Oh Ya Oh No

Ok so some news that was released today...

First this Sunday I am going to see Band of Horses I am excited. I like that band a lot obvious since they were in 2007's top ten for both songs and albums.

Second on April 5th Andrew Bird and Grizzly Bear are playing Cincinnati I am excited not sure if the rest of you care but whateves

Then there is this:



Ya it is pretty massive and good. It lacks some of the superstars of other years but I am a fan. So here is a breakdown on who I plan to see:

Friday - Raconteurs, The National, Aesop Rock, Animal Collective, Spank Rock, Battles, Black Lips, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Architecture in Helsinki, Professor Murder

Mum and Fatboy Slim would be interesting to see. I have no interest in the verve, madness or Tegan and Sara. Jack Johnson is an odd choice for a headliner.

Saturday - Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death Cab, MIA, Hot Chip, Cold War Kids, DeVotchKa, Mark Ronson, the Teenagers, Bonde Do Role, Akron/Family, MGMT, New Young Pony Club, 120 Days

Probably the weakest day. Certainly the day that I love the fewest bands. Friday I will be forced to choose between bands that I would die to see, today I will roam around looking for my new favorite band. Stephen Malkmus would be good to see since I like pavement a lot but I don't know his new music.

Sunday - My Morning Jacket, Justice, The Field, The Streets, Cool Kids, Booka Shade, Simian Mobile Disco, Autolux, Black Kids, holy fuck, Shout Out Louds

The day that I spent in the dance tent. Seriously Jusice, the Field, Booka Shade and Simian Mobile Disco all great dance music. Kinda wish that Oakenfold, Van Dyke or Teisto were also there just to get my trance on but this will suffice. I would be excited for Dark Side of the Moon if it were Pink Floyd, not Roger Waters solo.

A Return of Sorts

Ok so I have been blogging about the 52 and a couple other things here and there but I have not given you guys what you want most...a playlist. (Feel My Heat) hasn't return yet, it will almost certainly be back next week. So since I am not spinning records tonight I figure the least I can do is give you a playlist. A list of what I am playing and what I bought recently and playing heavily. So here we go:

(feel my theoretical heat):
Jose Gonzalez - Down the Line
Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling into Place
The National - Mistaken for Strangers
Cat Power - I Don't Blame You
Feist - 1234
White Stripes - Rag and Bone
Octopus Project - Snow Tip Cap Mountain
Of Montreal - Past is a Grotesque Animal
Magnetic Fields - California Girls
Kevin Drew - Backed Out On the...
Blonde Redhead - 23
Battles - Tonto

In other news, the best new music committee is up and running and I am still amazed at the number of sucky cd's there are. Seriously half of the albums I got this time sucked and I am upset about this. So from now on only artists I like can make albums.

I went to the basketball game today. Miami was playing SUNY Buffalo which makes me laugh since the two schools are far away and the conference is 90% Ohio schools seemingly. Anyway the thing that shocked me most is that I believe either Mater Dei or Santa Margarita could have beat both teams, or at least been competitive with them. It was a kind of boring game but it was fun to go out and do something.

3 Down, 49 To Go

Book: Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
Album: In Our Nature - Jose Gonzalez

Into the Wild is a tough book. Not tough in any of the traditional senses though. It is not conceptually difficult nor is it difficult to read. It evokes an emotion thought that is difficult to place and haunts like a spector over you. Clearly the author relates to McCandless and attempts to convey the feeling that McCandless would have experienced during the story. The author did an admirable job of portraying the story without being heavy handed nor cold and unfeeling.

The book makes me both never want to leave the developed world and completely disappear. The boy's story is at once compelling and frustrating. Demonstrating the stuborness that people have inside them and how some absolutely refuse to back down from their principles. However there is something inspirational about how McCandless refused to give up on his principles and how he wanted to return to nature. He was able to survive for much longer than I expected and was able to succeed in conditions I doubt I could.

In Our Nature is the back to basics approach that McCandless certainly agreed with. An album composed of just a guy and his guitar. The songs are largely about peoples own selfishness and greed, anti-war and anti-suffering style songs. Yet the songs do not come off as preachy. Maybe it is the fact Gonzalez is more subtle and less blatant than most other singer songwriters. Either way this albums feeling and sound leaves an impression similar to the book.

2 Down, 50 To Go

Book: Best American Comics 2007
Album: Hello, Avalanche - The Octopus Project

Since I can remember my Dad has read the Best American Essays and Short Stories compilations. So when I saw that they put out a Best American Comics I had to get on it. I liked it pretty well. It was not amazing but it certainly had some really good comics and things that I want to check out. It gave me a good half dozen books to buy and look for. Most of the stories in the book were not about super heroes or extraordinary feats, but rather everyday life and situations. I also want to read this years Best American Short Stories because I have been told that Stephen Kings complains that the form of short story is dying.

Hello, Avalanche completely compliments the idea of comic book. It is music that is nothing but vibrant colors and fun sounds. Very much like Black Moth Super Rainbow's Dandelion Gum except happier and less deep beats. Also there are no vocals which make you focus on the sound complimenting comic books seeming lack of words and emphasis on art. It is little surprise that this band is currently popular on the blogs and was selected last year to open Coachella. I suggest both very much.

Winter Break: Summary

Winter Break is sadly over and it is time to go back to school unfortunately. I want to stay with Shareen and the Fam but I know I have to go back. So I feel it is appropriate to list the important events that happened over the break, or if not important at least memorable. Anyway here are a couple:

• Shareen picking me up from the airport
• Going to the Beach at night
• Finding out I actually went to the entire semester on my last paycheck from work
• The San Diego excursion
• Shareen: Santa's Little Helper
• Colin's Basketball
  
• Criticizing my Brothers basketball games with my dad
  
• Playing Guitar Hero with Ethan
• Through the Fire and Flames
• My Grandfather's visit
• The Christmas Tree
• My losing streak with the microwave/murdering of frozen food
• New Year's Rock Band
• Talking about, but never going to, LA and the Desert
• Finding out my grades
• Social Distortion
• Jack Haley
• Coming up with the idea of 52
• "Buying This They Don't Need, For People They Don't Like, and Can Not Really Afford" - The Family Xmas Moto
• South Coast
• Seeing Every Movie Released
• The House Renovation Talk
• Going to Costco with my Mom, a lot
• Talking about, but not actually doing it, driving my car to school
  

Anyway that is a partial list there is more but that is what stands out in my mind.

What I Hope To Do

So I know most of you do not think I am going to be able to read a book a week and you are probably right. Right now I am a head of schedule which is easy when you do not have distractions such as class, papers, tests, and failure. Anyway just because this is going to help me keep track of what I actually accomplish vs. what I hope to accomplish here is a partial list of what I want to read in the up coming months:

• 1984
• A Clockwork Orange
• All the Kings Men
• White Noise
• Snow Leopard
• In Cold Blood
• As I Lay Dying
• Even Cow Girls Get the Blues
• Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
• The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
  
• Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
• I Just Want My Pants Back
• Electric Church

And then there will be the books I have to read for class and graphic novels I will read. Maybe a couple plays thrown in for good measure or even poetry. Most of those books were started and never finished for one reason or another or I have already read them and want to reread them for various reasons. Anyway I doubt most of these books will ever actually be read but its good to have goals.

Dream

Ok so I have been talking about this for a while now but I really do want to open up a record/bookstore in Ohio. I have told people about the idea and they seem supportive. However I am not sure it would work since it is epxensive to start a business and they frequently fail. I would think it would be cool to own/run an indie record store that sold some books with it. Compete with borders by specializing or something. Anyway sort of a dream I have.

1 Down, 51 to go

Book: Blankets - Craig Thompson
Album: Orphans - Tom Waits

I have been meaning to read this for a long time but never bought the book and finally got it for christmas. As Shareen can tell you I read it really fast. I loved it. All about your first serious romance and falling in love and growing up. I highly recommend it. Plus the art work is amazing. Craig Thompson did the art work for Menomena's latest album. Truly giving new meaning to the idea of a graphic novel.

I have loved Tom Waits for a while but I only recently tried listening to this album again. Good Lord it is good. Listening to Tom Waits is like reading a book. And even those these songs are supposed out takes they are still incredible. I got this album last year for Christmas but never listened to it, just the song "Long Way Home". Now that I have listened to more of it I highly recommend it. It does not exactly go along with the feeling of "Blankets" but it was a new-ish album that I listened to. Plus it was last years Christmas meeting with this years Christmas.

Birthday, Sucker Punches and Growing Up

My birthday was ok. I turned 20 which was cool but I mean hardly noteworthy really. I went out to lunch which was nice, good to talk to Taylor without Julian. The family dinner was good, despite what my mom thinks. Ethan got me gifts that I literally handed to him. Shareen gave me a really cool graffiti book, it will appear in the 52. What was noteworthy was that I got my nose busted during Social Distortion.

Shareen very sweetly bought me tickets to them. And I went and saw the show. At the start of "Mommy's Little Monster" I ran to the pit and was able to make one circle before a skinhead punched me in the face. It felt like my nose broke, I couldn't see and was suddenly really dizzy, and then I started to bleed. Anyway I missed about a third of the show and never went back downstairs.

At the show I realized I was growing up. The songs now longer meant much to me and the themes were no longer applicable really. The idea of no future and embracing failure and that you maybe be smart but I am tough, never really described me and do even less now. I have a future, I have not failed so far, I have not screwed up, and I am both smart and fairly tough. At least tough enough to be punched my a nazi at a concert.

the human victory cigar

That would be Jack Haley. The man my family nearly got into a fight with. My dad said that his kid pushed my brother in the back causing him to get hurt, it looked like that. He called my dad a mother fucker, hes classy like that. I got into him for the hell of it, I am proud and stupid like that. The man said fuck more then any grown and supposedly educated man should. He called my dad and I ignorant, I believe he meant insular. Although being called ignorant like that reminds me of South Park. Anyway it was stupid although it brought to light some problems, but that is not important. What is important is to point out just how god awful a player he was. It takes a special kind of jack ass to be that proud and suck that hard. This is the most ink he has ever gotten.

For a Laugh:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/haleyja01.html

52

52 weeks in a year. For my new years resolution I am going to try to read 52 books this year. A book a week basically. I haven't decided if I am counting books I have to read for class or not. And I will count graphic novels (read: long comic books) as books. And not just read but finish them since I am a great half reader. So a book a week is the goal. I am also going to do this with albums. Much less difficult but whatever I have goals and I am going to try and meet them.

By the way, if any of you are looking for a new book: And Then We Came to the End. I highly recommend it. Kind of like the office but in book form, and missing Steve Carrell.

And I really want to see There Will Be Blood. It looks like an even gritter version of No Country for Old Men.

Ok I am done name dropping for now. Happy Holidays!

(feel my heat): The Best of 2007

Wet and Rusting - Menomena
Fake Empire - The National
Imitosis - Andrew Bird
Fa-Fa-Fa - Datarock*
(top 5 old songs of the year)
Greetings to the New Brunette - Billy Bragg
She Bangs the Drums - The Stone Roses
My Little Underground - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Sometimes - My Bloody Valentine
Five Years - David Bowie
Outta Sight - Osborne*
(Artists with Multiple Entires)
No Cars Go - The Arcade Fire
Take Pills - Panda Bear
Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem
Paper Planes - M.I.A.
Bout Ready to Jak - Osborne*
(Top Songs that Will Never Be Played on the Radio)
Archangel - Burial
To Fix The Gash In Your Head - A Place to Bury Strangers
Sailing to Byzntium - Liars
Heatherwood - Deerhunter
Jah - M.A.N.D.Y.*
(Pop Artist of the Year: T-Pain)
Good Life - Kanye West Feat. T-Pain
Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin') - T-Pain featuring Yung Joc
Kiss Kiss (Feat. T-Pain) - Chris Brown
Jah War (Loefah Remix) - The Bug featuring Flowdan*
(Top 10 Songs of the Year)
Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You) [UGK featuring OutKast] - UGK
The Sons of Cain - Ted Leo
Pom Pom - Matthew Dear
Is There a Ghost - Band of Horses
Smithereens - El-P
New Wave - Against Me!
None Shall Pass - Aesop Rock
You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb - Spoon
Keep The Car Running - The Arcade Fire
All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem
BONUS XMAS SONG: Fairytale of New York - The Pogues

*Interlude Music

(feel my heat): For Shareen

Blonde Redhead - Spring by Summerfall
Shocking Pinks - This Aching Deal
A Place to Bury Strangers - I Know I'll See You
Cat Power - BabyDoll
Band of Horses - Is There a Ghost
Arcade Fire - Neightborhood 3 - Power Out
Interpol - No I in Threesome
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Liars - Houseclouds
Tv On the Radio - Dreams
Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Down Boy
The Moon Upstairs - Never Throught Twice
Spoon - Don't You Evah
My Morning Jacket - Lowdown
The National - Fake Empire
Division Day - Little Blood
Long Blondes - Once and Never Agian
Camera Obscura - Lets Get Out of This Country
Jens Lekman - Opposite of Hallejuah
Wooden Shjips - Loose Lips
Band of Horses - Plans
White Williams - Route to Palm
Working for a Nuclear Free City - Rocket
Massive Attack - Safe From Harm
Joe Smooth - Promise land

Top Albums

And now for the completion of the trifecta!

Top Albums of the Year:
In no real order...

1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver: I love LCD Soundsystem. They are like a new Talking Heads/David Bowie to me. I probably like this record too much.
   
2. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible: Personally I think this album was every bit as good as Funeral but I know a lot of people don't feel that way. I loved a bunch of tracks on this record (see best songs). In think this is the only way to follow up being made into Indie Kings.
   
3. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: Uneven and inconsistent. Probably the biggest problem with Spoon. But when they are firing on all levels they are amazing. This album has more hits than misses and I recommend it. There are some skipable tracks but "Got Yr Cherry Bomb" makes up for everything.
   
4. EL-P - I'll Sleep When Your Dead: This is one that you love or hate. Either the beats are too loud and too intense for you or you share his paranoia. Kinda like Black Flag doing a Rap record, only better.
   
5. Against Me! - New Wave: A lot of people did not like this record. I can appreciate that. The album is way way too glossy but there is a lot of good music underneath it. See the band in concert and you will see how great the record can be.
   
6. Panda Bear - Person Pitch: This is an epic album. It is a beautiful and overwhelming. The sounds that come out are amazing. White Noise meet Melody, and great tracks that are both soothing and energizing. It is a maximal minimal record.
   
7. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin: I originally trashed this record, and now I like it a lot. The melodies are sweet and the band is trying new things. It grew on me and there a couple killer songs. I say go for it.
   
8. Ted Leo - Living with the Living: People love Ted Leo. And it is impossible not too love him. He sings great songs with out forcing greatness, he cares about people genuinely, and the man is a punk/rock god. So this record was not as great as Shake the Sheets, it was still great. The world is just waiting for that one perfect album from Leo because we know he can do it.
   
9. The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive Your Home: I wanted a British album and I got one. Along the way they update "Every Picture Tells Story Don't It" but from a girls point of view. Anyway this is solid and I think everyone should get it.
   
10. Burial - Untrue: Other than the first two and this album the rest of the albums are not in order. Untrue is a good record but I am not sure if it is a great record. It is dark and twisting, able to interest the listener but not overwhelm. Yet I don't know in six months from now if I will still be listening.
    

Other Notable Releases:

• Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
  
• Black Dice - Blown Load
• Los Campesinos! - Sticking Fingers into Sockets E.P.
• Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
• Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
  
• Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
• Okkervil River - Stage Names
• Justice - Cross
• Caribou - Andorra
  
• !!! - Myth Takes
• Bonde Do Role - With Lasers
• Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrophya
• Feist - The Reminder
• Menonmena - Friend or Foe
• Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future

Great but shouldn't go in a new music since they are collections:

• Sigur Ros - Hvarf/Heim
• Elliott Smith - New Moon

Biggest Disappointments:

• Bright Eyes - Casadega: Too much. Too many words, too many sounds, too many ideas. Maybe someday he could pull this off but not now. Also it sounded as if Oberst took himself even more seriously this time around.
  
• Kanye West - Graduation: He had to fail. there was too much pressure too high expectations. Was it terrible? No. Just wasn't good as Dropout or Late Registration. It had some good songs but it had some really bad ones. For every "Stronger" there was "Drunk and Hot Girls".
  
• Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City: Loved the first album and hated this one. What happened to the dancing? the pointyness? the chorus? Bloc Party went from a Gang of Four inspired band, to a bad Smith ripoff bad.
  
• The Stooges - The Weirdness
• Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah - Some Thunder
• James Murphy - Fabric Live Series Comp
• Interpol - Our Love to Admire: This was not so much bad as it was the same. They have a sound and for two or three songs it is good, but they need to change it up. If I want to hear an entire Joy Division album I will put on Closer.
  
• Prodigy - Return of the Mac
  

Top Songs

Top 15 Songs (Not In Order)

1. Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running
2. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
3. MIA - Paper Planes
4. EL-P - Smithereens
5. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
6. The National - Fake Empire
7. Kanye West - Good Life
8. T-Pain - Buy U a Drank
9. UGK - Intl Players Anthem (I Choose You)
10. Spoon - Got Yr Cherry Bomb
11. Against Me! - New Wave
12. Burial - Archangel
    
13. Band of Horses - Is There a Ghost?
14. Panda Bear - Bros
15. Ted Leo - Sons of Cain

That was quite hard so there are a lot of other great songs and here is a list.

Other Top songs: (Repeat Bands)

• LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
• Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
• Arcade Fire - Intervention
• El-P - Run the Numbers
• Sage Francis - Got Up This Morning
• Bright Eyes - 4 Winds
• Queens of Stone Age - Sick Sick Sick
• Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing
• Kathy Diamond - All Woman
• Dan Deacon - Wham City
• Liars - Sail to Byzantium
• Panda Bear - Take Pills
• Panda Bear - Comfy in Nautica
• Against Me! - Thrash Unreal
• Battles - Leyendecker
• Animal Collective - Peacebone
• Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
• Explosions in the Sky - Birth and Death of a Day
  

There are lots and lots more but that is what I can think of at the moment so enjoy!

Fire Alarms and Incompletes

Someone in my building has been pulling the fire alarm. This morning at 4:30 AM and then again around 4 PM. I am organizing a lynching party and we will start to randomly execute people if this does not stop.

In other news it is the end of the year and I am thinking about doing what everyone does at this point in the year and making best of lists. It will probably be best albums, best old albums, best movies, best singles, and lastly best stuff I never heard. So lets get it on:

Best Stuff I Never Heard - to be eligible they are songs and albums that I never bought all of:

MIA - Kala

• I never got into MIA. Seemed too gimicky. She has so really good songs, but it seemed to be too fake. Then I heard "Paper Planes". I still have doubts but man oh man is that a good song. The other songs I have heard from Kala have been solid as well. So maybe I will buy this album and it will leap to the top of the heap.
  

The National - Boxer

• In an interview I read the lead singer said that people constantly say their songs grow on people which he took to the mean he could write a hook. This is partially true, the songs do not quite bet you over the head with greatness but they are good. "Fake Empire" is my favorite and in my top songs of the year.
  

Radiohead - In Rainbows

• I am not a huge Radiohead fan. I think what they have done with digital downloads is revolutionary. Personally I still like to be own the album, the physical case and the artwork. I haven't heard this album but have heard a lot of good things. I will buy it when I can get a hard copy.
  

Les Savy Fav - Lets Stay Friends

• I got into Les Savy Fav at the beginning of school. They are kind of a hard band to listen to but they are pretty awesome. Loud and Absurd and I have heard the live show is amazing. "Best Before Year 2000" is my favorite song from the album that I have heard.
  

Battles - Mirrored

• Meshing human and computer in ways that Kraftwerk nor T-Pain could imagine. I am not sure that an entire album of this would be enjoyable, but a couple songs are good to break up the playlists. My favorite is "Leyendecker".
  

A Place to Bury Strangers - S/T

• This year I got really into Jesus and Mary Chain. These guys are a lot like Jesus and Mary Chain but with My Bloody Valentine technology. The songs are loud and overwhelming like swimming in a sea of guitar. Ultra hard to find, I guess, but they are on itunes. "Ocean" or "I Know I'll See" are the songs.

Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

• This and Modest Mouse's new album are the two albums I can not figure out why I did not buy. I really like Of Montreal and have no idea why I don't own this album. All the tracks I have heard are solid. And the EP they released right after this is also very good.
  

Deerhunter - Cryptograms

• I alternate between hating and liking this group. Pitchfork is way too in love with them and the lead singer annoys me, but the music is pretty damn good. Maybe a little to homo-erotic for my taste but it is interesting and invigorating. "Crytograms" which is track one is my favorite song, sounds a lot like Joy Division.
  

Liars - Liars

• Seriously weird guys but seriously good tunes. They seem to go all over the place with their records but not in a kitsch way. I am interested to hear all of this one. "Sailing to Byzantium" is my personal favorite track.
  

Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

• Another wild album. Panda Bear, who is a member of Animal Collective, put out an album that I loved. Thus I checked this out. Sometimes the songs are a little too long and wild but other times they are great. "Peacebone" is the track I would check out and if you like it then try the rest of the album.

Ok so there are the top ten albums I haven't heard all of. There are plenty more and honorable mentions goes to:

Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Akron/Family - Love is Simple
Jose Gonzales - In Our Nature
High On Fire - Death is Communion
Black Octopus Project - Hello, Avalanche
Shocking Pinks - S/T
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
Wiley - Play Time is Over
Dizziee Rascal - Maths + English
Two Gallants - S/T

Hint - All of these Albums would make excellent gifts - Hint

A Recomendation

If you like dark music or electronic music, I highly recommend the new Burial album - Untrue. It is an incredibly dark album. The whole album sounds like a dark foggy alley. Lots of reverb and deep bass. Distorted vocals and unconventional beats. I have not decided if it is a top ten album yet, but it wouldn't surprise me. It is a labyrinth of an album twisting and turning going from light and beautiful to dark and cold in the course of ten seconds. Truly something that has to be experienced.

Another album that I reviewed this was Sigur Ros latest album Hvarf - Heim. It is a solid album. Show casing the light and beauty that Sigur Ros is capable of. The first half of the album is all new material, the second half is live versions of tracks. They are all solid and continue to inspire and perpetuate belief in humanity and good. The songs sound like sunrise on a glacier or at least what I hope it sounds like since I have never experienced that.

Anyway those are two albums that are recently released and I recommend. They serve as a point and counter point to each other. The dark and the light.

All That Could Have Been

Last nights show sucked. I am sorry that it did not work out. Anyway here is what was and what could have been.

(feel my heat):What was
Live Forever - Oasis
What Became Of The Likely Lads - The Libertines
Generator - The Holloways
Sleep Deprivation - Simian Mobile Disco
God Knows - Mando Diao
Apply Some Pressure - Maximo Park
pacThe Prayer - Bloc Party
We Danced Together - The Rakes
Archangel - Burial
The New Pollution - Beck
Say It All - Sondre Lerche
Little Dawn - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks
Oxford Collapse - Please Visit Your National Parks
Youth Group - Forever Young

(feel my heat) - What Could Have Been
I Feel Space - Lindstrøm
Snuff on Digital - Blaqk Audio
Here (In Your Arms) - Hellogoodbye
Thumbelina - Nightmare Of You
Body Language / Interpretation - Booka Shade
23 - Blonde Redhead
Phantom Limb - The Shins
Lost In the Supermarket - The Clash
Sorrow - Bad Religion
Jane - The Loved Ones
Massive Attack - Unfinished Symphony
Movin' Too Fast (Bump & Flex Mix) - Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson
Weak Become Heroes (Royksopp's Memory Lane Mix) - The Streets
Take Me Back To Your House - Basement Jaxx

(feel my heat)

A couple of yall have been asking about podcasts here is the link:
http://www.feelmyheat.podcastpeople.com/

So now you know and hope you all can tune in

(feel my heat): Blonde on Heat

K-39 - Challengers
Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
Like a Hurricane - Neil Young
Evil Plans Of Planet Spectra - Man Or Astro-Man?
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Nearly Lost You - Screaming Trees
Plowed - Sponge
Somebody To Shove - Soul Asylum
Pressure - The Pyramids
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Impossible Germany - Wilco
Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós
Teen Angst - M83
Goin' To Acapulco - Jim James & Calexico
No Ones Gonna Love You - Band Of Horses
To Fix The Gash In Your Head - A Place To Bury Strangers
I Miss You - Blink-182
The Con - Tegan & Sara
It's All Been Done - Barenaked Ladies
Helium Heels - Darker My Love
All Along The Watchtower - Eddie Vedder & The Million Dollar Bashers
Despite What You've Been Told - Two Gallants
Gravity's Gone - Drive-By Truckers
The Man In The Long Black Coat - Mark Lanegan
Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground) - Blind Willie Johnson
Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Nirvana
Salome - Old 97's
One Big Holiday - My Morning Jacket
Can't Hardly Wait (The Tim Version) - The Replacements
Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Bob Dylan

I'm Not Blue Grass

Ok I decided to do a Non-(feel my heat) post. This about the records I want because I have heard good things. I want the new Bruce. I do not need to explain this. I want the new Robert Plant/Allison Krauss disc. I like both artists and I think it would be interesting to hear. Blue grass meets zep, now there is a mash up. Forget about Sri Lanken rappers, I want to hear Whole Lotta Love with an extended fiddle jam.

The best record I have received from WMSR is by far I'm Not There the soundtrack to the new Bob Dylan movie. I kid you not when I say, throw it on random and it will be nothing but good songs. If the movie is as good as this disc then it should sweep the Oscars. More importantly it is form a wide range of artists, all doing their best Bob Dylan impersonations and tunes.

Ok thats enough for now.

(feel my heat): The Boss

About a Girl - Nirvana
The Day I Tried to Live - Soundgarden
Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog
Soul to Squeeze - Red Hot Chili Peppers
I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) - The Electric Prunes*
Alive - Pearl Jam
Live In a Hiding Place - Idlewild
Indefinitely - Old 97's
Pictures of Matchstick Men - Status Quo*
Stuck Between Stations - The Hold Steady
Intimate Secretary - The Raconteurs
Could We - Cat Power
You're Gonna Miss Me - The 13th Floor Elevators*
Saving Grace - Tom Petty
Someday Baby - Bob Dylan
Radio Nowhere - Bruce Springsteen
Incense and Peppermint - Strawberry Alarm Clock*
Counting Down The Hours - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
My Doorbell - The White Stripes
(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet - The Blues Magoos*
Waltz, No. 2 (XO) - Elliott Smith
Sweet Avenue - Jets to Brazil
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum*
New Wave - Against Me!
Sowing Season (Yeah) - Brand New
Understanding In a Car Crash - Thursday
Louie Louie - The Kingsmen*
Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young
And Your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles
Time of the Season - The Zombies*
Jenny Was a Friend of Mine - The Killers
Like Eating Glass - Bloc Party
Speed Of Sound - Coldplay

* Interlude music

Random Notes

So I once again I have A) Stopped Blogging B) Kinda Fucked Up C) Starting to do well in classes. I probably won't get straight A's this semester, but I am moving toward that direction hopefully. Its not so much I stopped blogging but rather I forget about it or don't have much to say. You don't really need to know how I fucked up, I did and I am trying to fix it and make it better. And doing well is just motivation maybe.

The fires in California are crazy. I guess that is what happens when there is drought and people living in areas they probably should not. Anyways I hope that no one is loosing their home and that everyone is safe.

This post was kinda worthless and boring sorry.

(feel my heat): Look Back In Anger

Can't Hardly Wait (The Tim Version) - The Replacements
Going Underground - The Jam
Janie Jones - The Clash
Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go (Extended Version) - Soft Cell*
Kiss Me Deadly - Generation x
Mirror In the Bathroom - The English Beat
I Melt With You - Modern English
Contort Yourself - James White And The Blacks*
The Last of the Famous International Playboys - Morrissey
Local Girls - Graham Parker & The Rumour
Lipstick Vogue - Elvis Costello
Chromophobia - Gui Boratto*
Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
Girlfriend Is Better - Talking Heads
Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
Nightclubbing - Iggy Pop
Unflug - Ricardo Villalobos*
Transmission - Joy Division
The Hanging Garden - The Cure
Autobahn - Kraftwerk*
Cherry-Coloured Funk - Cocteau Twins
Song to the Siren - This Mortal Coil
No Sad Goodbyes - Swayzak*
She Bangs the Drums - The Stone Roses
Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
Retina - Apparat & Ellen Allien*
There's No Such Thing As Black Orchids - Lilys
I Only Said - My Bloody Valentine
Alison - Slowdive
vapour trail - Ride
Sour Times - Portishead*
Sonnet - The Verve
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths

*Background Music

Signs of the Apocalypse

Signs of the apocalypse:

• I did not hate the new Kid Rock Album
• The Bon Jovi song I heard on SNL was pretty good
• Did not love the Band of Horses
• Bush is still in office
• The Democrats are still not keeping up with the liberal base
• Rudy Gulliani

I ran out of this sorry.

But seriously as much as I wanted to hate Kid Rock he did a surprisingly good job. I would never buy it but since I got it for free, it was ok. Anyway I don't recommend it unless you can get it for free.

The Bon Jovi song was sounded a lot like modern Springsteen and Petty. I am looking forward to come home so I can hear the new Springsteen. I have heard good things about the album, sorta a pop-y sound much like the River. The Bon Jovi song is worth a listen, but if it sucks don't blame me.

This is a solid follow up to Everything All the Time. However it lacks the anthems that made Everything spectacular. Cease to Begin is by no means a bad album, in fact it probably comes in third for sophomore albums this year behind LCD Soundsystem and The Arcade Fire not bad company to be in. In fact this album is infinitely better than Bloc Parties Weekend in the City in my opinion. However the album lacks a song as strong as Funeral. Is there a Ghost? is a great song, but the album never again quite matches the greatness of that song. There are several good songs on here and all of the songs are in the solid to good range and no bad songs to speak of. However it lacks the anthems that made Everything all the time so appealing.

The other ones I don't really need to explain.

Updates

Ok, I have not blogged in forever. I am sorry. I have had crazy amounts of work and unlike high school I decided to do it. Anyway class are going well but I do not blog so I guess it is a trade off. I have also joined the new music committee for the radio station and I got the best release this yer: KID ROCK - ROCK N ROLL JESUS, more on that later. So here comes a dump of massive proportions.

Two of the worst shows I have done this year:

The Worst - Two Weeks Ago:
3's & 7's - Queens of the Stone Age
Colony of Birchmen - Mastodon
MURDERERS - JOHN FRUSCIANTE*
Are You Ten Years Ago - Tegan & Sara
Passion's Killing Floor - H.I.M. (His Infernal Majesty)
Inertia Creeps - Massive Attack*
Inertiatic Esp - The Mars Volta
When We Escape - Minus The Bear
Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
Heavy - Oh No*
Gideon - My Morning Jacket
The Great Salt Lake - Band of Horses
Goodnight Rose - Ryan Adams
Tuxedo Hat - The Octopus Project*
Spider Pig - Hans Zimmer
Romantic Rights - Death From Above 1979
Alala - CSS
Solta o Frango (Edit) - Bonde do Role
I Want You So Hard (Boys Bad News) - Eagles Of Death Metal
The Crystal Cat - Dan Deacon*
When Did Your Heart Go Missing? - Rooney
Poison Oak - Bright Eyes
Despite What You've Been Told - Two Gallants
Post Mortem, Post Bordem - Darker My Love
thickfreakness - The Black Keys
Sour Smoke - Comets On Fire*
Love and Happiness - Al Green
King of the Rodeo - Kings Of Leon
Hard To Explain - The Strokes
Ain't No Easy Way - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told) - The White Stripes
Remember Me As a Time of Day - Explosions In The Sky*
Anenome - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Let It Dive - ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
The Great Gig In the Sky - Pink Floyd
Bikini Drag (From "Bikini Beach") - The Pyramids*
Alone Again Or - Love

Second Worst - Last Week:
Comfy In Nautica - Panda Bear
Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem
Tokyo - The Books*
Come Out, Come Down, Fade Out, Be Gone - 120 Days
I Zimbra - Talking Heads
Forever Heavy - Black Moth Super Rainbow*
You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb - Spoon
Melody Day - Caribou
Intervention - The Arcade Fire
Rollerdisco - Black Moth Super Rainbow*
A New England - Billy Bragg
Don't Stop Now - Crowded House
Teardrop - Jose Gonzalez
Teardrop - Massive Attack*
Everything In Its Right Place - Radiohead
Qawwali - Pinch
Leyendecker - Battles
Blood Rainbow - Tim Hecker*
Anenome - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Claws & Paws - Darker My Love
Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warhols
A Warm Place - Nine Inch Nails*
Fireworks - Animal Collective
Gimme Danger - Iggy Pop
Roadrunner - The Modern Lovers
Academy Fight Song - Mission of Burma
96 Tears - ? & The Mysterians*
The Bomb (Original Version) - New Young Pony Club
52 Girls - The B-52's
Sex And Dying In High Society - X
Alex Chilton - The Replacements
Walk Don't Run - Ventures*
Glamorous Glue - Morrissey
Hot Pants - James Brown*
Day And Night - The Jim Carroll Band

*Interlude Music

(feel my heat): Diminishing Returns

Cities - Talking Heads
Heart of Hearts - !!!
Don Gon Do It - The Rapture
Tribulations - LCD Soundsystem
Destroy Everything You Touch - Ladytron
Acceptable In the 80's - Calvin Harris*
Tonight I Have to Leave It - Shout Out Louds
Show Your Hand - Super Furry Animals
Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys
Two Sevens Clash - Culture*
Peace And Quiet - The Rifles
Generator - The Holloways
The Wildfire (If It Was True) - Mando Diao
Grumblin' Dub - The Upsetters*
Valerie - Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse
Golden Years - David Bowie
Can't Get Used to Losing You - The English Beat
My Ever Changing Moods (12" Version) - The Style Council
Sneakin' Sally through the Alley - Robert Palmer
Telstar (LP Version) - The Challengers*
If You Want Me to Stay - Sly & The Family Stone
I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever) - Stevie Wonder
fa-fa-fa-fa-fa (sad song) - Otis Redding
The Makings Of You - Curtis Mayfield
Baby Sitter - Betty Wright
Walk Don't Run - Ventures*
Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis
Motorcycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers
Men's Needs - The Cribs
City of Delusion - Muse
Anenome - The Brian Jonestown Massacre*
Under My Thumb - The Rolling Stones
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
Budapest (Joakim Italo Dub) - Poni Hoax*
Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles

*Background music for when I mumbled about stuff

(Feel My Heat): The Return

Fist Show of the New Year:

Indian Hump - Madlib*
Greetings to the New Brunette - Billy Bragg
1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson
If I Should Fall Behind - Bruce Springsteen & The Sessions Band
Gladius - Oh No*
Almost Blue - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
My Funny Valentine - Chet Baker
Movie Finale - Madlib*
Broken Record - Sweatshop Union
Got Up This Morning - Sage Francis
Building Steam With a Grain of Salt - DJ Shadow
Deserter - Matthew Dear
I'll Be By Your Side - Sally Shapiro
E=MC2 - Big Audio Dynamite
Excerpt 1: Slew Test 2 / Mosquito vs. Water Buffalo / Slew Test 3A - Kid Koala*
Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson
Town Called Malice - The Jam
Multiply - Jamie Lidell
Sound and Vision - David Bowie
Sock It to 'Em Soul Brother (Instrumental) - Bill Moss*
Gente Ordinaria (Bonus Track) - Aloe Blacc
Stop Me - Mark Ronson featuring Daniel Merriweather
Is There a Ghost - Band of Horses
Sweet Avenue - Jets to Brazil
The Payback (Gotta) - Madlib*
Lazy Eye - Silversun Pickups
Another Morning Stoner - ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Oh Messy Life - Cap'n Jazz
Keep The Car Running - The Arcade Fire
Nothing Like This - J Dilla*
Time of No Reply - Nick Drake
This Is the Way - Devendra Banhart
Rose Parade - Elliott Smith
Your Bright Baby Blues - Jackson Browne
Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen
Bye - J Dilla*
Time - Tom Waits

*Musical Interlude. Thank You Stones Throw

Ennui/Melencholia with For FAP/BP

A long relationship has just ended. If it ended like most relationships do it was not because you caught the other cheating. It ended because the two of you were changing. Because the spark that was once there does not seem to be there. Because one person is becoming colder and more distant while the other is still head over heals for the other. And while being broken up with sucks, breaking up with someone hurts as well. If you have been in a longer term relationship then clearly you care about that person. And you are the one who has to tell them that things have changed. That while you care for them you don't want them romantically any more. And you hold out hope that they will return to that special place in your heart, you are still worried that it might not. And while you may not vomit and cry in the same violent manner, you do cry and vomit and try anything to let yourself forget for a moment about how much it hurts. And the only position that feels good is the fetal position. And your friends don't understand why you are blue because they claim you are free. All you are really free from is the person that you care about and would have given the world for. Because while you are no longer in a romantic relationship you still care about them more than yourself.



In honor of all the playlists I have received from my dad here are my ten saddest songs:

Elliott Smith - Rose Parade
Trying to pick the saddest Elliott Smith song is like choosing your favorite child. You can do it but man is that an evil process. This is just the Smith song that I have been listening to the most lately.

Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat
When you want a laugh you go to Cohen. This is a pretty morose song. About the one that got away or you let get away. A love letter to her.

Elvis Costello - Almost Blue
Elvis works for both break up playlist and broken up playist. This is the the broken up. I knew he was angry I did not know he could go sad, at least not quite like this.

Tom Waits - Time
"And its time/And its time/And its time, time, time that you loved me/And its time/time/time" If there has been a sadder lyric I haven't heard it. Description of the morose night owls.

Nick Drake - Time of No Reply
A hall of famer for the mopey sad guys. I could explain why the song is on here but why bother?

Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine
I haven't decided if that is actually one of the saddest songs or not but it is in heavy rotation right now. It sounds sad to me but it might just be my brain connecting the dots.

Pearl Jam - Black
Its a hit. You have heard it. You may have even cried to it. Certainly helped bring down your day.

Jackson Browne - Fountain of Sorrow
I grew up on Jackson Browne therefore I do not nessicarly associate him with sadness. then I listened to the lyrics. I thought about jumping out my window and then I remembered it was a second story. So instead I just lay in bed.

The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
This is sad. This is so sad that it only makes sense after the relationship has just ended.

Band of Horses - Is There A Ghost
Not that sad compared to the others. In fact I think there is hope in the song which makes it a good end note but its still not happy. As I lay here I see a possible speck of light with this song.

And I know what you are thinking right now, "What about Bright Eyes?" Well, they just don't really do it for me right now. They are angst-y and I like them but they are not blue.

thoughts

There are somethings you can only listen to on your headphones, ...and you will know us by the trail of dead is one of those bands. Nothing else to say about it.

I am thinking of putting all my one acts together as one monsterous play/movie/idea they all sorta fit together

I really should drop geo but why bother? Not hard just boring

Shows, no Class

College sorta sucks. Its hard to say deffinitively that is totally does or totally doesn't. I have fun on the weekends when I am with my friends but when I am stuck in my room I want to transfer. I can't stand my roommate or the people I live next too. So maybe if I just transfer rooms I will be happier.

Class aren't great but that is simply because I am in gigantic classes.

I went to Against Me! Last night and had a lot of fun. Its always good to go to shows just to do something and meet new people. Something I will say in for the punk community it is pretty welcoming. I guess you can't be the community of outsiders and then shun people. I am pretty sure I am going to make my buddy go to Bad Religion and go to Social Distortion over thanksgiving.

There are not enough random comics in the world. Scratch that there are plenty but I don't have enough.

A wish list for any reading who want to send something to me: Flannel Shirts, Size 12 Chuck Taylors, 40 of Malt Liquor, Skateboard, Black Sweatshirt, Random Stuff

Punk Rock Love...A Favorite

Punk rock love is fucking behind the dumpster down the street from the show. Fucking in the shower at the Hotel Carlton. Making out in the recycle bin. Looking at her tattoos while she's asleep. Taking showers together. Playing checkers with cigarette butts. Watching her band play. Dumpstering veggies together and then going back to her place and cooking up a feast. Knowing the same parts of the same songs. Both of you having the same ex-girlfriend. Punk rock love is having to tie her shoes for her cuz she's too drunk. Kissing under the overpass. Her sending you her whole diary to read. Her giving you ten rolls of duct tape for your birthday. Her beating up skinheads. Going to the prom on her motorcycle and checking in the helmets at the coatcheck. Getting astonished stares from all the jocks who thought you were gay, now they feel dumb cuz you're with an older punk rock bombshell and they're with their friend's little sister. Punk rock love is meeting her outside the club and her saying come home with me or I'm gonna kick your fuckin ass. Going home with her and she almost kicks your ass anyway. Sharing hairdye. Riding double on a bike. Being loud and not caring. Sneaky eyes and sleeveless t-shirts. The sun coming up and you realizing that there's other people on the beach. A good sleazy one week stand. Still being friends afterwards, most of the time. Punk rock love is her sneaking out in the middle of the night to meet you in the park. Running your fingers over her spikey hair. Her chewing on a flower and you having to call poison control when her tongue swells up. Bringing her to the laundromat for a date. Sharing a sleeping bag and waking up freezing in the middle of the night and her, bleary eyed, trying to heat it up with a blowdrier. Social Unrest playing "Ever Fallen in Love?" at the gig you're both at the night after she dumps you hard. Starting smoking again after that night. Punk rock love is her drawing on you. Her sleeping on your back. Her being mad at you for being such a jerk. Her thinking it's cool that you stink and your hair stands up by itself. Her having weird roommates who worship eggs. You waiting in the doorway for hours hoping she might pass by. Even in the snow. Her singing along with Descendents records over the air on her late night radio show. Her picture on the front page of the morning paper, getting arrested. Her borrowing your favorite black hat and never giving it back. Punk rock love is finding a girl who drinks as much coffee as you do. Going into the cafe where she works and she looks up and smiles and doesn't notice as she trips over a pile of 50 dishes. They hit the floor one by one and when it's all done everyone in the cafe applauds and you both turn beet red. Punk rock love is both of you doing fanzines. Years later her teaching English to college freshmen, you still doing fanzines. Her wearing glasses through her eyes are fine, using crutches though her legs are fine, and talking with a fake speech impediment. You just thinking it's rad girl style, until later when someone brings up the concept of self-imposed handicaps. Punk rock love is getting your first kiss and almost losing your virginity at the same time, meanwhile you're trying not to wake up the other person sleeping in the same bed. Groping in the bushes by the freeway and later you realize that all the passing cars could see you. Exploring the wasteland together. holding hands out on the fire escape. Lying in the grass in her backyard. Lying on the astroturf in her bedroom. Drinking tequila on her porch, on your birthday. Riding on her motorcylce early in the cold morning and you're holding on tight and steam is rising off of the river and you're thinking how she is maybe even better than the Ramones. Punk rock love is both being broke. Love letters. Finding out she sang "Stay Free" at her high school talent show. Finding out she's a little crazier than you thought when you finally get her in bed. Her boyfriend getting mad. Walking around with her and her nephew and everyone giving you dirty looks cuz they think he's your kid. Walking around with her and being happy and proud. Being sad together. Being sad by yourself. Missing her.'

Fashion

Can some explain fashion to me? I thought I had a gripe on it and then people do things I don't get. Like I understand that what is worn on the runway will not be worn on the street. I also understand that some people have bad or unique fashion. But what the fuck is with all these guys trying to look like Dads? Tucked in dress shirts, cargo shorts, baseball hats trying to covert the bald spot and 5 o'clock shadows. I am not sure if they are students or parents coming to get their kids.

Also what the fuck is with polo shirt dresses. I see girls wearing them everywhere. I looks like they stole an incredibly fat, incredibly tall guys shirt and decided it would work as a dress. It doesn't. It basically makes you look fat/poorly formed. And stop poping your damn coalar.

Who knows maybe I just don't know how to dress.

Return

After a year of not blogging I have returned. I decided to start up again after blogs like One D at a Time and Sex, Drugs, and Narcissism. I wish my blog would be as good as theres but thats probably not going to happen. I just hope I will get more than two people to look at it.

Feel my heat 9/16

bloc party - helicopter
arctic monkeys - fake tales of san fransisco
dizzee rascal - fix up, look sharp
chemical brothers - block rockin beats
lcd soundsystem - daft punk is playing on my house
bright eyes - take it easy(love nothing)
of montreal - Requim for O.M.M
Beck - girl
Toots and Maytals - pressure drop
bob marley - punky reagee party
Matisyahu - youth
Murs - L.A.
danger doom feat. talib kweli - old school
the dandy warhols - smoke it
death from above 1979 - blood on our hands
franz ferdinhand - the fallen
flogging molly - seven deadly sins
the flaming lips - yeah yeah yeah song
violent femmes - kiss off
gnarls barkley - gone daddy gone
ryan adams - to be young
my morning jacket - one big holiday
bright eyes - make war
whiskeytown - 16 days
wilco - jesus, etc.
tom waits - make it rain

Feel My Heat

That's right continuing the long trend of me being a rock nerd I have my own college radio station. The name of the show is Feel My Heat, and I will be playing all sorts of stuff. Not suprising if you have seen my ipod. But you can count on hearing a fair amount of Tom Waits, Elvis Costllo, Bowie, and Johnny Thunders. Along with my favorite new artists.

Oh and if you are interested Butch Walker should be famous. His new album The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the lets go out tonites is great. It 70's British glam with a modern La feel.

Butch Walker - Hot Girls in Good Moods
Head Automatica - New York is Burning
Dirty Pretty Things - Gin and Milk
Tom Waits - Way down in the Hole
Elvis Costello - (I don't want to go to) Chelsea

ASP Redux

Hello from Ohio...I am good thanks for asking but we have more impotant business A Sophmoric Production has been updated. And its finally returned to form. No more story pieces that are connected and making a story. No more random scenes for my brothers friends in a fast food joint. Just pure slacking. Same Characters as before. Mike and Tommy just continuing to waste thier potential. But this time with commentary on modern television. Thats its two guys watchin tv. Pure Brillance.

Top 5
Social Distortion - Prison Bound
Replacements - Waitress in the Sky
Kings of Leon - Four Kicks
Mike Ness - Don't Think Twice
Adolescents - Who is Who

gaye marriage

I sincerely stand against gay marriage. No its not because it is an attack on the scared practice of marriage or it is not supported by the bible. When you can get married drunk at 4 am in Las Vegas by an Elvis impersonating Mr. spock with one blood shot eye, clearly your institution is in trouble. No I stand against it because I believe in the sanctity of divorce. Divorce is between a man and a woman who clearly hate each other. And with any luck this divorce can occur when after the couple have had a couple kids. And as we know gays can adopted but they can't have children through the relationship and what fun is a divorce with out running the lives of several innocent children aswell? So keep up the good fight Mr. Bush just change our rationality about gay marriage, just like you did with the war in Iraq. Because we all know that when we can't find a link between al-queda and gay marriage, we can then say that gays have wmd's and once that doesn't work we can believe that we are protecting the sancitity of the gay people.

top 5
blondie - x offender
x-ray spex - I am a cliche
the queers - punk rock girls
tom waits - way down in the hole
the jam - going underground

Apathy

There was a new york times editorial today which pointed out that world war three can be started by several diffrent scenarios and each one is likely. Which really just depresses me. Dallas wrote about the lack of protest songs by young hip bands. And he is totally correct there isn't much. Mostly because the youth no longer feel the urge to do anything. It seems like there is no passion in my generation, no one wants to protest, no one wants to fuck authority, seems like my generation just likes to be raped over by Bush. My generation - generation Apathy.

top 5
seu jorge - five years
Diverse and Mos Def - Wylin' out
desaparecidos - popn' off at the F
TSOL - World War III
(What's so Funny about) Peace, Love, and Understanding

bands

So in the past two days I have seen two of the best live shows ever: Gnarls Barkley and the Flaming Lips. Seriously if you have the chnace to see either band I highly suggest seeing them. Gnarls Barkley was very entertaining and funny. And the Flaming Lips show was amazing I can not describe the show. It was sorta like a kids birthday party, an acid trip and a rock concert mixed with plenty of technicolor. Seriously after a string of lesser concerts, warped tour, and less active and visually pleasing concerts but great sounding, pearl jam and sonic youth, it was fun to see bands that mixed both aspects so well. So ya my life has been changed.

Anyway I saw clerks II today, in fact I saw the first show at my local movie theater. It was okay it had its moments, but it was not as good as the first clerks. But then again it was better than Mallrats or Jay and Silent Bob. So it was a return to form for Kevin Smith but it just isn't quite up to his original work.

Top 5
Gnarls Barkley - Go-Go Gadet Gospel
Flaming Lips - Bohemian Rapsodey
The Black Keys - All Hands His Own
Ted Leo - Six Months in a Leaky Boat
Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind

Conspiracy and Concerts

So does anyone else find it interesting that Kenneth Lay is dead? I mean this is one of the most dangerous men in the world for George Bush, and he happens to die. Now some people think it is a suicide and others think it is a murder, me I just think it is an impossible coincidence. But then again what would happen to Bush? Nothing its not like his numbers can go any lower.

On a happier not I saw Pearl Jam last night. They put on a great show and really are the biggest band in the world, not necessarily the most popular but goddamn can they play. They are in a hard place since they can play there greatest hits every night like there hero's, the who and rolling stones; or they can play whatever they want and lose people who go who like the music but just the greatest hit and only have their fan base, similar to Neil Young. But Pearl Jam did a great job of mixing the two. Plus they had Rodney on the rock introduce them which is just cool. Oh and for those of you wondering the opening band was Sonic Youth. I believe that this is the perfect 90's show. And as Eddie said SAVE TRESTLES

Top 5
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Ain't no Easy Way
Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine
Pearl Jam - Off he Goes
X - Fourth of July
Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers

nothingness

Hurray I got my laptop to connect to my internet, so now I freedom of motion where I type and I am not dependent on my ipod for music. It seems like a minor miracle that it worked since I am techology illiterate.

I highly recomend the book Nothing Feels Good by Andy Greenwald. It is all about teenagers, punk rock, and emo. Audrey and I both enjoyed reading it.

top 5
alkaline trio - mercy me
smashing pumpkins - daydream
tom waits - cold cold ground
Nas - N.Y. State of Mind
Kanye West - two words

Ohio: A recap

For all of you that didn't know I was in Ohio for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday this week. Here is a recap of what happened:

• Got to the airport, the airline didn't have record of our tickets but they did eventually find them
• My mom spilled an entire bottle of water in he purse ruining the maps and orientation papers we had
• Lost my keys in the airport at some point and no longer have keys to my car, my brothers car or my la fitness tag
• Got stuck in the small airplane ever
• Landed in Chicago to find that due to weather the plan we were supposed to take to Dayton was delayed and kept getting delayed
• Met a crystal meth addict who was missing everyone but two of his teeth
• Decided to drive from Chicago to Dayton, over 300 miles apart, starting at 11 pm
• Saw over 20 abandoned cars and 1,000 truckers
• Saw all of Indiana, let me tell you it is flat
• Went to a convince stare at 3 am in Podunk Indiana and met a nice cashier who was missing all her teeth
• Got to my hotel at 4 in the morning in Dayton
• Blew off morning orientation
  
• Found out that Dayton and Miami are not very close and took over hour and half to get there
• Got directions from a friendly chain smoking mailman
• Finally arrived at Miami at noon
• Sat through most important parts of Orientation, what to pick for classes
• Found out that I am not allowed to drink at college and that sexual assault is a serious offense
• Learned what Corn Holing was
• Didn't sleep in the dorms because my roommate got up so many times
• Got my classes and discovered that were some kids at Miami that were preps
• Drove again from Miami to Chicago, taking a longer distance trip but faster since we avoided most of the construction on highways
• Saw the rest of Indiana and Illinois I hadn't scene; Who knew that Americans still farmed
• Found out that the airline canceled my tickets due to the fact that I didn't take the Dayton flight; resulting in me buying tickets for a flight that I already had tickets for
• Met Callan in the Chicago airport on accident, she was comign back from Paris, we caught up on everythign that had been going on
• Had my flight from Chicago delayed over two hours due to Weather and President Bush
• On the plane Callan discovered that she had lost her ipod, she cried; I felt her pain
• Eventually I got home

It was a wild ride. And I don't think that anyone will quite appreciate what middle America's like just by reading this little synopsis

Emo-core and Waiting for Godot

Haven't blogged in awhile.
Haven't had much to say.
Still don't have much to say.
I have been happy the past couple days.
Today I hung around waiting for people to be able to do something.
No one was able to do anything.
I spent most of the day listening to punk and emo.
I like punk and emo.
I wish my friends liked punk and emo.
I wish there were more punks and emo kids that were my friends.
I wish my school allowed more of them.
I want my tv to work cause I want to watch noggin right now.
I am a sucker for canadian Mellow-drama.
I am a sucker for girls who say aboot.

top5
the promise ring - red and blue jeans
jawbreaker - chesterfield king
hot water music - trusty chords
minor threat - screaming at a wall
the blood brothers - ambulance vs. ambulance

the play

see I wrote about wanting to resseruct A Sophmoric Production but really I have nothing to write about and for the most part have lost insipartion for it. I think I am going to include the short parts that I wrote in the Original play along with a new more graphic and depressing ending. This one does not let mike get off easy. In fact I am sure that it will be sure to shock many of you. Anyway that is really what is happening with it is a couple new minor parts, editing for the first time, and a new ending. And if anyone is interested I want to film this thing. Kinda a fun little project for summer since seniors have jack shit to do. I expect that it won't actually get filmed but we can pretend for a coupel days that it might. By the way I don't want to play Mike. So if anyone wants that role they can have it.

top 5
The Animals - Good Times
Roxy Music - The Bob
Lou Reed - Street Hassle
Patti Smith - Gloria
The Scientists - Last night

Back Packin in Central Ohio

A mix that I was listen to when I went to Miami
All Liberal Art style back pack hip hop

Kanye West - School Spirit
Foreign Exchange - All that you are
Notorious B.I.G - Hold Ya Head
Sage Francis - Personal Journalist
Aesop Rock - Fast Cars
Atmosphere - Smart Went Crazy
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
Atmosphere - Get Fly
Felt - Employees of the Year
Atmosphere - Substance Abuse
Gangstarr - Battle
J-Live - Hush the Crowd
El Da Sensei - Crowd Pleasa
Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard
Hieroglyphics - Classic
Living Legends - Night Prowler
Eyedea and Abilities - Big shot
Soul Position - Keep it Hot for Daddy
Lootpack - Long Awaited
Pharoahe Monch - My Life
Planet Asia - All these Beats
Talib Kweli - Drugs, Basketball, & Rap

Parents

So yesterday Julian had a bbq at his house which was fun. And I suggested that we could have one at my house tomorrow. And he said that he owed one ot his mom because she allowed them to be loud in the pool. Now this seems bizarre for two reasons: first his parents kept telling us to be quite so it wasn't like they never said anything and second isn't that what you do in a pool be loud and splash. So the idea of owing her one seemed completely ludacris to me. Especially to your parents isn't that what they do put up with your shit?

Then again I live a very different life when it comes to parents. First my parents are almost never consulted when it comes to most aspects of my life. The major descions they might play some role but even those I make the choice for the most part. They really just let me do whatever. When it came to applying to college they didn't tell me where to apply or anything like. In fact I think they only told me two things about applying: you cant apply to either USC or Buffalo. And certainly no one at the school really knows who they are. A few people know my dad but no one knows my mom. That's because they really don't see the point in doing the school functions. After I leave, my family will have nothing to do with the school. Neither of my brother's will go to smes and that might be why people find my family so bizarre. We just don't care bout the school.

the other thing that I find interesting about parents is the need to proclaim there love for the kid. In the year book there is about a million pages of ads saying how proud the family is that the student graduated and that they love them. This sort seems like a given. When a kid graduates the parents and the parents love them. If you don't meet those two qualities, chances are your kid isn't graduating. So why are there all those damn pages? I guess its to tell everyone that you love them. A need to once again show off. As if your big house nice car and fashionable clothes aren't enough. In the end all that these things say is that "fuck you I am better than you and that I love my kid more than you love kid"

top 5
Gnarls Barkley - Smiley Faces
Ted leo - timorous me
Bruce Springsteen - If I should fall behind
Lyle lovett - If I had a boat
Robert Earl Keen - Crystabel

Senior Projects

I think the idea of the senior project is a good idea but it does not work. First not everyone is working the same amount of hours. Some people are only working two days a week, while others are working everyday and barely get 60 hours. The system seems inherently flawed by making people work hours. Also many peoples companies do not have enough work for kids to do. Thus it is impossible to hold the students responsible if they do not get 60 hours if the business does not have enough work for people. Lastly I find it bizarre that our last two weeks of school we all get separated. I like the idea of a senior project but why should the students do something that helps the community and allows them to spend their last few days together? If the grade got split in thirds and the groups all worked the same hours doing a beach cleanup or building a playground for the less-fortunate would not the students get the same benefits as filing for 8 hours. All the jobs seem to have taught most students is to pay attention in college because they would never want these jobs ever again.

top 5
Da Backwudz - you gonna love me
love equals death - bombs over brooklyn
frontline - bang it
transplants - gangsters and thugs(chopped and screwed)
Bouncing Souls - OLE!
*Bonus* Artist Unkown - You'll never walk alone

End of School

School is over. I just have to turn in a poster board and I will be done with high school. Which seems kinda bizzae since...well actually it doesn't seem bizzare at all. I was never that into high school. I can't remember my first day of High School. ANd this is my second high school and 7 overall school. So I don't really have the attachment that alot of people have. But life goes on and we are no going on to COLLEGE. Something I have been waiting for. And in the midst of all the chanigng and leaving I have rediscovered the greatness of 90's rock so that is my top 5.

top 5
Pavement - Range Life
Nirvna - Lounge Act
Cracker - Low
Gin Blossoms - Found out about you
Sonic youth - Sugar Kane

RIP Dekker

Desmond Dekker, the Jamaican singer whose 1969 hit, "The Israelites," opened up a worldwide audience for reggae, died on Wednesday. He was 64.

He died after collapsing from a heart attack at his home in Surrey, England, his manager, Delroy Williams, told Reuters.

"The Israelites" was the peak of Mr. Dekker's extensive career, selling more than a million copies worldwide. He was already a major star in Jamaica and well known in Britain. The song was his only United States hit, but it was a turning point for Jamaican music among international listeners.

The Jamaican rhythm of ska had already generated hits in the United States, notably Millie Small's 1964 hit, "My Boy Lollipop." But that song was treated as a novelty. "The Israelites," with its biblical imagery of suffering and redemption, showed the world reggae's combination of danceable rhythm and serious, sometimes spiritual intentions.

Mr. Dekker was named Desmond Adolphus Dacres when he was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1941. As a teenager he worked in a welding shop alongside Bob Marley and auditioned unsuccessfully for various producers until Mr. Marley encouraged him to try out for his own first producer, Leslie Kong.

Mr. Kong produced Mr. Dekker's first single, "Honour Thy Father and Mother," in 1963, and it reached No. 1 in Jamaica. Like many of Mr. Dekker's songs, it carried a message. A string of Jamaican hits followed, including "It Pays," "Sinners Come Home" and "Labour for Learning." Mr. Dekker had a total of 20 No. 1 hits in Jamaica.

A series of songs including "Rude Boy Train" and "Rudie Got Soul" made Mr. Dekker a hero of Jamaica's rough urban "rude boy" culture.

His 1960's songs used the upbeat ska rhythm, a precursor to reggae also known as bluebeat. By the end of the decade, Mr. Dekker had won the Golden Trophy award, presented annually to Jamaica's top singer, five times and was known as the King of Bluebeat. He won the Jamaican Song Festival in 1968 with "Intensified."

"Honour Thy Father and Mother" was released in Britain in 1964 on Chris Blackwell's Island label, which would later release Bob Marley's albums. Three years later, Mr. Dekker had his first British Top 20 hit with "007 (Shanty Town)," a tale of rude-boy ghetto violence — "Dem a loot, dem a shoot, dem a wail" — sung in a thick patois, which Americans would hear later as part of the soundtrack to the film "The Harder They Come" in 1972. Paul McCartney slipped Mr. Dekker's first name into the lyrics to the Beatles' ska song, "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," on "The Beatles" (also known as the White Album) in 1968, the year Mr. Dekker moved to England.

With "The Israelites," released in Jamaica in December 1968, Mr. Dekker had an international impact. "I was telling people not to give up as things will get better," he said in a interview last year for the Set the Tone 67 Web site.

"The Israelites" reached No. 1 in Britain and No. 9 in the United States in 1969. The song would return to the British charts in 1975 and was reissued as a single after being used in a commercial for Maxell recording tape in 1990.

Although Mr. Dekker had no further hits in the United States, he continued to have hits in England with "It Mek" in 1969 and the first recording of Jimmy Cliff's "You Can Get It if You Really Want" in 1970. But while Mr. Dekker kept up a busy performing career, the death of Mr. Kong in 1971 ended his streak of hits. He returned to the British charts with "Sing a Little Song" in 1975.

The punk era of the late 1970's brought with it an English revival of ska by groups like Madness and the Specials. Mr. Dekker's songs were rediscovered, and he was signed by Madness's label, Stiff Records. His 1980 album, "Black and Dekker," featured members of a venerable Jamaican band, the Pioneers, and Graham Parker's band, the Rumour. The British hitmaker Robert Palmer produced Mr. Dekker's next album, "Compass Point," in 1981. But in 1984 Mr. Dekker declared bankruptcy, blaming his former manager.

In 1993, the Specials reunited and backed up Mr. Dekker on the album "King of Kings," with remakes of ska hits. In 2000 he released the album "Halfway to Paradise." He continued to tour regularly; his final concert was on May 11 at Leeds University.

Mr. Dekker was divorced and is survived by a son and daughter.

A return to plays

So after a break I have returned to writing plays. The new set is going to be called Breakdown and Oso. The first part was called Heartattack and Antonio. Heartattack will be up soon in a finalized version. The stories are once again true enough and this time I hope that I really hurt because I am not pulling punches. I am tired of the hypocrisy in everyday life. And honestly I really hope that it makes the people I am writhing about take a good luck in the mirror. And hopefully when they are looking int he mirror they are not just chopping another line. Since I am here I will give some details about the plays:

1. Everyone in the play is someone in real life
2. Hearttack is all real stories and occasionally actual conversations
3. Breakdown is what imagine will happen with the characters, since it will be finished before I go to college I have no way of knowing what exactly happens
   
4. Heatattack was meant to be funny
5. Breakdown is meant to give you a look into the way I see life
6. Breakdown occurs during early summer, basically now
7. Hearttack occurred about spring break time
8. I am Mike, but you have changed

top 5
sonic youth - teenage riot
the clash - kola kola
Hank Williams - six more miles
Bruce springsteen - pay me my down
Supremes - Baby Love

Is a dream a lie if it dont come true?

top 5 songs about work and lost dreams

bruce sprinsteen - The River
Whickeytown - too drunk to dream
Billy Bragg - Levis Stubbs tears
Fred Eaglesmith - Just dreamin'
Desparecidos - Greater Omaha

Songs about growing up and losing all the dreams that you once had.

tom waits - cold cold ground
Leonard cohen - famour blue raincoat

felt like those two should just be throwin in there

Waiting for Rocko: Mixtapes and work

So I am at work and I am waiting for Rocky to arrive so I can show him that I am in fact at working and even sorta working. I wouldn't call what I am exactly doing working since I am sitting here writing in my blog but I am pretty sure I am doing more than a lot of students. The sad state of affairs at SMES. In a way I wish I was still at school simply because it was fun to just hang out and do nothing in most of my classes. If I could have gotten out of Spanish, I would have had the perfect schedule.

At work I do relatively minor things because I am untrained and uneducated labor. Thus I am filing, data entry, and doing inventory most of the day. Except for the part that I am eating lunch, taking a break, or working on my blog. So a great way to use my time. But I do enjoy working. My coworkers are smart and relatively funny. Also they seem to like me which is a plus because I am sure that some people in the school did not like me.

As I was sitting here I read a comment Dallas left me on my blog, which was my grade for a paper which I turned in as a blog. This was a post modern assignment and I went the post modern route and posted it. The reason I find it postmodern is that why do I think anyone cares about my thoughts on society and capitalism. Thus I am adding to the needless noise that our world is being filled with. And yet I continue to blog.

The second thing I saw was his great piece about the mixtape. An occupation that has taken up too much time in my life. As just about anyone at SMES can tell you I listen to my ipod a lot. And in Ms. finchers opinion too much. As she said it is disrespectful to listen to your headphones while talking to Mr. Boyle. While I listen to my ipod, about 75% of the time I am making an on-the-go mix of songs that I like and want in a convinent playlist. frequently the are poorly though out and badly time but they sometimes morph into a better playlist. Occasionally they even make it to cd form,and when that happens it means one of two things: one that the cd is properly mixed and I will not be embarrassed to play it for someone riding in my car or two that I wanted rap songs and I am too embarrassed to have power 106 on my stereo.

He also stated what every geeky guy believes which is that we are king of the mix tape. There can not be a million kings to a kingdom that tedious. Now I do not believe that I am at all the king. In fact I probably would be a middle manager level if it all came down to it, but I know that. Many many boys do not realize that there mixs just plain suck. Eventually they figure it out and let the pros take over for the party, but they originally make the rest of us suffer through bad songs from 50 cent and other assorted pop stars. But with any luck by the end of the night a different dj has taken the ipod and revived the party.

top 5
Catherine wheel - black metallic
Happy Mondays - 24 hour party people
David Bowie - here's/helden
Lcd Soundsystem - Yeah(crass version)
Kasbian - Club Foot

Times are a changin

New Name...Same old bad attitude

sorta

so I am back yall...from interning and proming
both have been fun, prom more than interns

hope yall have been having a good time the past couple days
for the name change it was time to move on and find a new theme song for the blog and I flet I need to keep it indie

if anyone has seen the street scene this year yall know its gonna be nuts
Kanye, Bad religion, Snoop, Social D, modest mouse, bloc party, and WU TANG CLAN

tops
cascada - everytime we touch
common - on my way home
kanye west - addiction
catherine wheel - black metallic
sonic youth - teenage riot

Lost in the Supermarket: A discourse on Post-modern life through the grocery store with an appearance by Jesus

Im all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for that special offer
A guaranteed personality

I know cliche to start a paper out with song lyrics but this is the last one I have to write for a while. American life has become all signals with nothing to signify and no one to receive the message. While there are a plethora of examples to use on the ideas of post-modern life, I chose the good old supermarket. A place that everyone goes to and for the most part likes. In many ways the supermarket determines how a person likes the area he or she is living in. If the supermarket is nice then it seems like they have a better feeling about the entire area. Since most working people spend most of there days in the office, where they live really plays very little role in life. A suburban office park in Kentucky will look very similar to a suburban office park in California. But the grocery store is where the difference is made.

I remember that I hated many aspects of Florida. It was hot, ugly, bad food, and poorly designed. All of these things are true but I realized that what I was remembering was my neighborhood Albertsons. When I visited my old home town and saw just how lousy the store was I figured out why I hated the place so much. But enough rambling on this subject time to begin my real idea.

That is what you walk in to and out of: a candy stand. Big bright colors of nothingness. The candy will not provide and sort of nutrition and the packaging disguises the small amount of candy that you will actually get, but it sells and people buy it. If you look more closely at the packaging you will notice something that is very disturbing to me the trends when it comes to packaging. A flavor will be assigned a color and it will be the same style, color, and flavor no matter which company it is.




This further proves my idea. That is a picture of three different brands version of chicken flavored cat food. This pictures says two things to me about postmodern life: First that we have gone in sane with choices. If our cats require three versions of the same flavor food, then we have in fact lost it. They are cats, they are pets, they do not need options they need food. Second it shows that if you want a go no where job where you do not have to be original: go into label design. Look at those cans they look the same, this can not be by accident. Either A) the designers are copying off each other or B) they are hoping you grab the wrong can and give your 89 cents to friskies instead of nine lives.

Here is the same idea only with apricot jam and chili





Another serious problem society has is options. Never before has there been this many options. Can someone please tell me why society needs 10 different kinds of milk and who is buying all these different brands anyway? How is the store brand 2% milk any different from the private company's 2% milk? Both come from cows and both are white. Seems like it should be almost the exact same.



Even worse are naked juices. They are worse because the juice is great but why does society need all these different options. Twenty years ago there was four types of juice: Apple juice, Grape Juice, Orange juice, and Cranberry juice. The last two probably were not in most states but since I am writhing this in California I am certain they had all four. But now I have mango and pear and kiwi and wheat grass. When did wheat grass become a juice, I want to know. All of these choices and signals for one very basic intended message: DRINK ME YOU ARE THIRSTY



The last point is why do company's make the same cereal twice? Clearly the same company manufactures these cereals. And why do we as a society feel the urge to pay more for the name brand when the same company make the store brand as well?






As you may have noticed all of these cereals are named the same thing. And they all have the same colors and have the same logos. IT baffles the mind why people pay more for brand name items. But I do it just as anyone else.



This picture seems to conflict the very message that religion represents. This is a candle of Jesus. And he is watching society shop for brand name products which in many ways have become modern idols. And inevitably right across the aisle from that candle was a picture of Mickey mouse the ultimate false idol. Yes these are the contradictions that are postmodern life. Hope you all had the same fun I did.

Television

Television

TV as we know it is changing dramatically next year. That 70's show, Malcolm in the Middle, West Wing, and Will and Grace are all finished. I stopped watching West Wing a number of years ago and never watched Will and Grace but still those are big shows that are done. And with Malcolm in the middle over it seems kind of bizarre. When the show started Malcolm was in 6th grade and I was in 6th grade; he had just been put into advance courses and I had just been put into advance courses. There were many parallels which made it a show that I enjoyed. Now he was able to go to Harvard and I am going to Miami but still close enough.

Top 5
1 Bright Eyes - Make War
2 Ryan Adams - Beautiful Sorta
3 Drive-by Truckers - Gravitys Gone
4 Brand New - Jude Law and a Semester Abroad
5 Rancid - Ruby Soho

Random List

I have rediscovered my love for country and soul music. It is really amazing to imagine alot of the songs I am listening to lately were recorded several decades ago. There was some point I was trying to make originally but I have forgotten it.

A selected List:

Angel from montgomery - Bonnie Rait
Love and Hapiness - Al Green
Sweet Home Chicago - Keb Mo
Too Drunk to Dream - Whiskeytown
Beautiful Sorta - Ryan Adams
Statesbrough Blues - The Allman Brothers
I will be there when you die - my morning jacket
5 years - david bowie
Rebel Rebel - david bowie
Young Americans- david Bowie
Dance to the music - Sly and the family stone
Set you free - The balck keys
Gravitys gone - drive-by truckers
Mannish Boy - muddy Waters
Son of a preacher man - Dusty Springfield
High fashion Queen - The Flying Burrito Brothers
4th of july - X
Shades of Grey - Robert Earl Keen
I gotta woman - Ray Charles
It takes alot to laugh; it takes a train to cry - Bob Dylan
Baby love - the sumpremes
Living for the city - Stevie Wonder
6 more miles - Hank Williams
Why don't we get drunk and screw - Hank williams III
I walk the Line - Johnny Cash
New Amsterdam - Elvis Costello
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Virgina Plain - Roxy Music
I am Waiting for the Man - Velvet Underground
I Wanna be your dog - Iggy pop
Inner city blues - Marvin Gaye
Dead Flowers - Rollign Stones
A New England - Billy Bragg
Live in a Hiding Place - Idlewild
Smalltown boy - bronski beat
Can't hardly wait(Tim Demos) - The Replacements
Primevil Love - Sand Rubies
Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed

Daft Punk is playing at my tent: Madonna ruined Coachella

So as most of you know I went to coachella over the past weekend. It was great experience, mind you there were some problems but over all it was great. My only real complaints were one it was hot, not that anyone can change that;and it was expensive, I was expecting it so not that bad.

But otherwise it was amazing. The lineup was great, I could only find one year that I wanted to go to more and that was 2002. The sound was incredible, with the exception of Madonna. The artists could all perform, even if I didn't like them ie. Yeah Yeah Yeah's. At night the grounds were well light and the sculptures came alive. I highly recommend that everyone go see it some time in your life. Also I recommend going with your buddy's and seeing the entire day. I unfortunately did not get to the park when it opens, missed: Wolfmother, Ladytron, Common, Murs, Giant Drag, and Clap your hands and Say Yeah; and stay till closing, missed: Daft Punk and She Wants Revenge.

For reference I saw:
Kanye West
Damian Marley
Depeche Mode
Atmosphere
Sigur Ros
Franz Ferdinand
Massive Attack
Coheed and Cambria
Madonna
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Matisyahu
Bloc Party
Ted Leo
Seu Jorge
Gnarls Barkley
Paul Oakenfold
Digable Planets
Eagles of Death Metal

Finished and Beck

So I finished ASP and have actually put it together in a chrnonological order and it even kinds tells a story...my only real problem is that all told it only ends up being 17 pages which isn't that long...I kinda want to see what it would look like if it were made...so if anyone wants to actaully act in it jsut contact me and I will be happy to let you pick a part...haha that last part was dumb but who knows it could work

top 3
Beck- Hell Yes
Beck - Sexx Laws
Beck - Devils Haircut

Go See Brick

So everyone needs to go see BRICK it is a great movie...I saw it last night and that was pretty cool...I have come up with an idea for a Sophomoric Production and how to link all the stories together, it will still suck but at least it will be complete...That's all I really have to say

top 5
1. The Who - The Punk and the Godfather
2. Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
3. The Who - 515
4. Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat
5. Al Green - Love and Hapiness

Kirsten Told Me to Write This

So I have hit writers block....Which is upsetting cause I liked turning out a play in a day...plus I can't think of how to write dialogue for female characters most of the time...for the most part I have begun to lose inspiration's because I don't have any idea how to piece the stories together....plus the stories are never going to be anything so its difficult to continue peruse the stories

Top 5
Al Green - Love and happiness
Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Sly and the Family Stone - Dance to the Music
Aztec Two-Step - The Persecution and Reseration of Dean Moriarty(On the Road)
Billy Bragg - A New England

I Swear I don't Love You Anymore

So, I am still writing plays and not English journals...A lot of the new material I have written is too profane to be published most likely....Some people wouldn't appreciate the subtle humor and sexual perversion...I went to Miami(OH) over the weekend, and really liked it...Only problem was that the town surrounding it was a little too small but if that is my only complain then I am gonna be good...My friends and their relationships are screwed up and I am waiting for it all to come crashing down...I think this will all go into a play at some point

Top 5
Jawbreaker - Bad Scene, everybody's Fault
Joy division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
The Killers - Jenny was a friend of mine
Idlewild - Live in a hiding place
Atmosphere - A Girl Named Hope

A Sophomoric Production

So apparently people actually liked my little skits. Thus I have decided to start its own site. That's right A sophomoric Production has its own website. It will still deliver the same high quality product that you come to expect from me. You can stop laughing now. The website is of course: http://asophomoricproduction.blogspot.com.

So hope you all had a good night. I know I have.
Top 5
1. The Mountain Goats - No Children
2. Elliott Smith - Waltz #2
3. The Libertines - What Became of the Likely Lads
4. The Killers - Jenny was a friend of mine
5. Jawbreaker - Bad scene, everbody's fault

College

Accepted to Miami OH
Accepted to Oregon
Denied Hamilton
Denied Colgate
Denied Kenyon
Waitlisted Vermont
Waitlisted Skidmore



equals

Apathy and a strong hatred toward liberal arts colleges
and that I am going to Miami

top 5
1. The Loved Ones - Jane
2. T.I. - What you know about that
3. Arctic Monkeys - I bet you look good on the dance floor
4. Love Equals Death - Bombs over Brooklyn
5. Teenage BottleRocket - Blood Bath at Burger King

Stuff

I was supposed to write a hateful blog about a student and the article my advisory and I came up with but I decided not to. Mostly because then I run the risk of becoming my Tesoro counterparts. Anyway I have decided that I am going to Miami(oh) because I have not been admitted anywhere else.

And I think I have a serious problem I fall in love with waitresses and girls with good music taste way too easily.

top 5
1. Gatsby's American Dream - SSSHHHHHHHH! I am Listening to Reason
2. Brand New - Mixtape
3. Atmosphere - get fly
4. Gym Class Heros - Cupid's Chokehold
5. Hot Water Music - Jack of All Trades

Hi I am glad you are here!

I got into Miami Ohio.

Thank God I am on a roll.

Life is good.

My Mac died which means I may have lost all my music and I have got a detention but I don't care.

Life is good and I am happy.

Top 5
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
Elliott Smith - Say Yes
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
Frank Zappa - Camarillo Brillo

Academy Awards

SO like every other blogger I am writhing about the Oscars. What I have heard has annoyed me. First that Hollywood has gotten the message that the American people won't stand for homosexual movies. See I am not sure I would say that since Crash wasn't exactly the feel good hit of the year, from what I remember it brought up rascism in Los Angles and the problems with everyday life. Yup I left the theater with a smile on my face.

Second that Three 6 Mafia didn't deserve to win the oscar for best song. Now this is a little more controversial and biased since I love Three 6 Mafia. But why is that they don't deserve to win? I have heard both songs, both are really good songs. Personally I liked Three 6 Mafias song more but that doesn't take away from Dolly Parton's song.

top 5
Three 6 Mafia - It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp
Bird York - In the Deep
Dolly Parton - Travelin' Thru
Willy Nelson - Cowboys are Frequently Secretly (Fond of Each other)
Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line

Random Bannter

This is more of a journal for me then a blog. If you want a blog go read Rolands or one of the Knights or D.Clem. This is more to mute concsince. I have some serious problems:

1. I am the greatest half reader ever, I can read the first half of a book in a day. Its a miracle if I ever finish the book.
2. I do not understand Spanish. I think I get it since on homework and in class I seem to do all right but on tests I just fall apart.
3. I have a serious apathy streak which is not helpful in school.
4. And the discord in my head is getting to me.

Ok well that was productive.

Top 5

1. The Dandy Warhols - All the Money or The Simple Life Honey
2. The Elected - Fireflies in a Steel Mill
3. Bright Eyes - Make War
4. Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen
5. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet That You Look Good on the Dance Floor