urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach Bloodyfingers Bloodyfingers 2008-10-03T14:23:16Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:148869 2008-10-03T14:14:29Z 2008-10-03T14:22:48Z vince guaraldi - heartburn waltz Strange morning. I woke up around 5 feeling like a salt lick. Had a dire thirst and set about quenching it, but now I'm seemingly up for good. Gotta work in a few hours. Hey! What's your favorite song off Weezer's Blue Album? I was thinking about that, laying watching the shadows pass on the ceiling. I first heard the Blue Album right about when it came out, which puts me around 9 years old. Somehow it's managed to sidestep the fate of Green Day, No Doubt, and so many other bands of the time that are just ill-formed hunks of juvenilia to me now. Something about it just holds true, even 14 years later. <br /><br />How to pick a favorite? Go with the hits, like "Say It Ain't So"? Or the B-Sides, like "In the Garage"? How about the navel gaze mope-out that closes the album, "Only In Dreams"? Or the sad-sack highschooler entry, "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here"? All good choices, I wouldn't fault you, but I've got to go with "Holiday" on this one. It's definitely the most left-field song on the album, but it's also a mini-epic. It's got that chant-along chorus, and the super-dorky finger snap breakdown that threatens to destroy any feeble sense of cool the rest of the album created. If you've heard Weezer's last few albums, you know it's just a colossal failure when they try to act cool. "Holiday" is typical pop music, nothing real special about the lyrics, but it just rocks so well, those guitar hooks! Damn. It's up there with "Tonight" by the Raspberries, chillin' in power-pop Valhalla. <br /><br />You've heard the song, right? Oh? You haven't? You deprived child. Here you go. Don't spend it all in one place:<br /><br /><a href="http://www">http://www</a> (dot) mediafire.com/download.php?mzh2qnaqyz3<br /> <br />Let me know what your favorite is and they can go head to head in an all-out battle of rocktopus tentacles and flaming licks. Okay, I'm through with this jackoff shoeshine tip. Gotta try to get some sleep out of this last hour before I have to head out.<br /><br />============================<br /><br />As always, if you like what you hear, go out and buy the album. On Vinyl. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:148649 2008-09-11T08:24:22Z 2008-10-03T14:23:16Z Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules' Theme This blog is hereby resuscitated as a music blog. I'll be posting tracks now and again, and writing about the music that propels me through my days. We'll start off with a brief A-side / B-side mix, you can call it "The Samplers vs. the Sampled."<br /><br />Everyone knows the Funky Drummer - He's the guy playing drums on all your favorite hip hop tracks of the past 30 years. Clyde Stubblefield is his name, but he doesn't get much credit past the occasional name-drop. He was just a session musician when "Funky Drummer, Pt. 2" was recorded, so there's no royalty checks headed his way. He's probably never signed his name on anyone's cleavage. There's no real fame and fortune to speak of, and he's got no glam to his music career (see: <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;sql=10:azfqxq9jldhe">Revenge Of The Funky Drummer</a> for example). At the same time he's probably the single most-played artist on radio and in the clubs of the past three decades - he's been sampled, chopped, re-sampled, and his beats are now laying the funky groundwork for other artists' tracks. That's the solitary lot that a sampled musician has to bear - all cultural impact and no social glory. As I believe Walter Benjamin once said: "The real work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction is the simple act of getting some decent poon when no one recognizes you as the guy who played the 'funky drummer' beat." <br /><br />The three modern tracks here are prime examples of the ways a good sample can be put to use. They're not hammy, and they don't rip off the original artists. Instead they manage to retain the feel of the sampled songs while still putting enough of a twist on the sounds to make them new. I see it as a tribute to the original writers, a nod of commiseration and a joyful expansion of their ideas. <br /><br />Here's the tracklist:<br /><br />The Shangri-Las - He Cried<br />Clinic - Porno<br />The Left Banke - I've Got Something On My Mind<br />Jens Lekman - Black Cab<br />Beck - Paper Tiger<br />Serge Gainsbourg - Cargo Culte <br /><br />Download the mix <a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/144318707/Samplers_vs_Sampled_Mix.rar.html">HERE</a>. <br /> <br />In the words of Omar Little from the Wire, "Money ain't got no owners, only spenders." Using these tracks as evidence, I think the sentiment can be echoed when it comes to good riffs and slinky beats. <br /><br />LT Out.<br /><br />============================<br /><br />As always, if you like what you hear, go out and buy the album. On Vinyl. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:148303 2008-09-11T05:28:29Z 2008-09-11T05:28:29Z The Loud Family - Good, There Are No Lions in the Street Wow, it's been a while. Do any of you bearded lovelies still use this? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:147974 2007-04-12T19:30:25Z 2007-04-12T19:30:25Z Kurt Vonnegut is dead. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:147841 2007-02-15T05:40:48Z 2007-02-15T05:40:48Z townes van zandt - no lonesome tune <img src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/heart_20070214213802_85170.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:147602 2006-12-16T02:05:12Z 2006-12-16T02:05:12Z Did I wander into the onion or something?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/press/pressitem.asp?ref=1028">Incontinence sufferers have lower quality of life</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:147217 2006-11-05T10:38:13Z 2006-11-05T10:38:13Z laurie anderson - o superman Go see <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468492/">The Host</a>. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:146999 2006-09-11T03:12:38Z 2006-09-11T03:12:38Z grizzly bear - on a neck, on a spit This year's list of the top 25 under-reported news stories.&nbsp; read it, it's absolutely terrifying.&nbsp; <br /><br /><a href="http://www.projectcensored.org/">http://www.projectcensored.org/</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:146718 2006-08-04T04:29:57Z 2006-08-04T04:36:01Z robert pollard - conqeror of the moon I've got so many weird, wild, wacky, and sexy pictures on my hard drive, it would be a crime not to share them with anyone who might wander by. So. . .<br /><br /><img src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/18.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br /> <a name="cutid1"></a> <br /><br /><img src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/9.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br />It's good to see you.<br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/1.gif" /><br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/2.jpg" /><br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/19.jpg" /><br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/16.jpg" /><br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/12.jpg" /><br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/14.jpg" /><br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/7.jpg" /><br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/10.jpg" /><br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/17.jpg" /><br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/6.jpg" /><br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/4.jpg" /><br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/3.jpg" /><br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/11.jpg" /><br /><br /><img width="800" height="591" alt="" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/2.gif" /><br /><br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/1.jpg" /><br /><br />John Samson!<br /><br /><img alt="HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/13.jpg" /><br /><br />feeling wacky yet!?<br /><br /><img width="900" height="727" alt="atom bomb test" src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/honeyeater/5.jpg" /><br /><br /> KABOOOOOM! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:146571 2006-04-20T09:37:30Z 2006-04-20T09:37:30Z wire - ex lion tamer So Fletch posted a quiz of sorts <a href="http://thefletch7786.livejournal.com/108403.html">here</a><br /><br />And I've decided to make my own version, since sleep is still a fair ways off. <br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br /><br />A: I was getting ready to be a threat / I was getting set for my accidental suicide<br /><br />B: I first saw you / you had on blue jeans / your eyes couldn't hide / anything<br /><br />C: I feel depressed, I feel so bad / 'cuz you're the best girl that I've ever had<br /><br />D: I was livin' in a devil town / didn't know it was a devil town<br /><br />E: Now that your picture's in the paper bein' rhythmically admired and you can have anyone that you have ever desired...<br /><br />F: Asked you a question / But I didn't need you to reply<br /><br />G: Tower to the skies / An Academy of lies<br /><br />H: Now you're lookin' at a man that's gettin kinda mad / I had a lot of luck but it's all been bad<br /><br />I: I never got my license to live / they won't give it up / so let's stand at the world's edge<br /><br />J: Yeah I got busted / So I used my one phone call to dedicate a song to you on the radio<br /><br />K: We're standing here / Exposing ourselves<br /><br />L: Heaven / Is a disaster / But you won't get there / Any faster<br /><br />M: Well she tossed all night like a raging sea / Woke up and climbed from the suicide machine<br /><br />N: The World is turnin' / I hope it don't turn away<br /><br />O: When you come around / Everything else disappears / My ears disappear<br /><br />P: If I could fuck a mountain / Lord, I would fuck a mountain<br /><br />Q: Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?<br /><br />R: That candy-colored clown they call the sandman / tiptoes to my room every night<br /><br />S: I lay on the bed in the dark / Laughing at things I think of / Getting off on the pornography of my past / Lighting matches, and dropping them into a wet glass<br /><br />T: Just like a buzzin' fly / Come into your life / I'll float away / Like honey in the sun<br /><br />U: Saw Johnny tonight, but we didn't say hello to eachother / we're all moving pretty fast these days, hoppin' round like peppercorns<br /><br />V: I don't know just where I'm going / But I wanna try for the kingdom if I can<br /><br />W: Think of a number / Divide it by two / Something ain't nothing / Nothing ain't nothing<br /><br />X (the mystery clue, I have no X music with lyrics): Springtime comes and the leaves are back on the trees again / Snipers are harder to see, my friend <br /><br />Y: Julie Christie, the rumors are true / As the pages turn, my eyes are glued<br /><br />Z: I close my eyes and soon I'm feeling sleepy / I sleep so easy urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:146218 2006-03-11T10:35:01Z 2006-03-11T10:35:01Z noise from the sky - the midnight disease <a href="http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2006/physics-astron/hottest-z-output.html"><img src="http://academic.evergreen.edu/t/tholor28/zresize.jpg"></a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:146074 2006-03-11T07:59:25Z 2006-03-11T08:04:21Z hank garland - guitar shuffle dude, everyone's doing it. <br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br /><br />BAND/ARTIST: Hank Williams<br /><br />Are you male or female: Ramblin' Man<br /><br />Describe yourself: My Bucket's Got A Hole In It<br /><br />How do some people feel about you: Hey, Good Lookin!<br /><br />Describe your ex boyfriend/girlfriend: I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living -or- Tear in My Beer<br /><br />Describe current boyfriend/girlfriend/crush: Settin' the Woods on Fire<br /><br />Describe how you love: Howlin' at the Moon<br /><br />Where you want to be right now: I Won't Be Home No More<br /><br />What would you ask for if you had just one wish: A Mansion on the Hill<br /><br />Share a few words of wisdom: You're Gonna Change (or I'm Gonna Leave) <br /><br />Where Do you Live?: I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:145763 2006-02-15T04:55:17Z 2006-02-15T04:55:17Z the flaming lips - my cosmic autumn rebellion <img src="http://academic.evergreen.edu/t/tholor28/heart06.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:145473 2006-02-14T07:05:49Z 2006-02-14T07:05:49Z lefty frizzell - give me more, more, more, of your kisses I asked the man what day it was.<br />He told me it was Veterans' Day.<br />"What date is it?" I said.<br />"November eleventh, sir," he said.<br />"November eleventh is Armistice Day, not Veterans' Day," I said.<br />"Where have you been?" he said. "They changed all that years ago."<br />"Veterans' Day," I said to Helga as we walked on. "Used to be Armistice Day. Now it's Veterans' Day."<br />"That upsets you?" she said.<br />"Oh, it's just so damn cheap, so damn typical," I said. "This used to be a day in honor of the dead of World War One, but the living couldn't keep their grubby hands off of it, wanted the glory of the dead for themselves. So typical, so typical. Any time anything of real dignity appears in this country, it's torn to shreds and thrown to the mob."<br />"You hate America, don't you?" she said.<br />"That would be as silly as loving it," I said. "It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will."<br /><br />-K.V. Mother Night urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:145341 2006-01-31T01:27:00Z 2006-01-31T01:27:00Z jens lekman - i saw her in the anti war demonstration <img src="http://academic.evergreen.edu/t/tholor28/hands.jpg"><br /><br />that is a picture of me lately. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:144990 2006-01-24T20:17:20Z 2006-01-24T20:17:20Z yo la tengo - night falls on hoboken (in the next room) <img src="http://academic.evergreen.edu/t/tholor28/launch.jpg"><br /><br />This train's bound for Pluto. Maybe earth can finally replenish its supply of dust and ice. My house is too clean and my drinks are too warm! Please, Pluto, help a brother out! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:144712 2005-12-10T23:14:35Z 2005-12-10T23:14:35Z chet atkins - jitterbug waltz BREAK BEGINS!<br /><br />call me up! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:144581 2005-11-30T04:44:26Z 2005-11-30T04:44:26Z Electrelane - This Deed (number 8!) "List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, they must be songs you are presently enjoying. Post these instructions in your Live Journal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to."<br /><br />Yo. 7500 songs and i've got to pick 7?<br /><br />:<br />1 Pell Mell - Aero<br />2 The Black Keys - Act Nice and Gentle<br />3 Bruce Springsteen - Highway Patrolman<br />4 Roy Orbison - In Dreams<br />5 Merle Haggard - Sweethearts or Strangers<br />6 Badly Drawn Boy - Cause a Rockslide<br />7 Daniel Johnston - Got To Get You Into My Life (this one in particular is fucking amazing)<br /><br />tags:<br /><span class='ljuser ljuser-name_dance_wounds' lj:user='dance_wounds' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://dance-wounds.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://dance-wounds.livejournal.com/'><b>dance_wounds</b></a></span><br /><span class='ljuser ljuser-name_bobby_fermango' lj:user='bobby_fermango' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://bobby-fermango.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://bobby-fermango.livejournal.com/'><b>bobby_fermango</b></a></span><br /><span class='ljuser ljuser-name_hepcatmonk' lj:user='hepcatmonk' style='white-space: nowrap; text-decoration: line-through;'><a href='http://hepcatmonk.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://hepcatmonk.livejournal.com/'><b>hepcatmonk</b></a></span><br /><span class='ljuser ljuser-name_kids_are_stupid' lj:user='kids_are_stupid' style='white-space: nowrap; text-decoration: line-through;'><a href='http://kids-are-stupid.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://kids-are-stupid.livejournal.com/'><b>kids_are_stupid</b></a></span><br /><span class='ljuser ljuser-name_visualinterlude' lj:user='visualinterlude' style='white-space: nowrap; text-decoration: line-through;'><a href='http://visualinterlude.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://visualinterlude.livejournal.com/'><b>visualinterlude</b></a></span><br /><span class='ljuser ljuser-name_p_n_guin' lj:user='p_n_guin' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://p-n-guin.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://p-n-guin.livejournal.com/'><b>p_n_guin</b></a></span><br /><span class='ljuser ljuser-name_ross_eye' lj:user='ross_eye' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://ross-eye.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://ross-eye.livejournal.com/'><b>ross_eye</b></a></span><br /><br /><br />also P.S. attractivecousin a.k.a. Amber Hall: trust me, you will rue the day you convinced me to taint the sanctity of my livejournal with one of these "memes," as the common-folk call them in their grass-and-fish-gut hovels, reeking of blood sausage and old sandals and scratching eachothers' names into their childrens' skin using <i>unglazed</i> pottery shards. you have introduced a nugget of shame into my spotless game! for that, you are outcast! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:144212 2005-11-16T00:23:39Z 2005-11-16T00:23:39Z the kinks - this time tomorrow i'm in vancouver starting tonight, leaving the 26th or so. call me if you want! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:143909 2005-11-01T07:15:17Z 2005-11-01T07:15:17Z the aislers set - friends of the heroes GAME:<br /><br />Can you find Waldo in New York City, circa 1968?<br /><br /><img src="http://academic.evergreen.edu/t/tholor28/1.jpg"><br /><br />look hard, it's a tough one. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:143768 2005-10-30T09:04:25Z 2005-10-30T09:04:25Z microphones - karl blau <a href="http://machineanimalcollages.com/Menus/MeatScapesMenu.html"><img src="http://academic.evergreen.edu/t/tholor28/9.jpg"></a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:143559 2005-10-26T09:13:24Z 2005-10-26T09:14:13Z yo la tengo - sleeping pill Smoosh just made me realize i've wasted my life, <br />but then The Go! Team taught me how to love again. <br />Danced so much my stench was manifold, and i guess that's kind of a pun. <br />interpret it however you want. tomorrow DEERHOOF.<br /> goodnight moon urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:143235 2005-09-08T07:55:08Z 2005-09-08T09:43:06Z boards of canada - chromakey dreamcoat i'm getting the new Boards of Canada album right now. can you smell the excitement? i can. <br />Ross: come over as soon as you read this, bring a CD.<br /><br />ADDENDUM, 2:42 AM: It's pretty good. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:142897 2005-08-27T07:45:57Z 2005-08-27T07:45:57Z broadcast - corporeal Herein you will find a digitally rendered set of cliffs notes pertaining to R. Kelly's recent masterpiece "Trapped in the Closet." I hope that you will find them as helpful as I did in decoding this complex piece of modern musical cinema. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3100">http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3100</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:soggyroach:142613 2005-08-25T09:42:17Z 2005-08-25T09:42:17Z the avalanches - frontier psychiatrist for those of you who haven't heard: this sunday, the 28th, the tasteful nudes and i are opening for <a href="http://www.hellaband.com/">HELLA</a> at the holocene. needless to say i'm waaaaaay fucking beyond excited. we should put on a good show, too, if today's practice was any indication of our sonic feasibility. everyone who's 21 or older and in the greater portland area should come to this show. i cannot stress that fact enough. hella will blow your mind and rattle your bones, we'll probably try to sell you a cd, and who knows about blues goblin? although i guess if you're the type who prefers not to have their mind blown, feel free to sit at home and jerk off to ron popeil infomercials or unsolved mysteries. whichever you prefer; i won't tell your mother. better get a broom!