"We think of ourselves as combination plumbers and middle-age-lady craft-hobby people," he says, "as opposed to conceptual artists."
Matthew Friedberger on the Fiery Furnaces

Here's a Britt Daniel interview

Joe Pernice blogs about William Gibson

Here are some Halloween playlists:
All Music 1
All Music 2
Beggars group

and a Halloween related Tullycraft video:


Wes Anderson interviews Owen Wilson for Myspace here

Michael Chabon on his books

The NY Times has a look back at the McCarren pool shows by that color coding graphic guy

and also an article on Neil Young

and a lot of music blog energy is being expended on the question of music blog hype
so everyone can hype the discussion by linking to John Darnielle's opinion