Jeez, August already?



Been a spell. Job interviews continue. Too much time spent on Facebook. Grasp of complete sentence structure slowly returning. Disclaimer: general opinions on music to follow. My tastes are questionable!

I can’t guiltlessly maintain my usual deluded arrogance when it comes to music because it’s hard to figure out why it is that I like something. Sometimes I can be hypnotized by repetition and white noise. Sometimes I’ve got this desperate need for a breathy, violent pipe organ. Sometimes 11 isn’t loud enough.

And then, you know other days I can listen to some ABBA. So clearly, to any questions of my aesthetics, musical or otherwise, there’s no real accounting for taste.

Things like box office returns, tv ratings and music charts go a long way toward empirical proof of that axiom. I mean seriously, Criminal Minds? Really?! And sure, it’s a stretch, and in all probability I suck, but I gotta say it sort of takes the edge off of dinking once again on first round of the Nicholl competition.

But back to music… This last week I’ve gotten into some new groups I’m liking cranked the fuck up.

Frightened Rabbit - Punchy Scottish group. Big, kinetic sound. Sour, smirking lyrics from the track “Keep Yourself Warm“:

I’m drunk, I’m drunk
And you’re probably on pills
If we’ve both got the same diseases
It’s irrelevant girl
And the room fills with steam
Oh, evaporates disappears
My point of entry is the same way
That I leave

Which now seems perfect for the HOUSE soundtrack if House & Cuddy were to hook up. I mean that’s where we’re going next season anyway, right? Meanwhile, why isn’t Matt Frewer in any episodes of EUReKA this season?

a short musical interlude



Bit busy in this stretch of two weeks, but legal hilarity has ensued and I’m mostly sane. In the meantime, as I try and get refitted and retuned, I found this fun little medley of songs. Using what probably is the most used I V vi IV chord progression of all time you should recognize a lot of the lyrics. It’s fun! And it’s… well I’ll be honest with you, it’s Journey. Journey should be synonymous with Kryptonite!

Mashup Monday



OGs of the interwebs may be familiar with the new mashup trend and I’ve enjoyed a few tracks here or there, the Biggie/Gnarls album was fun and there’s a few really excellent ones out. Way back before pentiums and amdidiums and Ghz’s I used to do a little MOD tracking of my own and have since spent a few minutes here and there staying on the comp-music trends, so I have a soft spot for for this kind of creation and innovation. But now the mashup trend has produced something greater and more awesome than I ever could have expected- Muppet Mashup Mix.

Muppets being of course, the Utopia of my childhood.

Available at Radio Clash thanks to Tim, (show #89). The whole show is fun and a lot of energy- with some random babbling thrown in, but worth it to get to tracks like- Kanye Mahna which is honestly so much awesome. Check it out.

And in time for Halloween- also by DJNoNo (who did the Muppet thing above)- is a Halloween Mashup Mix, which Tim was nice enough to point out “is an album, and is by loads of people, not just DJNoNo who just did one track”. You’ll find it at the link above.

bird is the word



Today is Charlie Parker’s birthday. In honor of such, you should treat yourself to his genius. ‘Live at Town Hall with Dizzy’ just became available last year from Uptown Records and captures the upswing of his career admirably.