NMT 94

Our pick this week is another Pandora offering. I created a station based on The Hold Steady's "Citrus" (which I couldn't find a good version of without King Hipster Douchebag talking through) and this song was one that came up. LRHG and I both agreed it is a pleasing song and that you should all like it as well or become King Hipster Douchebag's yourselves. You don't want that. No one likes a Hipster Douchebag.

Doing research, I have this fear this may have been used on an episode of G(r)ay's Anatomy (speaking of Douchebags). It didn't say which episode, but it said he was in one. Hopefully, it was the same song they used on Scrubs and not this one (you know how much I hate that.) Besides, there's no time to pick a new one and I'm really into this song right now. This version was recorded at KUT, which I think is some radio station in some shit-kicking part of the world somewhere noone would ever live in. I think.


So, from: Oakdale, CA:

Brett Dennen - "Darlin' do not fear":






Bonus Tracks:







I Miss the 90's:

See: sometimes Goth's can have fun and dance. Ain't that right, Lynn?

NMT 93

Ok, D I-AA football teams. Enjoy your success this year because, starting in 2010, there will be a new, dominate force for you to reckon with: Georgia State Panthers! That's right bitches, G State (the finest concrete campus in the state), is fielding a football team. They've already announced a game, Nov 20 2010 in Tuscaloosa ( So Alabama fans can now plan early for homecoming). I know you're all excited. Maybe just KG.


Our pick this week was found on Pandora. If you're not hip to it (and I was only told about it recently. A co-worker told me and then LRHG preached it and I finally got on board like 3 months later. I'm lazy. ) it is a streaming music website that is based on the music genome project. You set up a station by picking a song, an artist or such and then it picks things based on what you select. As you add things it grows and as you tell it what you like and don't like it streamlines it down. It's pretty cool. You can have as many "stations" as you want. Mark has one that is pretty much trumpets and piano. I started mine with REM (cause, really, it all starts with REM) and it's given me things based on that and others I've added. Check it out, pandora.com, if you have the ability to listen to streaming internet (i.e. not the FLC), it's good for work.

This is something that it played and I thought it was cool. The lyrics are from a cat's point of view, speaking to his malcontent owner. And if you don't think your pets talk about you when you're not there; you're wrong. Why do you think they always stare at you naked.


So, from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:

The Weakerthans - "Plea from a cat named Virtue":




Bonus Tracks:

KG totally met these guy. Great album, great song:




I Miss the 90's:

Oh, don't even act like you don't like it. You're singing along. She's hot, deal (Blonde, but Swedish, so not her fault. Though, I have seen pictures of her as brunette and still Hott.

Awesome

Tallahassee, FL

101°F Partly Sunny

Feels Like: 104°F

Wicked nice birfday

It's Hannah's birthday today. Say it to her. She was greeted this morning by her son with, "Happy Birthday mummy. Where's the cake?". At least he started with the birthday wish.

She and her husband are at Fenway attending the Sox-Braves game in the box of one of her Husband's vendors (It is the greatest birthday ever). She just reported in that, even though there's an hour before the game starts, she's wicked loaded. Apparently, the make KG style margarita's and don't bullshit with the tequila.

So Happy Birthday and get some wicked cute Boston boy's numbah's for KG. (She's into the Mass-hole accent)

I ask you

Is it worth it? Is it worth the (relatively small) risk to be obvious, boring and cliche'?

How absolutely ordinary.

Human beings were not meant to live like this

Tallahassee Weather

Partly Cloudy

97°

Feels Like:106°


This is what we were meant to endure:

Seattle Weather

Cloudy

65°

Feels Like: 65°


It feels exactly like what it is. No more, no less.

NMT 92

LRHG is back from Europe, so we can't be mad and make fun of her anymore. (KG, that's pretty much you.) Anyways, she said it sucked, it was no fun and there's nothing to do or see there and she just missed us all so much, so that made it zero fun. I'm paraphrasing, but pretty much, that's what she said, yeah.


Our pick this week is a almost a physical representation of I miss the 90's. They have a kind of 90's sound, but updated a bit. I have no idea what any of that shit means, but doesn't it sounds like something you would read in some pretentious dickhead review? Anyway, this band is on their second record or so. It's got a nice 90's rock thing going and a cute, alterna-girl singer (who wears totally kick ass shoes in this video), so really, they have everything. (shut up KG).


So, from Los Angeles, CA:


Silversun Pickups - "Kissing Families":





Bonus Tracks:

Haven't heard this song in a while. Which is odd because I own the record and it was almost impossible to get away from when it first came out. Good song anyways.




I Miss the 90's:

Not that we haven't been doing that this whole time, but you all love this song.You just don't know it or remember. You do, just deal with it. Just a good drinking song.

NMT 91

We have reached a high level of comfort with the information.


Our pick this week is new. Well, not new to us, they've been a pick previously and they are Hannah and I's current iPod most played at the moment. Well, more her than me. She just keeps mentioning it and then that reminds me and I go listen. She's still in that honeymoon phase with her new toy.

This is their new song from their new album and once again, it's a bit of a weird video, but that's ok; we like that, don't we? Right, LRHG? (She's in Europe, so we can totally make fun of her.)

So, From Gravesend, England:


Placebo - "For What It's Worth?":





Bonus Tracks:


Speaking of new: Many good things coming this summer I see. KG's favorite band. (just admit it. we will convert you). Oh, and you'll have to deal with the 15 second ad for armpit stuff. Can't be avoided.

Pearl Jam - "Get Some (KG)":





Top 40 likes this song. She was like 10 when it came out.

Still not drinking it...

...but this commercial is funny as hell. Bud light is nasty and only drinkable if there's nothing else, I know that's sacrilege to KG's ears (South Gwinnet!), but it's gross. I'm sure coming up with the names for the magazine's was the best part. That's always fun.

(also: this is a pee before you watch it one)

NMT 90

Watching Florida lose anything is just fun.

Does Wal-Mart sell eyeliner for like 5 for 50 cents? Country girls love eyeliner. I mean, love it. It's just odd and not attractive. It's ok; Mormon Girl beat her eyeliner addiction years ago. She's 8 years clean.


Our pick this week is a nice group of Mass-holes (that's their regional name, I don't know). They were one of the big underground bands of the late 80's early 90's. They scored a couple of radio hits after the big grunge boom and the original line-up wasn't together anymore. They were the loudest thing at Lollapalooza '93. Mind you, a line-up that included; Rage Against the Machine, Tool and Fishbone. Some of the people in our group left early (it was hot as monkey balls and one of them was pregnant and didn't know it yet. Heat + baby = badness) and they went to the Burger King down the road from the fairgrounds, if you've been to the fairground in Orlando, you'll know, that's at least a mile or so down the road. Well, they could hear them. That's loud.

The original lineup got back together a few years ago and the album they did was really good. It's significant because many believe if they had stayed together, they could have been a much bigger band. It's possible. I do know that the songs are good if a bit buried under the loud guitars.

They played here a month or so ago, but it was on a Thursday and we had prior commitments. Hopefully, they'll come back. Just because it's nice when good bands play in this god forsaken shit-hole.

This is a new song from their album that comes out this month.

So, from Amherst, Tax-achusetts:

Dinosaur, Jr. - " I don't wanna go there":





Bonus Tracks:


"a boy who won't swim, but who will dip his toe in..."





Well, of course she did. Everyone does. Eventually.