captains dead

miami, here we come!

holy freakin shit, i forgot how funny this bit was.

this one too, is comedic gold. i love the scar under his left eye, that unfortunately you really cant make out from this clip.

hey there, hows it goin? the past week has been quite the bitch. ever since we got back from chicago my little buddy has been feelin quite ill, as i had previously reported. yesterday he woke up with a bit of a fever, but he always runs hot as i am sure most kids his age do. anyway, so at about 1 o’clock the wife noticed that he was acting kind of lethargic and took his temperature. it was a 104.9! she called the doc and was told to bring him in in 2 hours, which i thought was a little weird but i am not a doctor. what the hell do i know? i was suprised that they didnt tell the bride to bring him to the emergency room. nobody really fuckin cares anymore. i think thats pretty apparent. you get receptionists that are sick of answerin the damn phone and will give you the generic “i’m not really listening” response. yeah, so, in the mean time he had a seizure which was brought on by his temperature. my wife loved that little episode. after 4 hours at the emergency roomed he was released with the diagnosis of “he has some kind of virus.” ok, thanks, doc. jesus christ, i had that one figured out! even with insurance i am sure this little adventure will cost a few hundred bucks. whatever, i suppose. damn you sweetwater 420 and your ability to open my wife’s legs with such ease!

along with david vandervelde’s awesome the moonstation house band, i have been diggin on sweeden’s loney dear’s loney, noir, as of late. having grown frustrated with belle and sebastian and artists of the like, loney dear fits the bill nicely. loney, noir is not life changing by any means, not every record has to, but it’s a great collection of not your garden variety pop songs.

i am john

rem is a band that you may have heard of, and probably like you, if you are older than 28, have grown quite disappointed with. their last two records, quite honestly were shit. luckily just about everything before said pieces of crap were brilliant. we live in a “what have you done for me lately” type of world, but i dont subscribe to that school of thought. well, at least most of the time. rem pretty much helped define and refine my own musical journey - i am sure a lot of 30-something music dorks will proclaim the same. i hope they still have a few classics left in them.

here is a soundboard recording of a show from the 40 watt on 4.19.87

1. finest worksong

2. welcome to the occupation

3. the one i love

4. begin the begin

5. orange crush

6. disturbance at the heron house

7. title

8. superman

9. its the end of the world

btw, i got 4 more rem 40 watt shows coming up in the next week.

it was not until about 1996 that i actually started down my road to appreciating and eventually “getting” the stones. i had always associated the stones with the way over played songs, see “start me up,” “jumpin jack flash,” “satisfaction,” etc, that i had heard for years on the chicago “oldies” stations. in 1996 i started what would be a 7 year gig at a small pr firm. this is where i met the man, lets call him howie, that would put exile in my hand and mildly force me to engulf myself in its magic. sure it took about 4 months for me to actually get around to listening to it, but that really doesnt matter. i was told to only listen to up to “loving cup” and then eventually, and only when i was ready, make my way on to the second half. sure i really didnt heed his advice, but after digesting it in full after a shit load of times, i started to understand what he was trying to convey. stating the obvious here, there is nothing subtle about exile on mainstreet, its the most cocksure record mine ears have ever been graced to hear. sure it’s overblown, mixed like shit, and all over the god damn place, but never has a mess sounded so beautiful. of course, by now most of you have at least listened to exile at least once, but i implore each and everyone of you to listen again. that is, if you dont quite get it yet. or even if you do, listen to it again cause its the rock n roll equivalent of nailin angelina circa billy bob.
here are some of the outtakes from the exile sessions

1. shine a light

2. sweet virginia

3. good time woman

4. loving cup

5. stop braking down

6. shake your hips

7. let it loose

8. sweet black angel

9. know the reason

10. highway child

11. all down the line

12. i aint lyin

13. ventilator blues

14. exile on main street blues

just thought i would throw this in. the hold steady on letterman

i have to admit, i totally phoned in that post last night. men at work? i mean come on, man. thats the best i could come up with? apparently, last night it was. in my defense i was pretty buzzed from both the beer and the sportsgasm i had unleashed earlier in the day. couple that with the premier of 24 and you could have put a fork in me cause i was done.

today, i had planned on coming home and taking a nap but i ended up watching the martin luther king memorial broadcast from his home church, ebenezzer baptist here in atlanta. the sermon, i guess you could call it that, by mr otis moss of olivette was really quite moving. the principals/message of dr king were so simple, its a damn shame it takes a day off, for most, to be reminded of his message. mr moss’ manner of speech, while quite deliberate, was pretty engrossing. after listening to him, i think i want to visit ebenezzer one of these days, at least while i have the chance. has anyone ever visited ebenezzer? i am not a religious person, although i consider myself pretty spiritual, i want to visit just to feel if it moves me in anyway.

today’s captains dead offering is a 2003 modest mouse recording live from the fabulous 40 watt in athens, ga.

1. intro

2. bury me with it

3. third planet

4. interstate 8

5. wild pack of family dogs

6. black cadillac

7. a life of artic sounds

8. the goodtimes are killing me

9. never ending math equation

10. paper thin walls

11. satin a coffin

12. trailer trash

13. cowboy dan

14. encore break

15. bankrupt on selling

16. broke

17. float on

bring on the saints! the saints are a damn good team, much better than the seahawks, but they are definitely beatable. all they have to do is stop reggie bush and/or mccalister and we should be ok. we definitely have plug up that middle, which shaun alexander owned today. if not those two are going to own our asses. when i say we, i am refering to the bears, not me personally.

one record i listened to about 10 times this weekend is the 80’s classic business as usual by australia’s favorite son’s men at work. i had not listened to said record in about 15 years. it actually was one of the first tapes i bought with my own money, which was all the way back in 1982 - fuck i feel old. it actually has stood up pretty well, all things considered. here are a couple o’ tracks in case your memory needs a jarring.

who can it be now?

down under

i was going to post a modest mouse show from ‘03 at the 40 watt, but it’s almost time for 24. so, thats going to have to wait until tomorrow.

i like radiohead quite a bit, but i never got why people go apeshit over them. they remind me of a sitcom that i never go out of my way to watch, but when i do catch it, i enjoy it quite a bit. my one problem with them is that the music is too cold for me to make an emotional connection. this is not to say i need to make these kind of connections with every band, but with a band i like this much, i wish it were possible. the only record i really dont dig all the much is the much beloved and highly overrated, ok computer. me thinks hail to the thief or the bends are my favorite radiohead records, although i dig kid a quite a bit. i love the dreamy pop of the bends, especially “fake plastic trees,” and “high and dry.” i have yet to hear any of their new stuff, but i am sure it will be gobbled up, even by yours truly.

here is a 2001 bbc recording - nice stuff.

1. national anthem

2. morning bell

3. lucky

4. packt like sardines

5. no suprises

6. dollars & cents

7. life in a glass house

8. exit music

9. i might be wrong

10. street spirit

11. paranoid android

12. idioteque

13. everything in its right place