monday was better because raymi recorded the definitive “mad world” music video.
love this track…love raymi…love youtube…etc
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guess what today is? so if you havent heard about radiohead’s new album ‘in rainbows’ then you probably just got the internet today or something. for the full story, check out this link.
my ears cant wait…
Update: as of 3pm PST the inrainbows.com servers are SWAMPED and are serving up a big 404: not found.
Update 2: ok so I finally got the album downloaded and at i’m not the only one who had probs. check out justine’s and jakob’s equally frustrating experiences.
it seems that most of my life is spent beyond the grasp of my control. too often i’m safely buckled into the passenger seat while life drives me to the place i hope to end up…
so tonight i’m listening to “passenger seat” by dcfc…hope it finds you too…even if it doesnt you should listen to it through and through…and then listen to it again.
they say that everytime you listen to a death cab for cutie song an emo kid gets their wings.
crazy day today…so let’s listen to #40 and make sense of it all:
tables turned again
And you my friend
You and I face each other
Oh time and time out
I know it’s sometimes hard
But knowing just doll
That we will get along
’Til we’re old and gray
And huddled up
We’re doubled up, we’ll sit
And laugh of times were hard
Laugh of times when we thought
All it would end, it all it was over
Then again
And know that I am your rich rain
And to leave you out, I’ll die
Oh my friend
It’ll be you until the end with me always
Always…
so one of my favorite defunct bands is vendetta red. their last/final album’s bonus track was called ’shoot up with god’ and it’s badass.
the kids think it’s about doing drugs with god/jesus, but it reality it’s about drug addiction and the low-life-scum who become the addict’s god. deep stuff.
take a listen…
lyrics:
I’m poking a jigsaw vein with a rusty syringe.
Like a pinch on the arm, baby, keep it surreal.
Stand beneath the Eiffel Tower, a freedom kiss on the mouth.
Stare forever in the face until the fever runs out.
You know you love the taste of tetanus.
So pucker up and praise the slum lord.
Shoot up with god.
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how did i miss all the hoopla about eddie vedder’s solo soundtrack for the film “into the wild“?
maybe i was busy taking pictures of buster or something.
nonetheless here’s a great track from the record called ’society’.
“the stones from my enemies…these wounds will mend, but i cannot survive the roses from my friends.”
-ben harper
so i’ve been going through my photo library and migrating it over to a program that can handle all the RAW images i’ve been capturing on the dSLR. (this includes roughly 15000 pictures of buster….oh and lots of signs for some reason.)
as a general rule, i rarely delete photos b/c storage is cheap and you never know when in the future you’re going to want to flashback to the past. with that being said, i’ve got a fair amount of pictures that i cant stand to have around anymore.
(who would have known a few birthday parties worth of pictures could induce such a visceral response.)
with that in mind, i’ve purged my photo library of one too many reminders of what it’s like to take a knife in the back; while i wont have photos to remind me of how sad people can be, i’ve got the scars and they’ll do just fine.
so the new video for “Eh Hee” has been released and it’s free-as-in-beer this week on the iTunes store.
also the single is available for a buck .
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the kids who went to the gorge to see the dave matthews band were treated w/ a solo performance of “gravedigger”.
that’s rad
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really digging the new Ben Harper album
the new ben harper & the innocent criminals album is on sale today and i’m super jazzed. about a week ago they started streaming the entire album on the band’s website and i’ve been hooked ever since.
after their 9 month tour ended last year, the guys piled into a recording studio in paris and recorded “lifeline” direct to analog tape. no protools, no computers, just old school soul. the result is incredible.
when brandon and i saw the band in claremont we got to hear a couple of the tracks played live for the first time anywhere and to say they rock would be a huge understatement. i’m on my way out to pickup the combo CD/DVD now and you would be well-advised to do the same.
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals: Lifeline Deluxe CD & DVD
so i’m trying out my new install of the audioplayer plugin for wordpress.
this is ‘oh’ by dave and tim from the new live album “live at radio city music hall”.
even if dave’s not your bag, his war commentary in the beginning would be good advice for anyone.
the ‘cold war kids‘ did a cover of ‘electioneering‘ for the “ok computer” 10th anniversary tribute on stereogum.
the resulting effort is pretty bad ass. in a world where covering radiohead is about as easy as a camel passing through the eye of a needle (that’s a jesus reference for my god-fearing-readers) the cold war kids did a fuck good job.
enjoy it at stereogum.com
so i’m really digging ryan adams’ new album, ‘easy tiger‘.
seems the record company convinced a brother to make a commercially viable product and he responded with songs that will equally please the hard-core-fan and casual-listener alike.
i’m digging the song “two” but i’m not sure if it’s because i like the song or because it sounds like a down-tempo version of “new york, new york” from “gold“.
you, of course, will remember that our band rocks a great version of “ny, ny“.
see how i started this blog post talking about ryan adams and somehow managed to find something to say about “the addicted”? you can’t learn it, you’re just born with it.
last week i wrote about ‘ok computer‘ because it’s the 10th anniversary of one of the greatest records of all time.
i have no idea how ten years have passed since it was released. time is accelerating at a blinding pace.
here’s the video for ‘no surprises’
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i remember buying “ok computer” back in the fall of 1997.
i bought it at costco.
it would be a few years until i realized the irony of buying a very non-commercial album—that would become on of the most critically acclaimed albums of the decade—at a warehouse superstore.
i used to listen to the disc over and over again in my aftermarket jvc car stereo.
back then i was still driving to church 3x a week and my only solace was that it gave me an hour to listen to the album.
i would usually switch to “no surprises” as i neared the church.
I’ll take a quiet life…a handshake….some carbon monoxide.
no alarms and no surprises, please.
this is my favorite line of the song.
our church was big on shaking everyone’s hand. in a few hours, i would find myself hearing this line in my head as person-after-person extended their hand in christian love to brother jeff.
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how awesome is this?
i want to work here please. no more med school for me, instead i’ll just work at this hipster place and lip-sync all day.
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the ducks won the stanley cup tonight.
holy fuck.
so i cant decide which i like more….
“she” by elvis costello or “she” by green day.
you be the judge.
the guys at rawkblog have posted ben gibbard’s entire solo set from his 2002 show at the knitting factory.
get it while the getting’s good.
p.s. there’s even a cover of girl’s just wanna have fun for all you cyndi lauper fans
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on friday night, brandon and i went out to the claremont folk music festival for the ben harper show.
i had mixed results w/ the photos i snapped in the darkness of bridges auditorium. luckily, the official site had plenty of professional shots to enjoy.
the setlist was one of the most comprehensive and lengthiest sets (over 3hrs) i’ve ever heard ben play. it was essentially broken up into three sets: full-band acoustic, solo acoustic, and full-band electric.
throughout the concert, ben kept talking about how good it was to be back home and to get to play to his old friends. he debuted two new songs (”Fool For a Lonesome Train” & “Lifeline”) from this summer’s forthcoming acoustic album, “Lifeline”.
Set I:
• Oppression
• People Lead
• Gather ‘Round The Stone
• Masters Of War
• There Will Be A Light
• Morning Yearning
• Waiting For You
• Give A Man A Home
• Fool For A Lonesome Train (Brand new song)
• Welcome To The Cruel World
Set II:
• Pleasure And Pain
• When It’s Good
• Walk Away
• Paris Sunrise #7 into
• Lifeline (Brand new song)
Set III:
• Whipping Boy
• God Fearing Man
• Ground On Down/Who Knows
• With My Own Two Hands
• The Woman In You
• Please Bleed
• Forgiven
• Better Way
Encore I:
• Burn One Down
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