MIYUKI

• Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series, Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert at Philharmonic Hall
  Genius
• Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
  Hipness factor aside, this album encapsulates the one thing absent in most releases in 2004: sheer beauty.

JENNIFER

• I would have to agree with Miyuki.

MIYUKI

• Ethel performing Scott Johnson's suite of electroacoustic works on texts by the radical journalist I. F. Stone - Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY - September 28
  A thrilling combination of rhythmic sampling and avant-garde strings performed by the amazing quartet, Ethel. This concert was part of WNYC's New Sounds Live series. Long live NPR.
• Prince - Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - July 12
  Even though the evening after the show I attended was supposed to be the bomb considering the opening acts were The Time and Sheila E., Prince more than held his own performing the whole damn show with his bad self and his NPG band.
• Demolition Doll Rods - Rudyard's, Houston, TX - March 20
  Rocking-Fucking-Roll

LAURA

• The Raveonettes in Louisville, KY
  They were 1 1/2 hours late to their show, pulled up outside in a car driven by a fan from the last town, walked straight onto the stage and played a great set!
• Also the Hives at Disneyworld. You know, sometimes something's missing, and it's prob'ly a
  link. ;)

MIYUKI

• La Zona Rosa, Austin TX - November 29
  While the Rogers Sisters were on tour with the Hives and Deadly Snakes, I broke (yet another) bass strap mid-song and my bass hit the floor. I then proceeded to throw and kick said bass back and forth across the stage while singing the rest of the song.

MIYUKI

• The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
  My band mates, Jen and Laura, turned me on to this record. I was only familiar with the Gene Clark/David Crosby version of The Byrds. I didn't know what I was missing never hearing the Gram Parsons model. Perfect for Sunday drives in the Redwood Forest. Actually, it's perfect music for Sunday drives any damn where.

LAURA

• I don't know if you can call him classic, but i can't stop listening to BIG YOUTH- "screaming target." (L.)

JENNIFER

• I've been listening to a lot more Bob Dylan and Neil Young, but I still can never get enough of Sandy Denny or Fred Neil. Who would've thought we were such folkies?

MIYUKI

• Jeff Koons
  Just because

JENNIFER

• Violet Hopkins' ethereal, sometimes spooky, visual art.

MIYUKI

• My LG Vx6000 cell phone
  Because it's loaded with the following things: Vindigo, Mapquest Mobile, Scrabble plus pictures of my wife and my cats

LAURA

• I'm still waiting for that iPod.....

JENNIFER

• Me too!

MIYUKI

• Not watching TV.

JENNIFER

• Bookeeping.

MIYUKI

• The Music Man
  Fuck all y'all, this movie rules.
• Marvelous Things' EP by Eisley
  This is the best whimsical album about bats with butterfly wings, gentle snowfalls and silly sea kings ever. Not really a guilty pleasure, per se, but pleasurable nonetheless.

LAURA

• Wife Swap--the show, not the practice.

JENNIFER

• The Apprentice, America's Top Model, or any other show where people use "professional skills" to compete. there's a new one I saw where fashion designers try to outdesign each other -- fabulous.

MIYUKI

• 19th Century Victorian Classicism.

LAURA

• Gotta be public hangings.

JENNIFER

• the 80s
  I'm kidding

MIYUKI

• James Watts
  For being a great guy.

JENNIFER

• You mean besides Paris Hilton?

MIYUKI

• Not having a tour bus.

JENNIFER

• Or, having a cover band of 12 year olds called, GARDEN GNOMES OF LOGIC, chat us up in Norfolk, VA. that was great. they were awesome. (L.)