Birthday gifts: Jaydiohead, Sam Shepard and Sparky’s Flaw

Today is your blogger’s birthday, and all he got was this lousy…

1. Jaydiohead: "I’ve got 99 problems, but Thom Yorke ain’t one. Hit me!" Hit him. Please.

2. D.U.I. for a former local.

3. Name? C’mon, guys—what was wrong with "Sparky’s Flaw"? (Although the "VA" in "Parachute VA" adds the former Flaw fellows to the ranks of other state-minded bands like Chicago, Kansas and Alabama. Got a better name idea for the ex-Sparky’s Flaw dudes? Leave it below.)

4. Bunch of musicians. Happy birthday wishes to the following: Matthew Sweet, Frankie Goes to Hollywood bassist Mark O’Toole, composer Richard Horowitz, and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd.

5. Interview with Andy Friedman. But you’ll have to wait ’til later for that one. Check back in a bit.