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A rare fifth Sunday Shuffle in a month. Hope everyone is enjoying their three-day weekend... 1. Let's Spend The Day In Bed/Over The Rhine (3) 2. Chester The Molester/Sloan (6) 3. The Gentle Preservation of Children's Minds/Irving (2) 4. The Penalty/Beirut (2) 5. I Left U Cuz I Luft U/Admiral Radley (4) 6. Sukie In The Graveyard/Belle and Sebastian (3) 7. Rollers Shaw/Nick Lowe (2) 8. So Much Water/M. Ward (3) 9. Anti-Orgasm/Sonic Youth (2) 10. Have Mercy on Me/The Black Keys (3)

I'm either going to put up some long posts talking about the books and comics I've read and the music I've bought and the movies I've seen...or I'm not. We'll see. Even though I struggle with creating content, I'm still content to pull up ten songs each Sunday for my pleasure... 1. Letter From Belgium/The Mountain Goats (1) 2. Bandit Queen (w/DT)/The Decemberists (2) 3. One Big Holiday/My Morning Jacket (3) 4. The Greatest Sum (acoustic)/The Avett Brothers (2) 5. Promenade/U2 (1) 6. Ghost Under Rocks/Ra Ra Riot (2) 7. Lilac Breeze/Eels (1) 8. Cheap And Cheerful/The Kills (4) 9. Gronlandic Edit/Of Montreal (2) 10. 1 Samuel 15:23/The Mountain Goats (4)

Sloan's tenth album, The Double Cross , was released on Tuesday and this will be the first morning since then that I haven't listened to it. We'll see if something pops up in shuffle, I guess... 1. We Did It When We Were Young/The Gaslight Anthem (11) 2. Sugarcube/Yo La Tengo (4) 3. The Chorus In The Underground/Great Lake Swimmers (1) 4. She Heightened Everything/Pernice Brothers (2) 5. I Hate My Generation/Sloan (5) - not from the new album 6. Christopher's Revolt/Brendan Benson (1) 7. Everyone Here is Made of Thunder/Warren Zanes (1) 8. Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect/The Decemberists (3) 9. Same Old Drag/Apples In Stereo (2) 10. Baby on My Arm/The Broken West (3)

Happy Mother's Day to anyone out there who qualifies. I hope you have a great day. Around our house, today is the day after prom where we're really tired and don't feel like doing much, so it works out. 1. Dark Clouds/Teenage Fanclub (11) 2. Tremble And Tear/John Vanderslice (1) 3. Too Close/On My Way To Heaven/Mavis Staples (6) - 2nd week in a row! 4. Today's Undertaking/M. Ward (3) 5. If It's True/Yo La Tengo (3) 6. Punch And Judy/Elliott Smith (3) 7. Queen of Cans and Jars/Guided By Voices (3) 8. Yeah Sapphire/The Hold Steady (3) 9. So Convinced/Superchunk (8) 10. Misfits & Mistakes/Superchunk (7)

Today is the last Sunday of my semester and I have two papers to wrangle into shape, so let's jump right to the music... 1. The Figures of Art/Spoon (1) 2. Time Machine/Matthew Sweet (2) 3. Aging Faces/Losing Places/Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew (3) 4. Brother Woodrow/Closing Prayer/Afghan Whigs (7) 5. Delta Momma Blues/Steve Earle (1) 6. Perfect Games/The Broken West (3) 7. Land of the Freak/King Khan and the Shrines (2) 8. It's Only Love/The Beatles (4) 9. Too Close/On My To Heaven/Mavis Staples (5) 10. Mightiest of Guns/A.A. Bondy (4)