If I had talent or the ambition, I’d write a lot about my favorite album from last year, The Monitor, and my favorite album from this year, Manhattan Murder Mystery - s/t. They were my favorite albums to play at dangerous volume, banging on my steering wheel when driving home late at night from work, looking forward to blaring them when I got home when I could slug beers and eat shitty food. And drink more beers.
Would I listen to either on the way to work or in the middle of the afternoon? Maybe once in a while but probably not. Probably because neither album would hit home like it did at 12:30 a.m or 1:15 a.m or later, with increased levels of alcohol intake.
Is this something to apologize for? Or discredit the merits of the albums just because I like to listen to them in my ‘fuck everybody, i hope we run out of natural resources because we don’t deserve it” state of mind?
How many songs get spins because they are dumb and people lose their shit because they like them when they are drunk, dancing with their friends, taking arm length facebook photos at the club? I don’t have exact stats on this but I’m pretty sure it’s a fucking lot.
How different is it to like an album when you are in the “Fuck it, I’m drinking” mood compared to the “I’m drinking!!! fuck it, lol!” mood? Should it be different?
What to make of these little seedlings and the next step is where my lack of talent and ambition are a hindrance.
aquariumdrunkard:
download this bootleg …
1 Talent Show
2 ‘Round And ‘Round (Chuck Berry)
3 The Ledge
4 Can’t Hardly Wait
5 September Gurls (Big Star)
6 Another Girl, Another Planet (The Only Ones)
7 Within Your Reach
8 Left Of The Dial
9 Alex Chilton
10 Nightclub Jitters
11 I’ll Be You
12 Bastards Of Young
13 Talent Show
14 Answering Machine
15 Anywhere’s Better Than Here
16 Another Girl, Another Planet (The Only Ones)
17 Here Comes A Regular
18 Achin’ To Be
19 Waitress In The Sky
20 Don’t Ask Why
21 Unsatisfied
22 I’ll Be You
23 I Will Dare
Let’s say you are on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr and you say, “What I’d really like is some more Tumblr followers”…is that kind of like saying “What I’d really like to do is direct”
I went to see The Henry Clay People tonight because I learned they were playing for free as part of the Culture Collide Festival in Echo Park.
After arriving, I saw someone who may or may not have been in the band but they said “Don’t make any New Year’s Plans” so that was cool.
Then HCP played and it was ragged and tuff and fun. They played some new jams, some old jams and some in between.
It was a lot of fun and then Joey Siara pointed me out and said I was gonna count off their song ‘Working Part Time’. I’ve been to a bunch of HCP shows and someone usually has counted it off.
But I’ve never done it. Today I did, it was rad. While it wasn’t quite as rad as when the elder Siara bro told me to jump into the pool at CityStock ‘09 or when The War on Drugs dedicated ‘Taking the Farm’ to me the last time they played the Echo, it was still pretty sweet. And while I don’t like to bring up the fact that I work everyday since one of my jobs is real easy and is basically just watching sports, the fact that I haven’t had a day off since at least early August and tonight featured me counting off a song called ‘Working Part Time’ on a day where I worked at nine after getting home after one from work and have to be in at eight tomorrow, well it meant a little more than the usual.
On a Saturday Night
Heard “Chris Christie” about 20 times just now on the Colbert Report and now this is the only thing I can think of. And the fact that it only has five views is near criminal.
The way we Like things now
While I was checking out facebook, twitter, tumblr and google reader, the usual sites I check out every day and get the majority of my information and news from, two recent bits of news kept popping up.
Nike getting ready to release the Back to the Future II shoe
Ben & Jerry’s releasing Schweddy Balls Ice Cream
If you check the internets with any sort of regularity, you have seen these stories too. These two items are things that should have made me very happy.
And yet, I’m sick of hearing about them and people talk about them, have opinions about it, link to it on their facebook page, retweet it, reblog, etc. They have been in the news for about three days at the most and I’m already sick of them.
Before it sounds like it’s just someone hating on something that a lot of people are talking about, Schweddy Balls skit on SNL is one of my favorite things the show has ever done. It paved the way for Colonel Angus (another of my favorite things SNL has ever done) and is basically my favorite kind of humor and how my mind operates. I will try and have tried to make a double-entendre out of almost everything. If I have leftovers, I giggle when a waiter asks if I would like a box. I am a juvenile. Oh, and I also really enjoy ice cream.
I have wanted the Back to the Future II sneakers since 1989. With the exception of one pair of Reebok’s I got at a going out of business sale, I have worn only Nike’s my entire life. I have talked with strangers about sneakers. I have searched to the ends of the earth (internet) for old Nike basketball commercials. And I don’t think I really need to get into how awesome Back to the Future is.
So ice cream and sneakers about two things that I really fucking enjoy and are almost tailor made to what makes me tick…and I don’t want to hear about them any more and don’t care.
And the reasons I am sick of them are because of the people, I actually choose to follow on twitter, choose to be friends with on facebook, etc. This isn’t one channel on and I can’t get news from anywhere else. People who I want to hear what they have to say have ruined two things I should be very excited about.
This is the part of post where I realize I am adding to the clutter and noise and don’t have any solutions besides living in a cave.
ps - Nike, I am a size 12.
awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Meryl Streep & Stanley Tucci
Is it me or does Meryl Streep have really fucking big hands?
