yay for movement.
Who among us can ignore the allure of really funny math puns?
Willow ,'Empty Places'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
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.
msbelle - Mar 22, 2005 8:51:23 am PST #7744 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Jon B. - Mar 22, 2005 9:14:36 am PST #7745 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
insent, Kate.
Jon B. - Mar 22, 2005 10:20:22 am PST #7746 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Tom Waits' 20 most cherished albums (with commentary)
DavidS - Mar 22, 2005 10:28:15 am PST #7747 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Awww, fuck yeah. Tom is on my very very short list of living heroes.
2 Solo Monk by Thelonious Monk (Columbia) 1964
Monk said 'There is no wrong note, it has to do with how you resolve it'. He almost sounded like a kid taking piano lessons. I could relate to that when I first started playing the piano, because he was decomposing the music while he was playing it. It was like demystifying the sound, because there is a certain veneer to jazz and to any music, after a while it gets traffic rules, and the music takes a backseat to the rules. It's like aerial photography, telling you that this is how we do it. That happens in folk music too. Try playing with a bluegrass group and introducing new ideas. Forget about it. They look at you like you're a communist. On Solo Monk, he appears to be composing as he plays, extending intervals, voicing chords with impossible clusters of notes. 'I Should Care' kills me, a communion wine with a twist. Stride, church, jump rope, Bartok, melodies scratched into the plaster with a knife. A bold iconoclast. Solo Monk lets you not only see these melodies without clothes, but without skin. This is astronaut music from Bedlam.
Alicia K - Mar 22, 2005 10:51:26 am PST #7748 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Any opinions on The Bravery? I'm thinking I need to get the CD. I read about them in the latest "Blender," downloaded a few songs last night, heard a song on the radio this morning, and decided I dig it.
I'm not feeling The Bloc Party, however. Based on what I'd heard, it sounded like it would be right up my alley, but what I've listened to makes me just shrug.
Am picking up the M.I.A. CD tonight. Yay!
Lyra Jane - Mar 22, 2005 1:57:08 pm PST #7749 of 10003
Up with the sun
I have the new Decemberists CD !!!!!!1!!!!
It is shiny, and made a craptacular day less craptacular.
Sue - Mar 22, 2005 2:47:35 pm PST #7750 of 10003
hip deep in pie
I have the new Vic Chesnutt CD, on which appear VanDyke Parks and Bill Frisell. I have to listen to it somewhere else besides on my computer, where everything sounds like ass. But what I can hear over the hiss sounds good.
DavidS - Mar 22, 2005 5:56:59 pm PST #7751 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
xposty from Natter...
An account of the LA reading at Vroman's
There are cool pictures of the record/diorama David Cotner brought.
eta: if you follow the "Yummy Love" link you can heaar actual Lancelot Link.
Jon B. - Mar 22, 2005 5:57:11 pm PST #7752 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I have the new Decemberists CD !!!!!!1!!!!
I love the photos in the booklet. The band act out the songs with cheesy community theater-esque sets and costumes.
DavidS - Mar 22, 2005 6:16:05 pm PST #7753 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hmmm, must buy Decembrists even though I've already downloaded the songs.
Can't find the records in Lost in The Grooves? Here they are.