Three Guys, Twelve Songs

Okay, I played "Decoder Ring" by Pufferfish on an earlier show -- don't ask me to remember which one. But I remember in the show prep I did I found almost nothing about them. Amazingly little. Really, the only thing I found was something about it being one guy, some German producer... well, that's completely wrong.
No, the information was waiting for me on MySpace. Pufferfish is a group of three guys up in Seattle, and they have one self-released album, "Hello Zero." I highly recommend giving their whole album a listen-to, as aside from terrific songs, they also have a number of instances of them teasing weird musical noises out of ordinary things -- a saw, a brake drum, etc. And their song, "Rest Stop," OWNS MY SOUL right now. I keep playing it over and over and over again. Oy!

In just a few days we're planning to drive from here to Utah to finally receive our MS degrees, and this is the first time we'll be making this run with ipods (we were way too poor to have them when we were actually in Utah). So we, and by we I mean Anna, her friend Rachel, and myself, are putting together mixes for various parts of the journey. The rules: 10 songs, and no one has veto power. Anna staked her claim to the great salt desert part of the drive, and I claimed Nevada, leaving Reno. Rachel by default gets.... middle of Nevada, I guess.
So far my mix has a great combination of my most recent likes and some old stuff. It's interesting and I'll post the final 10 song list once I get it. :)