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The Last of the Vacation Pics...
And Perhaps the most important ones - the monkeys!!! Probably
the best part
of the entire visit was the trip to Ulu Watu, this amazing Hindu Temple
perched
on the side of some seriously tall cliffs, above some of the bluest
water I've ever
seen. The place was also covered in monkeys, and of course I
spent all of my
time paying attention to them...here's a couple of pics.
Also, I didn't take many photos
in Singapore but here are a couple from their Little
India section of town...
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Big Business! I love this
band...every time I see them they rock harder, even though
I don't think it's possible. If they rock any harder the next
time I see them there's a
good chance they might spontaneously combust on stage.
A couple of notes - even though
the third pic of the drummer Coady probably wouldn't
be considered the best photo out of the bunch, but something about
the combination
of the face he's making and the Party Time t-shirt makes me love it.
Also, the last
couple of photos was their "guest singer" - they had a new song with
no lyrics so this
smelly dude standing in front of me got on stage and went nuts - it
was pretty spazzy
and good.
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A few random songs that have
really been buffing my marble floors lately...
13
& God: Perfect
Speed - I listened to the Notwist's Neon Golden over and over
when it came out. Then I saw them on tour for the album and
they were playing the
shows with this Anticon hip-hop group called Themselves, and while
they were a
little weird on their own the two groups performed some songs together
and it was
brilliant. Thankfully, they decided to make a whole album of
collaborations under
the title 13 & God. And the whole album is fuckin' brilliant.
Crooked Fingers:
You
Must Build A Fire - Their new album is my favorite since the
self-titled debut, and this is my favorite track. Bachman seems
to be drifting a little
more back to his Archers of Loaf voice, a little less Neil Diamond...I'd
still like a
"Sweet Caroline cover" tho'...
Full Moon Partisans:
Dictator
Dance - One of my very favorite local bands right
now...so eclectic, so good, and an incredibly attractive girl in the
band which doesn't
hurt things. I have some photos of them I took a while back that
I plan on posting soon.
M83: Don't
Save Us From the Flames - Overall I'm not really crazy about this
band,
but they have grown on me. This song is particularly catchy,
and probably the most
fitting of the My Bloody Valentine comparisons.
The
dB's: Black
And White - This
is the original North Carolina indie-pop. Their
whole album "Stands for Decibels" is a real treasure in the realm of
power pop.
As a side note - At the bequest
of some friends I made a message board for the
leaving of comments and talking of shit. In case you're interested
in that sort of thing...
***June First Two Thousand
and Five***
We here at Dog In A Sweater Industries
are looking to expand into other markets...some poss-
ibilities include:
doginalifevest.com?
dog-vs-crab.com or dog-vs-fish.com?
or perhaps the best choice, mamawcaughtafish.com.
As a totally unrelated note,
I found this roll of B&W film I had shot god knows when and had it
developed. Turns out it was a role of film I shot well over
two years ago after I got laid off from
my previous job and decided to go home and go to the beach with
my family. There's nothing
terribly special in the roll, but here is a page
I threw together so mom could check them out.
Ain't technology grand? Also, below are some pics that didn't
really fit into the theme of that page
but were from the same roll - the first from SBC and the rest from
my hometown of Spruce Pine.
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