Wednesday, January 25, 2006

What else would you have me do with my time?

Some great track 8's. These are songs that happened to be the 8th track on their respective albums. Greatest Hits and Live Albums were excluded (too easy) with one exception. As always this isn't a difinitive list, well, in my world it is, but I'm starting to think mine is not the world.

  1. "If you see her, say hello"- Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
  2. "Daughters"- John Mayer- Heavier Things
  3. "Rearviewmirror"- Pearl Jam- Vs.
  4. "Prayers for Rain"- Cure- Dinsintigration
  5. "Love me do"- Beatles- Please, Please Me
  6. "Untrustable"- Built to Spill- Perfect from now on
  7. "I Believe"- R.E.M.- Lifes Rich Pagent
  8. "Am I the only one"- Barenaked Ladies- Maybe you should drive (Also brilliant album Cover)
  9. "Drain you"- Nirvana- Nevermind
  10. "Anarchy in th U.K."- Sex Pistols- Never mind the Bollocks
  11. "Indie Hair"- The Heads W/Ed guy from Live- No Talking Just Head
  12. "Never Tear us apart"- INXS- Kick
  13. "River"- Joni Mitchell- Blue
  14. "Photograph"- Verve Pipe- Villians
  15. "Mysterious Ways"- U2- Auchtung Baby
  16. "Another Flavour"- Sundays- Static & Silence
  17. "Geek U.S.A."- Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream (Greatest Drum Track of the Early 90's grunge era)
  18. "Mr. Pink"- Satchel- EDC
  19. "Dio"- Tenacious D
  20. "Your Saviour"- Temple of the Dog
  21. "Corduroy"- Pearl Jam- Vitology (One of my favorite songs and they did it at the show. We all know how all that ended.)
  22. "I'll be you"- Replacements- Don't tell a soul
  23. "Imitation of Life"- R.E.M.- Reveal
  24. "That's the Way"- Led Zeppelin III
  25. "The Ocean"- Led Zeppelin- Houses of the Holy
  26. "Act Naturally"- Beatles- Help! (My mom had a 45 of this w/Yesterday and I played it all the time when I was a (actual) kid)
  27. "One Love/People get Ready"- Bob Marley- Legend (ok, this is the exception. It's a best of, but who are we fooling to think any person believes there are any other Bob Marley records besides this one. Plus it's sold more than any of the actual albums combined.)
Your life is that much richer.


It's 100 degrees in Australia, so why do the women tennis players always look cold?

Sunday, January 22, 2006

So this is where they keep them now

For someone who has very little reason to be awake, sure can't seem to fall asleep. 3 AM and I've found where they keep all the videos. Watching VH1 and it's weird to see mucis on television. They should create a whole channel where that's all they do. Anyways, here's what they had:

INXS "Pretty Vegas"- I can see why they picked this guy. He sounds more like him then any of the other people did. I have this record. Haven't actually listened to it yet, but Stacie said it was good.

James Blunt "You're Beautiful"- Wait did he just kill himself because he was never going to be with a random hot chick he saw on the subway? What the hell is happening in this video? Put a shirt on you creepy looking fuck. Damn, I've run into many random hot chicks in my life and I've never wanted to jump off a cliff cause I was never going to be with them. She's probably Mormon, so you've just missing out on a lot of wasted effort anyhow. (Mormon Girls first shout out of the new year-No, no. No need to thank me)

Train "Cab"- Who in the hell let these boring fucks make a third record? "Like I'm the only cab on the road"? What? Shut UP! More onthese assholes later

Nickleback-"Photograph"- Wow I've enever heard this song before. It sure does suck. This band makes me giggle. That guy sings every song the exact same way. Funny. This song makes no sense either.

Coldplay- something off Parachutes I forget- Coldplay: When Radiohead just gets too weird.

White Stripes- Denial Twist- Not sure about the song, but the video is interesting. Like Spike Jonzes' head exploded while watching the Conan O'Brian show. Conan is in the video.

Death Cab for Cutie-"Soul meets Body"- I like these guys. They opened for Pearl Jam. I took Dyanna to see that show. It should have ended better. Probably my fault again.

Nine Inch Nails "Only"- Well this is interesting. I'm glad to see todays youth is getting it's angst from a relaible, trusted source. This video is actually good. It's just a shot of a desk, laptop that is playing the song his performance is all done on one of the things with the needles you put your hand on and it shows the shape of it.

I need Relacore I need Relacore
I need Relacore I need Relacore
I need Relacore I need Relacore (I don't know, the commercial kept repeating that I needed it over and over again.)

Foo Fighters "DOA"- Oh cool Tenacious D's drummer has his own band.

Eminem "When I'm Gone"- He should have done the Song with Nate Dogg "Women are the greatest". That's an uplifting, empowering song.

All American Rejects "Dirty Little Secret"- I may be too old, but these guys aren't too bad. This video has people holding up little index cards with what I guess is their own little secrets. "I wish I was blind so I wouldn't have to see them together"

KT Tunstall "Black Horse and the Cherry tree"- Hey Amanda, new vagina rock.

Hold on! This fucking Train song is on again! I am not kidding. It was just on an hour ago and it sucks just as bad as it did then. Am I stuck in Groundhog Day? He feels like he's the only cab on the road and he's saying it fromthe back of a cab. How so very witty. If it wasn't for Drops of Jupiter, this would be the shittiest song ever written. See this is how it works. Get something kind of catchy, no matter how bad and then just play the living crap out of it and people will just start to like it. Works every time.

I'm going to bed now. Who's coming with me?

Thursday, January 19, 2006

You notice what's not on the list....

Your Scholastic Strength Is Developing Ideas

You can take a spark of inspiration and turn it into a full fledged concept.
You are talented at brainstorming, visualizing, organizing, and independent thinking.

You should major in:

Natural sciences
Computer science
Creative writing
Math
Architecture
Journalism

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Ed II

To head you all off a the pass; yes I saw "Love Monkey" and yes I loved it. What's not to love? 30 year old man who is a music connoisseur (the ignorant say snob) who sucks at relationships. Who, when sent to by his girlfriend to buy his sister a baby shower gift (always a bad idea), he gets her The Essentional Bob Dylan. His girlfriend can't believe it and he thinks she's stymied by the fact that perhaps he should have started her off slow with just Greatest Hits or something. This is how great minds work.

Some Favorite moments:

"Ok, so maybe we have our differences. She listens to Jewel and weeps, while I like music"

"You have a tendency to want things you can't have"
"What else is there to want?"

Interesting fun fact, when he gets fired and is cleaning out his desk, those in the know may have noticed he has the bat he used to swing when thinking on a problem on Ed. See kids, whether it's watching Tv shows or relationships, it's all in noticing the little details.


Current Music: "Star me Kitten"- R.E.M. (Even his basic break up songs are weird.)

Sunday, January 15, 2006

Better late than never.

Tag line for the upcoming episode of Law & Order:SVU: Ripped from the headlines: Crusty Old Character guy: "Why would a mother throw her own baby into the dumpster?" Apparently, this weeks episode was ripped from the headlines of a newspaper we used to wrap our Return of the Jedi glasses and stored in a box and shoved in the back of the garage. Honestly, when was the last time someone threw their baby away. That is so 1989.




I've said it before, but perhaps you didn't hear me. Tina Fey is hot.


Current Music: SNL-Weekend Update

Saturday, January 14, 2006

Maybe it's just me, but I'm weird

Am I the only one who gets Scarlett Johansson and Naomi Watts confused? I don't know why this happens, but it does. I thought, up until I read the article the other day, that Scarlett was the one in King Kong, but alas, it's Naomi. I should look this up, they probably don't even look alike. Scarlett was on Letterman's show the other night and I had to watch the whole interview so I could find out which one it was. When I finally did, it made complete sense why she never mentioned King Kong once.

I just looked them up and they do look a little alike, I mean when Scarlett has the (evil) blonde hair. I guess the best way to tell them apart is Scarlett is the one with boobs. (Come on, those things are huge.)


Current Music: James Blunt "Goodbye my Lover"