R.I.P. Diaper Man [link]
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Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'
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.
Here is our engladdening summer song for today: "Glad Girls" by Guided by Voices.
It will cheer you up.
That is an engladdening song!
I love that their first idea was to be an Alan Parsons Project cover band.
This seems to be the source of the Turds of Misery bio. A thousand other blogs and websites have already quoted from it as though it's gospel, but I can't help reading it as a joke the writer made up. I mean, I'm sure the photo is legitimate, but I'm suspicious of the bio.
Last night I had a dream that Jonathan Richman and I were interviewing Joanna Newsom and M. Ward, but we had forgotten to bring a tape recorder. I didn't know much about their music, so I think mostly I talked to Joanna Newsom about fairy tales.
So I really like Joshua Ellis, because he did this album, and covers & remixes like these, and has written for Coilhouse and basically, he is one hoopy frood. He's now working on a project called Dbasr:
Dbasr is a free, open-source content management system for musicians and other rich media artists. Like Wordpress for bands, but better.
He just started putting info up today, but there's a list of features & a dev blog here: [link]
He is of course looking for cash, because that is always helpful, but he is also looking for feedback/input, and help spreading the word. And since you are clever people who like music and tech and having opinions (heh), I thought some of you might be interested.
So... there? (I probably need to work on my pimpage skillz.)
Back in early 1975, when I was in 4th grade, I had to stay after school. My mom came to pick me up, and on the way home our '67 Ford wagon slide on some ice on our driveway and nailed a tree. So my parents bought a '73 Mercury Marquis Brougham with all sorts of power accessories, including a 5-speaker 8-track stereo. My aunt then gave us some 8-track tapes, one of which was Jim Croce's Greatest Hits. Which I just downloaded from eMusic.
Weird how listening to this album brings back all sorts of memories of riding around in the '73 Merc....
eta: "Working at the Car Wash Blues" is playing. I really like this song, even if it's a product of its time, what with the "sexual harassment is funny" bit in there....