the guided by voices hardcore ufo's box set, their third box set in the last decade, arrived at my door today.

it's impressive. a greatest hits disc, a disc of out-of-print b-sides and rarities, a 75-minute live disc, a disc of fair-to-middlin' unreleased songs, and a re-release of the gbv documentary watch me jumpstart, featuring a few new videos and some more extended live footage. the superstar of the collection is forever since breakfast, the band's 1986 debut ep which ran in an initial pressing of 500, and never again. it's not great, but good to have.

and in other news, check out the website gbvdb.com, an absolutely incredible database of the band. it's got all the standard stuff - live setlists, show listings, discography and the like - but it's also got this incredible lyric search feature. type in some sort of ridiculous lyrical smidgen - "naked fat baby," perhaps - and you'll be taken immediately to the song in which the snippet appears. gbv fans are dorks.