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So last night at the Miranda Sound concert in Columbus OH some girl goes up to me and I proceed to have the most random conversation of my life. Here’s how it went down.

Girl: “Are you a member of Cursive?”
Me: “What?”
Girl: “Cursive, the band, are you in it?”
Me: “Ummm, no.”
Girl: “Are you sure?”
Me: “Yeah, pretty sure.”
Girl: “Oh. Someone pointed you out and said you were from Cursive.

Just to set the record straight to anyone in Columbus OH (and the world) who thinks that I also pull double duty in a band from Nebraska, let me show you some photographic evidence:

This is Cursive

This Is Me

And, in case you’re wondering, I’m also not a member of the following bands: Pedro the Lion, The Strokes, The Hackensaw Boys, Crooked Fingers, Stellastarr*, U2, 84 Nash, Whirlwind Heat, De La Soul, Oasis, Spoon, The Donnas.

Thanks to The Rub for pointing this out!

Paz and Pajo’s LiveJournal can be found here. Lots of great photos and text. Worth your time!

To celebrate the new record label, we’ve also put together a huge contest where you can win a bunch of Miranda Sound and Stepford Five CDs and t-shirts. Concert runs the whole month of June. Enter here to win!

I’ve also made the contest process a lot easier. You don’t need to e-mail us directly, just fill out the easy form.

Like the million of other links pages that have come before it, the donewaiting.com links page has been uncared for and unloved. We spend more time putting new URLs up in the “We Humbly Recommend” area below the left navigation.

So I’m killing it. In 24 hours. Go there now if you’d like to cop a feel before it’s gone.

Melody Nelson had the scoop! Stellastarr* has signed to RCA, joining the ranks of Ben Kweller and The Strokes.

In other news, be sure to check out the new album artwork of the upcoming Moviola record, as well as info about them opening up for Califone in Chicago. Make with the clicky.

Okay, winners have been notified for the big Fruit Bats contest we held. Check your email and see if I contacted you.

Hopefully by the end of the week we’ll be announcing our next contest that will be running throughout the entire month of June. It’s a goodie.

Nice and easy guide. [found via kottke.org]

Warren Ellis was recently interviewed for Slashdot and here’s a choice quote. It’s from a response regarding popular culture but it’s an important read for the music fan in all of us:

Grab a file-sharing program and use it to test stuff. (The technology’s out there and complaining about it is like bitching about the shit on the floor of the barn the horse bolted from.) Enter things at random and see what you get. Or just google for free mp3s offered by artists, which works more often than you’d think. If you like it, buy some, and see what buying it leads you to. (This is why I spend more on new music than anyone else I know.) Don’t just wait to see what the TV feeds you. You know as well as I do that in most places the TV exists to feed you shit. They spent a full year programming Avril Lavigne in LA and dressing her up to appeal to as many “subculture” strands as possible. She’s the Monkees, and that kind of Frankensteinian creature only works if you sit there and passively let that kind of shit-radiation into your brain. (full interview)

While you’re at it, you can also go to Warren’s braindump blog here or his graphic novel review site here.

The good guys over at Hip Hop Anonymous share a tale of evil people trying to make a buck off of ?uestlove’s autograph.

Note to world: no one has yet to ask me for my autograph.

Canadians flock like Canadian geese to event:

Seventy-thousand tickets were sold in three hours yesterday afternoon (May 29) for the Concert for Toronto, featuring Sarah McLachlan, Avril Lavigne, Sum 41, Our Lady Peace, and Barenaked Ladies (full story)

Good news for our Canadian friends and enemies.

In other .ca news, Columbus band Trapper John will be exporting Buckeye love to the country during the annual NXNW Festival.