Colin told me about the new & improved Google news reader last night. I tried it out and after five minutes I was in lurve. I grabbed my OPML file and, one quick import later, I have a new home. I didn’t like the first incarnation of the Google reader, and kept going back to the FeedDemon/NewsGator combo. Recently, I had to ditch FeedDemon because of sync problems I couldn’t resolve, though I kept using NewsGator. However, NewsGator’s web reader is clunky and Google reader actually feels as fluid as a desktop app, so I’m sold.

For now.

.:.

It’s time to catch up on the random MP3s I’ve been throwing onto my Nomad in the last few months. Here’s today’s lineup:

• be your own pet . “thresher’s flail”
• be your own pet . “we will vacation, you can be my parasol”
• belafea . “tara”
• bob dylan . “someday baby”
• bob dylan . “the levee’s gonna break”
• bob dylan . “thunder on the mountain”
• bonnie prince billy . “the seedling”
• califone . “the orchids”
• cold war kids . “hang me out to dry”
• cold war kids . “hospital beds”
• cold war kids . “saint john”
• darker my love . “what’s a man’s paris”
• dears . “ticket to immortality”
• editors . “munich”
• jennifer o’connor . “exeter”
• jennifer o’connor . “exeter, rhode island”
• jesu . “dead eyes”
• jesu . “silver”
• john frusciante . “communique”
• john frusciante . “sphere”
• john frusciante . “walls”
• johnny cash . “god’s gonna cut you down”
• ladyhawk . “long ’til the morning”
• ladyhawk . “sad eyes, blue eyes”
• ladyhawk . “the dugout”
• ladyhawk . “war”
• long winters . “ultimatum”
• mendoza line . “catch a collapsing star”
• mike doughty . “i hear the bells”
• mike doughty . “tremendous brunettes”
• mischa . “cubicle”
• mission of burma . “2wice”
• murder by death . “boy decide”
• my latest novel . “sister sneaker sister soul”
• ox . “1913”
• polyphonic spree . “lithium”
• primal scream . “country girl”
• primal scream . “dolls”
• primal scream . “the 99th floor”
• richard buckner . “town”
• sissy . “so long”
• spangle call lilli line . “b”
• spangle call lilli line . “piano”
• spoon . “idiot driver”
• spoon . “mountain to sound”
• sunset rubdown . “stadiums and shrines ii”
• swan lake . “all fires”
• yo la tengo . “pass the hatchet”
• yo la tengo . “the room got heavy”
• zero 7 . “this fine social scene”

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