Bring my car I feel to smash it

I just got invited to a music stealing community, it's my current obsession. It has allowed me to reconnect with music I stole years ago that has long since been deleted or converted into pure energy and released into the nebulous expanse above and below us via fried harddrives. Subsequently it was all just beyond reach for so long. I forgot how much better indie rock was 10 years ago than it is today.

This afternoon has been spent listening to the explosion of genius that happened in chicago and urbana/champaign illinois in the mid-late 90's. Cap'n Jazz is very special to me, I have this memory of listening to them on a cassette in my friend Lauren Agnew's giant oldsmobile, it had the coolest red velvety interior and smelled like an antique store. She was older than me and a lot cooler, I couldn't drive yet. We were about a year or two removed from our respective crust/punk phases and my eyes had just been opened to thrift store clothing and calmer music. This happened sometime around 98 back in Ventura, that was a really exciting time, to think of it makes me feel nice.
"December embers trickle up, set roots in soil sky as january's stars"

The Sea and Cake, American Football, Pele, Friction, Braid, and most recently the issuing of the lost E.P. from The One Up Downstairs. I could write a sappy blurb about each band but i cant be bothered at the moment. Of special note is the band Very Secretary. In my mind they are the most criminally underrated band of that area and of that entire era. Their 2nd LP standing in the shade is perfect to me in a way few are; melencholy, delicate, twinkly at times, folky and almost anthemic at others. I've never heard a sound similar to theirs since.

There is a band from philadelphia that is very much in the vein of these early Polyvinyl bands called Algernon Cadwallader, I love what they're doing.
http://www.vimeo.com/groups/algernoncadwallader/videos/1081262