WE HAVE A WORLD OF PLEASURE TO WIN, AND NOTHING TO LOSE BUT BOREDOM

Come as you are as a friend as I want you to be.
The Honeydrips: (Lack of) Love Will Tear Us Apart (feat. Hanna)

"[W]e commented from the outside looking in. And that's what a lot of people have difficulty doing nowadays. There is no longer an 'outside'. They have no idea what the outside is. Some people think the Gap is outside."
- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, in the July issue of The Wire

Name one person who thinks the Gap is "outside".


We all gotta live with the fact that we aren't Bob Dylan.
Hot Chocolate: It Started With a Kiss

Better never than late: Chinese Democracy. Better late than never: your offnotes RIFFMARKET Status Ain't Hood Quarterly Report, mid-year albums edition (traxx list ideally finally arriving before my wedding date).

1. Deerhunter: Cryptograms/Fluorescent Grey double-LP


2. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver


3. Lil Wayne: Da Drought 3


4. The Tough Alliance: A New Chance


5. Josh Ritter: The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter


6. The Field: From Here We Go Sublime
7. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
8. Sally Shapiro: Disco Romance
9. Feist: The Reminder
10. Simian Mobile Disco: Attack Decay Sustain Release

11. Justice: †
12. Art Brut: It's a Bit Complicated
13. Battles: Mirrored
14. Los Campesinos!: Sticking Fingers Into Sockets
15. Various Artists: After Dark
16. The Good, the Bad, and the Queen: The Good, the Bad, and the Queen
17. Lucky Soul: The Great Unwanted
18. The Tough Alliance: New Waves EP
19. Air France: On Trade Winds EP
20. The Twilight Sad: Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters

PLUS:
A Sunny Day in Glasgow: Scribble Mural Comic Journal
The Clientele: God Save the Clientele
Dan Deacon: Spiderman of the Rings
Gruff Rhys: Candylion
Gui Boratto: Chromophobia
Dinosaur Jr.: Beyond
King Khan & the Shrines: What Is?!
The Postmarks: The Postmarks
Lullatone: Plays Pajama Pop Por Vous
The Crayon Fields: Animal Bells
Sakert!: Sakert!
Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Blitzen Trapper: Wild Mountain Nation
Deerhoof: Friend Opportunity
The National: Boxer
Electrelane: No Shouts, No Calls
The Studio: Yearbook 1
Okkervil River: The Stage Names (probably with a bullet)
Taken By Trees: Open Fields
Pantha Du Prince: This Bliss
David Torn: Prezens
Marnie Stern: In Advance of the Broken Arm
Bowerbirds: Hymns for a Dark Horse
Matthew Dear: Asa Breed
The Tuss: Rushup Edge EP
Lil Wayne: The Greatest Rapper Alive
The Manhattan Love Suicides: The Manhattan Love Suicides
Junior Boys: Dead Horse EP
Young Jeezy: The Inspiration
No Age: Weirdo Rippers
Klaxons: Klaxons
Kathy Diamond: Miss Diamond to You
The Capstan Shafts: Her Versus the Sad Cold Eventually
Liars: Liars
!!!: Myth Takes
No Age: Weirdo Rippers
Sea and Cake: Everybody
Frog Eyes: Tears of the Valedictorian
A-Trak: Dirty South Dance
Ne-Yo: Because of You
Deerhoof: Friend Opportunity
Grinderman: Grinderman
Nas: Hip-Hop Is Dead
Stars of the Lid: And Their Refinement of the Decline
Ricardo Villalobos: Fizheuer Zieheuer
Arctic Monkeys: Favourite Worst Nightmare
Amerie: Because I Love It
Swizz Beatz: One Man Band Man
Boris with Michio Kurihara: Rainbow


Want you to turn the lights off, me on.
Gorillaz vs. Men Without Hats: The Safety Dance

TOO SOON TO CALL:
Animal Collective, Super Furry Animals, all the stuff I really like that I forgot