Monthly Archive for December, 2007Page 2 of 4

i think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it

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to say i was a little estatic when this tweedy and bennett show from ‘99 showed up on dime yesterday is a major understatement. i was at this show and it is still one of the best tweedy shows i have been witnessed to. the only thing that could have possibly pissed in my cheerios is if it were a shitty recording. all worries were quickly vanquished, thankfully, cause this is a pristine recording of their performance during the old town school of folk music festival on 7.25.99. much love to the original taper.

1. intro

2. james alley blues

3. shes a jar

4. new madrid

5. blood of the lamb

6. down in the willow garden

7. auld triangle

8. another man’s done gone

9. hesitating beauty

10. via chicago

11. sugar baby

12. i got you

13. forget the flowers

14. im always in love

15. the lonely 1

16. summerteeth

17. pecan pie

18. true love will find you in the end

19. casino queen

20. encore break

21. california stars

22. hoodoo voodoo

i miss jay…

i love you more than my after-show monster bong hit…

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photo by stacy sandstrom

sup peoples? after listening to jens for the past few days, i have finally come to a realization on who he sounds like. barry manilow! or atleast a “i write the songs,” and “mandy” era manilow. this is no apparent than on “a postcard to nina” where the horns come in. am i the only one that hears this? it may be my massive exposure to manilow as a child kicking in.

for those interested, i reposted a cool grant lee buffalo show from germany over here.

this real life simpsons house is super freakin creepy. it has “bad things go on in here” written all over it.

im always amazed at the shit that passes under my radar. the latest, in a depressingly long list, is william eilliot whitmore and jenny hoysten’s collaboration, the hallways of always. yeah, it came out in november of 06. they got a cool cash/carter vibe goin on a few of the tracks, and is a nice departure from whitmore’s usual type of stuff. check it!

feast of a thousand beasts

whitmore daytrotter sessions

jenny hoyston myspace william elliot whitmore site

i am kinda diggin this track by the choir practice. they are fronted by coco culbertson who in her past was part of the gay, the ac newman band and briefly in the tennessee twin. as their name implies they really bring the choir, but not in a polyphonic kinda way. more subdued and not all up in your face with it.

red fox

the choir practice myspace

here we have a very nice ted leo and the pharmacists soundboard from the picador in iowa city on 4.27.07. thanks to the original taper, tim, for makin this available.

1. intro

2. sons of cain

3. dail up

4. mia and mia

5. army bound

6. where have all the rude boys gone

7. who do you love

8. old souls know

9. colleen

10. the high party

11. annunciation day/born on christmas day

12. counting down the hours

13. little dawn

14. the angels share

15. bottle of buckie

16. heart problems

17. crying over you

18. the lost brigade

19. biomusicology

20. dirty old town

21. timorous me

22. rappaports testament: i never gave up

buy ted leo records here

santa wanna cracka?

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the men in cracker want to wish you a merry christmas…

merry christmas, emily

this is from a 2001 promo for their record forever

cracker site

king of karate

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photo by tim deller

ben harper live from paleo festival, nyon, france 7.21.99. tracks 10 and 11 are from festival des vieilles, charrues, france on 7.18.99.

1. roses from my friend

2. ground on down

3. breakin down

4. please bleed

5. burn one down

6. the will to live

7. give a man a home

8. faded

9. sexual healing

10. like a king

11. i’ll rise

ground on down

hey flathead! chop, chop.

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jens lekman on swedish radio, 10.10.07

1. intro #1

2. into eternity

3. intro #2

4. friday night at the drive in bingo

5. interview (in swedish)

6. higher power (fades out to news update)

7. intro #3

8. the opposite of hallelujah

9. a postcard to nina

10. interview (in swedish)

11. a sweet summer night on hammer hill

12. interview (in swedish)

13. interview (in english)

14. i saw her in the anti-war demonstration

15. interview (in sweedish)

16. you can call me al

17. interview (in sweedish)

18. shirin

19. lonlov

20. outro

your looks have become a problem

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photo by wendy lynch - she’s got some great indie rocker pics

wanna do something nice for your boy this joyous christmas, hanukkah and/or kwanza? awesome! well, i have come to the conclusion that i want to stop using google ads, just cause i think it mucks up the joint. but, and here is the problem. thus far i have ammassed like 70 bucks in adsense revenue but the payout is a hundred. so, if you could, and you dont have to of course, but if you could click on one, every once in a while, that would be great. you dont have to do anything after that, just let the page load and x it out. i am hoping that over the next few weeks i can get over that hundred dollar threshold and they would then be gone. i sure would appreciate it.

btw, the new black mountain, in the future, is fuckin awesome. 100 percent killer, no filler. in case you missed and havent heard. here is the first single…

tyrants

black mountain site

have you guys heard of thunder ant? its carrie brownstein and fred armisen doing something, for which i cant tell right now cause my work wont let me download or listening to anything that is up on the site. but the photos make it look even more interesting; carrie riding on the back of a mustachioed gentlemen’s cycle, fred screaming into a cell phone, fred dressed like gloria steinem and shopping at a feminist book store, fred and carrie dining out, etc. i am sure its going to be grand whatever the hell is going on.

i am always amazed on how people find my site, or more matter of factly, what they are searching for when the stumble onto these pages. so, for 2007 here are the top 10 off the wall search terms that somehow lead to captains dead.

10. the letter “t”

9. eat me out

8. doogie style fucking or just doogie style

7. drunk lesbian sisters

6. vagina

5. boner and/or cock wake up

4. prostate pics and/or prostate songs

3. rock out with your cock out and/or post pics of cock

2. pictures of licking women’s legs or just women’s legs

1. ball stretching, ballstretching pics and/or ballstretching gone wrong

i totally scraped that not listening to anything new for the rest of 07 at about hour number 12. i just knew i couldnt do it. i feel like such a quitter, but lets be honest no one likes a quitter and thats why i still smoke. anyway, this little lady is rulin my world at the moment. thao (nguyen) with the get down stay down is like a real fuckin perky cat power doin it with paul simon’s backing band featuring a human beat box. awesome!

her and their new record we brave bee stings and all is out on 1.29.08 on kill rock stars.

beat

bag of hammers

feet asleep

thao site

here is a lovely recording of mark kozelek live @ the douglas fir lounge in portland on 1.12.06

1. grace cathedral park

2. down through

3. dramamine

4. down colorful hill (aborted)

5. chat

6. down colorful hill

7. four fingered fisherman

8. tiny cities made of ashes

9. morristown

10. katy song

11. chat

12. du koo kim

13. jesus christ was an only child

14. cheers

15. truckers atlas

16. michael

i am connor macleod of the clan macleod

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photo by greg perez

btw, jennings is back at rbally - hopefully he is back on at least a semi-permanent basis.

cha cha chia! does anyone actually own a chia product? just curious. in all of my travels, in and out of houses/apartments throughout this great land i have never seen one gracing someone’s, most likely, kitschy decor.

btw, microwave white castle sucks. i dont know why my wife keeps buying them, and i keep eating them.

new stephen malkmus! i neednt say anymore. thanks to mr brooklyn vegan for pointing this out. new album is due in march.

baltimore

sm and the jicks site

gotta give a shout out, at 33 can i still give those, to my hometown b-boy’s yea big and kid static. their debut is pretty “dope” and/or “funky fresh.” check em out.

the basement /enfant terrible

duck motherfuckers!

the life here check out the video

yea big and kid static myspace

i found this a few days ago on a hard drive i forgot i even had, thus i forgot i even had it. its a frank black boot commonly referred to as hate me which took place at the wetlands on 6.13.94 - its a great soundboard recording.

1. sir rockaby

2. two spaces

3. hate me

4. abstract plain

5. at the end of the world

6. calistan

7. headache

8. freedom rock

9. space is gonna do me good

10. big red

11. superabound

12. oddball

13. pure denizen of the citizens band

14. white noise maker

15. speedy marie

16. men in black

17. adda lee

18. parry the wind high, low

19. ten percenter

20. the man who was too loud

21. handyman

22. los angeles

23. ole mulholland

24. czar