someone had sold a huge collection--Jesus and Mary Chain, tons of Smiths records, tons of Moz singles, Echo & the Bunnymen, Pistols, Beatles, etc. Tons of good late '70s kinda post-punk stuff. Knowing that I shouldn't spend any more money, I only picked up two records -- The Fall's I am Kurious Oranj and a record by The Housemartins. I doubt much will be left but it's not too far.

My bike got stolen. Full bummer. I put like $500 into that thing before it disappeared.

hey blog, it's been a while

dude i don't know why i haven't written in ages.

records i'm excited about:

Deerhunter - Halycon Digest
Crocodiles - Sleep Forever
Darker My Love - Dear Author
Grinderman - Grinderman 2

...and in a weird way I want to pick up Alejandro Escovedo's Street Songs of Love.

Just had to share.