Random Pragmatic Zombie Styrofoam Sabotage.
And their backup singers, Rasputin's Wangs.
'Destiny'
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.
Random Pragmatic Zombie Styrofoam Sabotage.
And their backup singers, Rasputin's Wangs.
"The Styrofoam Pragmatists"
That's great. Mind if I steal it for the band name list?
Current listening: The Trojan Ska Box Set, disc two. It's hard to sit still, but hell yeah!
Mind if I steal it
For your band? OK, but don't let anyone else see it.
I promise.
Reminds me of Polly Styrene (of X-Ray Spex). Best punk name evah!
Better than Ari Upp?
Better than Ari Upp?
That's a good one too. But Polly's still my fave.
But Polly's still my fave
Polly Styrene is the singer to whom I am compared most often (at least by English men of a certain age).
I was going to say I don't have a cool punk name but I do--Lisafer.
I generally use it for work not for rock (along with my co-workers Beelzebuck and Damndy). Except my friend has wanted me to start a death metal side project called Lisafer and the Lords of Lisa.
Holy crap. I just discovered that Michael Andrews (who did the music for Donnie Darko, Freaks and Geeks, and Wonderfalls ), is Elgin Park. "Solace in a Loose Groove" was on one of my CD Baby mixes. Wow. This is so weird.
SA is so. damn. COOL! She's interning in Chicago right now, as many of you know, and tonight she went to see Melissa Ferrick at a Borders for a signing and some performance. I lamented that SA got to see Melissa Ferrick, b/c I couldn't go to the Cincinnati show.
SA just called me FROM THE EVENT, so I could hear one song!!! She rules. (SA, that is, though Melissa Ferrick does, too, but SA rules So. Much. More!)
Go SA with your big coolness.
My joy is also big. I found an online purveyor of CD-Rs of very rare and expensive crime jazz LPs which have never officially made it to CD. I'm listening to Bob Mersey's superswank and cool 50s jazz library music right now, aifg. The titles alone are swoonworthy: "Fat Boy," "Jazz Dramatique," "Flutesville," "Beatnik" and "Forever Frantic."
However, I also bought two volumes which were not CD-Rs but I think MP3? Is that right? He was able to compress 8 albums onto each of these volumes. So, how how do I convert those MP3 tracks into something I listen to on any stereo? Also, how much fidelity do I lose going from MP3 to a (I guess) .wav file (or whatever I need to change to). I'm on an iMac if that helps.