I just wanna know, what are you gonna do for me?

Did anyone catch the Lost Room on Sci-Fi Network. Man do I love Peter Krause, better known for playing Nate on Six Feet Under or the criminally underrated, Casey McCall on Sports Night.(when are we gonna see that on Trio's Brilliant But Cancelled?!?!) Julianna Margulies and Kevin Pollack were great in this Mini-Series too. It had this awesome creepy X-Files vibe to it. Krause plays a detective who loses his daughter in the otherwordly lost room and spends the rest of the series unlocking it's mystery and trying to find his daughter. It was good, really good. If anyone happened to see their crazy advertising in NYC, you know it was pretty cool. Random doors put all over the city with lost room written on them. A pretty creative marketing campaign.

I came across this story last week. If you are running around with a Nike+iPod device, you could be getting tracked by someone. A University Of Washington student had a hunch that his small RFID device that fits into the soles of Nike shoes could be used "an easy surveillance device." And apparently, with a little know-how and a computers, you can track someone. A little scary huh! Puts a whole new meaning to stalking. Neither Apple nor Nike had comments on the matter. Go figure! Mr. Jobs, you know who I'm putting the blame on.

Totally forgot about the Nike ID studio here in NYC. Came across it again yesterday walking around Soho. Studio 255, located at 255 Elizabeth St, lets you make an appointment where you can create a unique iD for your kicks. I remember when the iD option first came out. You can put almost anything on the sneakers, cept foul language and slave labor jargon. Ha, crazy huh! I wonder who actually makes these sneakers though.

This was in the Revelation Records email blast the other day. If you look in the lyric booklet to the "Together" 7"
compilation (Revelation Records' second release), you'll see this group photo on the Gorilla Biscuits page. No one knew it at the time, but the photo was not a Gorilla Biscuits photo. Haha, they totally put a picture of some random dudes on there. They don't even have a clue who it is. They are asking for friends to help them figure it out. You gotta love when stuff like this happens. Does anyone remember the Billy Ripken baseball card debacle? Did anyone hear about Jets rookie Leon Washington's mishap where he stuck up his middle fingers and it went unnoticed on his rookie card. I love when this stuff happens.

As I begin thinking about compiling my 2006 best of music list, I took a look back at my 2005 iMix and list, just to see if my tastes had changed. Well, glad to say, not much. Though just looking over 2006, I am noticing, it rocked a bit more, and there weren't quite as many strong records as in years past. Coming up with a top ten for year end lists, was way harder this year, never mind a top 30. I'm gonna have to reach for that. While We're at the year end stuff, has anyone seen the 100 reasons why Pitchfork sucks list , uh... I mean , their top 100 tracks of the year list. Are you guys serious? Is this for real? Apparently, it is.

Listening Pile:
The best thing to come across my desk lately, has been the new Sonic Youth disc. It's called The Destroyed Room and compiles tracks from their Geffen days, that have been previously available on vinyl, limited compilations and b-sides. After the solid, Rather Ripped , from earlier in the year, I wondered what more they could give us. The tracks were hand-picked by the band and even includes some previously unreleased material. Putting together an outtakes comp can be kinda rough, especially for a band like Sonic Youth, that probably has tons of unreleased gems. You gotta have some rockers that are interesting enough to be worth hearing, but not interesting enough that you're left wondering why they didn't make an album. And then I'm sure there are the tracks that simply should not be heard. There is a little of both on this release, but standouts include, "Campfire", a 1999 piece spontaneously composed at a recordings session on a Groovebox sampler. "Beautiful Plateau", "Loop Cat" and "Queen Anne Chair" play up the dreamy guitar wash that inspired many. Overall, a good listen, especially considering that I was expecting 20 minute jams of guitar feedback and tape noise. Nevermind, the 26-minute version of "The Diamond Sea" from Washing Machine. Overall, not a bad collection of songs. I'm sure it's a must for any serious SY fan.