i'm looking forward to this disc so much!
here's a reason why:
"why do you let me stay here" mp3
Sunday, February 24, 2008
various subjects contained herein
last night i performed with amy winehouse but i kept forgetting the words.
in my dream, of course.
did you know that william h. macy plays the uke?
just when i thought he couldnt get any cooler....
let's have a moment of silence for no depression whose last issue comes this spring.
hooked on steely dan?
great score today at plan 9:
bill kirchen's tied to the wheel, a set of fantastic trucker tunes, signed by kirchen and two other musicians on the record.
another 2007 gem:
aaron ross (of hella)'s shapeshifter
tonight i wish i'd go to:
see this guy from parts and labor at the camel or ilad at ipanema.
instead i have to work on reviews and rap books. hopefully i can go see grace potter next week.
i think most people feel selfish to a degree about bands they like. while on one hand, i want my favorite bands to succeed and hit paydirt, but on the other i want to be able to enjoy said bands. case in point, sharon jones is pretty fucking huge relatively. this leads to bigger venues, less intimate shows, soldout shows, and dealing with annoying know-nothing-about-music showgoers. it's a toughie and i feel like a deck for even thinking that way.
listened to david vandervelde's the moonstation house band all weekend. i think i overlooked this one for my best of 2007 list.
note: should check out more dawn landes.
and here's some chocolate rain to start your week:
how about that breathing method?
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
nat baldwin, shows, grammys, did you vote?
maintaining a blog with some sort of regularity is harder than it would seem. i just can't seem to get my shit together to post daily. if i used the same computer at home that i do at work, it would be a different story.
last tuesday, per elliott's suggestion, i went to ipanema to see nat baldwin of the dirty projectors. while elliott was right on about the greatness of this performance, he neglected to mention how fucking hot mr. baldwin is. note: the great white jenkins did not perform on this night due to an illness. fight the big bull (big band funk) played instead (AFTER nat) and covered several weezer tunes as well as "thriller." while i think "thriller" is getting its due praise especially with the timely 25-year-anniversary release, i'm getting fucking sick of thriller in the mainstream. fucking naomi campbell is doing the fucking thriller dance in a commercial with the sobe life water lizard. but i digress....
mr. baldwin's performance was mesmerizing and psychedelic. he chanted and moaned along with his upright and horn section, fueling a frenzy of nnnnoise that was engaging, enlightening, and potent. this noise went somewhere, as the tiny basement-like restaurant/bar's patrons listened with bated breath. the whirlwind of sounds was not without substance or form as baldwin's bowed bass constructed a jam of insurmountable proportions. fuck these words, it was really my thing. be on the lookout for my jambase interview with baldwin. also he gave me a copy of his april '08 release, most valuable player, which conveys his trance-like presence. i'll be reviewing that, hopefully, for a website, but on first listen this album contains lots of goodies.
i met the eels over the past week or so, and while it was not my first meeting with the band led by E, it certainly broadened my eels knowledge. i could have done without watching the 11 music videos and 1 live performance on the second disc, and there are lots of annoying songs. plus where was their cover of tennesse ernie ford's "sixteen tons?" that song shaped my childhood.
beatbox and blues get a mashing with son of dave's release, 02 which i am just now realizing is from 200 fucking 5. why didnt they send me his '08 thing?
for perhaps the first time since middle school i watched the majority of the debacle known as the grammys. at least this year they didn't leave stevie wonder on stage. the lengthy gospel clusterfuck was retarded, and what was up with the one gay white guy with a fauxhawk in the gospel choir? amy winehouse will not cease to be entertaining, even though she appeared nervous and slightly sober at her "performance." she's so trashy and a chav that she's fantastic. oh and she's jewy. loves it. i wish i were 19 and looked like rihanna. more later after i play receptionist for an hour...
shows coming up:
the wiyos at ashland coffee & tea valentine's day (ugh) may or may not happen.
hoots/hellmouth
mermaid skeletons
red clay village or ralph stanley
grace potter and the benevento/russo duo
barn burning/josh small
WILLIE NELSON (i'm paying for these tickets with my rap book proceeds)
they might be giants
handsome furs
carolina choc drops
and new pornographers are playing the same night as iron & wine and califone. doh
DID YOU VOTE IN YOUR STATE'S PRIMARIES?
yes
what i do not like about this process is how much lying takes place that my parents fall for. they are told that the conservative notion is one that maintains a person's liberties, that the conservative right wants to keep personal freedoms in place. now how am i supposed to respond to my mother considering the following: 1)my expensive education which taught me quite a bit about the rule of law and political philosophies, 2) my personal research done not by watching foxnews. how can i tell my mother that she's being lied to without sounding like 'those liberal assholes who look down on the right for not being informed.' and what if what i've learned is what 'they' want me to believe? why were dennis kucinich and john edwards on the ballot? why do the voters in the 'black' communities not have computerized ballots; and why do they not even have enough crappy physical ones to go around? suspicious. these are just the beginning of why 1)i could not be involved in political science or politics and 2)everything about politic pisses me off. it also seems hard for most people to sustain an intelligent conversation without letting one's passions overtake the logic.in politics and in general.
/rant
last tuesday, per elliott's suggestion, i went to ipanema to see nat baldwin of the dirty projectors. while elliott was right on about the greatness of this performance, he neglected to mention how fucking hot mr. baldwin is. note: the great white jenkins did not perform on this night due to an illness. fight the big bull (big band funk) played instead (AFTER nat) and covered several weezer tunes as well as "thriller." while i think "thriller" is getting its due praise especially with the timely 25-year-anniversary release, i'm getting fucking sick of thriller in the mainstream. fucking naomi campbell is doing the fucking thriller dance in a commercial with the sobe life water lizard. but i digress....
mr. baldwin's performance was mesmerizing and psychedelic. he chanted and moaned along with his upright and horn section, fueling a frenzy of nnnnoise that was engaging, enlightening, and potent. this noise went somewhere, as the tiny basement-like restaurant/bar's patrons listened with bated breath. the whirlwind of sounds was not without substance or form as baldwin's bowed bass constructed a jam of insurmountable proportions. fuck these words, it was really my thing. be on the lookout for my jambase interview with baldwin. also he gave me a copy of his april '08 release, most valuable player, which conveys his trance-like presence. i'll be reviewing that, hopefully, for a website, but on first listen this album contains lots of goodies.
i met the eels over the past week or so, and while it was not my first meeting with the band led by E, it certainly broadened my eels knowledge. i could have done without watching the 11 music videos and 1 live performance on the second disc, and there are lots of annoying songs. plus where was their cover of tennesse ernie ford's "sixteen tons?" that song shaped my childhood.
beatbox and blues get a mashing with son of dave's release, 02 which i am just now realizing is from 200 fucking 5. why didnt they send me his '08 thing?
for perhaps the first time since middle school i watched the majority of the debacle known as the grammys. at least this year they didn't leave stevie wonder on stage. the lengthy gospel clusterfuck was retarded, and what was up with the one gay white guy with a fauxhawk in the gospel choir? amy winehouse will not cease to be entertaining, even though she appeared nervous and slightly sober at her "performance." she's so trashy and a chav that she's fantastic. oh and she's jewy. loves it. i wish i were 19 and looked like rihanna. more later after i play receptionist for an hour...
shows coming up:
the wiyos at ashland coffee & tea valentine's day (ugh) may or may not happen.
hoots/hellmouth
mermaid skeletons
red clay village or ralph stanley
grace potter and the benevento/russo duo
barn burning/josh small
WILLIE NELSON (i'm paying for these tickets with my rap book proceeds)
they might be giants
handsome furs
carolina choc drops
and new pornographers are playing the same night as iron & wine and califone. doh
DID YOU VOTE IN YOUR STATE'S PRIMARIES?
yes
what i do not like about this process is how much lying takes place that my parents fall for. they are told that the conservative notion is one that maintains a person's liberties, that the conservative right wants to keep personal freedoms in place. now how am i supposed to respond to my mother considering the following: 1)my expensive education which taught me quite a bit about the rule of law and political philosophies, 2) my personal research done not by watching foxnews. how can i tell my mother that she's being lied to without sounding like 'those liberal assholes who look down on the right for not being informed.' and what if what i've learned is what 'they' want me to believe? why were dennis kucinich and john edwards on the ballot? why do the voters in the 'black' communities not have computerized ballots; and why do they not even have enough crappy physical ones to go around? suspicious. these are just the beginning of why 1)i could not be involved in political science or politics and 2)everything about politic pisses me off. it also seems hard for most people to sustain an intelligent conversation without letting one's passions overtake the logic.in politics and in general.
/rant
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