6 months behind

nope

2006-02-25T23:07:00.000-07:00

Going to Pittsburgh,

so long

2005-09-02T18:30:00.000-06:00

The rain kinda killed the dance party at the wedding. Work is eating all my time like some sort of time eating bacteria. Its pretty gross.

I need a preamp for my deck. No one in town sells 'em. Any suggestions on where to get one online? Thanks in advance.

NP Kanye West : Late Registration

Mega Matrimony Mix

2005-08-26T20:23:00.000-06:00

Gettin Hitched It Hard To Do

Disk 1
I feel good - James Brown
Love Me Do - The Beatles
Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones
Broadway - Alison Krauss & Union Station
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Dry The Rain - The Beta Band
Crazy Love. Vol 2 - Paul Simon
Bhindi Bhagee - Joe Strummer & The Mescalero's
Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
Ticket To Ride - The Beatles
For Once In My Life - Stevie Wonder ***
T Plays It Cool - Marvin Gaye (On DJ Andy Smith's The Document)
New Slang - The Shins
Big Pimpin' - Jay-Z
Heart Of The City - Jay-Z

Disk 2
Get Up (Sex Machine) - James Brown
Rasberry Beret - Prince
She's A Rainbow - The Rolling Stones
One By One - Billy Bragg & Wilco
When You Say Nothing At All - Alison Krauss & Union Station
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life - Stevie Wonder ***
I Turn My Camera On - Spoon
Lets Spend The Night Together - The Rolling Stones
Penny Lane - The Beatles
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
One Headlight - The Wallflowers
Oppenheimer - Old 97's
Ballad Of Easy Rider - The Byrds **
Idioteque - Radiohead
House Of Jealous Lovers - The Rapture

Disk 3
Quattro - Calexico
God Don't Make Lonely Girls - The Wallflowers
Love & Happiness - Al Green
Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney
But You Know I Love You - Alison Krauss & Union Station
If I Ever Lose My Faith In You - The Police
Such Great Heights - Iron and Wine
Sweet Jane - The Velvet Underground
I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder ***
Lenny - Stevie Ray Vaughn
Please Please Please - James Brown
Lady Don't Tek No - Latrrx/Lyrics Born
Aural Pleasure - Blackalicious
Dynamite - The Roots
Blue Flowers - Dr. Octagon

Disk 4
She Loves You - The Beatles
That's The Way - Led Zepplin
Signed, Sealed, Delivered. I'm Yours - Stevie Wonder
Bluebird - Paul McCartney & The Wings
California Stars - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
House Is A Rockin' - Stevie Ray Vaughn
Jet - Paul McCartney & The Wings
Johnny Appleseed - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
We Hide & Seek - Alison Krauss & Union Station
Sweet Thing - Van Morrison
She's The One - The Beta Band
?????????? - Lyrics Born *
The Next Movement - The Roots

Disk 5
Sweetest Thing - U2
Get Back - The Beatles
Ruby Tuesday - The Rolling Stones
So Says I - The Shins
Squares - The Beta Band
My Love - Paul McCartney & The Wings
Looking Out My Window - Tom Jones (from DJ ANdy Smith's The Document)
Not Even Stevie Nicks - Calexico
Rock & Roll - The Velvet Underground
Let Me Touch You For Awhile - Alison Krauss & Union Station
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder ***
After Midnight - Eric Clapton
Hot Pants - James Brown
Mysterious Ways - U2
T's Going Down - Blackalicious

Disk 6
Something - The Beatles
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
When Love Comes To Town - U2
Choctaw Hayride - Alison Krauss & Union Station
Goodnight Tonight - Paul McCartney & The Wings
The Lucky One - Alison Krauss & Union Station
Do You Realize - The Flaming Lips

Thats it, 82 songs. Over 5 hours of music. It was randomly arranged by my housemate, plus we are going to throw the stereo on shuffle so to totally randomize it.

That is like if we actually did it. Someone else did, and yes they deserve to be sued.

* - I honestly don't know the name of this song. Hell I don't think I heard it. I just typed it here
** - Not My Choice By Any Means! Just for the title you know.
*** - I am not sure if I am reading from the same Stevie Wonder Greatest Hits album

NP Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

coming for my creamation

2005-08-24T18:37:00.000-06:00

I am right this second making six or seven huge mix disks for the purpose of giving us dancing music at my friends wedding this coming weekend. Despite all of my friends misgivings for my love of the hellspawn indie music I managed to slip some sweet tracks in. I will try to post them up later.

My main plan is to slip KMFDM's "Juke Joint Jezebel" into the mix under someone elses name. I also think that we need a hell of a lot more Tom Jones. But no, thats not 'cool'. And they call me an elitist.

NP Yo La Tengo - Prisoners Of Love

Toys

2005-08-22T09:48:00.000-06:00

Much to the chagrin of my girlfriend, my housemate got me a Technics SL-B20 for my birthday. (I know that that isn't it in this picture but its a really shy turntable) It comes with promises of being totally refurbished and whatnot. So I threw on one of my three(!) records and tried it out. I have to turn my stereo up to about two/thirds of its total volume to be able to hear anything. So it looks like I will be buying even more stereo equipment, not to mention a ton of vinyl, oh and some roses every now and then. Love you honey!

Let's see, You can pre-order the new Magnolia Electric Co ep "Hard To Love A Man" from Secretly Canadian right this second. I haven't done it yet since I am going to bundle a pretty big order. I won't tell you what but I will give you a hint - PREVIOUS PARAGRAPH. Be wary though, those SC'ers are hit and miss on actually sending you your purchase.

Also SC added I Love You, But I Have Chosen Darkness to their roster. Its the band that's produced, or was produced at some time, by Britt Daniels.

Have you seen the video for "I Turn My Camera On"? Its pretty crazy.

Oh and I am going to throw a link to Radiohead's blog - Dead Air Space. I couldn't miss jumping on this bandwagon. Everytime I see the name however, it just makes me want to watch this StrongBad Email. Dead Air, Um... Dead Air. Hehe.

Two a days

2005-08-08T18:48:00.000-06:00

I really need to figure out how to access the webspace Qwest gave me so I can start throwing up some images.

Speaking of beauty from the last post, I started reading Jonathan Safran-Foer's "Everything is Illuminated". I got hit upside the with a single line and had to put the book down and go outside and think about it for a while. It was a great line, to me at this point in time at least.

Also if anyone from the Minneapolis, MN are going to any shows the first two weeks of October email me. I would like to hang out with people when I am up there and I don't know if the friends I will be visiting will be up for the hardcore life that we - you and I - live every day. Also I hate being alone at shows. I promise to buy a round.

Phi Slicker-Knickers

2005-08-08T18:25:00.000-06:00

I have no idea what the subject means, I just think that it might be an awesome nickname for a sorority out there. This past weekend I was hanging out with great friend of mine from college who happened to be in a sorority. There isn't really a connection there. I just think of funny-sounding phrases, so please don't blackball me kindly Chi-Ohs. It wasn't fun when the Zeta's did that.

Anyways, I finally got around to cleaning out several of my emails accounts from my two months of not checking them. I never realize how much I need cialis. This did give me a long time to get really indepth with some of the cds that I have purchased recently. These opinions will take time to fully develope to the point that I can convince myself I like them so I can be pretentious.

I know I drop the Chromewaves name a lot. But Frank is numero uno in the places I check up on daily. So I tend to credit him with alot. He finally got the Magnolia Electric Company pics up, (link) but doesn't quite understand whats the fascination with Jason Molina.

I have been trying to understand this concept for so long that the point has become moot. All I can think of is that you have to have some sort of black patch on your soul somewhere, or a sort of depressive bone in your body. Not that Songs:Ohia fans are all doom and gloomers, but you have to have the mindset to think that driving out in the country to that abandoned owl inhabited barn where you and your recently broken-up with sweetie had your first kiss during a moonlit filled night just to sit there and think can be one of the most beautiful things you could ever experience. That sentence is probably horrible to understand I am sorry.

How about thinking that candles burned to their bottoms are more beautiful than tall unburned ones. That conveys the same vision to me at least.

Also from CW - MEC interview with JunkMedia. Jason tells that he likes to do shows in towns that are about two hours apart. Dallas to Tucson is considerably longer than that. I am calling your bluff Molina. This is just part one of the interview so this is also a reminder to me to read part two.

NP: LCD Soundststem: S/T

strung along...

2005-08-06T15:25:00.000-06:00

Frank's stringing me along by waiting until monday to report on the Magnolia Electric Company show he went to someplace in Toronto. Well its not like he is stringing ME along, just everyone. Mainly I am looking forward to the pictures.

My housemate and I are downloading random shows from the internet archive. It makes for some strange listening. Hank Williams III's heavy metal stuff is off the wall.

so it seems

2005-08-04T19:39:00.000-06:00

So it seems that this blog is a lot more popular when I am not around. That is totally awesome since I am hardly here a lot anyways. I need to try experimenting with my schedule to figure out what will tip the delicate balance a little in 6months favor. In any case LHB has been providing me with some awesome live show links and last night I went hog wild at Turntable Lab. It was awesome. Oh, go check Chromewaves for a MECo spot in some online mag or another.

To continue a pattern NO ONE IS TOURING NEAR ME. Blarg

NP: Low: Long Division

Sometimes music is too much work

2005-07-31T13:01:00.000-06:00

Upon recommendation from Morgan over at Yer Bird Records I checked out their first artist's, Sounds Like Fall, sample tracks. What I played first was the song "St. Majella", and it was very very familiar. It didn't sound like The Fall as I had hoped [ed.- sorry about the dumb pun] but there was something that immediately reminded me of another song, specifically the words "in love with a girl like you". It drove me nuts. So about a minute and thirty into the song I paused it and started searching for what was so familiar.

I had immediately gotten the similarities with the opening bars of "St. Majella" with the Rolling Stones "Wild Horses", but Sounds Like Fall's singer is about thirty miles off from Jaggers. It had to be someone with a particular twang. So I scanned my cd collection and came to the realization that I had less country/alt-country/whateveryouwannacallit than I realized. Then I got to the W's, and thought that it had had had to be The Wallflowers. Thats right I still have Bringing Down The Horse and I don't care what you think.

Anyways I was sure that it was the song "Josephine", you know it. Where she tastes just like sugar and tangerines. But that wasn't it. So I sat in my desk chair and sang that line to myself for about fifteen minutes.

Then Kaboom! It hit me, Pete Yorn. Thats right. Pete Yorn. I had a friend who was in love with the guy and she kept making me copies of the cds. Luckily I still had one or two and popped them in to see if I was right. Sure enough Song 3 from Musicforthemorningafter, "Just Another" hit the nail on the head. So here is my one liner that the good people at Yer Bird can use to their hearts content. No payola involved.

Sounds Like Fall sounds like Pete Yorn fronting the early 70's Stones

So now I am going to go listen to the other songs they have to check out.

NP: The Rolling Stones: Forty Licks disk 1

Hit Me... ITS A NEW POST

2005-07-28T20:43:00.000-06:00

Well well well, if it isn't the internet. Ahh what a feeling to be connected again. I desire information and this is my needle. The DSL is humming as fast as a connection in New Mexico can go. Awesome.

The thing is this though, my time in this wonderous environment is limited. Here is a breakdown of my day.. You will see where this is going

430am - Wake up and get ready to head out to work
530am - Catch the carpool to work
630am - Get to work, then work
430pm - Leave work, carpool home
530pm - Get back to Cruces
600pm - Generally about time I get home and get out of work clothes
1000pm - Go to sleep for next work day

So if we do our math right there is only 4 hours I have to do anything of anything. It kind of really mucho time sucks. But I will deal with it.

I have been buying cds like a mad donkey and the only absolutely visionary find that I have gotten that sticks out from the other great cds is by one of my all time favorites. A dude who weny by the name of Spy but then changed over to J.Ralph. His new disk "the illusionary movements of geraldine and nazu" is so lovely there is no way to really describe it. I don't know how to link to Flash players so just click the link above and then navigate to "Music" then click on TIMOG&N then play song 2 "M". I love it. Love love love.

Side note: Untitled 17 is the song I want played at my funeral. I am sure that that will pluck the strings of both of those who could stand me in life.

I will get back to being better at this. Promise.

Peace and love if you haven't given up on me.

I am away from my computer

2005-07-05T22:40:00.000-06:00

So yeah, broadband is hard to get set up when you leave town for work at 530 am and return twelve hours later. Our local DSL provider or as I call them The Only Game In Town must be laughing themselves silly. The only other players or as I call them The One Block Served Ponies don't seem like they want to wire shit. But whats a guy to do?

Speaking of guy's lets chat about Buddy Guy. Amazing in concert. Yes kids that is correct, this sleepy hollow got some sweet blues action last night pre-fireworks. I am still in shock that Buddy Guy was in Las Cruces. I did get yelled at again by old people who wanted to sit down at the outdoor stadium. Some one should just issue these old fogeys some radios.

Besides that its dead. I was looking forward to the new Sufjan Stevens album but that got pulled by Superman. Nothing really exciting is coming out this week. The new Magnolia Electric Company EP is pushed back to October. Now that I got the cash I can't find anything to spend it on. Sheesh.

A visit from the curator

2005-06-13T09:04:00.000-06:00

Hey kids, I am not totally dead. Just dead to everything online. I haven't gotten DSL at home yet and I don't get access at work until my security clearance goes through. I probably won't post from this job though. I am currently writing from my girlfriends house on a 26.4 K connection. Fantastic.

So I don't know a thing about whats going on with music nowadays. I just checked ol P-fork for the first time in a millenium. I will get into it again. Just gotta give an old man some time. Peace

8-1 was too long

2005-05-26T11:27:00.000-06:00

Still can't talk. Damn this sickness. Last day of work though. Awesome.

I am announcing the beginning of a support group. Those who never beat Super Mario Bros. The first one. Well the one on the NES. This guy hasn't done it either. He did however beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which I content was the HARDEST video game ever. Dude must be talking about TMNT 2. That or he had a GameGenie

NP Malkmus: Face The Truth

darth adobe

2005-05-24T12:34:00.000-06:00

Yo yo, I am feeling a little better after power loading on cough syrup. I cannot officially operate heavy machinery, but I think I would be okay. Seriously.

Anywho, Remember how everyone was calling Darthside brilliant? Well the dude behind it is offering his rants & raves in pdf format from here. Yep, now you can download them and spend your companies money printing them. Simply awesome.

B&S Cutlery

2005-05-24T11:26:00.000-06:00

Belle & Sebastian have an EP compilation out called Push Barman To Open Old Wounds. I imagine it to be pretty great. I mean the e-card was awesome. You get to play Operation. Sweet

Check out the e-card here. Play the game, listen to some tunes.

could it?

2005-05-23T15:13:00.000-06:00

Well this week at work I have to tie up all my loose ends and write up what I need people to do to do this job effectively. That and get a bunch of stuff entered because its the end of the fiscal year. Glad I am leaving before having to deal with that.

I am also sick after moving to the new house in 100+ degree heat, then swimming in a freezing pool, then dealing with 100+ degree heat with no AC, then repeating for a second day. My voice is shot, I sound like I am narrating Conan The Barbarian. Which is cool and people don't give me no grief on the phone.

I don't know where I am going to set up the home PC. No room for it. I will mull it over and try to come up with a solution.

The only thing I found totally cool this morning was this: Tommy Lasorda's blog. Classic baseball anecdotes.

wrapping in up

2005-05-20T15:36:00.000-06:00

Once upon a time I started writing down random thoughts to post here on a little notebook. I had pages upon pages. But then I lost the damned thing. So I started a text file at work that accomplished the same feat. Then I found that notebook again so I stopped putting things down digitally. That notebook has since been packed at home for the move. So I am going to throw down what little I didn't post.

For some reason I think that all of Explosions In The Sky's sound can be summed up in the last minute of Pavement's "Stop Breathing". Not that thats a bad thing at all.

The Transmissionary Six sound exactly like Clinic. I don't like Clinic. I do like the Transmissionary Six. How the hell do I explain this? I don't know.

Sun Kil Moon's songs all sound like super heavily distorted Neil Young, and I have to check all the time.

dios == Beulah + 2 more synths

Well it looks like I remember posting everything else in some form or fashion. There probably is some other stuff going on in the indie music world. I suggest the links on the right. I'll be back and slacking next week. After that? Who Knows?

Walk in the rain

2005-05-19T09:37:00.000-06:00

One of my former housemates used to love him some anime. Which isn't to say that I don't love me some anime. I just don't love me some anime the way this dude loves him some anime. His favorite series, and almost every elses, was Cowboy Bebop. No synopsis, if you don't know then you don't.

This particular friend had another friend up at the State Tech School (read that as the uber-geek school) who was always on the forfront of internet tech because, well, he was helping to create it. Anyways my former housemate got a mix cd from his friend at NMT that was chuck full of songs from Cowboy Bebop. My housemate loved that cd.

All of the songs from the Cowboy Bebop series were done by game/anime music director Yoko Kanno, along with her band The Seatbelts. The Seatbelts and Yoko Kanno have done a ton of soundtracks for a ton of stuff. Prolific is the word. For this particular series all of the songs were done in a jazz/blues/pop way that could only come out of Japan.

There were a ton of awesome tracks that added so much to the Cowboy Bebop series. Some of you might know the opening track "Tank!" and the closing track "The Real Folk Blues" from the beginning and ending of the show which was, I am told, broadcast on Comedy Central in the past.

One song that struck a cord with me was the song "Rain" which is a pretty, sad song. I listened to this song all the freaking time. It soundtracked a couple weeks of my life, which is kind of sad. Anyways, when it came time for my friends birthday we loaded up in the car his mother had loaned him (a Toyota Echo, two weeks off of the lot) and went to pick up some more friends to start a dinner/bar-hopping birthday party. We went to our friend apartment and when walking out, my housemate mentioned that he didn't want to drive. I immediately spoke up and said that I would. He tossed me the keys and we set out to the restaurant.

My buddy got in the other car that was headed there and I fired up the tiny Echo. In the disk changer was his personalized mix of Yoko Kanno tunes. I fired up "Tank!" and we took off. After the song was finished I turned it to "Rain" and kept on rolling. We approached an intersection right as the lyrics "If there is a hell/I'm sure this is how it smells/I wish this were a dream, but no, it isn't" played. As we entered the intersection (I had the green light) a truck jumped out from the cross road. I didn't have time to do anything. I T-boned the truck with the Echo.

Fluxblog had a really freaking funny post a couple of days ago that reminded me of this episode. I think more mp3blogs should utilize humor. Its just better than way.

I spent the hour after the accident freaking out. There were a number of reasons. 1. I had completely demolished my friends mothers car 2. Right where I had hit the truck sat a two year old child, who was thankfully unhurt 3. I had destroyed my friends mothers car. After everything with the cops/wrecker/insurance people at the scene was over we headed to a different restaurant.

My housemate and I called his mother from the restaurant and I kept apologizing and downing vodka tonics. My nerves were shot. The bartender gave me a price break due to the trying story we told him. He also made me swear on a bottle of vodka that I wouldn't drive again that night.

A next morning we had to go clean out the car, getting everything of value before it was stolen. My housemate really wanted that Bebop cd still. The problem was that the firefighters had cut the battery cable the night before to keep the car from exploding. So after a couple of minutes it was decided that I would hold the cut cable ends together to get current to flow so we could eject the cd. The girl who worked at the car yard warned us that the battery might explode for some reason. But I felt it was my duty to brave this to get my friends disk back. So we counted down and then I threw the wires into each other as if I were Doc from Back To The Future. We got the cd and didn't get blown up.

I haven't listened to the song "Rain" since.

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Fluxblog Yoko Kanno post (again)

Yoko Kanno Project

"Rain"Sample mp3 here.

quick DMB thought

2005-05-18T08:31:00.000-06:00

During my morning DriveTime I usually listed to Bob & Tom. Today during their news segment they had some Dave Matthews story. Then they played an audio clip of him talking about an environmental intern they were looking to hire. Here is the kicker. Dave Matthews sounds just like Vince Vaughn. Dave Matthews also kind of looks like Vince Vaughn. Vince Vaughn only plays sarcasticly humorous roles in movies. So it is basically written in the stars that Vince Vaugn will play Dave Matthews in summer 2007's smash tour-documentary spoof "Dave Matthews Sucks!"

Mainly I only wrote this to take a jab at an artist that I don't particularly care for.

Oh and sorry for the corporate rock info kids. I will be back with some soul-intact indie rock goodness this afternoon.

NP The Frames DC: Fitzcarraldo

not a hipster, though it might look it

2005-05-17T15:42:00.000-06:00

So today I decided to pass on Mercury Rev's The Secret Migration and instead hit up the reissue of Gang Of Four's Entertainment!. Why? Not because of a long love and rememberance of the band. But because I really like Bloc Party. And yes you can totally hear where Bloc Party got their sound. Even the accents are stupendously similar.

Ever since Bloc Party came about people on the internet have been extolling the virtues of Gang of Four. I had never heard of GoF until then. Yep, thats right. In fact I will go so far as to say that I don't really know what went on from '74 - '88. But old surf rock? I could quote lyrics all day long. I can tell the difference between Jan & Dean and the Beach Boys easily. Motown? Got it down. If it was played on oldies radio then I know it by heart. We went on a lot of road trips during my formidable years and I just soaked my parents music up like a sponge. This is why I don't really have many albums from that era, cuz its all in my head.

Since my parents never listened to disco (thankfully, though some Roxy Music would have been cool to know - glam yes I know, but my mom would call it disco) and punk rock (unfortunately, as I don't know much of the Ramones, Clash, Wire, X, and so forth). So my musical upbringing has a pretty big gap thats pretty hard to fill as I live in a place that plays country and tejano exclusively on the radio.

So did I buy new album to show off my hipster-ism? No. I just wanted to get to the roots of a sound that was new and interesting to me. I don't want to come off as cooler-than-you because of it.

I just wanted to get that off my chest.

NP Gang Of Four - Entertainment!

table tops of the damned

2005-05-16T15:56:00.000-06:00

Uncle Grambo nailed (he wishes) this post. The first part at least. I stopped reading when the pretty girls scrolled out of view.

I found this butchering of the celebrated Beach Boys Album Pet Sounds somewhere online. Actually I am not sure if it a butchering or something like the 'screwed and chopped' thing that has been going around with remixes. I forgot from whom I got the link from and I am sorry for not crediting you.

Thom is getting the old band back together and hopefully leaving out the orchestra. Well maybe I got this news from Thighs Wide Shut (which is genius). I wasn't impressed with Hail To The Thief but then again I don't celebrate Radiohead as gods, I just think they are a good band. More news at Green Plastic dot com. Okay its not more news. Its the same news as the xfm link, just in a different spot.

Have I mentioned how much I love The Decembrists's Picaresque? Everytime I listen to "The Bagman's Gambit" this little noir film plays in my mind. Its great.

I am also starting to really really get into design. Not this kind of design as my schooling kind of demands but rather this kind of design. A major problem with design sites is that they are all flash, every single one of them. Normally that wouldn't be a problem but Flash was never but on my new computer, despite me demanding it loudly. I also demanded the reason. Homestar Runner. That might have killed though

I have been planning on building a ton of stuff this summer. My new place is gonna be so rad. Well assuming that I find ways of actually building this shit. Tools are expensive and I doubt that my sisters boyfriend is going to go through with his promise to hook me up with a pipe bender and a plasma torch.

NP Decemberists: Picaresque

winding down it seems

2005-05-14T10:06:00.000-06:00

So Bruce didn't want to be interupted by cell phones, thats understandable. But actually telling people not to clap? That goes a little too far. It ain't like a graduation, it ain't like an awards assembly. It IS a concert. Plus if I got to see Springsteen on this tour I would probably just squeal like a little girl the whole time. Still haven't heard a thing from Devils & Dust. You would think that it would be all over the net with the trouble he has had over the anal sex line.

Oops, I wasn't paying attention to the internet. Check out the above link to Stereogum to maybe hear "Reno" aka "$250 in the ass". Its an older link but the song might still be resting on the server.

Actually I haven't been paying attention to life recently either. Earlier this week I text messaged a friend to ask when they were going to watch Revenge Of The Sith. How would he know, it doesn'tvcome out until next weekend. I figured that out eventually.

And I know that Star Wars Episode III isn't real life okay. I just wish it were. It would read like this. I have been reading Darthside for a while, I just never thought to post the link.

This MSNBC article discusses some things that have been flumoxxing people who have tried to figure out all of Lucas' plot holes. An interesting article yes, but I can answer about half of the questions immediately. Sheesh

A funny episode happened on the Yahoo! Groups Spoon Discussion list. It seems that Roman Keubler's (of The Oranges Band and former Spoon bassist) step-father found out about this band called Spoon who was releasing a song called "My Mathematical Mind" whose title does sound a whole lot like The Oranges "My Mechanical Mind" from their All Around album. His shit blew up. He came with a rage. Here are the important posts. You might have to join the group but trust me its nutzo. Also go out and buy Gimme Fiction

Step-Daddy:Initial Attack!
Spoon-Disussion-Group:Logical Response
Step-Daddy:Hilarious Comeback!
Spoon_Discussion-Group:Are you Roman?
Step-Daddy:No, His Asshole Father!
Spoon_Discussion-Group:Well, Stop Being A Dick
Step-Daddy:Still An Asshole, Here Is The Explination

From there on no one talks about it. NO RESOLUTION AT ALL. I was laughing at this for several days, and I don't get a final balistic troll burning? This internet sucks.

Also, This is the BEST FREAKING LINK EVER, assuming that now was six years ago when I needed this.
I will still probably print out tons of this however.

So the shocker, not that shocker. I accepted a position with a employer powerhouse that isn't so.. liberal with their internet usage. So I can't read up on hard hitting indie rock issues all day long. Not that I ever did that, just during breaks. Anyways during the next week and then some I will be totally streamlining my links to make research easier after work. I am also moving. So I will be outaline in the future. But I will probably end up getting broadband soon at the new place. So theoretically I won't be out of the loop. But it might just happen that I will have to give up 6 months. Before the bulk of its importance ever went into production. We shall see though. Hang in there. If I have to fold I promise I will make it worth your wile.

NP Dios (not Malos, just Dios): Dios

Looking In

2005-05-11T14:24:00.000-06:00

The most exhaustive list of mp3 blogs ever created is over at the Tofuhut. Actually I have nothing to backup the 'ever created' part, but check that thing out. It's massive. Gonna throw that link in the sidebar as soon as I can.

News today is that Yahoo is launching their own cute little music service to go head to head with iTunes, Napster, Emusic, Rhapsody, and gobs and gobs of other services. I can tell that they aren't going to immediately win over a huge market. Well not me. Why you ask? Chief compeditor iTunes added the thematic music from Final Fantasy X.

Over at Coolfer there is some looking at the release of Spoon's Gimme Fiction. 80,000 units?!?!? Thats amazing. I am going to drop by Best Buy to pick up a copy of the circular with Gimme Fiction in it. Because being a dork rocks man.

I am totally loving Gimme Fiction. Probably too much. I keep singing different parts of different songs to myself. My girlfriend will often ask what I am singing, to which I always reply 'The new Spoon cd' then she laughs at how cute that is.

My one problem with the album is the transitions between songs. Wouldn't you like to hear a snare/kick drum intro to "I Turn My Camera On" sorta like the beginning of "Float On"? I always add that with my steering wheel. But if my only qualms with the album are with three seconds of space between literal minutes of jaw droppig aural-gasms then I think I can live with it.

I used to <3 Mindy McCreedy. This news disturbs me though, almost to the point of anger. I was also alarmed to find out that along with the drinking and driving she was also chasing the OxyCotin-tale around. I am sure there are better allusions to be made there but I am on a schedule.

What? Mindy is very hot. Plus I had to listen to something in High School to appease my redneck friends, and Pink Floyd wasn't it.

NP: What else? Spoon: Gimme Fiction

downtime

2005-05-06T15:51:00.000-06:00

A friend of mine is ga-ga over Cold Roses by old Ryan Adams. Remember when he was Merchobiotron or something? Regardless of what he calls himself something about this release bothers me, and I haven't even heard it. What piques my interest is this. What you don't see it? Look closer. Yep, the 'download from Emusic' link. It used to be at the bottom of the review. I remember the days when Pitchfork hated Ryan Adams, and now a staffer, Amanda Petrusich, is pandering to generate more revenue for Ryan Adams and Pitchfork. Conspiracy.

Other than that things are cool, except work is nutzo with crisis situations.

I really love Elvis Costello. I used to not know a thing about him but then I found a four cd set of his used for 6 bucks. I love it when people mislabel stuff. So when I was cruising The Onion earlier this week I was super excited to see an article detailing the liner notes of his Rykodisk reissues. Its a good read, and really make me want to go snatch up some more albums. I am unsure of why I hadn't seen that link posted on more blogs.

Tiny Mix Tapes usually as a pretty sarcastic attitude towards most everything they post. The perfect example is this link - the funniest review of anything I have ever read. I am still laughing.

Last night, while celebrating Cinco De Mayo on our back porch my housemate told me something shocking. He said that our other housemate had told him once that the drummer from the Flaming Lips, Steven Drozd, only had one arm. Supposedly that was what the song Spiderbite was about. I was floored. So I did some research today and this was what I came up with. He still has two arms.

Du-du-du-du-du-dududu

2005-05-03T15:26:00.000-06:00

Oh the funny that is spanish music sometimes. I live like 50 minutes from the Mexico border but know almost none of the music, which is a shame really. Perhaps if I could understand Spanish I would be more inclined to listen. But I never learned, despite the fact that my mother teaches spanish! Happy Teachers Day mom!

Web Cam Chair Dancing Big Guy. Yeah, guess what? That dudes is canadian. And I spit Mt. Dew on my new keyboard thanks to him.

What I was looking for can (kinda) be found here. I think we all need to give this a listen considering what has been happening between Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Dusted also has found about this amazing song. Chacaron. The new sensation.

Also I have been looking for the "Eh Gaso-lina" song for months, ever since we got back from Puerto Penasco. (lyrics here perhaps?)

Maybe my new friend Riodanya could be of some assistance...

Nothing shocking yet. Hold yer horsies.

NP Billy Bragg & Wilco: Mermaid Avenue vol. 1

hear it

2005-04-29T15:34:00.000-06:00

This is the only place you really NEED to visit until the tenth. Everything else can basically wait.

I guess I should mention that The Mars Volta DO have an El Paso date planned. June 8th. I guess I judged too quickly. The problem here is that it conflicts with a Def Leppard/Bryan Adams concert. Who put that together?

Yes I did miss both Wilco (in Albuquerque) and the Magnolia Electric Co (in Tucson) this past week. Why? Because I am not too keen on having to drive back the night of the concert on a school night (work night). Also none of my people wanted to go with me. Sigh... Thats why I hate it here, no acts come to visit. And when they do come marginally close it is still 4 hours away.

I might have news next week that migth shock you.

NP Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage

Planning on wasted time

2005-04-26T15:10:00.000-06:00

My girlfriend is not going to be pleased to learn what I learned from Kotaku earlier today; namely what Square-Enix is releasing in the near future. A ton of Final Fantasy games for PS2 as well as the sequel to Kingdom Hearts. RPGamer reports that Advent Children will be just for UMD however. Which will just give me an excuse to buy that PSP, right after I buy that iPod that I have been fiending for for two and a half years.

Back to my main focus though, and proof that rock & roll music is demonic. Check out this Stereogum link to find James Mercer channeling his dark lord. Evil, evil eyes from local boys done good The Shins. I love the picture above of them for some reason. Perhaps because the word that comes to mind is Shinsicles.

I was able to pick to The Sunset Tree, as well as Feist's Let It Die that I have heard so much hype about. Its alright but could be huge with some promotion. Seriously my mom would buy it. No word about it though. Almost like they want to keep it a secret. Weird

I purchased m83's Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts this weekend used. Thats right bitches - used. It is the version with the extra disk as well. Man oh man was I ever happy about that. And it is incredible. Here I am hyping a disk from 2 years ago. But seriously, I can't wait to get this years Before The Dawn Heals Us.

NP The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree

It's Official

2005-04-26T09:30:00.000-06:00

Yes, it is. The Las Cruces Sun News ran an article about podcasting. It has gotten that far. People in Las Cruces are podcasting. About what? Your typical daily round table discussions about everyday stuff. You can check their site here and check it out. I haven't yet and probably won't get around to it until I get some sort of broadband at home. Where ever that might be. If you Las Cruces podcasters want to get ahold of me, the Las Cruces music blogger and we could have a grand party. Or you could make fun of me on your podcast. I'll never hear it.

"Hip-hop never had labels on anything." My new favorite DJ, Z-Trip, get some exposure in The Daily Texan. The interview is here and the record is in stores. I need to pick it up and I have just found out I have more cash than previously thought. Lunchtime will be cash wastin time. (from LHB)

Especially since today is Sunset Tree day. Thats right folkies, John Darnielle's latest LP is out. Go get it. largeheartedboy has aggregated a bunch of reviews and they are all favorable. Lets just hope that our local Las Cruces stores, yes the Las Cruces that is home to podcasters and music bloggers, has copies.

Almost forgot about this however. I got an email from some random mailing list reminding me that Mixstreet.net goes live tomorrow. I have no idea what MixStreet is so I don't know why I was reminded. Sounds like some sort of DJ community. We will see tomorrow.

The office fax machine is kind of busted so whenever someone calls it makes this horrid high pitched piercing ring. REALLY LOUD. It also fails to recieve faxes every once in a while so people keep hitting it again and again. I am now so pissed at this piece of equipment that I will probably smash it and lose my job soon. I am hoping Iron&Wine can calm me done.

NP Iron & Wine: Woman King ep

I am still not ready to talk about What Came After The Blues. Give me a couple more days.

I've had these jitters...

2005-04-19T17:31:00.001-06:00

So I am sick, I won't discuss it. Blogger lost my friday post, whatever. It's gone, I will be okay with that. This week has been actually nuts. Here is what happened so far.

Monday, got a bad ass new computer. 3.06GHz, 1 Gig RAM, 17" LCD monitor. Decked it out. No DVD drive or CD writing capabilities. Bummer. Spent all day transfering stuff and installing software. Busy work in computer terms, but suprisingly fun.

Tuesday, debugging buggy software. Then I found out ten minutes to closing that I had to train five people tomorrow. Gotta be at work at 7 tomorrow. Driving home for some reason I listened to the radio which I never do. I heard a new song by G-Unit's Tony Yayo - "So Seductive". The first minute was all bleeped out due to cursing. That ruined what was already kind of a mediocre song. Thats pretty amazing since the only words you can't say anymore are shit, fuck, and the c word. Yep, its too dirty for blogs even.

Wednesday - Friday, training and being trained on how to train.

Benedict XVI, the glory of the olive? Thats too creepy.

I've had these jitters...

2005-04-19T17:31:00.000-06:00

Hammer down... but only when

2005-04-13T16:32:00.000-06:00

For some reason I was expecting Pitchfork to review What Comes After The Blues today. I was expecting it to be bad. I was expecting it to be bloody. Nothing though, and thats almost worse than a scathing review. The expectation of the scathing review.

Troy at Of The Record did review both Trials & Errors and What Comes After The Blues. I agree with him totally. I feel that WCATB was recorded too soon after touring and sounds it. Trials & Errors has a ton of force behind it and I have continued to like it a lot more than the new record. Sigh.

Anyways, go check out Tiny Showcase today. Their new print is one of the most awesome things I have ever seen. Giant Mexican robot trading cards? How can that not be dope.

Something Awful is a site that I don't check that often, but when I do I am always suprised by how good their content is. Take this for example. Not too much makes me laugh out loud for minutes on end but it did. My boss almost fired me on the spot. Plus after than I got to hunt fro bugs with my trusty rubber band sniper skills. Honestly the most fun at work to be had, if you aren't banging an intern in the copy room.

Mischa's little sister wants to be a rock star huh? I am not one to scoff at eye candy, but is that not a little passe? Whose little sister can't be a singer nowadays. Assuming you have someone in the biz. from GoldenFiddle

NP: The Refreshments: Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy

What comes after the reviews?

2005-04-12T15:57:00.000-06:00

So that girl there, that's Jenny Benford. She is the female voice on What Comes After The Blues. Yes, I finally got it. Crazy huh? I am still forming opinions about the record. So I am not going to moan about it.. Yet. It worries me that there aren't reviews online outside of Stylus's review. I will say that I am a little disappointed in the way "The Dark Don't Hide It" turned out but thats all you get for now.

There is some intrigue in and around the infamous redhead in Jason Molina's work. There was some speculation that it was Jenny Benford. It was supposedly the same girl on the Aquarela ep, which I don't have nor have the time to find out about. It might not be. The question was answered on the message board a while back but I don't know if I believe it's accuracy. Plus I can't find it anymore. Sigh.

Lego's are awesome, even more so since their power has been combined with that of the power of God. Witness!

Image blantently linked from Central Texas Country. Sorry, but I like you so there is really no need to destroy me with fire and pitchforks.

NP Velvet Underground: Quine Tapes, disk 2

Blogger

2005-04-08T16:23:00.000-06:00

Blogger has to be the wonkiest platform to host anything ever. Yet it does, and I am okay with short outages. Why you ask? Because I am poor.

I have been a good boy lately and have been working hard. Friday afternoons though you just gotta cut loose a little bit. I did this by trying to make a pinhole projector so the people in my office could view the eclipse with out fear of their heads exploding. The 40 mph winds took care of that though. Man, winds blow. Dumbest. Pun. Ever.

Anyways why is it that if you play Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits pretty loud everyone comments on how good your musical taste is? Yet when you, just forty minutes ago, played Funki Porcini everyone walked by and looked at you like you were molesting a girl scout.

Mainly I just wrote that too see if I got a traffic spike. To like 3 people! Whoo Hoo. I just haven't been on top of things with 6months lately. Sorry.

NP: Elliott Smith: From A Basement On A Hill

Abuse

2005-04-07T15:05:00.000-06:00

I am caught in an abusive relationship. Yes, its true. Secretly Canadian continues to dick me over every time I order something from them. The thing is, is that they put out a ton of great stuff. So they dangle something to win my affection in front of me then when I make a grab for it they douse it in gasoline and set it on fire. They Secretly Canadian denies me sex. It's a horrible life but I just can't walk away.

So I am going to be getting What Comes After The Blues next week. I ordered the album 3+ weeks ago and it was officially released the past tuesday. So yeah. Iffin you want it get it from amazon. I won't link there because SC will push me down the stairs.

NP: Funki Porcini: Love, Pussycats, and Carwrecks

Drink Of The Day

2005-04-06T16:19:00.000-06:00

I call him a "Pistachio"
1 part whiskey
1 part tonic water/7-Up/Sprite, whatever.
1 part pineapple juice
1 liberal dash grenadine
1 dash amaretto
juice of 1 lime wedge
Ice

I make mine in a pint glass. You really need the whiskey flavor to be appartent so use it up.

Drink to your declining rights as a user of the internet. Goodbye EZTree. I am predicting that BitTorrent, though it may account for 1/3 of all internet traffic, will die by December. I am sad because whenever I do get some new computer equipment and a broadband connection I want to be able to download some live music.

NP: nothing

Vick (perhaps) reads Pynchon!

2005-04-05T15:54:00.000-06:00

Michael Vick has a scandal on his hands, or rather... never mind. Thats not the point. Look for his alias in the article. Ron Mexico. Perhaps this woman misheard and he really said 'Roger Mexico'. If it turns out that way I am going out to by a freaking Vick jersey, no matter the cost. Anyone who loves my favorite book is okay in my book.

Related Reading: Gravity's Rainbow

I initially got interested in GR because of The John Larroquette Show, in particular the episode where the hooker (with the obligatory heart of gold) gives John Larroquette a (signed?) first edition copy of Gravity's Rainbow. I was thirteen when I saw this episode and I still remember loving this unknown book at that instant. Hell I even think that Thomas Pynchon made a guest 'head behind the paper' appearance on the show. Damn I loved that show.

Get Some Muffler Huffin' Killingtons

2005-04-05T15:38:00.000-06:00

When I got my first computer in college I asked a friend of mine who knew his shit what I should start downloading. His answer came immediately and with a ton of urgency, as if this was something that I had to have to save my life from some pandemic that no one knew of. He said "Get some motherfuckin' Killingtons. Now." I didn't listen, and still regret that.

In a pinch The Killingtons are emo-indie rockers from southern California with a couple elements from shoegaze thrown in, though Allmusic calls them something like 'post punkers who refused the third wave ska revolution.' Whatever that means. Typical of SoCal at that time but still good music, specifically good driving-with-the-windows-down-singing-along music. You can tell they are emo in the picture above because of the ties. Seriously ties make me thing a band is emo.

A couple months after that exchange with my friend he told me again to download some Killingtons. So I looked around and downloaded the songs Belly Dancer and Time Set To Kill from their self titled album. Belly Dancer was so-so but Time Set To Kill blew me away. I honestly played that song about fifty times a day for two semesters. I put in an order for the S/T and the previous "American Made" ep from their website. They took my money, but I never saw an album. No one knew a thing about it. The website went down for a while. I didn't get pissed for some reason, I just ordered the LP from Amazon. It has rarely left my cd wallet during the spring or summer months.

Everything about the album worked for me. Good guitars, melody, lyrics, and a great rock feel. The mixing could be a little better and the drums could be tighter, but who complains about drums? The Killingtons were a very good rock band. Not exceptional, but good enough for me to fall in love with their sound. I talked them up to everyone, and managed to hook a couple people onto them which left a very warm feeling with me.

Since that time the original lineup of JK, Michel, Chris, and Mitchell has shifted to Kristyn, Garry, Sean, and JK. Sean's name no longer appears on their bio page so... who knows. From the now defunct message board postings I think that Kristyn is JK's ladyfriend, but its been literal years since that thing has worked. Their sound is similar, but older. Not more mature, but older in that you can tell they have been playing and the initial fire isn't there any more. It's still good however.

I highly recommend checking out their merch page and click around to find a couple mp3's. Start with All My Friends Are Vampires (old lineup) and Twilight (new lineup). I would absolutely love to get you all mp3's of Time Set To Kill but its no longer up.

I just wouldn't trust ordering from them. Sorry JK, but stick with Amazon on this.

NP The Killingtons: The Killingtons

It is also worth mentioning that JK of The Killingtons plays drums with Ctrl Alt Delete who look like they wanna be The Cure. I haven't listened to any of their songs but plan to whenever I get around to it. They do have a couple songs up so you listen and get back to me.

Drinkability

2005-04-04T16:08:00.000-06:00

Sparks is by far my favorite malt liquor. The only trouble with it is that whenever I drink several, and by that I mean SEVERAL, is that I cannot sleep well that night. I am super jittery and my tummy tum ain't feeling that great at all. So when parusing whatevs.org and seeing Sugar Free Sparks as part of his adventures in disposable income I naturally freaked out. Unfortunately the internet only has one instance of the words "Sugar Free Sparks" and it is whatevs.org.

Finding this majick elixer is now all I have left. Well not all, thats just silly. But it does score my night. Now if I could only get the auxillary television to get Fox so I could watch 24...

NP The Black Heart Procession: 2

memorial

2005-04-03T11:34:00.000-06:00

So yesterday I was cleaning out the couch. Which in and of itself is unimpressive. What was was what I found and did with them. Somehow a strand of Mardi Gras beads got pushed down way into the couch, so I rescued them and after I finished with the couch I sat down and started to play with them. After a couple minutes of piddling with them I made a pretty impressive rosary out of the strand. I would have taken a picture but my digicam crapped out as I was trying. Stupid first generation hardware. But in any case the rosary is now hanging above one of our doorways as a memorial.

NP Spoon: "I Turn My Camera On" from the forthcoming Gimme Fiction

Of Milk And Steel

2005-03-31T15:57:00.000-07:00

Sometime during my junior year of college I decided to go shopping with a friend of mine. While going up and down the aisles we got some Nestle Quik. On the package for that it advertized that it helps build strong bones and has like no fat. This sparked a discussion between us. Could you live on a diet of Nestle Quik and something else, and after a set period of time punch through steel. We decided that this was an experiment that had to be done, by me.

So I put everything else back, loaded up on Vitamin D milk, whole wheat bread (for fiber), creamy peanut butter (for protein), banana's, jelly, honey (all for balancing out tastes on the peanut butter), and of course Nestle Quik. Open faced peanut butter sammiches were chosen for complimenting the chocolate milk with maximum steel-punching powers. Then we went home, and I proceeded to eat nothing but open faced peanut butter sammiches with chocolate milk for two weeks. Well that plus a lot of booze, we were in college.

Strawberry milk has never appealed to me, to answer your next question.

Anyways, I don't remember getting that sick but I was downing a bunch of Pepto before that so I wouldn't notice anyways. I kept at this experiment religiously, though I don't know why. I was in chemical engineering classes so I knew that there is no way a person could punch through steel, well I won't go that far. But still I was preparing for the impossible.

Two weeks passed, and we chose our target. A bank that was going through the initial stages of being built. They had a working atm at the site so we had an excuse for being there. We(I) struck at dusk, she just drove me there. I walked up to a foot wide I beam and started going through routines I had seen in the kung-fu movies we watched all the time. We cracked up constantly, I probably said "I can't believe I am doing something this stupid" several times.

Then I punched the I beam. Not just once. I punched the thing about four times. Stone cold sober. It hurt. I didn't break any knuckles or anything, but man-o-man did that son of a bitch hurt. I didn't even make a dent, just left a little skin and blood.

It is now four years later, and I drank a glass of chocolate milk after work one day and had myself a open faced peanut butter sammich. Then I was sick for the rest of the night. I am now lactose intolerant. I blame this incident.

The moral here is that it isn't just booze that makes you do stupid shit in college. It's your friends. Never listen to them. Not even once.

NP: Beck: Guero

you did what now?

2005-03-30T14:40:00.000-07:00

Sorry about being away. I have the sickness. It keeps ramping up every day, in new and sickening ways. It is not fun. I also have friends in town from elsewhere which is pretty rad. I built a pinewood derby car for a friend who works for the scouts. I am painting it tonight. I have some stuff written up but it got caught in the working-rather-than-editing-silly-blog-posts runaround. Anyways. I will be back soon.

Everyone likes Guero more than I do. :(

NP Beck: Guero

April Fools Are March Planners

2005-03-28T16:53:00.000-07:00

I have the office prank I am going to pull, it is dumb but funny and fun and easily correctable. It simply is NetDisasters. Check out an example here. Click anywhere and blow this site the fuck up!

NP: Ryan Adams: The Destroyer Sessions

quick hit

2005-03-24T14:39:00.000-07:00

A couple of quick thoughts.

Who is this Brendan Benson chap and why should I care about him? Dude has been getting a ton of press. Well a ton of indie press, which is probably like a hogshead of press. I know that Jack White produced his album and that it came out this past tuesday. But I want someone to tell me straight up if I should check this cat out. I don't want to do the research myself I just want you, whomever you are, to tell me what is up. Alternative To Love is his latest work that I don't know a damned thing about.

Next up is Bloc Party. Damn. Rump shakin good. When going to pick up the album Silent Alarm I finally saw a copy of The Futureheads self-titled album. I would have picked that up as well but I didn't want to seem like I was indulging too much in the whole new wave of 80's influenced dance punk bands.

Radiohead are a bunch of sociologists now. I answered everything with the word drink. just so you know

Back to Boom Bip, can't get enough of that guy. My cd is all messed up. The last half of the third song and the first half of the fourth song are all scratchy. The thing is is that the cd surface is perfect. I am thinking about emailing Lex as I doubt that Hastings will believe me. Am I just being a whiny little girl here? Other than two songs being ruined the rest of Blue Eyed In The Red Room is fascinating. Thats the best word for it. I would recommend Boom Bip to anyone, I just think its a little silly to tell people "You should check out Boom Bip!" No one takes you seriously.

NP Explosions In The Sky: The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

I don't know if anyone else noticed but, get ready for it.. Unleashed! The Largehearted Boy also started with the 'now playing' thing. See I told you everyone else was doing it.

mix ideas of the past

2005-03-24T12:08:00.000-07:00

See over there to the right where it says 'Mix Projects'? Yeah, I dunno whats up with that either. I had some grand plans to do mixes every now and then. Some really wacky ideas emerged from my mind and they got all tangled up with the other thoughts that are in there. Then I ran into some problems. Here is a list of them

Standard Hip Hop Mix - the main problem with this mix is that I like Soul Junk entirely too much. I want to have like three SJ songs on the mix. There is still a lot of room for other stuff, but three Christian rap songs? No sir.

Standard Indie Rock Mix - The main problem here is that I can't really download stuff for research. I mean I still read StG, MfR, and Fluxblog and their ilk but I can't really sample the wares anymore. I need broadband, more cd-r's (for driving around listening to random songs, best field test ever), and a better computer. For all of this I need some more cash. Am working on that.

Instrumental Fictional Biography - Sort of a "How I would like my life to be lived" with no words, or rather no up front vocals. The biggest problem here is that I keep rewriting the script. Or rather I keep putting things like this in:
Boom Bip(From Seed To Sun):(I think that its either song 6 or 7 so) either U R Here or Pulse All Over. Riding a train in the rain through the Pacific Northwest while looking out a window. There is only two other people in the traincar with me. A woman and her small child (no relation), the woman is reading a newspaper and the child is fidgeting. I don't look at them much, but rather focus on the rain..

I mean whichever song that is would totally fit the mood but as far as a fictional future biography? Its a little boring.

Alt-Country Mix - I don't "own" any Son Volt or Uncle Tupelo albums, so how can I possibly go about doing this? I suppose I could use the mp3's but I wouldn't feel right about that.

So there is my problem. I am lazy. If anyone wants to send me over a mix or two to get me passionate about the whole idea again then please contact me. I would be happy to credit you with my productivity.

Plus after reading about Adam Kempa's rediculous mix-cd packaging I don't think I could send out mixes without something extravagant about them.

NP De La Soul:3 Feet High and Rising.

presenting the new alcoholic

2005-03-23T15:49:00.000-07:00

Well not quite. But I did drink about $165 worth of booze in Mexico. Thats in Mexico. So that means its a freaking ton of booze. Yeah. It was a good trip. I got in an arguement with the dude at the one hours photo, who looked a lot like Seth Green, so I won't have pictures until friday.

As for what happened since. I dunno. Everyone is all over the place with the steroids thing and some lady in a coma. And there was that South by Southwest thing. I am not even going to try and figure out what happened this past weekend. I am just going to focus on the present.

It is freezing in my office.

Thats all I got.

NP: Decemberists:Picaresque

tequila madness

2005-03-17T15:59:00.000-07:00

Sorry about the lack of posting. It has been a hella long week. Way too much is going on and I just feel drained all the time. Tomorrow is the first day of my vacation however. Thats right Mexico baby, I will return next week with a ton of pictures and probably a story or two. Sorry again.

Before I go though, check out Threadless. Really awesome shirts. They have a sale going on until Monday, so get over there. I wish I had some of these before I depart for Spring Break, but getting them later will still rock.

Mars Volta Tour

2005-03-11T11:52:00.000-07:00

How is it that The Mars Volta can tour but not play in their hometown? El Paso isn't the biggest place but the kids would come out. I mean, I might go. I haven't heard Frances the Mute but I hear that it might sound really great in a live setting.

Shame Omar. Shame.

I too love my belly

2005-03-10T16:29:00.000-07:00

A couple weekends ago my parents visited. For a gun show yes, but they still visited. Anyways they brought me a sweet old 5 disk cd changer. It is a Sansui I think, no flash but no matter. I think it's pretty fly. Now this would be a lot cooler if I couldn't stop listening to the Superwolf disk by Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney on it. Excelente.

On the song "What Are You?" (track 3) doesn't he sound a little like the singer from Collective Soul?

Oh and remember my soap opera idea? More proof.

Speaking of soap opera's, tonight OC promises to entertain AND geek you out with Star Wars: Ep 3 and Beck. Now if they could have an actual episode instead of this dumb mall plot. Whenever I think of being in a mall after hours I only picture the movie Bad Santa

NP GBV:Half Smiles Of The Decomposed

Ulysses?

2005-03-09T16:17:00.000-07:00

I have recieved official confirmation from Tractor Beam, a management and production company, that the Ulysses playing El Paso ain't their Ulysses, who is Robert Schneider. Just thought I would clear that up in case anyone is wondering.

The question remains though, who is this other Ulysses? Whom perhaps?

NP Warren Zevon - I'll Sleep When I'm Dead Disk 2

BONO will in fact rule the world

2005-03-09T11:04:00.000-07:00

Bono... for... World... Bank... President... what.. the... fuck...

Right. So yeah. Concerts.

Death From Above 1979 in Tucson on 03.21.05,/li>
Stars and Apostles of Hustle in Tucson on 03.21.05

Pollstar has Ulysses
as playing in El Paso on 03.26.05. The thing is that this is the only date listed. Could it be Robert Schneider? Or an Imposter?!!??!

Reggie and the full effect backed by New Found Glory in Albuquerque on 05.13.05. I don't know why I am excited by this. Not at all.

Mr Lif in Albuquerque 05.15.05

MEC show finally gets added to pollstar. Now the chances of this show not being cancelled are less likely. Don't know what I am going to do about the whole Wilco/MECo thing though...

And some Zen koan sites. They might return

here

here

and here

For everything else that has been going on lately I guess you should check out this Stereogum post. No point going up against the heavy hitters you know? Just gotta give them their propers.

Other than that What Comes After The Blues is up at the Secretly Canadian site for preorder. This shouldn't be a limited run but you will get it a month and a half early. Thats worth it though.

some much needed window dressing

2005-03-07T14:37:00.000-07:00

Here is what I get to look at most days at work. Sweet huh? Though that stack is now completed. I do have a metric ton of other stuff to do.

Here we have the scary taggings that appeared on our wall months ago. Notice the intimidating heart in there. Only badasses use silver nail polish to tag someone. Oh wait, I meant spraypaint I really did.

And this is my lovely girlfriend.

And the result of the weekend. Well Saturday during the day. The rest of the time I was so drunk or so hungover that I could hardly move. Drinking will kill you, just think about that before you have those B-to-tha-E's for lunch.

Tables perhaps dancing.

2005-03-04T13:30:00.000-07:00

I am planning to use Saturday to refinish a crappy table I have and hopefully make it not crappy. While browsing to see what grits of sandpaper I would need (Like you know either) I ran across this Do-It Yourself process on refinishing. I laughed for about fifteen minutes when I ran across this 'common mistake'..

"4. Not waiting the required amount of time for the stripper to work thereby necessitating harsh scraping of the wood."

Rest of the article here.

If anyone wants to come over to my stripper party then feel free. It's BYOB as I can't afford to buy you stuff. All day Saturday.

NP - the sound of my own juvenile laughter.

Ipod lust

2005-03-03T14:34:00.000-07:00

I am ***supposed*** to be reimbersed from the Department of Health for doing this diabetic tracking and if I am doing my figures right then I am looking at something like a $1400 check sometime this month. I figure I can do two things. Pay off debt and save. Or splurge on an ipod and use the remaining cash to ***perhaps*** get broadband service for something like six months. If I go with the latter I would absolutely love this thing. But I am a dork like that.
More entering college kids getting free ipods. Dammit, I might go back to grad school if I had incentives like this floating about. Err.. that should be I should go back to school to start grad school. I am not so about any of the programs offered at my school. Perhaps I will get a MA in Literature on top of the BS in Chemical Engineering. That would look good.

DJ Z-Trip. Perty good shit. Check out the mixes directory. Tons of stuff that I haven't listened to yet but will get soon.
Check out the media player for his first album. Pretty nice. "Listen to the DJ" Indeed. From Music For Robots

Like everybody else, I wach the OC too. If you do too then you are already planning to watch the March 10th episode. If you don't watch the show, well then bucko, you should start on March 10th. Not only are they going to go nuts on Guero but they are dubutting the new Star Wars trailer on it. Yessir, the OC has finally made it.

Speaking of Soap Opera's I have a great idea for a new one. Check out the background research.

The music of the Final Fantasy video game series has always been really great. It is good to see it being appreciated.

Now I loved Lost in Translation, but this looks so much better

NP Explosions in the sky - The earth is not a cold dead place.

The girl that was holding down the checkout fort while I purchased this tried to drag me into debate on whether the name of the band was supposed to mean anything. For some reason she thought that EOTS was a death metal band, which I corrected her on. She also thought that they were from Italy. Yes, this was at a music store. I would have sat and debated the fact if there wasnt a line.

Cross Promotion or Other Peoples Postings

2005-03-02T17:50:00.000-07:00

You know what is really annoying? When spam personalities actually have the same name as a friend of yours and you get all excited and open the email just to see it is someone slocking ink?

Well these following two people are real. Mike from IdotPdot and Kelly from her blog. [enter other site promotion mode]

I don't personally know Mike but have traded emails with him. Dude is from the East Coast who decided to see the country. I don't know how he is supporting himself but he seems to be having a hell of a time. Except for that unfortunate episode with him almost dying and whatnot. Eek.

Kelly is a giant dorkfish. Thats all I have to say about her. That and if Mike ever comes through Cruces I am going to try and hook Kelly up with him.

Ah, that felt good. Now I can't wait for my ears to start burning!! Yippee!

I also realize that I uttered the phrases "Eek" and "Yippee" in one post, but I don't care. I have been working for ten hours.

NP Eric Clapton - Cream of Clapton

2005-03-02T14:51:00.000-07:00

Presented here is a list of random stuff that I thought was cool enough to put online. Again. Since they are links.

The Album Leaf in El Paso the 14th of March at someplace called the "T-lounge" as reported by Pitchfork

05 - 20 Tucson, AZ. Club Congress. w/ Junior Boys, The Russian Futurists.
Caribou (frmrly Manitoba)

I would love to think that I and a few people I know are the exception to this report. From the BlackTable

Something you don't see every day, A Salsa Review website. Interesting for me I suppose. From LHB

Remember when Duke reported that it was giving all its incoming freshmen iPods and you were super jealous cuz your university just gave you grief? Here are the results
From LHB

Speaking of the iPod, this dude reversed engineered the bootloader by making the damned thing beep. He will rule eastern Europe with a robot army in five years. Tops. FromLHB

Have you ever wanted to order a specialized jersey with your last name on it? How about the words "Mattress Princess"? Well now you can't. From Fark

This is probably the most exciting story in the list. To me at least. But I am a big physics nerd. So you probably don't care. Just like you don't read this blog. So it makes sense. Proof of superstring theory? Gravametric anomaly? Cloned galaxies? You decide. From Fark

This is probably the most frustrating news in this list. Wilco in Albuquerque on the 26th of April, MEC in Tucson on the 27th of April. WHAT THE HELL IS A MAN TO DO? If Spoon announces a show on either side of this then I am going to go nuts. I am going to run the logistics of making both shows. I might lose my job and all my savings but its okay. Both are nothing worth keeping anyways.

I don't know how the Queen of England can't know who Eric Clapton is. I mean, hasn't she turned on the telle in the past couple months? Clapton is shilling every song for any amount. I am going to see how much it would be for me to liscense "Bell Bottom Blues" for a month. In the Queen's defense I don't know what Jeff Beck looks like either.

Thats it. I will try to write something that requires thought sometime soon. Things are cooling down.

NP B"P"B - Master and Everyone.

Silicon Burning

2005-02-28T21:18:00.000-07:00

Servers are down at work. My internet connection crapped out at home. So I am using my sisters University account for a bit. The dream of a free internet is dead to me.

I do know is that Caribou (formerly Manitoba) is coming somewhere close. I think it is Tucson, but it may be Albuquerque. I will throw it in the list on the right sometime later.

The Album Leaf is going to be in El Paso, but I don't know if I like them enough to go to a show. I would probably just feel really really old. Much like I do already.

Folsom Prison Hip-Hop

2005-02-25T16:56:00.000-07:00

From Fark and The Denver Channel, Rapper C-Murder releases album from prison. Part of it was recorded in prison. Didn't Shyne do the same thing? I don't remember anyone making a big deal out of that. I bet Young Buck does the same thing. I mean there isn't anything else to do there. Might as well. Hell didn't Suge Knight retain control of Death Row while in prison?

No Place For You? Check them shelves

2005-02-25T16:16:00.000-07:00

Good news courtesy of Chromewavesthis morning. Replacements Reissues from both Ryko and Rhino reinfusing the world with the 'Mats Twin Tone and Sire years respectively. Also in the works is a Westerberg retrospective from Rhino. Also Paul and Lucinda Williams teamed up for a cover of "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels." I am not familiar with that song but will seek it out.

Also mentioned in the same article is news of Paul and Tommy Stinson teaming up for a song on a forthcoming Cameron Crowe film called Elizabethtown. This gets me all super happy. The new music, not the film.

Music For Robots points to a track from the upcoming Out Hud lp,. Kranky is hosting it so the track is legit. Go and do what the internet was made for.

Kranky also has a pretty interesting Kompilation that spans two disks and twenty one tracks. Plus it is available for a super-low-single-digit-prime-number price. I won't give it away, but seriously man. That is worth it.

There is a Dave Eggars interview up on The Onion's AV Club. Althougth I myself will admit to being a former Eggars fanboy I couldn't finish the article. Perhaps if you are super into the world of publishing then you can. And I think even higher of you for that.

Concerning last nights OC, Skeet On Mishca seems to not have liked it all that much. All I can say is that after the mediocre last few episodes, this one seemed to be a little better. And I thought the Spiderman thing was hilarious like nothing else. Next week looks like a total crapshoot.

Matt Pond PA is now tied with The Album Leaf for the most OC spots this season I think. I am not quite sure though as no one keeps count for me. Perhaps I will start keeping the stats on this. After listening to the Matt Pond PA version of Champagne Supernova (It'll be on this) my housemates and I pulled out the ol' What's The Story, Morning Glory and tried to sing along to the whole disk. Okay I did. They listened for a few songs. After that was over I was convinced that I finally need to rent Live Forever.

I went to a tennis camp in the summer 1996 and actually called up a girl after a night of high school partying and said the words

"What's the story, morning glory"

to her. It was probably the stupidest I have ever felt. I don't want to talk about this any more. Oasis just has so many memories to bring back to me...

NP Paul Westerberg: Mono

SY in EP?

2005-02-24T15:57:00.000-07:00

Somehow one of my housemates 'came across' an ubsubstanciated rumor that Sonic Youth would be playing a show on some unannounced tour in El Paso. In fact, here is the exact quote:

Unsubstantiated rumor of the day: Sonic Youth in El Paso in March. Do what you do best!!!

Upon inspection of half of the internet I have not been able to corroborate this. All I have are the Japanese tour dates for March. Thats all that Pollstar, VH1, SY.com, and their bulletin board have. Also Smells Like Records, home of the SonicYouthRecords (SYR) imprint has nothing.

Maybe my housemate is just dumb and mistook Osaka for El Paso. Which is probably the case. But if you are Thurston or Kim or Steve or Jim or Lee come to El Paso. It won't be that bad. Maybe.

If you know anything let me know.

buying and breakin

2005-02-23T11:29:00.000-07:00

I only had a couple of minutes to go shopping last night. I was renting Napoleon Dynamite with my girlfriend and I just did a once-through of the music stacks. I managed to find the three new releases pictured above. What blows my mind is that there were like 11 copies of the Robbers On High Street disk. It makes no sense really. They must have a reallyreallyreally good distribution deal. Sorry about the amazon ##% off thing on the pictures, I did this post really quicklike

So I grabbed all of these and held them up for my girlfriend. I let her pick my purchase by the cover art. What would you choose based on just the cover art? My answer will be below in the Now Playing part of this post. And no, they didn't have the new M Ward. When I asked I just got looked at funny and told 'I have never heard of them'. Sigh.

I also really really really hate tables in HTML. I mean this wasn't bad but that is the worst thing to do in html, the damned tables

Korn's bassist leaves, after finding religion. Just the other day my housemates and I were talking about how little we like Korn, well K still held their first two albums in high regard. I was never into Korn because I luurved Oasis at that particular point in time. That is absolutely true.

Blink-182 vacations in Hiatus. I hear the political situation there is still abysmal.

Both links come from Fark.

The Jayhawks are also breaking up. I guess this completes the triad that your grandmother always tells you things come in

NP Iron & Wine - Woman King

concerning newsletters

2005-02-22T15:54:00.000-07:00

It must happen to everyone. It just must.

You go to a show by this band that you haven't really heard of before but one of your friends has seen them and they are 'pretty good' by his account. You dig the band. They are 'pretty good'. So when they make it through your town, which is a pretty big deal since no one ever makes it through your town without major coersion by someone, you go again. Different bar though. You and your friends are digging them You get up and dance even. Who dances anymore? Other that that girl who looks like Summer from the OC? Yeah, you and your friends get up and dance. You have a great time, you have to take your sweater off because its getting to hot. You drink some more, man this band isn't just 'pretty good'; oh no, they are awesome. For that minute the band is just what you needed to hear. They play a Prince cover!?!?! No, YES! It is a Prince cover. How cool is that? You remember that you are the only one in your group of friends that likes Prince, but you don't care. It is still a fuckin' Prince cover man. You drink more.

Someone hands you a clipboard. What the hell is this all about. There are a lot of '@'s on the paper attached to the clipboard. You realize that it is a sign-up for their mailing list. How cool is that? You want to be updated. You want to be in-the-proverbial-know. You throw your email address on their to, but not your main email address, the other one. The one you use to get all kinds of weird things. The one that used to be your main email address. You pass the clipboard on and enjoy more of the music.

Month pass, you keep getting the newsletter. You read it but don't know why. It is mostly a weird introduction, some tour dates, and then a veiled way to close the email and seem mysterious and cool. It gets your through those three minutes of work.

And so it was with the Spoonfed Tribe. Check them out. They are actually pretty good and play some mean Prince covers! They have weird names! Plus their site is all '98-y with it's frames and whatnot! I just think their newletter is lame.

NP GYBE! - Y U.X.O.

busted & bruised, though not totally confused

2005-02-21T16:30:00.000-07:00

I don't know about you man, but the name Guillermo just makes me think of that Family Guy episode. That being said, I still totally appreciate your music.

I think I have mentioned the Last Plane To Jakarta forums here before, but you should still check them out from time to time. All kinds of wacky goes on there, for instance in one post you get something totally awesomely weird and something awesomely creepy.

As for snowboarding, I had a blast. I am so very sore though. Other stuff probably happened on the internet, but I have been too darned busy. I think Lindsey Lohan's dad is in jail though. I saw something like that on CNN earlier.

RIP Gidget and Hunter S. Thompson. I had thought of throwing up something for HST but The Golden Fiddle got there first. Probably for the best.

Largeheartedboy has links to several lectures that I am going to try downloading tonight.

That my friends was a seven minute write up.

NP The Wedding Present - Watusi

a closing

2005-02-18T16:29:00.000-07:00

If you know me, let me clue you in. Get off your lazy ass this weekend and go snowsporting with me and my friends this Sunday at Ski Apache in Ruidoso. I have to say 'snowsporting' because skiers hate snowboarders and snowboarders hate skiers.

Hopefully I can avoid getting in a fight with a teenager and his dad again. Let me tell you about that. It was my first time snowboarding so I wasn't that good. I picked it up fairly quickly so I went off on my own. As I was going along, minding my own business this sixteen year old kid plows into me on ski's. We both go down.

So as I am trying to stand up, his father comes along and starts yelling at me. I tried explaining how we ran into each other and I was sorry. The dad (also a skier) wouldn't take my apology and puhes me into a tree I was using as support. (we were by the side of the trail) I am pretty sure he calls me a pussy and then skied off.

A couple hours later I have gotten pretty good at this whole snowsporting thing. I can turn, stop, hell I can even jump and twist in the air. Landing was a problem though. So I am going down the easy trail and I see the kid again. I look around and his dad was no where to be seen. So I pick up speed, as he was lollygagging around. I come up on him and totally tackle his ass. I laid the kid out, probably knocking the wind out of him. He wasn't expecting it so while I got up quickly and grap one of his poles he just laid there. I threw the pole towards the side of the trail and continue on my way. It was awesome.

He wasn't hurt (I went by to find him later after removing my top jacket later) and I saw him skiing perfectly fine later. So all in all everything was perfect, and I retain my jackassness.

So if you want to kick my butt on the slopes then get there Sunday. I will have the black sock hat on. Oh and some sunglasses. If you are the kid I tackled, then your dad is a dick. It is time you learned to accept that.

NP Fila Brazilia - A touch of cloth

First sighting

2005-02-18T15:41:00.000-07:00

Gimme Fiction indeed. I am going to go on record as believing that there is really a man underneath the red veil. Pic from Matador, who will be releasing the album a day earlier around the world than Merge who gets to throw it from their roof to the hungry American audiences.

I just saw a post on the LPTJ forums about Ryan Adams saying this...

Ryan Adams is now Mechrobioticon

For some reason my work computer won't actually display the flash correctly on his site. Mechrobioticon redirects to Ryan Adams dot com. So I guess he has a silly name now. That nice.

Illegal Boss Brotherhood

2005-02-18T11:50:00.000-07:00

Scott Herren's is pissed. Don't download his new album illegally. I admit a handclap orchestra would be kind of cool. He could get Britt Daniels, and umm.. that girl from Till and the Wall who tap dances. Info from Chromewaves

The Boss's new album DEVILS & DUST comes out April 26th. Once I bought a friend a copy of Nebraska for Christmas because I remember liking the old cassette my dad had. I had to endure people thinking that Bruce was 'my boy' or 'my musical hero' for several months thereafter. This confused me since I don't really know his stuff that well.

Calexico is joining the Los Lonely Boys and Ozomatli for the horribly named Brotherhood Tour. I linked the Calexico's site since they are the people I am really going to see on May 6th in El Paso. The Los Lonely Boys are playing a benefit on March 4th in Grand Prarie, TX with Willy Nelson for Stem Cell Research. With their recent troubles coupled with Willy's past you would think it was for legalization of marijuana! ZING!

NP Tami Hart - No Light In August

Slotted Spoon

2005-02-17T16:46:00.000-07:00

Gimme Fiction leaked. Personally I am not going to find it.

I will say it. I am against getting albums off of p2p networks early myself. I am not against getting promo copies of albums for review purposes. Since I am not willing to download albums early I can be trusted to not post them early right? Right.

East Wessex perhaps

2005-02-17T11:55:00.000-07:00

LcScene.com mp3 downloads page. I really should start trying to be a little more excited about Las Cruces having some music in it. Check out the LCScene compilation as a starting point. I will too. Together something might happen.

Browsing the boards are always fun. For instance Fellow Project are going to be in the Las Cruces area and need a place to crash and play. They are, ahem, folk/punk/country. I don't know about that. You can download two of their albums here. I dunno mang, its pretty sweet when you get two free albums by a band you never heard of.

While talking about crunk last night at the bar, I slipped and said "Elton John and the East Side Boyz." Man oh man, did I feel silly. Now someone mash me some of that up now.

Fader's new issue has 4 different covers. I am going to try and find the Eleanor Fiery Furnaces one.

Why do the Basement Jaxx have a North American label? Astralwerks is really starting to slide. I have defended them before but who doesn't renew a Grammy winning artist? Obviously Astralwerks wants no part of the money from moms buying music for their fourteen year old children. From cool guy Coolfer.

I am like a little posting machine today. What lit the fire in my belly? Cuz I dunno.

The electrician will be there in two months

2005-02-17T10:42:00.000-07:00

Alright here is the quick and skinny. Jason Molina's traveling awesomeness, the Magnolia Electric Co. finally has a venue for their Tucson appearance - Plush. This eases my mind considerably since I was seriously think that the date would be abandoned. I will be there for $8. Super reasonable. I am going to try and get a weird assortment of characters to go with me. Because I doubt that many of my friends will actually go with me.

The Court And Spark precedes them. I have heard the name Court and Spark for a while now but have never heard anything by them. If you check out their media page you can give them a listen.

Looking at this now I see that they were on Absolutely Kosher, which has an amazing list of bands they represent. I have a couple of AK sampler cd's at home which I never pay attention to. I don't know why, as thats how I found out about The Mountain Goats/Frank Bruno who join to for The Extra Glenns, The Jim Yoshii Pile Up, and Summer At Shatter Creek. So I suppose that I have heard a couple Court & Spark songs from these samplers.

Isn't Bottom Of The Hudson the same thing as Summer At Shatter Creek? Or are they mortal enemies?

Some band from Austin named Milton Mapes precedes both MagElecCo and Court&Spark. They actually look kinda neat, check out some clips from this page.

I will have to take a ton of money to that show, just for the merchandise.

Main Slatch man, JtB, is debutting a new website entitled Tiny Showcase the beginning of March, maybe. It isn't clear what this site does, or talks about, but if Jon has a hand in it, it will probably be really good. My main insiration for starting this site was Slatch. I am nowhere near that cool however. Mainly because I still use the word "however", and can't think of decent post titles to same my life.

Thought I would mention High Desert, since a friend of mine fell out of a car coming back from there. He is fine, don't worry. His ass just hurts. Never stand on the seats and jump around in a convertable.

Now Playing Of Montreal - Aldhils Arboretum

hats

2005-02-16T15:33:00.000-07:00

So as I was walking between buildings today I walked past an older gentleman. He was in his early fifties, and cowboyed out to the nines. The only odd thing was that he was wearing an A. Perfect Circle. baseball. cap. Yeah, I know its weird. Perhaps he should have been wearing a red plaid hat.

On a similar note: go here and look at the picture that is included in the post. Be prepared to stick a finger in a socket to regain composure. I couldn't read Ryan CatBirdSeat's post because all I could do was look at the picture, and the date as well. May 17th can't get here soon enough.

I tried looking up the Perfect Circle hat and the mysterious item listed above but had no luck on either account. I dunno, my internet skills are fading. It is probably work, as it has been all intense nowadays.

If you don't seem me the next couple days I will be here or here.

Yes, yes I am a huge dork. I know.

Now playing Guided By Voices: Universal Truths and Cycles

short post

2005-02-15T11:30:00.000-07:00

Holy Colaborations Batman!!! Remember when I was all excited for the Ghostface/El-Producto joint? Pitchfork raises the bar with this news: Ghostface + MF Doom. I have been driving around to VV2: Venomous Villian lately and my initial concerns about the album have been run over.

I get the Bloc Party thing now. It was released in the UK yesterday. Natch.

Battleship Potemkin: never seen it. Now I want to. I once paid something like fifty bucks for The Seven Samuri when it first first came to DVD, and have watched it like twice since then.

Directions to the Bloc Party

2005-02-14T14:30:00.000-07:00

So Silent Alarm is getting all kinds of good ratings. But I thought that it wasn't out until the 22nd of March. Whats the point of giving the good review now? I know that I would have loved to get a promo to review early but still I would have waited until it was right about to come out, that is if I ran THAT kind of review site. And I don't.

I do know that LCD Soundsystem's S/T and The Wedding Present's Take Fountain come out tomorrow. I am going to look for them. Silent Alarm as well I suppose.

My big super purchase this week is going to be the ultimate geekout for me: Xenosaga 2. So expect me to pay even less attention to the world around me than before.

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My sister really likes The Used, and coincedentally so does a friend of mine from Vegas. My friend from Vegas was hounding me one day about trying them out. I got the chance this weekend while borrowing my sis's car. I am not that big a fan. Would that mean that I didn't feel used?

This was like the movie weekend. I checked Anchorman and Shaun of the Dead amongst other, older movies. Anchorman was good, lots of funny lines, but the plot wasn't that great. I absolutley howled at Shaun of the dead though. My favorite part was when the two groups crossed and they were exactly the same but different people. I often feel like that here.

games

2005-02-11T09:38:00.000-07:00

So, once again, here is the deal; I have been sick. And as such I have not been coming to work. On breaks during my work time I scour the internet looking for cool stuff. Then I write up a synopsis and email it to myself for later posting. All done on break time mind you and my corporate overseers. Because if some people can spend forty minutes on a smoke break then I can read Pitchfork by golly!

But since I have not been at work I have not been online as much. You would think that since I am at home with nothing to do I would delve even deeper but no. And I am ready to admit that I have a dark secret that I am hiding. I am addicted to KOTOR-II. One of my friends lent me his Xbox and I played for about six hours straight yesterday. Which put me at about twenty three hours into the game. Which seems like a lot but I couldn't be happier about it.

So thats why I haven't been updating. I have been playing video games instead of screwing around online. Awesome huh? I actually haven't played anything in such a long time that it feels really good to start sitting in front of a TV for almost ever. My life will go severely downhill once Xenosaga II comes out. I am also just going to be playing sequels this Lent season

About the Impossible Shapes Turn download. Did anyone else notice that song 6 - Tahuti, Splendid Scribe, was missing? That kinda sucks.

I saw Sideways last night. The scene at the burger place was so perfect. Other than that I give it an 8.

NOW PLAYING ME SOME AUDIO ACCOMPIAMENT TO THE SIDEWAYS SITE

Giveth and Taketh Away-eth...

2005-02-08T14:54:00.000-07:00

So I can once again see. I wasn't blind. I just needed a contact. Yep, just one. Anyways the whole time I was in my appointment my optometrist kept telling me stories of the sexual exploits of his friend the dentist. He was reminded of these exploits by seeing the ex-wife of the dentist in the waiting room. I personally believe it was a load of crap. I mean, it isn't legal to have sexual-favor clauses in your hygienist's contracts, is it?

But the point is that I can see. I like that feeling. So to return balance to my life my headphones were struck with destruction this afternoon. I was pissed since I have now heard Ashlee Simpson twice.

I have just learned via the Wilco Yahoo Group that there was once a band called "Shitty Shitty Band Band". I had no clue of this prior to now. This makes me wonder about my originality for Shitty Shitty Day Day. I must research this. This all came about in a dumb band name thread. Also look here for another list.

I now love A Cat Born In An Oven Isn't A Cake, its too damned bad that the only thing you get by searching for their name is now lists of funny band names.

Back with the lowdown on Shitty Shitty Band Band, so it appears that one of their band members, the keyboarist, looks like Dick Van Dyke who starred in the movie adaptation of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The trombonist thought it would be funny. While it is funny, I cannot condone liking a band with a trombonist. I mean, if they were good then perhaps. Ska just ain't my thing. I don't even know if they are ska. I just know that their audio is in RealAudio. Fuck that.

So one of my best friends is a State Cop. He always comes back with the craziest stories of cop life. He also gets crazy comps, like working security at concerts and sporting events. Sometimes these don't work out. Last night he got the pleasure of working at a Cher/Village People concert. Lets here what that was all about.

If you want to get hit on, just wear a police officers uniform to a village people/cher concert. I got hit on in the men's room, and later by a tall hispanic transvestite with a cher wig, thong, and fishnet stockings. Most interesting crowd ever. I felt like a "macho, macho man."

Being forced to listen to Evanescence, because my boss love the crap-radio

Wooden Stars

2005-02-04T16:29:00.000-07:00

The Wooden Stars are a band that I wish I would have found out about a kajillion years ago. I have never seen a cd by them in any store I shop at, despite the fact I always look. Check out this track on Said The Gramophone. If you like it then look around for more songs. They have some great ones out there.

Thats pretty much it for this week. Get killa crunk like I will tonight.

play by play

2005-02-04T16:14:00.000-07:00

Magnolia Electric Co.
Trial & Errors

1. Dark Don't Hide It
God I love this song. The star of the album for sure. This is what gets me all super excited to hear What Comes After The Blues. I have this song on a ton of bootlegs and it is far and above the most memorable from them.

2. Don't This Look Like the Dark
This song just makes me think of your average 'driving home' song. Like "24 Hours From Tulsa" by Richie Valance or "18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses". Not to dash this type of song, since I have some weird love for both of these aforementioned songs. But really this song just kind of goes on. and on. Also someone in the audience does a "whoo" at the end of the song that annoys the fuck out of me.

3. Such Pretty Eyes for a Snake
This song is pretty strange as well. It seems to me that it was just thrown together from songs from Magnolia..., Access and Aces and some new stuff. I don't really like it to tell you the truth. Especially the parts of "Captain Badass". I mean to me it just seems like a chimeara of so many odd things. I am sure that if I didn't have the background in JM songs then I would like it. This eagle/lion/snake thing however is freaking me out.

4. Almost Was Good Enough
A sort of reworking of a song off of Magnolia... that is done to perfection. Well, the singing anyways. It does drag in between verses, which happens several times throughout the album. This is the major drawback to Trials & Errors. But then again it is a live album so what are you going to do? At the 6:00 mark they killed Jason's mike and have to bring it back up, so you can't understand the new verse, or at least the first four lines of it. The new verse does seem out of place too. At nine minutes the song kind of drags as well.

5. North Star
This song shares the North Star theme with about three other songs, "Leave The City" which appears later in the album and "North Star Blues". There is another one but I don't have the time to scour the S:O message board for discussion of it. At 5:30 the same mic fade is experienced. I kind of think that this is "Almost was good enough" Part 2.

6. Ring the Bell
Personally I love the reworkings of the Didn't It Rain songs. I don't know why but I just was left feeling that Didn't It Rain was very dry. I know that it is most peoples favorite album. Personally I think Ghost Tropic is the best. Because when you are in a mood for it and 'get' it, it is so wonderful.

7. Cross the Road
Another Didn't It Rain redeux. The lyrics in this song are particularly haunting. I would one day like to read a short story by Jason, or even better a screenplay. The imagery of his songs are just so ornate. Around the 4:00 minute mark this song get super intense and kicks ass for about twenty seconds. I would like to see that go on for about thirty seven minutes

8. Leave the City
The second song from What Comes After The Dark. And this one features a trumpet solo, and being from the southwest any mariachi influence is interesting at least. Look at Calexico. The opening lines are some of the best I have ever heard:

Broke my heart to leave the city
I mean it broke what wasn't broken in there already

I have been trying to say something like that for several years.

9. Last 3 Human Words
The "Last 3 Human Words" is trumpet+vocals then silence followed by trumpet+vocals+drums+lightguitar, then repeat. Honestly I don't know about this track. It's good and all, just not that great.

10. Big Beast
The last two songs on this album really blur the lines between MEC and Crazy Horse. I mean Crazy Horse is still Crazy Fuckin' Horse, but MEC is playing catch up. One day I am going to see MEC play and Neil Fuckin' Young will step out for the encore and the world will then explode, well at least my world. 5:45 - that damned mic fade-in. Thats what gets my goat. Oh, then Jason basically calls Neil Young out. You just can't do that.

Cough, cough, Psst, check it. I am going to be is SO much trouble for that. Oh, sorry again for this whole article I was trying to do this, arrange interviews for my sister, and do some work. If it sounds like crap, then it probably is. This analysis, not the record.

now playing - what the hell do you think I am listening to?

Coachella: Rumors vs Reality.

2005-02-02T17:00:00.000-07:00

what the previous Coachella Rumors were. Scoring is like this. For each band and day one point. for the right band, wrong day, half a point:
Saturday (April 30 - RIGHT! one point):

David Bowie DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

NIN Half Right - one half point

PJ Harvey DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Coldplay RIGHT! - one point

Interpol DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

The Faint Half Right - one half point

Franz Ferdinand DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Polyphonic Spree DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Boards Of Canada DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

TV On The Radio DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Yeah yeah yeahs DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Squarepusher DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Clinic DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

French Kicks DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Secret Machines RIGHT! - one point

Pheonix DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Beep Beep DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Dogs Die In Hot Cars DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Death From Above 1979 DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

The Helio Sequence DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Sunday (May 1 - RIGHT! one point):

REM DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Tears For Fears DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Wilco Half Right - one half point

Modest Mouse DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Bright Eyes RIGHT! - one point

Jimmy Eat World DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Mos Def Half Right - one half point

Badly Drawn Boy DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

The Streets DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Spoon Half Right - one half point

Cake DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

The Postal Service DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

The Shins DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Sleater-Kinney DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

Rilo Kiley Half Right - one half point

Radio 4 Half Right - one half point

Doves Half Right - one half point

Iron and Wine DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

The Arcade Fire RIGHT! - one point

Moving Units DEAD WRONG - Zero Points

So out of a total 42 points random speculation got 9.5 points. Which leaves us with an score of 22.6%. So leave it to the monkeys who throw darts at the Wall Street Journal.

Gimme Promo's

2005-02-02T15:38:00.000-07:00

Merge wants us to know that they are really excited. Excited enough to forget to throw out advances or to stream the album. Though that was probably just sarcasm on their part. I want an advance of this record, Merge; I want you to know that.

Man the internet was agog with that Spoon news yesterday.

Through Fluxblog I learned that Out Hud has released the tracklisting of their new one, Let Us Never Speak of It Again. I think that the cover is an abhorid piece of graphic design.

So, I am normally a guy with a serious doubt when it comes to the paranormal. I think most of the goings-on that people see are just in their heads. I mean, I see black cats in my peripheral vision constantly, I don't play it off as ghost-cats. No, I am just crazy. Anyways I hear that sometime in late 2003, or perhaps early 2004, a couple of friends entered their basement to try an contact a former neighbor through a seance. These people just happened to be in a band. They wanted their neighbor to sort of guide them in the recording of their next album. I mean, why not? It sounds like a good idea. What they were not banking on was the fact that the spirit of their since past neighbor would inhabit the lead singer, Aaron. That is all I know that happened from this seance.

So when their next album did come out it shocked me with how much they ended up sounding like the spirit within Aaron Espinoza. Earlimart's Treble & Tremble is so Elliott Smith that when not sounding almost exactly like Elliott Smith, outElliottSmith's Elliott Smith. And that would be pretty hard to do. One day when I get my iPod (hint hint) I am going to throw together a playlist with this and regular Elliott Smith on it just to fool myself constantly.

In a related Elliott Smith note: this guy tells about his experiences with going to school with Elliott/Steve Smith. And about a certain talent contest.

Earlimart also has the shittiest All Music entry ever. Someone fix it. Now.

Other things I have bought recently. Neutral Milk Hotel with On Avery Island. God I love Naomi. For some reason NMH is the only band that my girlfriend can accurately identify. It might have something to do with the magical effect that On The Aeroplace... has on the ladies.

Umm...Bright Eyes, I'm wide awake... but you already knew that. For some reason I keep thinking that it is Stevie Nicks doing guest spots on it instead of Emmylou Harris. Weird.

Nothing too terribly exciting going on

It was supposed to be a snow day...

2005-02-01T16:23:00.000-07:00

Lotta, lotta chatter on Pitchfork today that I, at least, am sorta kinda interested in. First off, news.

Spoon's Gimme Fiction comes out May 10th. I am kind of disappointed that they chose to ditch the name The Beast And Dragon Are Adored but glad they chose not to go with Romeo's Apprentice.

Mag Elec Co's new one What Comes After The Blues comes out April 9th.

Trials & Errors gets reviewed. I kind of have to agree with P-fork on some points. I will go into detail later.

Pitchfork is also the new Stylus.

Elsewhere:

Oberst vs Eminem. This is a horrible article. Do not ask me why I put it up. I guess its because I got I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning yesterday. I haven't heard anything other than the opening two tracks since I have been busy at work. I think I have been banned from using the main stereo at my house as well. Not that I would ever play Bright Eyes on it. My Ween/Phish loving housemate would break the disk in half just to spite me and Conor.

How to waste time on the internet. I didn't know that people could actually not waste time online.

Look for some original content tomorrow. I haven't taken a break in two days.

Not Playing: Anything

Guerilla Blues...

2005-01-31T16:11:00.000-07:00

Help Guerilla Black blow up. Man the people at amazon are mean to this dude. Sure he has a gimmick, and that gimmick is psychicly channeling Biggie, but everyone has a gimmick. This is pop music right? Sheesh.

another monday

2005-01-31T15:15:00.000-07:00

That has got to be the best car crash I have seen all day.

I am not too sure about this MGM DVD settlement. Why exactly do I want to trade in my old DVD's? They seem to work fine for me. Other than that damned red shifting thing.

CNN misses the Magnetic Fields by several months.

Heroes? I dunno man, they just fuckin' lied.

So I guess people thing highly of The Game. I haven't heard a word of him, but I am personally waiting for Guerilla Black to blow everyone out of the water.

Newly discovered site, Record Hospital has an exclusive Jason Molina interview up. I haven't got it yet but the yahoo group was sure excited.

Joseph Arthur has some shirts up in his store. The thing about the shirts that gets me is that the weight is listed as being 8.00 for all of the shirts. They better be able to stop bullets for weighing that much. Imagine if they got wet...

What the hell is up with the Scrubs DVD artwork? Oh yea, didn't you know? Out in may.

New Mexico is trying to keep small restaurants from dying by dumb lawsuits. I guess the legislature must like the mom and pop places. Guarduno's sucks. Just so you know.

I am tired, sorry for the shitty writing.

NP: DJ Dangermouse + The Beatles :: The Gray Album

long time gone

2005-01-28T14:58:00.000-07:00

So it has been just silly at work. I have a deadline to get a huge database compiled and there is no way I am going to meet the date but it isn't really concerning me. Then I hit up a job fair Wednesday so, yeah.

Anyways I am tired and so here is this.

Bands // Song Titles
Created by BourdiezFreak and taken 20445 times on bzoink!
Choose a band/or artist and answer only in song TITLES by that band:	Songs:Ohia
Are you female or male:	Captain Badass
Describe yourself:	Ace Unable to Change
How do some people feel about you:	No Limits on the Words
How do you feel about yourself:	I've Been Riding With the Ghost
Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend:	Almost Was Good Enough
Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend:	Being In Love
Describe where you want to be:	This Time Anything Finite at All
Describe what you want to be:	Just Be Simple
Describe how you live:	Lightning Risked It All
Describe how you love:	Hot Black Silk
Share a few words of wisdom:	Love Leaves Its Abusers
Create a Survey \| Search Surveys \| Go to bzoink!

Unimaginative web posts are so great on Fridays. Here is to hoping I get some Magnolia tonight. No that isn't an allusion to anything.

NP Silence.

Menomena Auction

2005-01-25T16:28:00.000-07:00

Here is your big chance. Now you (yes YOU!) can own a piece of Menomena history! The exact binding maching that was used to make 4000 copies of I Am The Fun Blame Monster. Go here to check out the auction. All monies from this will be going to paying off band debts.

My housemate got a copy of I Am The Fun Blame Monster a year and a half ago. I have been jealous ever since. How cool is a flipbook CD case? Way cool.

Now Playing Me Some Replacements: All For Nothing / Nothing For All Disk 1, which I guess would be All For Nothing.

Commecial Radio

2005-01-25T14:10:00.000-07:00

I don't usually listen to commercial radio at work. This afternoon I was switching CD's and heard part of the song "Only You" by Ashanti. Now is it me or does part of the chorus of that song sound like the end of the opening of MadTV where they say "You are now watching Mad TV"?

Roadside Ash-istance

2005-01-25T13:25:00.000-07:00

Alright, don't get used to this at all. I don't plan on doing it. I know that throwing up amazon links to new releases is all hip and whatnot but I am not going to do it often. It's just that there are so many things coming out today that are going to make my debit card melt. I can already feel my ass growing a little warmer because of it. So yeah. Go spend money. It will allow Lou Barlow to buy another Corvette to race Conor Oberst's with. Check out Slatch every Tuesday to get the skinny on the new releases, I agree with everything JtB says.

And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead: Worlds Apart I have been waiting for this for a couple of months but haven't heard that many good things about it. So now I am riding the fence.

Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney: Superwolf I have heard nothing from this album at all. And I like it that way. It just sounds so so so so awesome in concept. And how often do these guys disappoint?

Bright Eyes: Digital Ash In A Digital Urn/I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning The other night my housemates car died while he was out with a girl. So later he made me go and give his car a jump. The problem was that it was in a really crowded parking lot, so it was impossible for me to pull up to it to jump it. So we had to push it. Lack of power steering was giving us some troubles. Luck would have it that a Conor Oberst look-a-like (or for that matter Ashlee Simpson) came out of the lot to help us. I don't know why that hair sweep is so popular but I can't really judge you know? Anyways for your help I will probably pick up I'm Wide Awake so I can always remember when Ashlee Simpson pushed a green Acura in the cold nightime with me.

Destroyer: Notorious Lightning & Other Works Goddamn, go get this.

Drive-By Truckers: Ganstabilly/Pizza Deliverance Here is a hint. The Hasting's in Las Cruces actually has the old CD version of Pizza Deliverance as well as a copy of Alabama Ass Whuppin'. You can find them in the Bob Dylan section. I know the copy of Pizza Deliverance is Out Of Print. I just don't know if I would like the Truckers without Jason Isbell.

Lemon Jelly: 64 - 95 Have you seen the video for the "All the Ducks" Song? That is probably the most tripped out anything I have ever seen. Check it here. Also is lemonjelly.ky a joke or just how things turned out?

Lou Barlow: Emoh Like I said, help buy him a Camaro. This will sound good in your crappy Sentra though.

Low: The Great Destroyer On the front of Low's Long Division there is a math problem worked out. The answer is correct, but on the actual work on the CD I am pretty sure that there is a mistake in the math. I keep forgetting to pull it out to check.

M83: Before The Dawn Heals Us

Super Furry Animals: Songbook You remember how every SFA release was also supposed to come out with a DVD of video's for every song? Remember how that never really happened? Well this one promises to do the same. I will believe it when I see it.

Now on with some news or something
Pretty Girls Make Graves, in El Paso on the twentieth of March? I suppose so. WAITTAMINOOT!! All March Dates are with Dios (malos)!! Holy crap man, I gotta go to that!!!

Can you say 24? Though this isn't a true spoiler, don't read if you don't want to hear speculation on what will happen in the coming weeks of 24 Even my housemate who swore off television will watch 24 with me. Now That is the sign of a good entertainment option.

NP - SFA:PP

corrections

2005-01-24T14:56:00.000-07:00

Okay, here is the deal. I was kidding with the wine/meditation thing. I thought it was pretty funny but apparently you thought I was serious. C'mon. That's all like Tantric-Sex Sting. Here at 6Months we are like Dune Sting.

Do think about how your friends would sell you out for a couple of Oreo's with no milk. If you think that's bad then imagine what they would do to you for a couple bottles of whiskey. Yep, thats pretty bad huh?

My friends would do that to me for the Oreo's. The whiskey would be like double icing on the cake.(Picture from a GIS search for friends like these. I imagine that the picture on the book on the left would look pretty sweet on black velvet.)

I did go to Albuquerque, I did remember to turn left there. I did not stay for the Rogue Wave concert, and for that I feel like kind of an ass.

NowPlayingTheDecemberistsHerMajestyTheDecemberists

6Mos Gets All NewAge

2005-01-21T15:55:00.000-07:00

The BBC (by way of Slashdot) says that Jan. 24th will be the worst day of the year. Now I agree that it will be a bad day because it is The Night Of Two Knives. It is a homegrown holiday of mine that celebrates one of the worst experiences of my life. It is a day to consider that perhaps the people that you love the most might be the ones that hurt you the most. Try to celebrate alone with a bottle of wine whilst meditating on how you are a strong individual who can live without some pretty important people. Then meditate on forgiveness.

I have two more holidays The Night Of Ten Thousand Knives and Shitty Shitty Day Day. TNOTTK (March 23) pretty much celebrates how sometimes the whole world seems out to get you. Get way drunk and forget your troubles. Someone will take care of you. And that is a good thing to know.

Shitty Shitty Day Day is probably my favorite holiday, because it is a total anti-holiday. Everyone has a bad day on October 17th. Everyone. No one has yet realized this though, well until I came along. So make your own Shitty Shitty Day Day cards. I have a couple (all drawn on paper towels with crayon for some reason) that depict giant crows, spiders, electrical storms, getting arrested. You know, shitty stuff. I don't suggest having a party to celebrate since you will probably go to jail. Wait a week.

Don't you feel all fired up for the weekend now? I am going to lovely Albuquerque. If I stay Sunday night I am going to see Rogue Wave and The Album Leaf.

so it ends

2005-01-21T14:29:00.000-07:00

Secretly Canadian just informed me that they had worked out all the kinks in their ordering system and have made me happy enough to link to them again. I should have my limited edition Trials & Errors compact disk by the end of next week. Seems like I had my own trials getting the purchase and that SC had a couple of errors. HA HAA HA.

Also the new Magnolia Electric Co. album will be entitled What Comes After The Blues. I totally did not get this memo.

And for all you BitTorrent type persons out there. The Suprnova kids made this BitTorrent client that like, makes you, like a BitTorrent ninja or sumpin'. eXeem is its name.
Note: 6monthsBehind does not support BitTorrent because he has dialup and his housemates 'really need to use the phone right now'.

NP Songs:Ohia - Axxess & Ace

space

2005-01-21T10:09:00.000-07:00

So, despite several emails to Secretly Canadian, still no word on my copy of Trials & Errors. Normally I wouldn't be mad, except that I have been hearing rumors that the disk is almost out of print. I doubt that I will do anything dumb like buy another copy that might have some backup in the customer service department.

The Catbirdseat got the lowdown on all kinds of Destroyer info. I had no clue about a Spanish version of Your Blues. I will probably buy that for my sister, since she is getting a minor in Spanish. Oh what? Bejar isn't going to sing in Spanish. It's just going to be a different version with three more songs? Well shit, my sister will have to buy it herself then.

There is all kind of music news happening, but it is reported elsewhere. Go find it there. I am in no mood today to be talking about the new Beck album. The Olivia Tremor Control getting together for a concert in Britain doesn't concern me much. Portishead, what? start here

I do feel like geeking out though. If you feel like skipping it then skip this list.

Prospect Magazine has a really interesting article up talking about the end of the universe. Pynchon once wrote a short story about the eventual heat death of the universe, but he believed it to be 34 degree's Celcius. (or somewhere around there) I think the general concensus is that it will be at like 2 or 3 degrees Kelvin though.

Nature tells us that moderate drinking is good for you. If you average out all the booze I have consumed by the total time I have been alive I might be hovering somewhere above moderate.

Huygen's project designer David Atkinson just got so screwed on his project to measure the winds of Titan. 18 years preparing for something just to have some jackass not turn your experiment is pretty shitty. And I know about disappointment when it comes to your projects going down the drain. When I worked for NASA two of my projects were cut right after the design was completed. I suppose they didn't want to know a thing about explosive phenomena at the time. Now thats all they are about. Sorry, that was a cheap shot.

Last night I went out to Farley's with a couple of friends. I was going to refrain from drinking at all since I am sort of poor. But eventually I buckled and ordered a Vodka Collins. The server was clearly too young to drink anything but Bud Light and decided to make fun of me. He kept questioning that I had ordered a real drink, asking what was in it. Since I was in the middle of peanut battle I just told him to tell the bartender since he would know. (I myself was a bartender for two seasons and have known what a vodka collins was since I was like eighteen)Anyways the server tells me that I have ordered a 'girly drink' and walks off. Then he yells across the restaurant that "This dude over here wants some crazy girly shit." So I tipped him twelve cents. I don't drink beer no more, sue me. So that is my lame story about getting accosted at the bar.

I also met a girl who had triangular eyebrows. Those things were odd.

mag news

2005-01-19T15:10:00.000-07:00

So here is the latest. Magnolia Electric Co now has an official website. No content yet but the design is pretty slick. They don't list the Tucson show I was planning on attending and that makes me pretty sad. Archive.Org has added the Company to its live music archive. Check the news here. (Archive info from LHB) I doubt that this will be as popular as the two servers I know of but what you gonna do huh?

Tiny Mix Tapes tells me that the name of the second Magnolia Electric Company album is going to be What Comes After The Blues. I didn't know that. Why didn't I know that? I should have known that. I don't think that is going to be the actual title.

I used to carpool with one of my housemates to work. We sometimes talked about music. One day I mentioned The Books. This was right after Thought For Food had come out. So what did he do? He went online that very day at work and bought it. Then he gloated. One of my best friends stole a mindblowing band from me. Thats cold. Then my chance to get back by getting The Lemons Of Pink came when I couldn't really buy anything. I have him now though. Pitchfork handed me the news.

I too believe that Letterman is better. Perhaps I should start sending in jokes as well. I don't have the clout that Carson has but I am down with the kids.

Wow, this just broke over lunch: partial Bonnaroo listing. I would have to pick The Allman Brothers, Alison Krauss, Modest Mouse, My Morning Jackey, Iron & Wine, Rilo Kiley, The Drive-By Truckers, and M. Ward. Most of the others I am not too keen on, but always looking to be smacked on the back of the head by rock&roll. (from The Thighmaster)

Also from The Thighmaster, this scathing hot pic of Marissa.

Also, if you have been stealing Camper Van Beethoven's stuff lately, FUCKIN' STOP IT!

NP_Sonic_Youth_:_DayDream_Nation

Brock-McFarrin Connection

2005-01-17T16:50:00.000-07:00

You know I never realized this until now but Float On is basically the Don't Worry, Be Happy for my generation. Think about it. Same message. Your mom hums along to both songs and despite both being really good artists both will probably be only remembered for that one song.

Anyways, have a good MLK-Day evening.

Celebrating MLK Day At Work

2005-01-17T15:01:00.000-07:00

Another article on people trying to cool physics up Sigh...

Details on the background of the soon to be best album of all time Gotta click to see what it is.. That was sarcasm by the way.

And in more Secretly Canadian news, they have thrown up the new Impossible Shapes record for download here. Only for the remainder of their tour with Jens Lekman. 6 weeks people. My apologies to the CatBirdSeat for putting up something almost identical to his post. He provides more info, because he runs a better site. I love that guy's(his name is ryan I believe) record recorder telling his purchases of the year. Someone needs to send me code to something like that.

The holiday made the internet not have much to offer. All my friends went hiking today. I went yesterday. It's like 68 outside. New Mexico ain't that bad at times.

:::NP::: YeahYeahYeah's:::FeverToTell

They should really be damned proud of themselves

2005-01-14T15:43:00.000-07:00

Secretly Canadian is probably my favorite record label right. This is going to be their year too. Just you watch. Anywhere Jason Molina resides is going to be fanboy material for me but they have a lot of really great stuff coming out or that is out now. Jens Lekman is about to blow up, as is Antony & the Johnsons. Just you wait. Plus Damien Jurado anyone? Next year I think SC will be battling Merge for top indie label kingage.

I know I have no credibility to throw around so check this real bloggers out, with their mp3's and whatnot.
3hive - Magnolia Electric Company
*6ize - Impossible Shapes

Did you see all that love Secretly Canadian? Please can I have my copy of Trials & Error's now? I have been a good boy. Or if I can't have it yet could you check your ordering complaints email account and address the issue of why I haven't gotten something I paid for a month ago?

Oh Yeah, The Mission Statement for 6months is up. Check it. Worldshattering? Perhaps. Probably going to be overlooked by everyone on the internet? Absolutely.

finally a paris hilton post

2005-01-14T14:02:00.000-07:00

This BBSpot BBlooper reminded me of something, that I know Brian Urlacher, we hail from the same hometown. Now I know that being in the public spotlight makes you do crazy things and thats okay. Crazier shit always happens. Anyways, I know my mom hates Paris Hilton because she dated Brian. At least her new perfume smells nice. Paris Hilton's perfume, my mom got out of the fragrance racket in '73 (picture is from ESPN)

What? Yeah, it does.

Seriously.

Cosmo.

NO. Thats it. Different subject.

Slashdot talks about cooling up physics. Personally I think it is impossible. Physics will never be cool, that is why it is so awesome. By that I mean everything beyond what you took in your first college physics class since that is mostly statics and dynamics. The rest is dope.

I went out last night to check out a couple of bands that have members I have met. Barely Legal (Not even going to try to Google for their website) and New River Blues. I was pleasantly suprised by Barely Legal because for some reason I thought it was going to be Chick-Rock, but no. They were bordering on art-rock with their poems, saxamofones, and children's xylophones. The lead singer dude reminds me of someone who is also a lead singer so much, but I just can't get that person in my mind.

NRB (I call them NERB, cuz it's pheonetic) is, well, sort of a jammy band. But we can all take a little jam now and then? I have been thinking about pairing a smooth MC (like butter) and a jam band together. All around the country, all around the coast. People always ask what do I like most? I just tell 'em I like Toast.

You see Toast would be the name of this creation. One day some big shot music exec is going to run across this page and see my zany ideas and give me a million buck to think up more. I got that lick from Rodney Carrington I believe.

New Beatles track *yawn.

DaVinci's hidden laboratory found *yawn

Picture's of Titan still yawning.

The best hangover cure I have found to date is this: Double strong green tea (two bags per cup), Honey to sweeten it, and some of that leftover lime from the night of drinking that left you hungover. There is always half a lime left out, it's some sort of drunken rule.

NP Beta Band: 3 ep's

The post where I talk about Snow Patrol in a list format

2005-01-13T14:52:00.000-07:00

Good afternoon.

Two Words - Two days

Fark has a nice thread featuring Lawyer jokes. I want to be an environmental lawyer one day. You know, if I can escape this hellhole.

Pitchfork finally got their redesign up. It looks pretty slick and gets rid of about half of the adds that framed everything in their last design. The one thing I do miss is the nav-bar that had the record reviews by letter. Now they use a flash nav-controller that won't work in my work FireFox. Why? Because it took me three weeks to talk the tech guys into installing FF in the first place and they didn't think I really needed any plugins.

Their news from yesterday got me all excited about the new Prefuse 73 album. I am salivating.

Well what do you know. Luna is playing Tucson on a Wednesday. I can't go because I have a job. Jobs suck

Snow Patrol: Final Straw
Best Line: "If it looks like it works and it feels like it works then it works" from Wow. Because I used it this morning after hearing the song. You just can't argue with that kind of logic, unless speaking with a woman. Zing!
Funniest Line: "Maybe I can do it, if I put my back into it" I can't help but think of Ice Cube. There is a mash-up idea. I think one of my housemates has some audio editing software. Perhaps I will just splice the Ice Cube line into the song Ways & Means. If I do I will post it.
Most Travis-like moment: The entire song Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking
Where Snow Patrol Ranks vs. Travis: look here (link via A male child with an engrossed internal blood pump
Why I bought this: My very good friend Kel called me asking me the question of what I thought of Snow Patrol. I honestly had nothing to tell her so I started talking about Belle & Sebastian. She kept telling me that it was a beautiful album that was 'throat-slashingly good'. (Her words not mine) How could you not pick up something that is 'Throat-Slashingly good'?
Is it Throat-Slashingly Good: No, but it is quite good, better than I had thought it would be. I applaud Snow Patrol for suprising me.

Now Playing: The Books: Thought for Food

stuck in first

2005-01-11T17:50:00.000-07:00

So, umm.. it is still slow as mole asses in Onlineland. Pitchfork's redesign hasn't gone through yet. Oh, the Bloc Party is going to be doing some touring... in England. So I won't tell you the dates. But they are on the cover of NME. Go check that out. Something will come along soon, I can taste it.

How many must die in oh-fie?

2005-01-10T09:41:00.000-07:00

Mclusky, I hardly knew yee. Really, I think the only song I have heard is 'Lightsaber Cocksucking Blues' which stands as one of the names for anything ever. Though it isn't listed go here and check out some of their songs. I have always kinda looked for "Mclusky Do Dallas" but have never seen it in a record store anywhere.

Also there are rumors that The Unicorns have broken up. Nuthin on their site really corroborating this. But you try and figure that site out.

Purchases that defined a New Year

2005-01-07T16:29:00.000-07:00

Well not really, I just was bored New Years Eve. Here is what I picked up. I am going to SPAN them x-small just to see what it looks like.

Stars:Heart Damn the first half of this album is so damned fine. The second half is okay. Not even coming close to what the fist half was. You can count on 'Elevator Love Song' being on a couple mixes in the future. My girlfriend loves it too, so why not scrounge the record stores for Set Yourself On Fire?

dios (malos):dios I have heard nothing but good things from these reincarnated Beach Boys (They share a hometown with the brothers Wilson). Unless you count Ronny James Dio's lawsuit against them. Hence the addition of 'Malos' Personally I am undecided on whether I like it or not. Good thing I started the 6 Months experiment huh? What? I haven't posted that yet? Damn my slacking.

Archers of Loar:All The Nations Airports In my continuing mission to buy all the awesome cd's from ever I made a purchase of this cd used. Still haven't wrapped my head around it yet. But if Crooked Fingers came from this Pheonix then they have to be good.

The Stone Roses:The Stone Roses Another older purchase to satisfy my desire to taste all the styles. I think there are two types of people on this particular subject: Stone Roses people and Suede people. Personally I think I am still a Suede man. Gotta pit them against each other I suppose...

DJ Dangermouse and Jemini:Twenty Six Inch EP I saw this and picked it up on a whim and it immediately got stuck in my car stereo. Not in the bad costing-you-$200 way, but in the way that I can't get enough of it. I think the Cee-Lo remix is the best song overall but I do think 'The Shit' is. Now I absolutely have to get Ghetto Pop Life

Five disk for 40 bucks. Disposable income be damned. As it turns out my cell phone bill paying ability was damned as well. Whatcha gonna do bout it tho?

NP: Brian Eno/Ambient 1:Music For Airports (I am getting sick and just sitting here, this helps)

And I Loves The Moon!

2005-01-07T11:11:00.000-07:00

In the course of doing my job every day I often have to use a particular program to enter new people into a database. Then entry program is horribly written. Not so much that it is slow or very ugly, but rather pretentious. If you enter a date wrong then its "A Valid Date MUST Be Entered...". Wham-o just like that, it smacks you with the AllCaps MUST. If you weren't provided with an address you get the ol' "..Address Really Should Be Entered...". Yes, it's like your mother is in the computer telling you what mistakes you are making. Well you know what mom? I don't have that address. So why don't you stop telling me how to run my life! I am a grown man. Forthalovagod. Things like this drive me crazy at work.

Two things about the preceding paragraph. AllCaps would make an awesome band name if done right. By right I mean Gangsta-rap stizz. Secondly I resisted the urge to make a really really bad Motherboard joke.

Random link with something to do with work McSweeney's + Coffee. I love coffee too, but I just don't get a buzz from it. My metabolism or chemical tolerance screws that all up. Last Christmas though I make my own 'Flavored Coffee's' for presents for people and made myself sample each batch. So I ended up drinking seven cups of coffee in an hour and a half and going nuts on super-coffee-dementia. I remember my housemates ex telling me that that was the funniest I have ever been. To that I say "Or ever will be!"

Man, I don't know about the OC this season. I want to like it for some reason but it is just really strange. I don't like Lindsey. She just seems to 'WB' for FOX. I did like that they splurged on the Modest Mouse. I was really hoping for more footage of them playing though. That and anything that features Elliot Smith's "Twilight" I am bound to love. (Buy It)

I have a love affair with that song. I heard it first a couple of years ago on some live bootlegs that I ran across. Actually through those bootlegs I had heard about 95% of From A Basement On A Hill. Anyways "Twilight" stuck out then (there was also an eXXXXXcellent version of King's Crossing too, but I digress) but it wasn't until I really got the album that things started heating up. No one else really loves this song like I do. I have heard it being called "a typical love ballad" and didn't understand it all. Twilight is the greatest Elliott Smith song ever, I don't care what you say. It just brings out that feeling in me. I am sure you have a song like this somewhere and I don't understand how you love it.

I had Chinese for lunch and my forture cookie actually said this. I am NOT making this up, I swear.

You Might Live On The Moon In Next Century

Word for word, I am not shitting you. Worst fortune cookie I have ever seen. Funniest one as well.

NP Elliott Smith: From A Basement On A Hill

Getting old is hard to do

2005-01-06T14:59:00.000-07:00

I am now of the age where every time I drink I get horrible heartburn that makes me wake up at 4 in the morning and want to cry. It could have been those seven years of heavy binge drinking dissolved my throat, or that I am just not getting drunk enough anymore and I actually wake up from passing out now.