"I was starting to think I was exaggerating your awesome-ness in my head...but I wasn't."
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Oh yeah, should be fine
Anyone who watches this show will know that she should be fine with this:
Jon & Kate Plus 8 dad Jon Gosselin is admitting he "showed poor judgment" by leaving a bar at 2 a.m. with a mystery woman and without his wedding band -- while his wife Kate was across the country promoting a book.
I'm sure there is a logical and excellent explination for all of this.
But, come one, we've all watched the life drain out of this guy for the last 3 years, so really....
Our pick this week feels their upcoming album will be their best album ever. Not that this was a hard task. I kid, I kid. I enjoy some of their songs. Never been able to get trough a whole record, but all things are possible. It was announced today that they would be one of the acts at this year's Austin City Limits festival and LRHG wet her pants. Literally. (She didn't actually wet her pants, she literally wet her pants.) They also announced Kings of Leon, John Legend, Pearl Jam and many others. As usual, a kick ass line-up. If it wasn't so ass hot and in Texas we'd all move there.
So, anyway, this is the first song from their upcoming album. (I haven't listened to it yet, so if it sucks; blame the Red Head)
From Charlottesville, VA:
Dave Matthews Band - "Funny the way it is":
Bonus Tracks:
Might be my favorite Beatles song.
I Miss the 90's:
Highly overlooked band. Saw these guys open for The Cranberries at the old UCF arena. Guess which was the better band..."Could you learn to read minds/ in the case of mine; do you read in the dark"
-- If Texas were not in the Union, the Democrats would currently have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate -- or at least they would once Al Franken gets seated. This is because, in a 98-seat Senate, only 59 votes would be required to break a filibuster.
-- If Texas were not in the Union, the Republicans would operate from a significantly weakened position in the House, since the net 8-vote advantage their congressional delegation gives them in the state (they have 20 seats to the Democrats' 12) is by far their largest.
-- If Texas were not in the Union, George W. Bush would never have become President in 2000 -- not because he'd be constitutionally ineligible (Bush, despite his Texas twang, was born in posh New Haven, Connecticut). Rather, he wouldn't have had enough Electoral Votes to defeat Al Gore.
-- If Texas were not in the Union, Barack Obama would have won the Electoral College 389-147 instead of 365-173 (note that there are two fewer votes total, because there would be two fewer Senators). The vast majority of Texas' electoral votes would be redistributed to lib'rul states like California (which would go from having 55 electoral votes to 59) and New York (34 rather than 31):
Ft. Hood, and it's $6 billion impact in central Texas, would be an economic boon to Detroit or any number of other economically depressed American regions. What, do the secessionists think they could keep those American military bases on their newly sovereign soil?
How about the $2.5 billion that NASA pumps directly into salaries of employees and contractors in the Houston area, not to mention ancillary economic benefits and the prestige of having one of the premier space facilities in the world? The American patriots in New Mexico would be more than happy to take that off Texas' hands!
Not to mention Texas and half of the Big 12 South division would no longer be allowed in the NCAA. Now, taxes and all that, OK it sucks, but this is Texas(s) football, this is important.
Why must I be told things like: "I used to get it on Thursday's, but for the last three months it's started on Wednesday, but it's been really light and then on Thursday it really starts"?
Review that. There's nothing sexy in that whole conversation. Keep your wicked voodoo to yourself.
I am in the process of acquiring a new cell phone, hopefully within the next few days. Until then, if you are sending me a text message I am getting it...eventually..probably. Irrespective of that, I can't seem to send any out, so I'm not ignoring you.
More bars in more places...except the one you're standing in.
Our pick this week is a bit of an odd choice perhaps. I really like this band and I like this song a lot. I only have this song and haven't heard any of the rest of the album, but it's probably good.
This song is a bit simplistic in nature, but sometimes, that's the most powerful. Plus, I just like the way she belts out the chorus.
So, from Los Angeles, CA:
Concrete Blonde - "Take me Home":
Bonus Tracks:
I don't know who this guys is, but he comes to us by way of Boulder. (He's not from Boulder, I don't think, but our Boulder contingency passed it along.) We are thankful. Aren't we, laggards?! (that means you bow and pay homage).
Joe Pug - "Nation of Heat":
Those silly Dutch. (you love this movie, don't deny it):
They accounced that here in Leon county, the school's start times will change next year. Right now, there are something like 17 different start times. Next year, they will have one start time for Elementary, on for Middle, Etc. This makes Top 40 happy, because she gets an extra hour to get ready (read:Sleep). this change is someo sort of cost cutting method since they won't have to have every bus in the area running at one time.
Of course, some parents are bitching because it adversly affects them and they'll have to change something.
This part caught my attention though:
"Everything is so logistical now," said Angela , a mother of a third-grader at Kate Sullivan, a seventh-grader at Fairview Middle School and a 10th-grader at Rickards High School. "It's like you don't have a quality of life anymore."
How?! Those schools aren't anywhere near each other. Well, Rickards and Fairview are, but Kate Sullivan is by my house and is an "A" school and consistently rated as one of the best school in the district (Chaires is only a "B". You don't get a bonus for that. There are no points for second place).
If you don't want to have to deal with school schedules and after-school and activities and all that; don't have kids. It's part of the package and the sacrifice you make. You should have read the brochure all the way through.
Now, shut the fuck up before you kid hears you and thinks he/she is a terrible burden on their parents.
Isn't also ironic (don't you think), that the day they announce a huge change that was made because of a lack of budget that is pissing people off; is also the same day the Tea-baggers (Seriously? Not one of you has the Google on your Internet machine?) are gathering in (relatively) small groups to protest taxes?
Remember: if you love your country, you'll Tea-Bag today.
(how in the hell do you align yourself with that and not know what it means. Dumb asses. And how many guys in leather are showing up to these things and becoming instantly disappointed?)
Rascal Flatts should name every album, "Cavity", cause their songs are just so sugary sweet. And by that I mean; they suck ass. Oh and appaeratnly the Julianne broad from Dancing with the stars is hot. Eh. She's fake blonde and we all now how much I love that. Plus, she's fake blonde and Mormon, so she's trouble...
Our pick this week is not starting a theme, I swear. Combined with last week it could seem that way, but trust me tis not. I watched the movie Control last week. Quite good, actually. It was directed by Anton Corbijn, the photohrapher who has taken most of the great rock photo's you see today. All the u2 and Depeche Mode stuff is him. All the sepia toned things. Really, great stuff.
The movie is a biopic about Ian Curtis, the singer for this band. It's based on the book written by his wife, so it really focus' on Ian, but his story is really the story of the band. While only together for two years and two albums, they became a huge influence in the indie rock world and many of your favorite bands (u2) cite them as their biggest influence.
Anyway, let me 'splain, no there is too much, let me sum up; while touring for their first album and writing their second, Ian has an affair, which led to this song. Which is quite brilliant actually. He developed epilepsy after joining the band and suffered from seizeurs, which probably dropped him deeper into depression.
He became torn between the two women in his life and the pull of the sucesses his band was starting to have. Their second record, Closer, has some of the most beautiful and haunting lyrics I've ever heard.
I"m not sure, but I think that while making this video or so, but near the end I know, Anton took this photo of Ian. I think it tells the whole story of everything, ever:
Shortly after this picture was taken and 2 days before the band was set to leave for America for the first time and a few months before the Closer album came out, Ian hung himself in his home. He was 23.
The rest of the band would continue on as New Order.
This was Joy Division's current single at the time of Ian's death. If you've ever been in a club on an 80's night, you've heard this song. It's the inscription his wife put on his headstone.
From Manchester, England:
Joy Division - "Love will tear us apart":
Bonus Tracks:
So, LRHG and I were talking about this song and she said it was pretty much how her college carrer went. That it was all like this, at least the parts she can remember. She was lamneting how she can't really hang like this anymore, but she could if she really, really needed to. (the preceeding totally happened. For reals. Don't question it.) Oh and it's totally the new BYU fight song.
It looked like a fun party, but I didn't see any pudding. Just saying.
You know if you ask about it, it will show up (no idea what this is):
It's not like Jamba Juice at...you know what, it is, it's just like Jamba Juice.
Our pick this week comes from my realization that it's been 15 years since Kurt Cobain's suicide. I didn't even realize it had been that long until I saw an article about it online. That was sort of a weird time for me. I was 18, working at the store and obviously a big fan. I remember I was off that day, but I had to go to work for an employee meeting at 5pm. I took the afternoon and went to a store in town that sold "imports" (read: bootlegs). On the way there, I heard on the radio that a body had been found at Cobain's house and they weren't sure who it was. The DJ made a quip about how "that guy can't seem to stay out of trouble". Dude, he found a way. I bought a couple of Nirvana bootlegs at the store, one of which I still have. On the way from that store to my work, they broke in on the radio and announced that it was in fact Cobain and he had shot himself.
It was a weird feeling. I mean, didn't effect me personally, I didn't know him, but it was still shocking. I think it was just the time in my life; had I been younger or older, I don't think it would have been as upsetting (like 2 days, I'm not talking a deep funk that took years to get out of). At that age, you're sort of developing yourself, finding your personality and I think it shook that a little. I enjoyed their music and I used to listen to In Utero while cleaning my room in the duplex (and other times besides that once a month activity). So, it seemed weird to me that the guy from one of the core bands of my life, whom I listened to and helped get out that teen angst, killed himself. Again, it was upsetting, but I got over it.
Anyways, it sucks to wonder what would have happened, but there it is. It's been 15 years, which doesn't make him any more dead, but makes us old.
You'll notice at the beginning of this clip he starts to play a different song. He wanted to play the song "Rape me" which was to be on the next record. MTV, of course, said oh no, you have to do the hit song. So, he played the first four bars of "Rape me", which I'm sure made the producers shit themselves. Good times.
From Seattle, WA:
Nirvana - "Lithium":
Bonus Tracks:
Country music needs to learn how to write a better stalker song:
I Miss the 90's:
"I'm not like them, but I can pretend" Speaks to you, doesn't it?
So, it's one of my favorite days of the year: Baseball Opening Day. Baseball on all day on ESPN and I planned my lunch around coming home at 2 pm to listen to the Cleveland-Texas game on the radio (cause all things from Texas suck). Well, the game to be on ESPN2 was Rays-Red Sox, but apparently, it's pissing Old-Testament rain on the East coast so it got canceled. It's replacement: Indians-Rangers. Good Day. May need to re-evaluate my need to return to work.
