Tonight in Seattle:  

Shortlist Award for Achievement in the Field of Excellence

Although I don't fully understand the "Shortlist" awards, they have announced their, ahem, shortlist for the 2006 award. The Shortlist award is "a peer-selected award that recognizes the most creative and adventurous albums of the year" (um okay) and made their 10 album nomination list. The winner will be announced "in May". I get the impression it is an attempt to be an American version of the "Mercury Prize" in the UK but maybe I'm just not a big fan of extraneous awards anyway.

The nominees are Band of Horses, Beirut, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Cat Power, Girl Talk, Hot Chip, Joanna Newsom, Regina Spektor, Spank Rock, & Tom Waits.

Indeed, a motley crew.

Completely random, but I just saw the Simpsons for the first time in -- oh, I don't know, years -- last night, and it was the episode from whence you pulled your title. Bizarre!

Also, Joanna Newsom makes me want to swallow nails.

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Is this the same thing I sent you the other day? I think so, but if not, we should dig that up too.

For me, it's nails covered in acid.

Does Tom Waits seem out of place anyone?

And by out of place, I mean the-obvious-best-of-all-these-but-of-course-has-not-a-prayer-of-winning.

That Tom Waits record is amazing. If it goes to Joanna, I'll be okay. If it goes to Beirut, I'll vomit.

Funny, I feel exactly the opposite regarding Beirut and Joanna. How can you not like Beirut???

Yeah, I was just listening to the Beirut album on my lovely flight from Atlanta to Sacramento and thinking how much I like the disc ... Huh.

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