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Stiff Little Fingers

December 12, 2006

It has been awhile since I last listened to Stiff Little Fingers. Can it be that I haven't really listened to them since I lived in Chicago?

They remind me of my first apartment on Clifton Street, shared with 3-5 other people, the numbers varying according to who among our friends happened to be in need of a place to crash.

And it's not just that I listened to them a lot back than, although I did. It's also the quality of the music. The crisp guitars like the icy air that always managed to penetrate our thin walls, and the vocals, tinny as the neighbors who argued in the apartment underneath ours, muffled as attempts at conversation with chattering teeth bundled in thick scarves iced over from breath condensation.

This is why it makes me shiver to listen to Stiff Little fingers this morning. This is why it warms me.

(Sample Track: Wasted Life)

Friday Random 10 - Chilly Day Version

December 8, 2006

Man, I am so glad my desktop computer is up and running. I really missed hearing music with speakers.

Here's my Random Ten. I'm not sure if I've mentioned my Last.fm account...but I have one here. I totally love last.fm.

1. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue
   
2. Gill Scott-Heron - Home is Where the Hatred Is
   
3. Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down
   
4. The Birthday Party – Capers
   
5. They Might Be Giants – I'll Sink Manhattan
   
6. Rites of Spring – Nudes
   
7. Joe Strummer – Machete
   
8. Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
   
9. Lush – Kiss Chase
   
10. Public Enemy – Who Stole The Soul
    

Keeping myself occupied...

July 4, 2006

Here's what I have been filling my senses with lately:

Eating:
the kids and I are cooking our way around the world with the Kids' Around the World Cookbook. It is amazing what they will eat when they have a hand in making it.

Reading:
I am reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin, the Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet, and The Gift of Fear by Gavin DeBecker. The kids and I are reading the second book in the Pendragon series, and Leaves of Grass.

Listening:
I am listening to a ton of stuff, but I am allowing myself to be heavily influenced by the musical tastes of the sole musician in Black Wax Machine. So lots of guitar stuff. Ethereal. Instrumental. Quavering and wavering. And Jimi Hendrix! Wow.

Watching:
I am working my way through all of the episodes of Futurama. Last week I watched the Boondocks Saints (I think is what it is called). I saw the Bjork movie the other night in the theater. Puffy Chair movie. I am sure there are things I can say about all of these, but I can't think of anything off of the top of my head.

Doing:
Mostly just a lot of sitting around thinking about cleaning up the place. Getting by. It has been a very lazy in practical things, active in my heartfelt pursuits kind of last few weeks. The kids and I play cards and go swimming a lot. I take my walks. Get embroiled in things. Have endless conversations in chat. My house is breaking. I am planning a maybe trip to chicago in the fall. Maybe. And I am dreaming of buying a mandolin, and a tattoo.

Thinking:
I am thinking about relationships and their parameters and rules. What I can accept and what I must reject - either by virtue of my own preferences or by virtue of my motherhood and the limits it places on my freedom. I hate to say it like that, but there is a certain amount of caution I must exercise when it comes to tripping around after love. It is, of course, up to me to define those limits. And I am thinking a lot about that. Also, the book. I am thinking about finding someone to help me select what goes in and what does not. And to help me with some decisions about future publishing ventures. I might just make the book more of an annual zine kind of thing. We will see.

Feeling:
Absolute and total bliss. Terror, to some extent. hahaha. Love - Deep and abiding and difficult to place or define. Panic about random little stupid things in my life. Contentment. A desire for order balanced with a seeming need to create disorder. Sexiness. A kind of restless laziness. Sure-footedness. Love.

that about describes where I'm at right now.

Good Woman

May 28, 2006

Good Woman
by Cat Power

I want to be a good woman
And I want for you to be a good man
And this is why I am leaving
And this is why I cant see you no more
cause I dont want to be a bad woman
I cant stand to see you to be a bad man

I will miss your heart so tender
I will love this love forever
This is why I am leavin
And this is why I cant see ya no more
And this is why I am lying
When I say I dont love ya no more

I want to be a good woman
And I want for you to be a good man
And this is why I am leavin
And this is why I cant see ya no more
And this is why I am lying
When I say that I dont love you no more

The Fate Of The Human Carbine
by Peter Jeffries (as interpreted by Cat Power/chan marshall)

Thinks of money all the time,
Doing it to annoy her,
She's on his conscience day and night,
So he acts like her employer.
They all come and peep through a hole in the wall,
Keep the bastards guessing.
He likes to take the long way home,
It's another fine decision,
From six to seven he'll be all alone,
So he turns on televison,
Doesn't even notices this is the hours roll by,
It's lost inside the screen,
Watches the film about the evening sky,
It was someone else's dream.
All come peep through the wall,
Keep the bastards guessing,
All come and peep through a hole in the wall,
Just to watch his heart undressing,
They all come and peep through a hole in the wall,
Because you look so impressive.

Zany Musician Friends.

March 24, 2006

In order to inspire myself to do some major housecleaning today, I made a mix CD of random, upbeat tunes for myself. It just so happened that two of these tunes were created by two different musician friends of mine that I introduced to each other awhile back in hopes of them possibly working together. The songs came on one right after the other, and I laughed out loud because I realized, even though the two musician friends got along pretty well, both of them had confided in me "Don't tell [other musician friend] this, but I really don't like his music all that much."

Thankfully, since I am not an uber-competitive music dude, I can stand on the periphery and enjoy it all!

HA!

Friday Random Ten - Version This is the Week I Find my Housemate.

March 24, 2006

You know the drill. Fire up the music player of your choice, put it on shuffle (as if there's any OTHER way to listen to music!) and list the first ten you hear. Pray that nothing dorky comes up.

• The Pogues - Hell's Ditch
• Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line
• Cypress Hill - Insane in the Membrane
• The Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
• Stiff Little Fingers - Roaring Boys
• The Velvet Underground - I'll Be Your Mirror
• Wutang Clan - Uzi
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - There is a Town
• The Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling In Love
• Phil Rosenthal - Goodnight, Irene

Bonus Tracks:

• Sugarcubes - Motorcrash
  
• Portishead - Undenied
  
• Gilberto Gil & Jorge Ben - Filhos de Gandhi
  
• Buzzcocks - Why can't I touch it?
  

Random Ten: Post-attack Formation Version

February 3, 2006

1. Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth, Track 3
2. Colin Meloy - California One Youth and Beauty Brigade (live)
3. Bob Marley/Peter Tosh - Lively Up Yourself
4. Minutemen - Theater is the Life of You
5. Public Enemy - Anti-N****r Machine
6. The Smoking Popes - Megan
7. Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now, Track 2
8. A Tribe Called Quest - Get it Goin' On
9. Portishead - A Tribute to Monk
10. Kleenex Girl Wonder - The Bostonians

Friday Random Ten - Version Full Weekend Ahead.

January 20, 2006

Lots of stuff planned this weekend. I wonder what the soundtrack will be like.

1. Sonic Youth - Green Light
2. De La Soul - Me, Myself and I
3. Jimmy Cross - I Want My Baby Back
4. Violent Femmes - I Held Her In My Arms
5. Nick Cave - Red Right Hand
6. PJ Harvey - A Perfect Day Elise
7. Cletus - Somewhere Down The Road
8. New Order & Depeche Mode - Bizarre Love Triangle
9. Eastern Dub Tactic - Brothers and Sisters
10. Portishead - Sour Times (Nobody Loves me)

Friday Random Ten - Version "LAST CHANCE TO DELURK!"

January 13, 2006

1. Bikini Kill - Suck My Left One (What an awesome way to start my morning!)
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - April 8th
3. Operation Ivy - Caution
4. Bauhaus - In the Night
5. Nicola Conte - Exotique Bossa Nova
6. Nappy Roots - Aww Naw
7. Phil Rosenthal - The Yellow Rose of Texas
8. Public Enemy - Can't Trust It
9. Cocteau Twins & The Wolfgang Press - I am the Crime
10. Leonard Cohen - Waiting for the Miracle to Come

Bonus Tracks:

• Dirty Three - Flutter
  
• Spearhead - Positive
  
• Fela Ransome Kuti - Power Show
  
• System of a Down - War
  
• The White Stripes - White Moon
  
• Bob Marley - Fussing and Fighting
  

My Ten is always Random.

December 2, 2005

Badgerings: Friday Random Ten :

1. A Tribe Called Quest - Check the Rhyme
2. Howard Jones - Everlasting Love
3. Glen Phillips - Have a Little Fun With Me
4. The Knitters - Poor Little Critter On The Road
5. Goldfinger - Smiling (Op-Ivy cover)
6. the Dog Faced Hermans - Jan 9
7. The Cure - Close to Me
8. New Order - Primitive Notion
9. Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
10. Operation Ivy - Bad Town

Bonus Tracks:

• Heart - Crazy on You
  
• KRS1 - Step Into My World
  
• Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealin
  
• Ken Nordine - Faces in the Jazzamatazz
  

Friday Random Ten - version "Landricus Bagicus"

October 28, 2005

Wow. Bel Biv Devoe? I don't think I have anything quite. that. bad. in my collection. Let's see, though:

1. Jawbreaker - Gutless
2. Velvet Underground - That's the Story of My Life
3. General Public - Never You Done That
4. Operation Ivy - Gonna Find You
5. John Lennon - And So This is Christmas
6. Jets to Brazil - One Summer Last Fall
7. Soft Cell - Tainted Love
8. REM & Natalie Merchang - Photograph
9. Erykay Badu ft. Common Ground - Love of my Life (instrumental)
10. Minutemen - Maybe Partying Will Help

Bonus Tracks

• The Beauty Pill - Quote Devout Unquote
• The Decemberists - The Legionnaire's Lament
• Jimmy Cliff - No Justice
• A Tribe Called Quest - What's the Scenario

Quote Devout Unquote
The Beauty Pill

Oh Show some shame
Santa Claus he died for your sins
Or was it the other way around?
Or was there someone else involved?

Facts Dates and Names
It's all the same
You never know
We sink and We dive and
You never know

Chorus:
Dog spit is cleaner than human
Same goes for cognition
Pain is pure, pain is fleeting
To see and touch Smell and taste and listen
There's no objection
Asked and answered
Sustained but it goes to the heart
of motivation
You never know
You never know

There's no black ops
Yeah, nobody's reading your mail
No matte-finished helicopters
To swoop down and snatch you
Out of the habitrail

Just bullet points
And bullet points
This one's pass, this one's fail
We sink and we dive and
You never know

Chorus
+It's so hard to know
how to let go
It's so hard to know
how to let go
It's so hard to know
how to let go
It's easy to learn
how to let go
let go
let go
let go...

Cause you never know.

Friday Random unspecified number of tracks of music

October 7, 2005

Linking to Norbizness again this week. Because, you know, the Cramps!. I cannot figure out why I don't have any Cramps in my MP3 Library. I'm sure I have at least 2 CD's...the rest is on vinyl.

Anyway, here goes (sorry, no coolness audits here):

1. Moby - Across the Universe (w/Rufus Wainwright)
2. Decemberists - Bring on the Dancing Horses (live, Echo & the Bunnymen cover)
3. Pussy Galore - Cunt Tease (incorrectly labeled as Bikini Kill)
4. Old 97's - King of all the World
5. The Clash - Koka Kola
6. Billy Mure - Hawaiian War Chant
7. U2 - Mothers of the Disappeared
8. Violent Femmes - Add It Up
9. Spearhead - Oh My God (live? Unplugged?)
10. Public Enemy - Miuzi Weighs a Ton

Bonus Tracks:

1. Peter Tosh & Skatalites - Shame and Scandal
   
2. The Cure - Friday I'm in Love
   
3. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Inside Me
   
4. Janes Addiction - Jane Says
   

Damn, that's a good mix.

Picaresque

October 2, 2005

If I ever meet Colin Meloy, I will tell him that, one time, I got to see the Smiths in concert (The Queen is Dead tour, Chicago, 1989(?) Aragon Ballroom)& I was upfront and I can't remember anything about the show because it was hot & stuffy & the girl in front of me was smoking & almost set my Aqua Net coated mane on fire & mostly because Mr. No-hips, no-butt himself was up on stage, shirtless, prancing and jumping about & all I had the wherewithal to think was "What the Hell is holding his pants up?"

And then I would invite him over for soup & maybe he'd tell me a story with lots of pirates and parapets, pachyderms and palanquins & just when I started to yawn and/or reach for the dictionary, thinking "God, WILL this guy every SHUT UP?" he'd relate a charming tale about falling on his face in a soccer match & suddenly I would realize that what all seemed like pretentious tripe now appears to be somehow simultaneously self-effacing, sincere, witty, fantastic altar-reality clothed in a wonderfully operatic spectacle that leaves me grinning widely* and wondering "What happens next?".

But since I will never meet Colin Meloy, I will listen to "On the Bus Mall" and remember the part of the smiths show that I missed - the MUSIC - and I will think to myself, if Meloy is this decade's answer to Morrissey (and I mean that in a good way) we are in much better shape than it might seem. & how nice it is that there are still earnest musicians out there who pull off tremendous performances that would put Morrissey to shame & give me something (other than questioning the laws of gravity as applied to denim on a seemingly friction/obstacle-free surface - I mean, seriously...he HAD to have had, like SAFETY PINS or something holding those pants up...) to think about (and smile about). & I will listen to "Eli the Barrow Boy" and consider the fact that the Decemberists could very well be the Lemony Snicket of Indie bands. & I will listen to "Engine Driver" and wonder over pages and pages of fictions. & of course, I will listen to the "Mariners Revenge Song" and be simply overcome with delight.

& though I'm tempted to use big words to describe the most polysyllabic-word laden record in the history of the universe, I'll refrain.

This shit rocks.

*I truly believe the Decemberists are one of the funniest bands ever. I mean, "meet me on my vast veranda, my sweet untouched miranda?"..."I'm a legionnaire, camel in disrepair, hoping for a frigidaire to come passing by?" the entirity of "The Sporting Life" - come ON, that's funny shit! It's way funnier than anything They Might Be Giants have come up with & the kids actually seem to like The Decemberists more, too because, like Lemony Snicket, they don't condescend in the name of humor and wit.

Friday Random Ten - (Not at all) Like a Hurricane edition

September 23, 2005

Feministe :Friday Random Ten - The “Well, We Are Stuck With Stupid (For Three More Years)” Edition

We made it through yet another week, people. If it’s Friday somewhere, it’s time for the Friday Random Ten.

Grab yourself a vat of your favorite brew, fire up your mp3 players, load every song on your drive, and list the first ten that tumble out.

1. Fugazi - Shut the Door
2. Polecats - What I like About You (listed as Ramones on my downlad, but I know better)
3. Tribe Called Quest - Steppin' It Up
4. Johnny Cash - Big River
5. Velvet Underground - Lisa Says
6. Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe
7. Tones on Tail - Go!
8. Cibo Matto - Le Pain Perdu
9. Portishead - It Could Be Sweet
10. Tribe Called Quest - Vivrant Thing

(is anyone else delighted that the new version of MT allows you to assign multiple categories right from the beginning?)

Friday Random Ten - Stickin' it to The Man edition

September 16, 2005

You know the drill:

1. portishead - over
2. David Bowie - A track from Peter and the Wolf
3. The Velvet Underground - Countess from Hong Kong
4. Operation Ivy - Freeze Up
5. Ryan Adams - My Winding Wheel
6. Joey Defrancesco - Evidence
7. Screeching Weasel - A New Tomorrow
8. Bikini Kill - Alien She
9. The Fixtures - Custer & Columbus Come to Town
10. Sweet Honey in the Rock - Counting in French

Friday Random Ten - Goin' To Crawford Edition

August 12, 2005

Feministe » Friday Random Ten - The “Sactimonious Women’s Studies Set, Part Deux” Edition

1. spearhead - crime to be broke in america
2. jawbreaker - donatello
3. the velvet underground - temptation inside your heart
4. cocteau twins - oomingmak
5. john lennon - imagine
6. rem - nightswimming
7. jesus and mary chain - cut dead
8. screeching weasel - jock punk
9. public image ltd - low life
10. operation ivy - unity

Don't even ask me why I'm awake. I have spent the last 3 hours cooking and cleaning up and now I'm charging up all of the batteries I have for all of the digital equipment I can muster and I'm going to hit the sack.

The coffee is timed to brew at 6:45.

Operation Ivy - Unity

There's a war goin' down between my brothers tonight,
I don't want no war goin' down tonight.
Civilization? Ha! I call it as I see it.
I call it bullshit! You know, I still cannot believe it
Our evolution now has gone the way of hate
A world evolved resolved into its stupid fate.
Stop this war!
All so different yeah, I say we're all the same
All caught, you know, in the division game.
Self destruction fast impending like a bullet.
No one can stop it, once it's fired, no one can control it.
Stop this war!
A final word, wait it's not a call to action
We ain't no sect, we ain't no f**king faction.
Unity, Unity, you've heard it all before,
This time it's not exclusive we want to stop a war.
Unity as one, stand together,
Unity, evolution's gonna come!

The kids have a new favorite song.

August 3, 2005

I had four of them (and me) singing at the top of their (our) lungs. Windows down:

The Decemberists - The Legionnaire's Lament Lyrics

I'm a legionnaire
Camel in disrepair
Hoping for a frigidaire to come passing by
I am on reprieve
Lacking my joie de vivre
Missing my gay paris
In this desert dry

And I wrote my girl
Told her I would not return
Terribly taken a turn
For the worse now I fear

It's been a year or more
Since they shipped me to this foreign shore
Fighting in a foreign war
So far away from my home

If only summer rain would fall
On the houses and the boulevards
And the side walk bagatelles it's like a dream
With the roar of cars
And the lulling of the cafe bars,
The sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine.
Lord I don't know if I'll ever be back again.

La la la la dam
La la la low

Medicating in the sun
Pinched doses of laudanum
Longing for the old fecundity of my homeland
Curses to this mirage!
A bottle of ancient Chiraz
A smattering of distant applause
Is ringing in my poor ears

On the old left bank
My baby in a charabanc
Riding up the width and length
Of the Champs Elysees

If only summer rain would fall
On the houses and the boulevard
And the side walk bagatelles it's like a dream
With the roar of cars
And the lulling of the cafe bars
The sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine
Lord I don't know if I'll ever be back again

If only summer rain would fall
On the houses and the boulevard
And the side walk bagatelles its like a dream
With the roar of cars
And the lulling of the cafe bars
The sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine
Lord I don't know if I'll ever be back again...

Be back again,
Be back again,
I'll be back again

When Monk first asked me about the lyrics of this song, I reinterpreted the first few lines as:

I'm a soldier in the desert. My camel is dead or dying, and I'm really freaking hot.

I asked him, why didn't they just write that?

He said "Because that would be a really lousy song."

I think I can write a unit study on poetry using The Decemberists' lyrics. The kids like them more than they like They Might Be Giants. I'm just sort of hoping they never get around to asking me what laudanum is.

Friday Random Ten - Version My Phone Works, Now Call me, Damnit.

July 29, 2005

The rules:

Load all your mp3s into your player of choice, hit random and list the first ten to play. If you’re feeling sinister, exercise the coolness audit. Now, my pretties, leave yours in the comments or on your own site.

The list:

1. Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
2. The English Beat - Hands Off...She's Mine
3. William S. Burroughs - The Last Words of Dutch Schultz (This is Insane)
4. Sneaker Pimps - Roll On
5. Abba - Eagle
6. Modern English - I Melt With You
7. Air - Highschool Lover (Theme from "The Virgin Suicides")
8. Billie Holiday - I Cover the Waterfront
9. Afghan Wigs - Lost in the Supermarket (clash cover)
10. Jawbreaker - Want (lyrics below the fold)

(if someone wants to "coolness audit" that for me, let me know. I have no idea what's cool and what's not, because I'm just a big old nerd.)

The Lyrics:

Want (or, one of the two best punk rock love songs, the other being "Chesterfield King," also by Jawbreaker)
by Jawbreaker
been staring for a hundred hours
run down a spiral drain
keep mouth clamped tight, and it isn't right
three words keep running round my mind
but my tongue is hard to find
i need to let it go, because i know
dark secrets burn their vessel
tearing out to grab a mouthful
chunk of heart destroyed by quiet
yell it out before it kills you now
let it all out
i want you...

used to let rumors do my work
they got around real well
now they only hurt, it's a liar's quirk
this time i gotta say it straight
i mean to do some good
i'm calling out your name, while the chance remains

i want you...

so now you know where i come from
my secret's come undone
my heart revealed my cause
i'm lying naked at your feet
don't crush the heart that bleeds
take me at my word, it may sound absurd but
i want you...

Lyrics from my soundtrack

July 28, 2005

One last post before I pry my ass from the chair and force these unruly children (who are at this moment listening to a Lemony Snicket book on tape and crowing over the French word for shit) to come on a walk with me.

I'm just gonna close my eyes for a second
Beauty Pill

Into the abyss high beams on
After the severance pay is gone
Where do you plan to hide?
I was the seeing eye dog
That left your side

I'm just gonna close my eyes for a second
I'm just gonna close my eyes

Entreaties, invective, forget it
God loves a graceful exit
I say "risk" and you say "caused"
You choose "trapped" and I guess I choose
I choose lost

I'm just gonna close my eyes for a second
I'm just gonna close my eyes.

While I'm Home Sick From Work, I might as well catch up on my memes.

July 27, 2005

ex-lion tamer: ten i'm actually listening to...Like I said, though, it's pretty much a steady dose of Decemberists, Smart Went Crazy, and Beauty Pill around here. But I will give this a try off the top of my head:

1. Decemberists - Legionaire's Song (I think that's what it's called
2. Public Enemy - Son of a Bush
3. The Strike - You can forget it
4. Jawbreaker - Want
5. Nickel Creek - The Lighthouse
6. Shonen Knife - Konnichiwa
7. The Clash - Magnificent Seven
8. Fugazi - bulldog Front
9. Jets To Brazil - Little Light
10. Decemberists - July! July! (My children have informed me that we will not be allowed to listen to this song when July is over with.)

The Teenage Nephew Mix

July 26, 2005

I just slapped together this little mix for my teenage nephew who is into punk rock:

1. Screeching Weasel - Punk Rock Explained
2. Jawbreaker - Driven
3. Ramones - California Sun
4. Screeching Weasel - Supermarket Fantasy
5. Reel Big Fish - Boys Don't Cry
6. Screeching Weasel - Blitzkreig Bop
7. Rites of Spring - In Silence/Words away
8. Kathleen Hanna - Mr. Magazine Man
9. The English Beat - Hands Off...She's Mine
10. Screeching Weasel - I Was a High School Psychopath
11. Fugazi - Waiting Room
12. Fugazi - Shut The Door
13. Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
14. Dead Milkmen - Nutrition
15. Buzzcocks - I Don't Mind
16. Jawbreaker - Sluttering
17. Bikini Kill - Rah! Rah! Replica
18. Bikini Kill - New Radio
19. The Donnas - You've Got a Crush on Me
20. Operation Ivy - Bombshell
21. The Donnas - Who Invited You?
22. Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
23. Screeching Weasel - I Wrote Holden Caulfield
24. Fugazi - Repeater
25. Screeching Weasel - Dingbat
26. Fugazi - Epic Problem
27. Screeching Weasel - Stupid Over You
28. Rites of Spring - Nudes
29. Buzzcocks - All Over You
30. English Beat - End of the Party

We are obsessed with the Decemberists

July 22, 2005

I'm glad my children have chosen such a richly literary and historically interesting band as their first shared favorite.

I really want to take the kids to see them live in September at La Zona Rosa.

Friday Random Ten.

July 22, 2005

You know the deal:

• Operation Ivy - Smiling
• A Tribe Called Quest - Stressed Out
• Fugazi - Strangelight
• Sex Pistols - Anarchy
• Atom and His Package - Black Metal Friends
• Ultra Nate - Twisted
• Prince - You Don't Have to be Rich
• Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover
• A Tribe Called Quest - Like It Like That
• 10,000 Maniacs - City of Angels

Friday Random Ten - Version "I'm still FREAKING married"

July 8, 2005

Don't EVEN ask.

1. They Might Be Giants - The World's Address
2. Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl
3. John Lennon - Real Love (acoustic demo)
4. Leonard Cohen - If It Be Your Will
5. Jesus and Mary Chain - Blues From a Gun
6. Fugazi - Turkish Disco
7. Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
8. Air - Radio #1 (Senor Coconut Remix)
9. The Damned - Bound for Glory
10. Bikini Kill - Don't Need You

A Good Day

July 3, 2005

(my favorite song of late)

It's always pretty after an apocalypse
So we strolled past the flowers
Planted by the bloods and crips
And they chose white lilies
Cause they're such wacky kids
It was a good day
Damn right, it was a good day

Almost all the hypocrites and demagogues were gone
Like the sacramental moment
In a last poets song
And bayard rustin came back
Just to bitch slap farrakhan
It was a good day
Damn right, it was a good day

Burned to the ground
We knew it would
burst into bloom
Healthy and good
So we struck that match
And went back to sleep

Lee atwater was on the corner
Turning tricks
Clutching the failed box set
Of his heartfelt blues licks
He said "I think I liked the ghetto better
When it was sick"
It was a good day
Damn Right, I gotta say it was a good day

Razed to the ground
We knew it would
burst into bloom
Healthy and good
Bayard Rustin smiled
And went back to sleep

Good morning, America

(smart went crazy)

Summer Mix

July 3, 2005

I spent a lot of time yesterday on the summer mix, making three versions before I had the song list and the order of songs down. Please email me if you would like for me to mail you a copy. Paypal donations or trades accepted.

Here's the track listing:

The Decemberists — July, July!
Cibo Matto — Flowers
Dog-Faced Hermans — Madame la Mer
Cat Power — American Flag
Beauty Pill — Lifeguard in the Wintertime
Rasputina - Brand New Key
REM — The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight
Smart Went Crazy - A Good Day
Fugazi — Burning
The Clash — (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais
Screeching Weasel — Hey Suburbia
Cletus — 8 Ways to Hate you
Sweet Honey in the Rock — I Love to Laugh
Billie Holiday — Georgia on My Mind
Beth Gibbons — Sand River
Portishead — Mysterons
Beauty Pill — Nancy Medley, Girl Genius, Age 15
Flaming Lips — It’s Summertime
Fiona Apple — Mistake
The English Beat — Stand Down Margaret
Operation Ivy — These Boots are Made for Walking

Friday Random Ten - Untitled edition

June 17, 2005

You know the rules:

(I am too cool to use a coolness scale)

1. Ziggy Marley - Island Warriors 343
2. Green Day - Westbound Sign
3. Public Enemy - Shut Em Down (The Functionist Version)
4. Velvet Underground - What Goes On (closet mix)
5. Bikini Kill - Anti-Pleasure Dissertation
6. Bjork - Isobel
7. The Raincoats - Shouting Out Loud
8. John Lennon - Jealous Guy
9. Rolling Stones - Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
10. The Searchers - Hearts in Her Eyes

Friday Random Ten - Version "Talking to Cecily"

June 10, 2005

in case you don't know the drill:

1. Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally)
2. The Fixtures - War For Your Soul
3. The Decemberists - Grace Cathedral Hill
4. They Might Be Giants - Mr. Klaw
5. They Might Be Giants - Birds Fly
6. The Velvet Underground - Cool It Down
7. Social Distortion - Story of my Life (live)
8. Bauhaus - Hollow Hills
9. Velvet Undergrond - Jesus
10. Michael Franti & Spearhead - Rock the Nation

Song Lyric of the Week

May 22, 2005

I have this mix CD that my friend burning door sent me last year. It took me about 6 months of listening to it a little bit here and there to totally get hooked, but now I go throught phases about once a month or so where it does not leave my turntable, even though I'm hopelessly ADD about music and need to have my 50 cd changer on shuffle most of the time to feel like i'm getting a good enough variety.

Anyway, this CD is a mix of songs from Beauty Pill and Smart Went Crazy. I am just going to have to go out and buy all of their music. Smart Went Crazy sort of remind me of Mission of Burma in some ways, and they have some of the best lyrics I have heard in quite some time. My favorite that just makes me laugh out loud whenever I think about someone writing it is:

"There's a loud stereo and it plays the soundtrack to your clothes."

That was a huge build-up, I know, to one little line of lyrics. But my point, I guess, is that the entire mix of songs is filled with little brilliant one-liners like that. Both bands. It's sort of beautiful...like when I went me and the kids were on a walk yesterday and we spied a really beautiful garden with a million different colors and textures of flowers poking up all over the place, and perfectly blended, but smack in the middle of the whole thing, looking for all the world like a gigantic blue flower, was a big old purple cabbage. That's the kind of beauty...whimsical and profound, all at the same time. I love those qualities in lyricists and, apparently, gardeners.

Friday Random Ten - Queen of Mean Edition

May 20, 2005

Random Ten for this week:

1. Nirvana - All Apologies
2. KRS 1 (BDP) - I'm Still #1
3. The Fixtures - Man of a Few Too Many Words
4. Fugazi - The Kill
5. Voice of the Beehive - Sorrow Floats
6. William S. Burroughs - A One God Universe
7. Freyda Epstein - Dreams of Harmony
8. Ryan Adams - Gonna Make You Love Me
9. U2 - Mothers of the Disappeared
10. Bob Marley - Kinky Reggae
11. Los Amigos Invisibles - El Disco Anal

Friday RAndom Ten - Back in Action

May 13, 2005

It's that time of the week again, but where I'm from Chagrin doesn't rhyme with ten (and, yes, I know the meter is off on that. Fuck you. It's 8 in the morning):

1. Bikini Kill - Sugar
2. Barry Louis Polisar - I Still Don't Like Asparagus
3. Bikini Kill - Don't Need You
4. New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
5. Green Day - 86
6. Bob Marley - I Know
7. Papillion - Bon Jour!
8. Then Handsome Family - #1 Country Song
9. Screeching Weasel - A New Tomorrow
10. Leonard Cohen - Always

Spinning:

March 27, 2005

This is what is currently loaded up in the CD Jukebox:

Newman Passage - Souvenir Complication
Jill Sobule - Pink Pearl
Moon - Get it Through Your Heart
v/a - Leather Egg's Hot Summer Night mix CD
v/a - Souns of the Eighties: The Early
80s: Take Two
v/a - Accident Hash Tunes mix CD
Oblivion - Shoot Me a Waco
v/a - Madame Insane's Winter Solstice 2004 mix CD
v/a - Music Brings us All Closer mix CD
The Ex - Starters Alternators
Cat Power - You Are Free
No Empathy - They Want Whatever
Violent Femmes - Freak Magnet
v/a - Electro Lainieland mix CD
v/a - Wiggles and Giggles Kindermusik Home CD
Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
v/a - Not So Quiet on the Western Front
v/a - Let Them Eat Jellybeans
The F.U.'s - Kill for Christ
The Feederz - Jesus E.P.
John Trubee - A Blind Man's Penis 7" single
Sludgeworth - What's This?
Public Enemy - Revolverlution
63 Eyes - self-titled
Mr. Bungle - California
Vince Guaraldi - Oh, Good Grief
Bad Religion - Recipe for Hate

Spring Mix 2005

March 6, 2005

Hey Everyone...this is my spring mix. If you want to hit me up for a copy, just e-mail me. Paypal accepted for postage if you can, but I'm always REALLY slow getting these out and I can't promise I'll be any faster if you paypal me.

Spearhead - Listener Supported
KRS-One - I'm Still #1
Operation Ivy - Plea For Peace
Bikini Kill - Reject All American
Fugazi - Shut the Door
Knitters - The New World
Handsome Family - Amelia Earhart vs. The Dancing Bear
The Jags - Back of my Hand
Spearhead - Sometimes
T. Rex - Century Boy
Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
English Beat - Big Shot
De La Soul - Eye Know
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Here Comes the Sun
Handsome Family - Puddin' Fingers
Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan - That's Alright, Mama
English Beat - Sorry
Peter Tosh & Bob Marley - Soul Shakedown
The Police (or is it just Sting?) - King of Pain
English Beat - Can't Get Used to Losing You
Fiona Apple - Get Gone
Violent Femmes - Promise
X-Ray Spex - I can't Do Anything

Friday Random Ten

January 14, 2005

Rox Populi : Friday Random Ten - Do I Really Own This Shit? Edition

1. The Smiths - Sheila Take a Bow
2. A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation (Instrumental)
3. Bikini Kill?? - Mustache
4. John Lennon - Imagine
5. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Far Gone and Out
6. Barry Louis Polisar - Lucky to be Alive
7. Buzzcocks - I Need
8. A Tribe Called Quest - Verses From the Abstract
9. No Doubt (YUck!) - Platinum Blonde
10. Lords of the New Church - Live For Today

ETA:
Jason's Random Ten is here.

Friday Random Ten

December 31, 2004

Rox Populi : Friday Random Ten - Happy New Year Edition

1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - John Finn's Wife
2. Air - The Vagabond
3. William S. Burroughs - The Sermon on the Mount 2
4. A Tribe Called Quest - Crew
5. Moby - We Are All Made of Stars
6. Buzzcocks - Promises
7. 4Hero - Better Place
8. Ryan Adams - Goodnite Hollywood Blvd.
9. Crass - Chairman of the Bored
10. 10,000 maniacs - Candy

Winter Mix 2004/2005

December 26, 2004

Here's the new mix - e-mail me if you are interested in obtaining a copy.

Killing Joke - 80's
Social Distortion - Ring of Fire
The Clash - All the Young Punks
Public Enemy - Welcome to the Terrordome
De La Soul - Held Down (with Cee Lo)
Jimmy Cliff - Rise Up
Culturecide - Act Like the Rich
Knitters - New World
Bran Van 3000 - Old School
English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom
Bran Van 3000 - Mama Don't Smoke
Sonic Youth and Cypress Hill - I Love Mary Jane
Throbbing Gristle - AB/7A
Eastern Dub Tactic - Asra (Travel By Night)
Portishead - Humming
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Bring it On
Air - All I need
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Mood
Billie Holiday - Lover Come Back To Me

Friday Random Ten: My new computer edition

December 24, 2004

Rox Populi : Friday Random Ten - The Dingo Ate My Baby Edition

1. Screeching Weasel - Stupid Over You
2. Berlin - Riding on the Metro
3. A Tribe Called Quest - Check the Rhyme
4. A Tribe Called Quest - Buggin' Out
5. BB King & Tracy Chapman - The Thrill is Gone
6. NRBQ - Keep Looking for Tumbleweeds, Daddy
7. Moby - Matrix Lobby Scene
8. Operation Ivy - I Got No
9. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Head On
10. The Yeastie Girls - Talking Shit

Friday Random Ten

October 15, 2004

I guess Roxanne isn't around today, so I'm doing my Friday Random Ten without her:

1. Camper Van Beethoven - Light From a Cake
2. They Might Be Giants - Boat of a Car
3. Fugazi - Fell, Destroyed
4. Eastern Dub Tactic - Wicked Style
5. Cletus - Pedro Goes to Brooklyn
6. Air - Electronic Performers
7. Rasputina - Rusty the Skatemaker
8. A Tribe Called Quest - Left My Wallet in El Segundo
9. Stevie Wonder - Ebony & Ivory
10. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Sweetheart Come

In the mix

October 9, 2004

Here's what's playing on my old-fashioned CD Jukebox:

• Rasputina - Frustration Plantation + Bonus EP
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Nocturama (this one is FINALLY growing on me, but I can't freaking STAND the neverending "Babe, I'm on Fire")
• Michael Franti & Spearhead - Everyone Deserves Music
• Cibo Matto - StereoType A
• The Strike - A Conscience Left to Struggle With Pocketfulls of Rust
• v/a - Nothing Good on the Radio (A Mix by my Friend BurningDoor)
• v/a - summer solstice 2004 Mix (by Madame Insane)
• Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
• v/a - Life History of the Chickpea and its benefit to human relationships (another one by burning door)
• v/a - Weapons of Ass Destruction (burning door sent it, but I think it's something Adbusters put out.)
• Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan - What a Wonderful World EP
• Joy Division - Substance
• The Clash - The Story of the Clash, Vol 1
• U2 - The Joshua Tree (Which I insist was their last good record)
• Billie Holiday - A Portrait of Billie Holiday
• Thelonious Monk - Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1
• The Battlecats - sxsw Sampler
• v/a - Modern Rock 1982-1983 (READ: New Wave Hits!)
• REM - Document
• Camper Van Beethoven - Cigarettes & Carrot Juice: The Santa Cruz Years (box set)
• Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie
• v/a - Beauty Went Crazy (A mix of Beauty Pill and Smart Went Crazy songs by burning door)

KidMix Autumn, 2004

October 8, 2004

Opening Theme - Camper Van Beethoven
Never Grow Old - Toots & the Maytals
Reflections of Woody Guthrie - V/A
Clean Pond Crossing - Ella Jenkins
Hand Jive - Greg & Steve
Interlude - Camper Van Beethoven
Locomotion - John Coltrane
Numbers and Alphabets - Ella Jenkins
Stay Human (All the Freaky People) - Michael Franti & Spearhead
Ana Ng - They Might Be Giants
A Big Pig Sty - Ella Jenkins
Boots - Laurie Berkner
Clean Up Week - Ella Jenkins
Flowers - Camper Van Beethoven
I Feel So Crazy So I Jump in the Soup - Laurie Berkner
Shakin' Down the Sugar - Laurie Berkner
Trane's Blues - John Coltrane
Purple Toupee - They Might Be Giants
Anishinabe - V/A
Cuckoo's Nest - Nickel Creek
Fur & Feathers - Anne Hill
It's a Beautiful Day - Greg & Steve
NNew Moon Song - Anne Hill
Red Beans & Rice - Spearhead
Thank You - Michael Franti & Spearhead
Trucks - Laurie Berkner
Yes and No - Ella Jenkins

Want it? E-mail me (drublood at mindspring dot com) and I'll send it out sometime within the next year or so. It wouldn't hurt if you'd like to paypal me some postage money, but it probably won't make it get to you any faster.

Friday Random Ten

September 30, 2004

here are mine:

1. Greg & Steve - Days of the Week (English)
2. Ella Jenkins - My Papa is a Paparazzo
3. Spearhead - 100,000 Miles
4. William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch Excerpts
5. John Denver - Freight Train Boogie
6. A Tribe Called Quest - Stressed Out
7. Stereo Total L'Amour A 3
8. Screeching Weasel - I Wanna Be Naked
9. The Fixtures - War For Your Soul
10. Big Black - Dead Billy

Autumn Mix

September 27, 2004

Here's the autumn mix. If anyone wants one, e-mail me your address, and I'll send it along - hopefully before the end of autumn.

Air — Radio #1 (Senor Coconut Remix)
Toots and the Maytals — Never Grow Old
Spearhead — Runfayalife
Ani DiFranco — Names and Dates and Times
Bjork — A Hidden Place
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — Gates to the Garden
The Decemberists — Here I Dreamt I was an Architect
Cake — Stickshifts and Safetybelts
Stereo Total — Forever 16
Girl Trouble — Sister Mary Motorcycle
Camper Van Beethoven — Opening Theme
Public Enemy — Son of a Bush
Eastern Dub Tactic — Blood is Shining
Camper Van Beethoven — She Divines Water
Modest Mouse — 3rd Planet
Cat Power — Nude as the News
Le Tigre — Well, Well, Well
Cake — She’ll Come Back To Me
Mahlathini - Mbaqanga

Random Tracks

September 25, 2004

Rox Populi : Friday Random Ten - My Soul is Still Catching Up With My Body Edition

If you haven't done it before, pull out your IPOD or MP3 player. Set your contraption to random play and list the first ten songs you get.

1. Glorious Din - Blood
2. Stevie Wonder - Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday
3. Anne Hill - Place of Power
4. The Specials - Gangsters
5. The Cranberries - Ode to My Family
6. Ella Jenkins - Yes and No
7. The Handsome Family - The King Who Wouldn't Smile
8. Spearhead - Positive
9. The Clash - Clash City Rockers
10. Nick Cave - Lime Tree Arbor
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    2 lyrics, 2 songs

    September 13, 2004

    "When the end comes to this old world,
    the righteous will cry and the rest will curl up,
    and god won't take the time to sort your ashes from mine

    Cuz we zig and zag between good and bad,
    Stumble and fall on right and wrong
    And the tumbling dice and the luck of the draw
    just leads us all..."

    -Camper Van Beethoven from "When I Win The Lottery"

    "And sometimes I flap my arms like a hummingbird
    Just to remind myself I'll never fly
    And sometimes I burn my arms with cigarettes,
    Just to pretend I won't scream when I die."

    -The Handsome Family "Drunk by Noon"

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    Summer Mix

    June 24, 2004

    Here's the summer mix. I sent out the last of the spring mixes yesterday (except for a few of you in canada/uk). I probably didn't get around to everyone, but if you want me to try to send you a mix, feel free to e-mail me your address, and I will attempt to send it!

    Here's the track listing:

    1)Air - The Vagabond
    2)Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - I Let Love In
    3)Air - Clouds Up
    4)Spearhead - Love is Da Shit
    5)Sinead O'Connor - Three Babies
    6)Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Into My Arms
    7)Lucky Dube - My Game
    8)Bran Van 3000 - Carry On
    9)I can't remember the name of this song or the artist, but it's damn good.
    10)Cibo Matto - Sugar Water
    11)The Clash - The Guns of Brixton
    12)Spearhead - Gas Gauge (Tha World's in Your Hands)
    13)Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
    14)Macy Gray - Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak
    15)They Might Be Giants - Stand on Your Own Head
    16)Velvet Underground - One of These Days
    17)Rasputina - Stumpside
    18)The Knitters - The New World

    It's a surprisingly good mix. I'm thinking about nixing the second nick cave song and throwing Artichoke by Cibo matto on there. We'll see. Opinions?

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    Spring Mix

    April 19, 2004

    The Clash - Straight to Hell
    Cranberries - The Icicle Melts
    Glorious Din - Circle Star
    Camper Van Beethoven - Sweethearts
    Nick Cave - Lime-Tree Arbor
    Johnny Cash - Green, Green Grass of Home
    the Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go
    The Clash - Cheat
    Johnny Cash - Jackson
    Spearhead - Keep me Lifted
    PJ Harvey - The Sky Lit Up
    Camper Van Beethoven - One of These Days (live)
    Blondie - Rapture
    Nick Cave - Rock of Gibralter
    Bjork - Isobel
    Spearhead - Soulshine
    Bjork - Aurora
    a Tribe Called Quest - Like it Like That
    Spearhead - Stay Human (all the freaky people)
    Camper Van Beethoven - Life is Grand

    Sound good? e-mail me your address, and I should be able to get you a copy by the end of spring.

    Those of you who did not get a winter mix...it was most likely because I never got your address. Even if you have sent me your address in the past, send it again. If anyone feels like they want to donate to the blank CD and/or postage fund, you can click on my paypal link.

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    The absolute best bitter, end-of-relationship song ever ever ever written

    July 24, 2003

    I Let Love In
    Nick Cave

    Despair and Deception, Love's ugly little twins
    Came a-knocking on my door, I let them in
    Darling, you're the punishment for all of my former sins

    I let love in
    I let love in

    The door it opened just a crack, but Love was shrewd and bold
    My life flashed before my eyes, it was a horror to behold
    A life-sentence sweeping confetti from the floor of a concrete hole

    I let love in
    I let love in
    I let love in
    I let love in

    Well I've been bound and gagged and I've been terrorized
    I've been castrated and I've been lobotomized
    But never has my tormenter come in such a cunning disguise

    I let love in
    I let love in
    I let love in
    I let love in

    O Lord, tell me what I done
    Please don't leave me here alone
    Where are my friends?
    My friends are gone

    O Lord, tell me what I done
    Please don't leave me here alone
    Where are my friends?
    My friends are gone

    I let love in
    I let love in

    So if you're sitting all alone and hear a-knocking at you door
    and the air is full of promises, well buddy, you've been warned
    Far worse to be Love's lover than the lover that Love has scorned

    I let love in
    I let love in
    I let love in
    I let love in
    I let love in
    I let love in
    I let love in
    I let love in

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    REM - Green

    June 28, 2002

    

    I was listening to this last night, and it struck me very suddenly that this album is more than 10 years old. almost 15 years old. Is this really as timeless as I think it is, or is it a sign of my age that I find it so?

    Of course, I will always associate REM with JS, who I blogged about in my reminiscing category this week. I remember he made a tape of REM and Big Country for me and I loved him dearly for it. I remember being at his work party, sitting on his car, and he was explaining to me that "The Finest Worksong" is not a love song. I know that's not on Green, but it's one of my favorite memories of J. In his working class clothes with his working class ideals, before he went to art school and well before he drowned himself in corporate america and lost (at least apparently) his artistic vision.

    So maybe this is why REM is timeless to me. It represents a part of my youth that I choose not to forget, because if I forget it, JS and all of the othe