Hey Tina, I found my Illinoise and it's gorgeous. Reminds me in places of Elliot Smith and Yoshimi, but also Elephant 6 stuff.
But I like it quite a bit more than Michigan, I think.
'Objects In Space'
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.
Hey Tina, I found my Illinoise and it's gorgeous. Reminds me in places of Elliot Smith and Yoshimi, but also Elephant 6 stuff.
But I like it quite a bit more than Michigan, I think.
I really want to hear "Black Superman": "sing Muhammad, Muhammad Ali, He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee".
Some years ago (mid-90s?), Rhino put out a series called Have a Nice Day -- roughly 25 CDs of pop hits of the '70s. "Black Superman (Muhammad Ali)" is on Vol. -- 15 or 16, I think.
What do The Smiths have in common with Abba, Billy Joel, Queen, The Beach Boys and John Lennon?
This is a really horrible story. Three Chicago musicians dead in car crash [link]
That's an awful story, Jon. How sad for the families.
I can understand the urge to kill yourself. I can't understand taking other people, strangers, along with you.
Rumour is, this is the murderess: [link]
(at least one Chicago TV station showed a cropped version of this photo)
Okay, so why drive into another car? WHy not park on the train tracks? Or drive into the lake?
That happened just a couple miles down the road from where the first F2F was held.
WHy not park on the train tracks?
Because it really, really sucks for the train driver.
This is a really horrible story. Three Chicago musicians dead in car crash
So horrible. People (who clearly knew the guys who were killed) were talking about it at the music festival I went to yesterday. And there was a "plea for forgiveness" from the girl who hit them in the paper this morning. My mind simply can't get around the idea that she knew she was going to injure or kill a few random innocent people in her quest to kill herself and just didn't care. ___________________________
To change tones dramatically, the two-day music fest that Pitchfork put on this weekend was HOT but really good, well organized and well attended. I just went and purchased my first Andrew Bird CD after seeing him early in the line up yesterday.
The Wrens were good but no matter how close I got to the stage the sound was awful. Thankfully, the sound was much better for the Decemberists who were fun, energetic and fully worshipped by the adoring crowd.
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Hey Tina, I found my Illinoise and it's gorgeous. Reminds me in places of Elliot Smith and Yoshimi, but also Elephant 6 stuff.
Isn't it though? I was pitching it to EVERYONE this weekend.