Wow, linked to by William “father of cyberpunk” Gibson:

People sometimes ask what I was listening to during the writing of a given book. For Spook Country, I’ve usually cited the complete ouvre of Drive By Truckers (whom I happened to discover for the first time just as the book was really getting started), and, toward the end, Neko Case’s Fox Confessor Brings The Flood. But I’ve been forgetting Brad Sucks, who I discovered when I was somewhere in the middle. Anesthetic’s remix of “Dirtbag”, in fact, came to have much to do with the tonality of my character Milgrim. I’d drive around and listen to that if I felt I was losing the peculiarly floaty grip that Milgrim required.

I don’t know if I will ever feel any nerd-cooler than this moment.

The Anesthetic remix of Dirtbag is here by the way and it’s by my fellow Magnatune artist c.Layne.

Did an interview with Amber MacArthur for CityTV and her show Webnation. She’s super nice though the interview was marred by my crappy webcam, power brown-outs due to thunderstorm and general internet retardation. Regardless it’ll be on tonight around 8:20 or something, hopefully they can cobble something together from my stammering.

Update: the piece is here, thanks Amber!

Hey hey, Making Me Nervous is track of the day on CBC Radio 3, sweet! Thanks to Steven for letting me know.

If you’re coming here from the CBC website, I have nothing brand new to sell you, which is unfortunate. There are only buttons and digital downloads or real CDs you can hold in your hands. I also have no shows coming up, but I hope to book some.

And I uh… I love you.

Hey all right, the CBC Radio 3 podcast played one of my songs. Sweet!

• I did an interview with the We Are Not Cool podcast the other week.
• I put a new theme on the Brad Sucks forums. They are now sexy as all get out thanks to Jazzman’s theme.
• I did a little visual makeover on Stripcreator.
• The mailing list wasn’t signing people up properly. Fixed.

Got myself a nice cold, heading to bed.

Hey, I’m a judge in Jonathan Coulton’s Code Monkey remix contest. Grab the source, remix it, be judged by me, potentially win prizes, etc.

But the most exciting thing (for me) is that Dana Snyder, the voice of Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s Master Shake is on there. That’s right. Master Shake and I are basically buds now. We hang.

CBC Radio 3 made a list of the top 11 declarative band names and Brad Sucks is in there, right on! Here’s the list and I’m in great company:

11. I Am Not a Manimal
10. God Invented Mustard
9. A Spectre Is Haunting Europe
8. We Are Wolves
7. You Say Party! We Say Die!
6. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
5. I Love You But I’ve Chosen The Darkness
4. I Am Robot And Proud
3. Brad Sucks
2. This Band Goes To Eleven
1. I Can Put My Arm Back On You Can’t

Personally I have a soft spot for any band name with an exclamation mark in it. You Say Party! We Say Die! is pretty classic. [via]

If you’re one of those people who are always asking me “Brad, why is your music not in more documentaries about pot?” You need wait no longer. (via Ryan)

Apparently if you buy a new Renault Megane car it comes with a built-in mp3 player. And included on that mp3 player you will find the song Making Me Nervous by yours truly. I believe that’s the most expensive way I’ve ever seen to get a copy of my song. Sweet! [via]

The other week I did an interview with Mike from GarageSpin. You can check it out here and here.