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The Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning--Willie Nelson
Indy's Very First Adventure--John Williams
I've Got It Made--John Anderson
Stuff--Diamond Rio
Wonder--Natalie Merchant
No Such Thing--John Mayer
How Forever Feels--Kenny Chesney
Nothing I Can Do About It Now--Willie Nelson
My Generation--Green Day
Daddy's Come Around--Paul Overstreet
Some good country music there, Beau.
thanks for the validation
Gonna find out what kind of music POPulates the ol' external harddrive under the "Pop" genre:
"One Way Street" - Go West, Aces and Kings: The Best of Go West
"Ocean Breeze" - Pablo Cruise, Pablo Cruise
"Heart of the Matter" - Jon Anderson, Song of Seven
"Into the Wild" - Icehouse, Measure for Measure
"Europa and the Pirate Twins" - Thomas Dolby, The Golden Age of Wireless
"Crazy [12" mix]" - Icehouse, Man of Colours
"Graceland" - Paul Simon, Graceland
"More Than This" - Roxy Music, Avalon
"The King is Dead" - Go West, Aces and Kings: The Best of Go West
"I've Gotta Get a Message to You" - Bee Gees, Here at Last...Live
Bonus track: "Sub Rosa Subway" - Klaatu, Peaks
Doubled up some - you can tell my pop selections are more limited. Love "Kings is Dead" - great lounge lizard feel to it.
Wow, Klaatu....
The birthday list:
Hugh Daily (1847)
John Clapp (1851)
Lou Boudreau (1917)
Roy McMillan (1929)
Jerry Lynch (1930)
Deron Johnson (1938)
Don Kessinger (1942)
Bobby Thigpen (1963)
The music list:
Living and Living Well--George Strait
Little Red Book--Benny Joy
Little Deuce Coupe--The Beach Boys
Invincible--Skillet
Prosperity Special--Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
So Excited--Stevie Ray Vaughn
Hello Goodbye--The Beatles
Touch of Grey--The Grateful Dead
Over You--Daughtry
I Will Bless The Lord--Byron Cage
I always loved Touch of Grey. The video reminded me of "It's Your Move."
Recent IMDB poll relates to a thread from Wednesday's movie talk.
No real surprises in the order, I don't think, although if Rushmore had been more widely seen I think it would be on top.
I really hope he has a solid story next time. They guy's capable of greatness...I just hope it comes to pass.
1. 'Tunnel of Love' - Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love
2. 'Mother Mary' - Foxboro Hot Tubs Stop Drop and Roll!
3. 'Some Way Some How' - The Features Exhibit A
4. 'Black Coffee in Bed' - Squeeze Singles - 45's and Under,
5. 'Oh Ellen' - Gob
6. 'Memphis' - Johnny Rivers
7. 'Badge' - Cream The Cream of Eric Clapton
8. 'I-95' - Fountains of Wayne Traffic and Weather
9. 'De Do Do Do De Da Da Da' - The Police Zenyatta Mondatta
10. 'Musta Got Lost' - J Geils Band
Shhh. Don't tell Bootsy that the Foxboro Hot Tubs is really Green Day.
my lips are sealed
What's going on, fellas?
1. She's Just a Girl -- Devo
2. Blatant Doom Trip -- Guided By Voices
3. Jagged -- Old 97's
4. Growing into You -- Soul Asylum
5. Gangsters -- The Specials
6. Arkansas Traveler -- Jerry Garcia
7. Not Good for the Mechanism -- Guided Be Voices
8. Bad Seeds (live) -- The Beat Happening
9. Most Likely You Go Your Way -- Bob Dylan
10. It was a Very Good Year -- The Sounds Like Us
Bonus: Sons of Apollo -- Guided By Voices
Okay, so GBV is one of those bands that I know nothing about but people whose taste I respect really seem to like... I need an entry point.
Bee Thousand was my entry point. Here's my review:
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2007/04/30-best-loved-albums-bee-thous.html
I'd second that. In a sense there were two versions of the band: the lo-fi years, and GBV Mach II: where they actually recorded in a studio with a producer and everything. Bee Thousand is from the lo-fi period. A good later record from the later MII version would be Isolation Drills. You'd be wise to steer clear of much of the Robert Pollard solo stuff.
Isolation Drills is good, Do the Collapse works too for the sonic version of GBV.
Thanks guys - I'm off to YouTube.
1. Perfect Day - Lou Reed - Trainspotting Soundtrack
2. That's Not Me - The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
3. Oceans - Pearl Jam - Ten
4. Ready of Not - The Fugees - The Score
5. Heart Attack Man - The Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
6. I Can't Turn You Loose - Otis Redding - In Person at The Whisky A Go Go
7. Stumbling Through the Dark - The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
8. Ventilator Blues - The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
9. Rome - Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
10. Sequestered in Memphis - The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
when i first got rainy day music, i threw it in the cd player, played it on repeat, and went to doing other stuff. it took me awhile to realize "stumbling through the dark" was both a song and a reprise. on repeat, the reprise leads right into the song, so it just sounds like it's a longer song that picks up in the middle.
I did not realize that either. My mind is totally blown.
the second cd of mellon collie really messed with my head in high school...
It remains one of my favorite discs. It still gets fair rotation in Casa de Milk.
In the process of moving I found a few albums that I should really listen to more often. Mellon Collie ... was one of them for sure.
1. You're a Big Girl Now - Bob Dylan
2. Different Drum - Michael Nesmith
3. Someone to Watch Over Me - Ella Fitzgerald
4. Chestnut Mare - The Byrds
5. Come Running - Van Morrison
6. Just One of Those Things - Frank Sinatra
7. Papa Gene's Blues - The Monkees
8. Kill Your Sons - Lou Reed
9. Stone Thames - Big Audio Dynamite
10. Cindy - Johnny Cash & Nick Cave
Wow... Come Running is such an amazing tune. Thanks for that. Here's a more recent version from Van the Man.
My birthday was six months ago today, so happy half birthday to me!
Today is also my nephew's 12 birthday -- he's also my godson. I have a cousin whose birthday is today. I used to tease her that my half-birthday was more important and this did upset her at first. I'm a BULLY! (She's 3 1/2 years older than me.) I also had a girlfriend in college who's birthday is today. She was six months younger than me, but she graduated from high school a year before me -- she was 16 when she graduated. She was fairly intelligent, but I couldn't understand why she graduated a year early, except that she was from a small town.
So, Happy Birthday to those three, momentous days for all, almost as big as me turning 44 1/2. Come to think of it, those 1/2 birthdays don't seem so important now.
44 1/2 is the new 33 1/3. Or something.
+78
Crazy Love, Vol. II - Paul Simon - Graceland
The Heart of Rock & Roll - Huey Lewis and the News - Time Flies: The Best of
Deep Dark Truthful Mirror - Elvis Costello - Spike
Tried & True Love - The Jayhawks - Bunkhouse EP
A Few Minutes of Silence - Paul Westerberg - 14 Songs
Love Her Madly - The Doors - Best of
Devil Inside - INXS - Rock Star Soundtrack
Vision Thing - Sisters of Mercy - Vision Thing
Not The Same - Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been
The Hardest Button to Button - White Stripes - Elephant
Something about Huey Lewis music just gets my blood pumping. In fact, I'm getting in a good mood just singing that song in my head.
One of the funniest moments from "The Office" this past season was when Michael played his favorite Bruce Springsteen songs and half were actually Huey Lewis.
Coldplay, "Politik", A Rush of Blood to the Head
DJ Encore, "Stay", Intuiton
David Gray, "This Years Love", White Ladder
Green Day, "Brain Stew", International Superhits!
P!nk, "Dear Diary", M!ssundaztood
John Michael Talbot, "The Church: Peace Prayer (St. Francis)", Master Collection Vo. 1: The Quiet Side
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Throw Away Yor Television", By The Way
Clear, "Why", Clear
Simon & Garfunkel, "I Am a Rock", Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Barenaked Ladies, "The Old Apartment", Rock Spectacle
"I Am a Rock" is one of my favorites.
Some pretty legendary artists and quite a few covers:
The Beatles - "Blackbird" - The Beatles
Prince - "When Doves Cry" - Purple Rain
Common - "U, Black Maybe" - Finding Forever
Urge Overkill - "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" - Pulp Fiction Soundtrack
Mason Jennings - "Killer's Creek" - Century Spring
The Shins - "Sea Legs" Wincing the Night Away
Bruce Springsteen - "Pay Me My Money Down" - We Shall Overcome
Johnny Cash - "Sunday Morning Coming Down" - 16 Biggest Hits
Mary Chapin Carpenter - "Grow Old With Me" - Working Class Hero
Madonna - "Express Yourself" - The Immaculate Collection
now that's a killer list. Well, that's not my favorite Madonna song, but still.
"Down By The River" Neil Young Live At Massey Hall 1971
"Stylized Ampersand" Unrest Perfect Teeth
"Alone Again Or" Calexico Convict Pool
"Only Skin" Joanna Newsom Ys
"Pumping On Your Stereo" Supergrass Supergrass
"One Year A.D." Feist Monarch (Lay Down Your Jeweled Head)
"Tom Traubert's Blues" Tom Waits Small Change
"Wilco (The Song)" Wilco Wilco (The Album)
"Tender Years" George Jones Greatest Hits
"Juicy John Pink" Procol Harum A Salty Dog
bonus: "Sycamore" Bill Callahan Woke On A Whaleheart
I keep hearing him guy on the Current, but in my mind "Bill Callahan" will always be a euphemism for a dirty diaper (it pays to have cousins with babies in Nebraska).
Heh. Whenever I hear Nebraska fans whining about Bill Callahan, I wanna play an old Smog record.
whine, whine, whine, whine.
Choke on dat Smog, Bootsy. for the faithful, the anti-Callahan anger is still only a heartbeat away.
Watched the new H.Potter flick last night. Besides noticing that every single time Draco pulls the drapes off the cabinet, dust flies, I was struck by how much (to me) Daniel Radcliff at times reminds me of a young Daniel Patrick Kelly (Warriors, Dreamscape, K-Pax).
"The Warriors did it! I saw them!"
David Patrick Kelly.
interestingly, he also played "Luther" in 48 Hrs.
+ 2 out of 3
I am indeed getting old. I was yammering above about birthdays and such and I forgot to mention:
I started the precursor to this website (then at stickandballguy.blogspot.com, a site that was eventually hi-jacked after I went to my own domain) FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY!!!!!111!!!!!onE!!!!.
The bar exam must be right around the corner.
I'm guessing in about 10 days.
“cumberland blues” – grateful dead – workingman’s dead
“misty mountain hop” – led zeppelin – led zeppelin iv
“the final cut” – pink floyd – the final cut
“katie mae” – lightnin’ hopkins – it’s a sin to be rich
“so jealous” – tegan and sara – so jealous
“papa won’t leave you, henry” – nick cave and the bad seeds – henry’s dream
“the baltimore sun” – the jayhawks – blue earth
“what deaner was talkin’ about” – ween – chocolate and cheese
“september” – earth, wind, and fire – september
“girl, you have no faith in medicine” – the white stripes – elephant
bonus: “acid tongue” – jenny lewis – acid tongue
heh. i got two and a half title tracks ("september" was only released as a single), so i thought i might as well at one more for the bonus from an album i started listening to...
An old Jayhawks song and a song off Elephant. This looks familiar!
Did you see Nick Cave in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford? Fun little role.
1. True Faith - New Order (all time favorite song)
2. More Human than Human - White Zombie
3. Solemn Thirsty - Malcolm Middleton
4. Doesn't Remind Me - Audioslave
5. Man in the Moon - Erasure
6. Comatose - Skillet
7. Eurodisco - bis
8. Someday - Dobbelmono
9. Walk Away - Mad at Gravity
10. The Freshmen - The Verve Pipe
Bonus: Silent Shout - The Knife
I love "More Human than Human" to this day. That whole CD rocks pretty hard.
I was a freshman in college when "The Freshmen" came out, and at the end of the year, all the freshmen got sentimental and crap and played the song over and over in our cafeteria. I think I liked the song up to that point, but man, do I hate it now.
and I was a freshman in high school and that same crap happened
That song's about screwing up your life for good when you're too young to worry about consequences, right?
For the life of me, I cannot remember...
Sentimental after one's freshman year? That's gotta be about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Then again, in the Stillwater school system, the high school houses 10 - 12, so after my freshman year on the last day of the year a few of my brilliant classmates were bawling and hugging (we're talking dudes here.) each other. Fortunately, most everyone was laughing at them and calling them morons since they were, in all likelihood, going to spend the entire summer together and everyone was going to the same high school next year.
I saw some of the same behavior in law school at the end of the first year. We had a group picture taken outside -- one of our profs missed it, she started crying! People talked about making t-shirts for "Section 3". O.M.G. I told the guy next to me that we're all happy now, but in two weeks, I'm gonna kick your ass (finals were coming and they are graded on a curve). I was kidding (sort of), but I was 37 years old and I wasn't really in the mood to be acting like a 15 year old. I spent the first year of law school having flashbacks to jr. high school. It was about the same mentality.
Section 5 rulz!!!!!!!11!
Section 3 blew chunks. I'm not going to lie! Nah, they were okay. That first year was pretty fun, as I recall. It was fun to have a group of people to hang out with all the time. After that, you get dispersed to the winds. It was the third year that I hated with a passion.
Section 5 did have a more, er, mature makeup. I had to go in and do some stuff during the day a couple of times and it was like a completely different place.
I got the dreaded Section 1.
u r in law skool???
Next month.
O!M!G! NOOOOOO!
Seriously, good luck. I'm sure you'll get all the advice you need from various people close to you. Make sure to tell your classmates about the WGOM. We have a shortage of lawyers around here!
Will, what are you thinking? That qualifies you for a Section 8! (Think M*A*S*H.)
Best of luck to you! Is your wife on board, or are you doing this to spite her?
Well, I figured at some point Sheenie would want me to start earning my keep around here, so I needed to get into a more lucrative industry!
In all seriousness, I've been doing what I'm doing for 5 years and it was when it started to feel like I was transitioning from job to career that got me to jump since it wasn't anywhere near anything I wanted to be doing for the rest of my life.
I spent the first year of law school having flashbacks to jr. high school.
Mine was more like freshman year of college. Egad.
Moss' was more like freshman year too. Lockers, assigned seats, bells at the end of class hour, clique-ish girls, preppy boys...ugh.
Moss was a non-trad student and basically treated it like a workday. In and out, all business.
Oops, meaning freshman year of high school.
Oops, meaning freshman year of high school.
That's interesting. We didn't have lockers, but every night was a good night for getting shnockered at happy hour.
I was a lot older than you when I went to law school, but I was unmarried. So, I spent a little more time with my younger classmates. The youngest girl in my section was 21 when I started, a full 15 years younger than me. She was already married, though. I remember her being very idealistic and almost like a high school cheerleader. By the end of three years, she was totally different. Yep, she wasn't Miss Sunshine anymore, the whole experience had kind of jaded her. She was a good student, but I know that she got out of the lawyering after about two years.
We had the assigned seats (well, you chose your seat originally and then had to stay there) and lockers. I don't recall a bell at the end of class. I'm saying no on that. But, I ate at the cafeteria and it was kind of crappy (taco tuesdays and I found out in my 2nd or 3rd year that the "taco meat" was not beef but ground turkey).
After having no between-class bells at the University of Minnesota, I am still rather shocked and appalled at the presence of bells* to mark the beginning and end of class here at the University of Washington. After not having them for a while, they just seem dictatorial and heavy-handed.
*Actually, in our building it's a 5-second blast of the fire alarm.
I got married four days before my first, first-year exam: Torts. I remember standing in the front of the church with the elements of negligence going through my head. Not exactly living in the moment...
I think NDSU had bells, too, but I can't be sure anymore -- I don't remember that detail.
UW -- what were you thinking getting married then?
Thinking? Ha!
Seriously, the wife wanted a winter wedding and I don't remember why. Of course, the holiday season is the busy season for the various establishments that host such events, so it gradually was pushed back to December 8th, four days before my first exam. Hey, I got out of the gift opening, so that was nice. I was at the library.
Oh, and I got out of virtually all of the wedding planning too: "I don't know, Dear. I have to study."
Wow. Moss was going to inquire about what you were thinking, and suggest that you REALLY owe your wife big, but it almost sounds like a pretty even deal. Heck, maybe she even owes you!
I got married in May on the fishing opener. So, of course, the weather was lousy. Cold, windy, and rainy. Just awful. The next day, it was 90 degrees (in Maui).
We had a small wedding, just parents, siblings and their families. This is the way to go! There was still planning, but it was very low key. We had a very nice meal at the now defunct Vintage in St. Paul, opened gifts, and then my nieces and nephews went swimming at the hotel. The next morning, we got up early and went to Hawaii for eight days.
Heck, maybe she even owes you!
Shhh... She might hear you.
We had a small wedding, just parents, siblings and their families. This is the way to go!
I don't know. Ours wasn't huge, give or take 200 people, but we had a blast on the dance floor with our friends after the ceremony. We did ban "The Chicken Dance," "The Hokie Pokie" and "I Knew the Bride When She Used to Rock and Roll," so that helped.
I should point out that our wedding cake had little cats on it and the names of our then two cats.
Walt, did they at least sneak in Billy Idol's "White Wedding"?
If they had, they would have had to deal with an enraged bride.
Moss was a non-trad student and basically treated it like a workday. In and out, all business.
That's pretty much how I roll. My first semester back in school I had a comparative politics class. On the first day of class the TA asked everyone to write down their earliest political memories. Most answered something about Clinton's presidency. My memory was Reagan going to the hospital in 1985. The TA's was something about the campaign between Bush and Dukakis. Might not impress some of the more season Citizens around here, but boy did I feel old at that moment.
As for the wedding, we had ours in October. I was concerned about potential conflicts with mid-terms, so on the first day of class I approached all my profs and let them know the date of the wedding, and that I'd miss the day before but would be back the following Monday. One guy told me that if that day happened to be the day of the mid-term, that he had a policy of not allowing early or late testing except for immediate family emergencies. I couldn't believe it; we'd started planning the wedding over a year before that, and here the guy was telling me he wouldn't excuse me to attend my own wedding? Luckily, the exam was later in the month, but I wouldn't have minded testing his policy with the administration.
I recall Nixon going to China, which was when I was 7. I knew my dad hated Nixon and my grandfather loved Nixon, which was a source of several arguments.
The war was on TV every night and I guess my parents must have shielded us from that, because I don't recall a lot of talk about Vietnam in our house until about 1975, when it was over. I have a vague recollection of my uncle being in Vietnam -- that would been in 1967-68, but to be honest, I knew almost nothing about Vietnam and can safely say that I don't remember it at all, despite the fact that I was 10 when the war ended. Those were different times, to be sure. There was no cable television, much less Internet, but my parents must have not allowed us to watch the national news or something.
I never quite understood why people would cry on the last day of school, with the whole "I'm gonna miss you so much, thing." Is it because they're home lives suck and they just love being at school? The way I figure it, if I like you, I'm going to see you or talk to you anyway. If I don't like you, then it doesn't matter that I'm not going to see you ever again.
I didn't cry, but it was a little sad for me on the last day of seminary, because I knew there were many of them I really would probably never see again. I'll probably see the United Methodists once in a while, but not the rest (there are several denominations represented there). Yes, we could get together, but they're busy, I'm busy, they have lives, I have a life, and I know it's not likely to happen.
The last day of school in SBGville was great. Everyone came in, they ran the buses and everything. At 9:00 the day started. If you were in elementary school, you were in your regular class, of course. In jr. and sr. high, you were in your homeroom. The teacher handed out the report cards. At 9:15 you were dismissed. The buses took the country kids home. Those of us in town just went home and started summer vacation. I'm sure it counted as a full school day as far as the state was concerned.
It was the only day of the year that my parents would let me ride my bike to school. Otherwise, we had to walk. They were afraid that our bikes would get damaged if we took them to school. But, on this day, they weren't worried about that. I don't recall any crying, ever. Everyone was just as happy as can be.
They were afraid that our bikes would get damaged if we took them to school.
Were there a bunch of ruffians in SBGville or something?
There were a couple and bikes at school were a target, for some reason.
The way I figure it, if I like you, I'm going to see you or talk to you anyway.
For some us who graduated quite a while back, email/texting/Facebook/phone/etc. wasn't an option. You were at the mercy of the Pony Express and Western Union. There are folks that I graduated with that I like but I haven't been able to keep up with since graduation day. So although I never cried (or remember anyone crying), a lot of us knew we may be seeing our last of each other.
btw, there's a buddy of mine that served time with me in summer college physics class that I saw fullfilled his dream and is an optometrist in N. Twin Cities, and I need to contact him sometime...
Then again, in the Stillwater school system, the high school houses 10 - 12, so after my freshman year on the last day of the year a few of my brilliant classmates were bawling and hugging (we're talking dudes here.) each other.
Maybe they were crying about the a$$ kickings they knew they would get the next year.
Sentimental after one's freshman year?
That's just it. I didn't get it then, and I don't now. High school's just a granfalloon. Hopefully people have read Vonnegut, and know what I mean there.
We got the actresses we hoped to get at the auditions last night. We saw about 40 crappy actresses and two good ones, which was handy because we needed exactly two good ones. We wanted to pry our eyes out after an hour or two of the performances, though. I can't believe how much harder it is to find talent in Seattle than it is in Minneapolis.
well, what's the point of being hotttt when it's rainy 349 days per year?
Oh, there were plenty of hot ones. If by hot, you mean hot.
oh, so by "good actress," you are reaching outside of the norms of Fox TV for, uh, acting ability??
Hey, there are no fewer good actresses on that network than any other. It's not like any of the networks are paragons of good taste or talent (these days, even in comparison to FOX).
And yes, when I say "good actress," I have absolutely no interest in attractiveness. Now, as for how the Producers will feel? That's a different story sometimes. However, there's one stupidly hot girl in the two that we cast, and the other is better than average. I don't think anyone will try to get in our way.
I know, I know, my life must seem pretty pointless to you, but hottttness does come in handy even when it is raining.
I got my tickets for next weekend. I ended up going cheap with a family pack for Sunday's game. The other deal fell through. Also getting ready to go to Vegas for the weekend. Woo-hoo!!
Ahh... Vegas...
I think I'm getting the hang of this Furlough Friday thing. I slept in until 8:30. Today's agenda: sushi for lunch with a UC buddy, then Harry Potter with the family.
Do they take state-issued IOU's at restaurants and movie theaters?
sadly, no.
but as a state employee, rather than a contractor, I actually get paid as long as I have a job. And we haven't gone to minimum wage (yet).
1. "Five Magics" by Megadeth
2. "Riding the Drakkar" by Black Messiah
3. "Upon the Cross" by King Diamond
4. "Hollow Ground" by The Haunted
5. "Babylon Fell" by Melechesh
6. "Misfortune" by October 31
7. "Leper Messiah" by Metallica
8. "One Will" by Halford
9. "Eye of the Beholder" by Metallica
10. "The End" by Dream Evil
I have hardly touched my iPod this week... listening to old Sonic Youth records to psych myself up for the show on Tuesday. I think "Washing Machine" and "Evol" are my faves, but I'm actually surprised at how much I like "Thousand Leaves" ("Alice! Come back! It's just a Kitten! It's... just... a... kit-ten!")
That said,
1. Stan Tekiela "Yellow Bellied Sapsucker" Birds of Minnesota
2. Björk "Hunter (Live in Paris)" Voltaic DVD
3. Ha Ha Tonka "Caney Mountain (Live)" Daytrotter Session
4. Black Moth Super Rainbow "Gold Splatter" Eating Us
5. Miike Snow "Animal"
6. the Field "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" Yesterday & Today
7. Ha Ha Tonka "Surrounded" Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South
8. Hercules & Love Affair "Blind (Live)" Live at Koko, 4th Sept 2008*
9. Stan Tekiela "Trumpeter Swan" Birds of Minnesota
10. Stan Tekiela "Eastern Phoebe" Birds of Minnesota
*Does not have Antony singing
I recently bought a couple of the songs off "Yesterday and Today". I wasn't terribly impressed, are you a fan of The Field?
(the songs were the title track and 'the more that i do')
I really dug "From Here We Go Sublime" and his various remixes. Upon first hearing it, I immediately coined the term "Minimal Trance" because parts of it are clearly Trance, but it's all very minimal, leading me to that oxymoronic genre. I hoped someone else would call it that, but nope.
Haven't quite "Sat Down" with the new one yet. If that's your first experience of the Field, I'd recommend the title track from "Sublime"... he pulls back the curtain a bit at the end, lets you know how he makes his music.
At the risk of being judged too political, Moss offers the following video FOR LAUGHS ONLY. If it's too political, Moss hereby withdraws this comment.
http://www.minnpost.com/minnclips/2009/07/13/10205/auto-tune_the_news_bachmann_joins_congressional_chorus
that's awesome.
I refuse to watch this.
I refuse to watch this until I get home, because I have no sound here at work.
Excellent choice...the humor is in the sound.
Oh, and tell your employer to jump into the 20th century already!
My fault, I accidentally erased the driver (dont' ask why) and haven't put it back.
That is spectacularly awesome and educational (thanks, minnpost, for the link to the Time article!)
Wow! An auto-tune new video where Katie Couric wasn't the Best Unintentional Singer; I think that's a first for the ones I've seen. Katie at the 1:20 point in this one kicks butt.
I think she wasn't Best Unintentional Singer in #5, either, but you're right - the "very thin ice" part is probably the high point of the whole series.
The Red Sox DFA Lugo. If the price is right, the Twins should be interested.
I want to agree, but it's hard for me to forget about the guy who pounded his wife's head into the hood of his car (in public, no less). If I'd given him any thought yesterday, he would've been my #1 least favorite, just for that reason. I can't un-know something like that.
Well then, where do Ugueth Urbina and Ambiorix Burgos fit?
I know. I totally Earl Batterer'd all those guys.
No way. Lugo is terrible. His UZR/150 at short this year is about negative 43, and he doesn't hit any better than Brendan Harris.
My tomato plants and I have finally found common ground: cold weather in July stinks.
I'm picturing you and your tomatoes on opposite sides of the yard. You, facing away, arms crossed, pouting. Your tomatoes wilting in the other direction out of spite.
Add that fact that we're both shivering and you've got it about right.
"the" for the first "that"
I feel shame.
Has anyone else seen the silhouette picture of Tiger Woods on ESPN's homepage? Not sure how much it's been doctored, but it's kind of a cool shot. It's basically a silhouette, except you can see light reflecting off of white areas on his garments.
The Mauer photo on ESPN's MLB homepage is pretty nice, too.
And the accompanying article is good, too. Caple, of course, is not some knee jerk East Coaster. He addresses the future, but not as ominously as some in the past have.
Yes on the pic and on the article. Moss enjoys Caple. He's got about the best job on the planet. Plus, he's a big fan of Minnesota amatuer baseball.
Still, will ESPN, SI, et. al. continue to write as much about Mauer if/when he signs to stay in the Twin Cities? "People" won't care about him then.
I'll take that tradeoff.
On a completely different subject, wow. Presented without comment as news, not as a political statement.
Hang Them All, Tapes 'n Tapes, Walk It Off (Sheila E. did not approve this selection.)
Mansard Roof, Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
Neighborhood 1 - Tunnels, Arcade Fire, Funeral
Money, Compliments, Publicity (Song Number 10), Todd Snider, The Excitement Plan
The Face of My Friends, Roma Di Luna, Face of My Friends
Love You To Pieces, Jeremy Messersmith, The Silver City
Shakedown On 9th Street, Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker
Don't Take My Baby To War, Roma Di Luna, Face of My Friends
Hostile, Mass., The Hold Steady, Almost Killed Me
Shallow Seas, Chris Koza, The Dark, Delirious Morning
Bonus Track: Massive Nights, The Hold Steady, Boys and Girls in America
This is a mix I can get behind.
+1 sunday brunch, UW!
Antoine Walker, heading to the poor house? I don't understand this. He's one year removed from the NBA, where he made $99,000,000+ in salary. This seems like an insignificant amount of money, how come he didn't just pay it? Is he broke?
The saddest part of that is the $99M in salary.
If his buddies in the big house find out why he's in there, it's going to get ugly. I cannot imagine what would possess someone to do something like this.
So you're suggesting his time served might be shortened for bad behavior?
In some instances, a guy almost wants the "justice system" inside the prisons to do its thing. Moss is no advocate of the death penalty, or of killing in general, but was anyone saddened or shocked when Jeffrey Dahmer bought the farm?
Yeah, somebody is going to kill him after he's been raped about 1000 times.
Instant karma, I think it's called.
Also, re: Dahmer, I was doing an overnight shift producing the morning news on KARE the night Dahmer was arrested. The stuff coming over the AP wire and later the satellite feed from Milwaukee was absolutely surreal.
The next day, I was driving to MPLS to watch the Twins in a three game set against, yep, the Brewers. IRC, Danny Gladden had just come off the DL and had a hee-yuge weekend. Well, pretty big. I remember that he hit a walk off 3 run HR off the foul, um, screen on Saturday night. Also a game winning 3 run double on Friday night in the eighth. Three more hits and an RBI on Sunday, but Morris got bombed and the Twins lost. I recall sitting in the upper deck that the Dome, reading about Dahmer in the Strib. Horrifying.
I wrote a paper in college about the nature of serial killers, and made the mistake of choosing Dahmer as my subject. There was so much I hadn't known before. People obsess about the cannibalism, but that was a very tiny portion of what he did, and probably the tenth or twentieth scariest thing he did.
The most terrifying thing of all? Everyone in his life liked him, and when he got caught, he went quietly, like "Well, it's over."
I'm late today, but I thought I'd post my ten anyway:
01. John Coltrane - Giant Steps [Giant Steps]
02. Angelo Badalamenti - Don't Do Anything (I Wouldn't Do) [Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me]
03. Los Lobos - Chains of Love [Live in Apple Valley, MN]
04. Bo Diddley - Pretty Thing [The Chess Box]
05. Low - California [The Great Destroyer]
06. Grassella Oliphant - Get Out Of My Life Woman [What It Is!]
07. Marc Ribot & Los Cubanos Postizos - La Vida Es Un Sueno [The Prosthetic Cubans]
08. Buckwheat Zydeco - When the Levee Breaks [Lay Your Burden Down]
09. Bobby Cook & The Explosions - On the Way [Local Customs: Downriver Revival]
10. Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Suspended Variation X [Suspended Night]
1. "Seeing Through You" - Blue Merle Burning in the Sun
2. "Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night" - The Hold Steady Separation Sunday
3. "Garden" - Pearl Jam Ten
4. "Killing the Light" - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Baby 81
5. "Idiot Heart" - Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer
6. "We Are Not a Football Team" - Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates
7. "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" - Led Zeppelin How the West Was Won
8. "Our Age" - Constantines Kensington Heights
9. "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box" - Radiohead Amnesiac
10. "Cold Roses" - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Cold Roses
Bonus: "Make Like Paper" - Red House Painters Songs for a Blue Guitar because I listened to this song twice on the album last night, and then when I switched to my ipod it came up firs on shuffle. Read my mind.
Nice list. That's two from Ten today, by my count. Does that album still hold up? I haven't listened for 15 years probably, but I loved Pearl Jam back in the day.
Ten has actually probably always been near the bottom of my view of Pearl Jam albums. The production just sounds too much like the early 90s and I didn't get into the band till the early 00s. The recent remix that was released this year helps alleviate some of that, though, although some of the songs (like "Garden", actually) are still just mediocre grunge-by-numbers, IMO.
Huh. I wonder why it is that that album sounds like the early 90s.
Well, yeah. What I mean is that it sounds dated. It's not something (like, uh, say, the Stones) that sounds timeless.
Aw, heck -- Walter Cronkite dead at 92. He wasn't going to live forever, but it was nice to think so for a while.
Wow. I thought he was already dead. What's sadder still, Katie Couric occupies his chair.
Wow. I thought he was already dead.
I had that reaction to Katherine Hepburn's death. I was like, people still only get to die once, right? I was stunned that she was still alive.