yes, folks, stickball season has commenced and i, for one, am tickled pink. although i did find out the other day that it's no longer $1 ticket night on wed. at the oakland coliseum. those bastards have raised it to a whopping $2. i guess it's still better than across the bay at pac bell park (or is it sbc park now?) where they take your first born in addition to your checkbook for the pleasure of watching the highest paid chokers in the nation get your hopes up once again. i'm a giants fan to the core but i think i'll be consuming my processed pork products on the other side of the bridge this year. either way allah is none too pleased. here's the charts...

1. DJ Shadow - Six Days (MCA)
2. Crack: We Are Rock - Silent Fantasy (Tigerbeat6)
3. Willow Willow - Demo (self)
4. Aislers Set - How I Learned to Write Backwards (Suicide Squeeze)
5. Bill Withers - Still Bill (Columbia)
6. Pram - Dark Island (Merge)
7. Weegs - Weegs (s/r)
8. M. Ward - Transfiguration Of Vincent (Merge)
9. Beans - Tomorrow Right Now (Warp)
10. Calexico - Feast Of Wire (Quarterstick)
11. Postal Service - Give Up (Sub Pop)
12. Various Artists-DICTIONARAOKE (Insinkerator)
13. Buzzcocks - Buzzcocks (Merge)
14. Sonny Landreth - The Road We're On (Sugarhill)
15. Pipas - A Cat Escaped (Matinee)
16. Common - Electric Circus (MCA)
17. Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks - Pig Lib (Matador)
18. Elvis Costello - Mighty Like a Rose (Rhino)
19. Cyrkle - Minx Soundtrack (sundazed)
20. Deerhoof - Apple O' (Kill Rock Stars)
21. Stratford 4 - Love & Devotion (jetset)
22. Wolf Eyes - Dead Hills (Troubleman Unlimited)
23. Babyland - Babyland 2002 (Mattress)
24. User - Symphony #2 for Dot Matrix Printers (Asphodel)
25. Nicolai Dunger - Tranquil Isolation (Overcoat)
26. Coral - Coral (columbia)
27. Various Artists-HUSTLE! REGGAE DISCO (Soul Jazz)
28. Fischerspooner - #1 (Capitol)
29. Stock, Hausen and Walkman - Organ Transplants Vol. 2 (Hot Air)
30. Various Artists-THE NORTHWEST BATTLE OF THE BANDS VOLUME THREE: I'M WALKIN' BABE (Beat Rocket)
31. Talib Kweli - Quality (Rawkus)
32. Rasputina - The Lost and Found 2 (Instinct)
33. Various Artists-BIG BAD BOOGALOO: LATIN BOOGALOO FROM THE BIG APPLE (Harmless)
34. Virgil Shaw - Still Falling (Future Farmer)
35. Various Artists-SOUND OF LEAMINGTON SPA, VOLUME 2 (Firestation Tower)

Take me one week back in time. Take me back to the KALX weekly top 35s.