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Monthly Archives: August 2008
The Email Pushback Project
Start Your iPods
Bow down before The Ordered List of music:
- The Feelies - Slipping (into something)
- Bob Marley - Redemption Song
- Apollo Sunshine - Happening
- Big Star - O Dana
- Yo La Tengo - The Weakest Part
- Cream - Blue Condition
- The Police - No Time This Time
- Norman Blake - Under The Double Eagle
- Kevin O'Donnell's Quality Six - Self-Inflicted
- Shellac - Song Of The Minerals
Repent!
Monday Cat Blogging

Sarah's Smash Shack
The 45 Closet
I happened to mention somewhere that I have a closet lined with 45s. I feel compelled to offer proof.

Let me try to name them...
Rough order, starting at the top:
Sonic Youth - Personality Crisis
1313 Mockingbird Lane - When life brings Problems Drink Drambuie
The (easy) Cure - first demo (meathook, listen, need myself, want to be old)
Rick Springfield - Love Is Alright Tonight
Dino Jr - Freak Scene
Fugazi - Song Number One / Badmouth
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song / Hey Hey What Can I Do (no sleeve)
Mudhoney - Touch Me, I'm Sick
Nora - Everything
Kim Karnes - Betty Davis Eyes
Billy Joel - Pressure
Born With A Tail
Record Time Allstars / Koo Koo Boy
Big Chief - Strange Notes
Nod
Koo Koo Boy - I'm A Monster
Coal Palace Kings - Bovina
The Cure - See The Children
Colorblind James - Talk To Me
(bottom)
Niel Diamond - America
Pavement - Rattled By The Rush
Tortoise - Why We Fight
The Mummies / The Enchanted Spellbinding Accordion Of Alicia Rose / Three Stoned Men / Slug Dick Nick / Phantom Surfers - the "Fuck You Spaceman!" collection, on Neurotic records.
Air Supply - Even The Nights Are Brighter
Hilkka - The Pipe
.. and then we're back at the start.
Much more out of camera range.
Side Note...
OK, next time you really feel good enough to put on Zeppelin 4, I dare you to listen to "The Battle Of Evermore" without hearing:
- I hear Horaces thunder
Down in the valley below
Horaces. Many men named "Horace". Why are they thundering?
(no, not ultimate big fun party band Horace X)
Can I cash-in my indie cred? I'm really not using it anymore.
Fountain of Youth
How does Ernest Borgnine keep going at 91 ? He has a secret.
Obama: Not anti-Christ
My Tiki
I went to Hawaii when I was ten. I had honey-dipped fried chicken from room service at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki beach. It was the best chicken I ever had. I rode the glass elevator for hours. Candy bars there cost 50 cents, in 1980.
Ever since then, I've noticed that I sometimes act in ways which appear to be intended to foment rebellion against the Federal government. I'll do something treasonous, then, in a flash, I'll wake up and wonder what I'm doing. You see, I only know about these things I do from what witnesses tell me. I don't remember them myself. I wake up in strange places, often surrounded by groups of angry people, all of them wide-eyed with the zealous rage of the newly-converted. They often expect me to lead them. Somewhere. They shout things about anarchy and taking back the country.
While I can't be sure, I fear the little tiki idol I found in a cave on Maui, and which I now keep on a cord around my neck, is cursed and leads me to do these things. It leads me; I lead them; I don't know its purpose, but I fear the worst.
Though I sometimes think I should, I can't take it off - even the thought nauseates me. It has become precious to me.
While I fear my fate is sealed, I hope Barack Obama doesn't find any cursed idols on his vacation ... or, more importantly, that he doesn't already have one...
Moon

KITH:
[Mark, Bruce, and Dave are sitting on a wall staring at the moon. Mark is holding a wine bottle]
Mark: Hey, see that moon? No that one there.
Dave and Bruce: Ahh.
Mark: I think that moon is a bit of a spy. Yes I do. There was a moon like that on the summer of my sixteenth year. Some say I was sixteen but [sigh] I don't know. And there was a girl, too; her name was Marie. At night together we would walk down by the sea and oh my god if you could see the body on this woman. The way at night her long legs would stick into the moist night sand like gods own barge poles, you know. And I longed to tell her the feeling I had in my heart for her but the words would not come, they would not come through my spotty adolescent face, they would not come through my angry hair or my sweaty feet or any other part on this body that I know call a man. So the words je t'aime were never passed between us but the moon, yes, that moon spied on us.
[He takes a drink of wine then passes the bottle to Bruce]
Bruce: The moon is bright over Lebanon tonight! The Lebanese moon looks down shim! sham! shikam!!! Cattle Explodes! Cow shrapnel drips off a tree cascades into a mothers tear. Poor little boy who goes into battle and comes back dead or worse comes back a man. Why don't you warn them moon? Why don't you say duck or scram? But the moon will not. The moon just sits there grinning like a corpse at a Dean Martin roast. What are you laughing at moon? Why don't you share it with the whole class moon? The moon laughs knowingly, the moon laughs, the moon, the.
[He takes a drink of wine and passes the bottle to Dave]
[Dave looks nervous]
Dave: Gee , I wonder who owns that moon?
[Dave sighs disappointedly]
Mark and Bruce: Yes...yes...yes...yes.
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Kids In The Hall transcript via.
