Links for 31 August 2006

Someone jacked $3,000 from an N+1 fundraiser.

Calculate what you could have spent your cash on (vacations, DVD players, laptops, etc), instead of cigarettes, drinks, needles, eight balls, crack, skunkweed, whatever. I say, get the DVD player anyway, and pawn it when times get tight. Best of both worlds.

Dinosaur Jr.’s gear was stolen last night after a show in Brooklyn. Brooklyn Vegan posts the list of stuff: Rickenbackers, half-century old Fenders, custom pedal boards. Awful.

Pitchfork hooks up patient, law abiding, non-file-trading jerks with an exclusive mp3 from The Decemberists’ upcoming album, The Crane Wife. [Pitchforkmeda]

Michael Ian Black (the first interview I ever did, for my State fanzine in middle school) is editor-at-large for Cracked. Media Bistro asks him about this and Stella: “I think the show is terrific. Unfortunately, America did not agree with me.”

A book review, but also sort of a review of Dylan the interview subject.

Track review of Afternoon Penis. The name is almost enough.