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I am getting pretty damn old. At least I have tickets for tonight’s Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show at the TLA.

So Time Magazine put together a list of the best 100 novels since 1923 and blogger Matt Baldwin came up with the genius idea of finding bad Amazon reviews for the list. The results are hilarious.Lord of the Flies (1955) Author: William Golding ?I am obsessed with Survivor, so I thought it would be fun.…

Attention Odd Man In players who are thinking of donating: Today is your last day to get double tokens! Head here for details.

According to this site, it’s worth $12,984. Inspired by Tristan Louis’s research into the value of each link to Weblogs Inc, I’ve created this little applet using Technorati’s API which computes and displays your blog’s worth using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal.

Check out XPN’s top 885 albums of all time. Of course, no mention of the list would be complete without some blasphemy. 126 ALANIS MORISSETTE JAGGED LITTLE PILL 1995 127 MICHAEL JACKSON THRILLER 1982 or how about 25 COUNTING CROWS AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER 1993 118 BECK ODELAY 1996

You have to love any spam that starts out like this.Link exchange request Hello, I have found your website bengarvey.com by searching Yahoo for “chipotle mexican grill identity theft”. I think our websites has a similar theme, so I have already added your link to my website.

For the past few weeks I’ve been working on and testing a system that allows Odd Man In players to donate money to the development and expansion of the game and get something back in return. I added a section to the Odd Man In FAQ explaining what donations are for, how to do it,…

1. My face. That photo is at least 3 years old and it needs to be replaced with something more current. 2. The clutter. There is entirely too much text on the front page. In the next redesign I’m going to eliminate everything but the essentials. 3. Not having anonymous comments anymore. Spam forced me…

I like Franz Ferdinand, but I’m not a huge fanatic. That said, I’ve seen them live twice and they are really tight in person. My ears are still ringing, too. They played just about every song from their first CD and a bunch from the new one. Sons and Daughters opened up and I didn’t…

Wow, what a great t-shirt for a record store. Robot Johnson.

Wow, those new iPods look awesome. They’re thinner, have bigger screens, play video and have a video output jack for a TV. You can also buy TV shows from iTunes 6 for $1.99. Oh well, here’s an MP3 link to the new Cardigans song.

About a week ago I finished Neal Stephensen’s Cryptonomicon and I thought it was great, although a bit long. I felt like I was reading it for a year, but the pacing picked up by the end. It’s the story of three people, two set in World War II and a third in the present…

Thankfully Congress has woken up to the fact that our interrogation policies have been unclear and that they’re hurting opinions of us around the world. Torture doesn’t work anyway since the person being tortured will just tell you want you want to hear. In a sharp bipartisan rebuff to President George Bush, Republican and Democratic…

Did I seriously hear a Stephen Malkmus song in a Sears commercial?

When I left for the Bamboo Bernies open mic last night the flyers were tied 3-3. It was 5-3 by the time I got there. What the hell? Anyway, I had a good showing at their open mic. Justin has been requesting my cover of Gomez’s “Get Miles” for a while so I finally gave…

Ning is a cool web software platform that is the part of the new wave of cool Internet stuff. It allows developers to quickly build simple apps and not have to worry too much about architecture. They’re limiting the number of allowed developer accounts for now, but I was lucky to get one today. In…

Don’t expect this site to turn into a dream journal, but I had to share this one. I was in a play about Gremlins and I played the part of Stripe, but for some reason I was driving a covered wagon. I couldn’t remember my lines because they were all in Gremlinese. A guy kept…

Imagine what would happen if you legally forced Van Morrison to write 31 songs on the spot. Take into account that he didn’t feel like doing this at all and wouldn’t care if he wrote songs called “Chicken Coo” and “Want a Danish?” Some of the songs might even be about how you, the guy…

The New York Times article on CYHSY mentioned they were offered an appearance on the OC.The buzz even persuaded producers of “The O.C.,” which is known for its indie rock soundtracks, to ask Clap Your Hands to perform on the show. The band turned it down. Too much popularity, after all, can diminish one’s credibility.…

Wow, this guy has a lot of collectibles in his house. Warning: That link contains a lot of photos and will take a long time to load. It just keeps going on and on and on…