Some of the books I'll be carrying around in my bag while we travel to Norfolk, NE, Council Bluffs, IA, and Branson, MO, over the next week.

Haven't purchased new music in a while (maybe I'll get some iTunes money this week--there's so much on my list), but I'll be listening to:

Annuals Be He Me
Bright Eyes Letting Off the Happiness
Dirty Projectors Rise Above
Lifetime Somewhere in the Swamps of New Jersey
Matt Sweeney and BPB Superwolf
Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer
Okkervil River The Stage Names
Peter and the Wolf Lightness
Peter Peter Hughes the one hundred thousand songs
Rentals Return of the Rentals
Saves the Day Ups and Downs: Early Recordings and B-Sides
Smog A River Ain't Too Much To Love
Son, Ambulance Euphemystic
Stars In Our Bedroom After the War
Superchunk (the entire catalog)(comfort music)
The Teacups This Will Come Back to Haunt You
Ted Leo Tyranny of Distance
Wanda Jackson Very Best of the Country Years
Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass