Barely at the moment, frankly. So slow, this site. Other sites ok. I'm reading the NYTimes magazine cover story on the new Dylan movie (which mentions my good friend Jean Genet, thank you very much) and added a movie to the queue mentioned therein; speed navigating there was adequate. Just this one. Anyway...

I began a recent entry titled Col. Bruce (or near that title) by saying I met one of my favs who promptly told me to get a haircut and M asked who it was. My entries are not clear. I spoke to Col. Bruce! I heart Col. Bruce! An American hero.

Way too much has happened to get it all down. Did I ever even talk about live music in Montreal? I have to move forward.

Maybe go backwards? Or I'll start at the end, anyway. Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem last night. With others, but I'll just focus on these two. Wow. And James Murphy is DJing here in a few weeks? I bet that'll be fun. Moving backwards, you know what wasn't that good? Kele of Bloc Party DJing. Kelly Clarkson? Seriously? You're playing Kelly Clarkson to try to get me to dance? I like the song, but, really? In case you're not sure of what the answer is, let me clarify: No.

The music in Weeds. How great is it? Ozomatli playing the theme song? Snoop rapping about MILF weed? Enough already with the questions! I'm annoying myself. I think The Submarines had music played as well. Kevin Nealon must be having the time of his life with that character.

Check out Pete and the Pirates.

I saw Vampire Weekend open for Animal Collective. A great show. Sorta sad I was by myself, but what can you do. Not really by myself, since it was sold out, but didn't go with anyone. Vampire Weekend was fun. The drummer is a highly animated pounder, the guitarist/singer has, as it has been said many other places, taken Paul Simon and brought him into indie rock world, and the bass player is playing high notes in a fun, tight groove. I was having some trouble with the keyboard player, who also picked up a guitar for one song that may have been my favorite. Animal Collective played a very weird, spacy, fun set, lots of songs bleeding into other songs, weird lights, and some skeletons with dresses on at each side of the stage with lights in the eyesockets. I gotta figure out how to post pictures. Sheesh.

I listened to Tom Waits's Closing Time for the first time recently. Made me smile a few times.

I saw the movie Clean, which is filled with great rock music and footage. Metric. Yowza.

I went to the 11th Street Bar, which had a fantastic band whose name I didn't quite get. Female piano (on an unmiked piano that seems to stay in the bar always), all else male: guitar/singer, bass, drums. The soundsystem was just one tall narrow stack. It sounded great. Looks like they have live Irish jam sessions every Sunday and readings. Of course they do.

Oh and I saw Plastic People of the Universe at Joe's Pub. Not what I thought it was going to be. I was expecting a lot of experimental jazz music. They have a new very young bass player, the only female. It was kind of good VU-inspired dirty groove rock. Enjoyable, but not terribly experimental or adventurous.

This week: music on Thursday, at least. Regina Spektor sold out on October 16. Can anyone help me out?