Wash ,'The Message'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
I'm slightly startled this hasn't been mentioned yet, but Roar (from Cloverfield) is up on iTunes, and I just finished listening to it for the first time.
Really, all I can say is, this should really be subtitled "Inspired greatly by Ifukube Akira. And also some more by Akira Ifukube. And some by, uh, that Akira dude."
(Ifukube-sensei, if you don't know, scored the first several Godzilla movies, and composed most of the major themes used throughout the series.)
Nick Cave is playing the Hollywood Bowl with Spiritualized and Cat Power
Note to self: get that teleport/time machine work already.
I'm. So. Envy.
Hm, the closest Nick Cave is coming to Boston is New York. Oh well. I also didn't realize the US leg of the tour would be Nick solo. That would be interesting to see.
Doesn't Cat Power have a new record out now? Or is that forthcoming? I can't remember. I've been dosing on her covers record recently, which I quite like.
The more I listen to Dig Lazaruss Dig (like Panic at the Disco, I feel the punctuation is optional in polite company) the more I really flipping love it.
I love The Doves. That is all.
Hec, are you seeing the Breeders today?
I love The Doves. That is all.
I get some Doves in my Pandora stream. I like them all right.
According to Chatty!co-worker, there are 2 bands with the name "Doves" -- one is THE Doves, and one is just Doves.
Which seems dumb as hell to me, but what do I know?
Let's make them fight!
Chatty!co-worker is the kind of person who likes to act soooooooo superior because *he* knows information that 99% of the population doesn't know (or give a damn) about. So once, in discussing music, I said something about The Doves, and he replied with, "Do you mean Doves, or THE Doves? They're 2 totally different bands, and only one is any good," blah blah blah.
I got really annoyed and snarked back something about how if recognizing a band is dependent on a definite article in front of its one-syllable name, maybe they should consider a new name.
His reply? "Don't get nasty with me just because you can't keep straight which band is which."
I hate that superior I-know-more-than-you bullshit that implies you suck if you don't possess the same encyclopedic knowledge of useless trivia that the other person does.
(Don't get me wrong; I have a VAST repository of useless trivia in my brain, but I don't sneer at people who don't know that there was more than one Robin, for instance. That shit is just rude and poorly socialized.)