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***February Twenty
Fourth Two Thousand and Five***
Parchman Farm
Local rockers, purveyors of the boogie music that the kids like so
much these days. Their
live show is one of the best things around, not as good as a Mitchell's
chocolate milkshake
but damn close. Go read their bio over at the Jackpine website,
it's pure comedy. These
pics are from a live show they played on February 18th.
On this evening they were joined on their final song by Dickie Peterson
of Blue Cheer. It
was fan-fucking-tastic.
Also: you know the Jeopardy!
skit from SNL? Sure, it's probably the best thing they've come
up with on that show in many moons. Well, go here to download
an asston of episodes. Maybe
even all of them I think? Whatever, they make me laughlike a retarded
baboon.
Also Also: I made a mix for
the old lady over the weekend, now that she drives all the time and
her new work-supplied minivan has a CD player, she wanted some new musics
to listen to. It's
all pretty pop friendly stuff, she doesn't shine so much on the heavier
stuff. I decided I would post
the 20-track CD here in 5 song increments...
1. David Bowie - Queen
Bitch...I've been listening to the shit out of "Hunky Dory" lately.
It's
pretty much a perfect album from start to finish.
2. Kings of Convenience
- I'd
Rather Dance with You...Not a huge fan of these guys, but this is
a damn catchy song. Loads of downloads on this website.
3. Sloan - The
Rest of My Life...I've always found these Canucks very hit-or-miss,
but this track
gets stuck in my head constantly.
4. 20-20s - Remember
the Lightning...one of the best pop songs ever written? I think
so.
5. The Revelons - Brighter
Side...largely unsung all-star group (featuring members of Television,
Patti Smith's group) that never had an album out until
this retrospective collected all of their
random tracks onto one disc.
***February Fifteenth
Two Thousand and Five***
Jeff Reeves
A fellow North Cackolakian,
a hell of a skateboarder, and damn photogenic. God only
knows how many photos of this guy I have.
A couple of pinhole shots from Ft. Miley.
Some skate shots. I'm a terrible skate photographer but it's fun
anyways. The first is in
Palo Alto, and is the only photo I've ever had published in a magazine
(Concussion). The
next two are from the mini-ramp in Half Moon Bay, the fourth is Ripon,
and the last one is on
the vert extension in Sunnyvale.
Other Random Tidbits...
Maybe I'm a sap, but these
photographs of snowflakes are downright mesmerizing. For
some reason I've always found their shape fascinating.
Somehow I came across this band
Carrier on one of the internets
a while back. They have
a number of songs available for download on their website (look under
downloads), and I
nicked them all and have really been enjoying it lately. especially
of interest is the song "The
Paper Trail", which sounds like Air backed by Swervedriver guitars. Pretty
fucking fantastic.
Speaking of Swervedriver, if
you wander over to their site
you can download a ton of live
tracks by them; they even have each of their albums as live tracks arranged
in downloadable
fashion, and a collection of b-sides/rarities/what-have-you as well. Certainly
one of my favorite
bands of the nineties and still in my regular rotation (especially "Mezcal
Head" and "99th
Dream").
This is not only possibly my
favorite Grandaddy song of all time, but the greatest christmas
song ever written (or ripped off, depending on your stance). Plus,
it makes me laugh.
Grandaddy - Alan
Parsons in a Winter Wonderland
Although I don't listen to Built
to Spill nearly as much as I used to, I still consider "Perfect from
Now On" to be one of those desert-island discs that I can't live without.
You just have to appre-
ciate that the band got signed to a major on the basis of writing short,
catchy pop songs, and
decided that the appropriate way to use all that new money to channel
their inner Neil Young
and release an album full of sprawling, epic guitar rock. It is
still an amazing album, and has
held up well as far as I'm concerned. Here are a couple of favorites
from the album.
Built to Spill - Stop
the Show; Velvet
Waltz
***February Sixth Two
Thousand and Five***
Finally got the new scanner
up-and-running, so I got some new photos to post. Word.
The Mothballs...saw these guys play the other night at Thee
Parkside. They were sloppy
and fun, everything I was looking for in a good time that night (this
description also works
for the drunk hooker I picked up after the show). Below are some
photos from the evening...
Here are a couple of songs from the new A-Frames record out on Sub Pop in a couple of
months or something like that. It's fuckin' great.
Galena
Death
Train
***February First Two
Thousand and Five***
Shit, I have all these photos
to upload and put up but I can't figure out how to work my new
scanner. And the old lady, who should know where the manual is,
is out of town. So here
are photos of dogs!
These are from a trip to NYC
last spring...the st. bernard is named Tonka and the french
bulldog is named Ladu, both fine dogs. Taken with the sonar polaroid,
time zero film, blah
blah blah.
Also: Check out this band
called The Spinto
Band. I don't know shit about them, but their
song "Oh Mandy"
is some damn fine poppy goodness.
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