captains dead

wordpress 2.1 has been released, and its quite swell. unfortunately, with the new release/upgrade a few issues has reared their ugly heads. not major ones, but for some reason i cant upload and post photos, amongst other things. if anyone has upgraded to 2.1 and has some insight on how to remedy at least the photo issue, it would be greatly appreciated.

the sportsgasm i experienced yesterday has left me tired and really in need of sleep. couple that with 24 and prison break tonite, my ability to do anything constructive is nil.

here is a short rem set from 5.20.88 live at the 40 watt. they were opening for the fabulous vic chesnutt, a show i am sure was killer. speacking of vic, southern shelter, has a show of him backed by elf power at the 40 watt recorded on 12.16.06.

1. orange crush

2. stand

3. pop song 89

4. the one i love

5. i remember california

6. you are the everything

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.

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

what a “not want to do anything” day this has been. the boy has been ill the past couple of days and literally has not left the couch all day today. therefore, we are wallowing in his laziness and catching up on some of our own. one downside to his current condition is that we have watched the sponge bob movie a few of times, as well as the curious george movie - which was mildly entertaining. i believe he may have some mild form of obsessive compulsive behaviour, which i can probably chaulk up to bad parenting.

have you guys checked out chicagoan david vandervelde as of yet? he’s definitely got a t rex, bowie and 70’s glam vibe going on. typically this kind of style is not my thing but he doesnt kiss too much influence ass to make it way over the fucking top. its the direction i wish dan bejar and destroyer would have taken after i first heard streethawk. david’s got a new record the moonstation house band comin out at the end of the month.
jacket

just in case you never heard destroyer’s streethawk, here are a couple of tracks off of it.

the sublimation hour

the very modern dance

here is something i have been sitting on for awhile. its the demos to the twilight singers debut.

1. the twilite kid

2. thats just how that bird sings

3. clyde

4. king only

5. love

6. 4 glass for you

7. verti marte

8. deepest shade

9. east 17th

10. into the street

so the family and i are back safe and sound back in the atlanta area. we ended up leaving a day later than expected mostly due to my laziness and dread of sitting in a car for 12 or so hours. all in all it was definitely a better trip than the last time we visited chicago during christmas time. although, within about 12 hours of our arrival i started feeling like shit, which pretty much lasted the whole week. nothing a boat load of booze couldnt remedy.

what i gots here is a collection of lucero songs which is entitled the coldwater sessions which i know nothing about. so, if anyone has any insight on the lineage of this collection please dont hesistate to fill me in.

this can now be found here.

1. heart so true

2. all the same to me

3. dangerous thing

4. dodging bullets

5. drink til we’re gone

6. no title

7. it gets worst at night

8. all sewn up

9. raising hell

10. banks of arkansas

11. it doesnt get any better than this

12. all of these love songs

13. hold fast

14. aint no roses no more

15. instrumental

16. blue and grey

did anyone happen to see any good shows in new years eve i watched the tragically hip performance at chicago’s house of blues, that was the excitement of my new years eve. looked like a great show.  i really, really wanted to see the hold steady but alas it was not meant to be.

here is the remainder of the tom waits storytellers.

19. chocolate jesus story

20. chocolate jesus

21. whats he building in there story

22. whats he building in there

23. a little rain story

24. a little rain

25. downtown train story

26. downtown train

27. black wings

28. jesus gonna be here story

29. jesus gonna be here

30. jersey girl story

31. jersey girl

32. chocolate jesus story
33. chocolate jesus

34. tango til they’re sore

35. hang down you’re head story

36. hang down you’re head

the last 5 tracks/stories are alternate versions

for all of you who are heading out tonight be safe and have a drink for me.? thanks for visiting captains dead and making the 06 a fan-fucking-tastic year.
be well ladies and gents.

xoxoxo

greg

btw, go bears!

oy vey, what a week its been. we made it to chicago record time, and without incident. its been a great visit, and has really solidified our desire to move back. not to take anything away from atlanta, cause its a great city too but the seclusion is getting a bit much to deal with. i actually prefer atlanta, as a city, to chicago, but home is home, i guess.

on another note, i find it strangely frightening the amount of people who google the phrase “ball stretching” and they find this here joint. i dont find it frightening that they find this place but the amount of people who actually are looking for info on ball stretching. is this some kind of fetish i am not aware of?

last night the wife and i hit the city and we ended up, after a couple of prior stops, at darkroom, 2210 w chicago. its a great joint with some one of the coolest staffs in the city. peforming at darkroom was an interesting local chicago band interestingly named team band. they reminded me, at least live, of a more focused and slightlier heavier cap n’ jazz or a gay ted leo. team band’s front man, greg drama, is amusing to say the least. not a great vocalist, but when you are as engaging as he is you really dont need to be.

bond

team band fight song

i know how

the past week i have been listening the hell out of orphans - which is phenomenal in case you have not digested it yet. here is part one of the much circulated, but in case you missed it, storytellers set with the storys included.

1. tango til they’re sore story

2. tango til they’re sore

3. hang down you’re head story

4. hang down you’re head

5. ol’ 55 story

6. ol’ 55

7. strange weather story

8. strange weather

9. hold on story

10. hold on

11. picture in a frame story

12. picture in a frame

13. i cant wait to get off work story

14. i cant wait to get off work

15. house where nobody lives story

16. house where nobody lives

17. get behind the mule story

18. get behind the mule