about that 24 hour train ride, never again! the way there wasn’t so bad, in fact it was pretty relaxing, but the way home was brutal. i didnt really realize how badly the train stinks until the return trip. i know i didnt help the stank in the air and seats any cause i was pretty gassy, but i wonder how often they clean the seats and whatnot. i also had this little old lady next to me for much of the ride that when she would fall asleep her head would eventually make its way onto my shoulder. it was cute the first couple of times it happened, but the cuteness quickly wore off. why couldnt she had been a 19 year sorority chick? one more thing, if i never set foot into a tgi fridays or quiznos again, that would be ok. regarding tgi fridays, i ended up bullshitting with some guy for a while and i loved to hear about the hookups and drama that unfolds at that particular fridays on any given night. i love knowing that the fridays connected to the dulles marriott has sexy times drama.
anywho, here is a lovely explosions recording that i grabbed from archive dot org that took place at the metro in chicago on 3.28.07. thanks to the original taper, brian skalinder. you can grab it flac form from the link provided.
hola amigos! hope everyone is just lovely. i, for one, am just fine. i suppose, all things considered, i could be worse…. just wanted to let everyone know that as of about a week, broadcasterhouse.com will no longer exist, so if you have been putting off grabbing off something from there i would do it before thanksgiving. sadly, i just dont have the extra funds to keep it going. it may get brought back at a later date, who knows.
btw, its fucking cold here in herndon, va. not diggin it….
i like when complete strangers close their emails with “love” cause i have a penchant for signing mine with “xoxo.” short story, shorter, i got an email from new york songbird johanna samuels and said email was closed as such. anyway, her new ep a little bit of both is quite lovely and i love her old timey vocals. she sounds like she should be singin in daper dan comercial from the 20’s or something like that…. either way, check her out! her ep can be purchased somewhere, i suppose. check out her myspace…
as i have stated many times before, bands that fly under my radar fall into two camps 1. i really had no idea of their existence 2. friends/peoples have told me about a certain band and for no other reason other than my own arrogance had neglected to heed their advice. nashville’s old crow medicine show falls into camp numero dos. been told probably a hundred times that i would dig em, but well you know the rest. i’ll be god damned if i aint lovin their new record, tennessee pusher. although, i have heard from die hard fans that this is not their best (anyone attest to that), but if this aint their best then i have seriously been missin out. fuck me and my hard headedness.
“methamphetamine” - one of the best songs of the year
i got my hands on a copy of times new viking’s new matador ep, stay awake and if you are fan of noisey lo fi pop stuff, then you should probably find this to your liking. sounds as if it was recorded on a 4 track that was wrapped in a wet cloth. loud, fast and pretty incomprehensible, just like i like my ladies…
the first time i listened to alabama boy, grayson capps, i really had this romantic idea that he was chris whitley incarnate. sadly, well not really sadly, but mr capps his is own man, his own musician. thinking that way does both guys a great disservice. sure, there are some glaring similarities especially in the realm of missed opportunities. if you read any of the two’s bios you will you would definitely find a kind of kinship in such coulda-woulda-shouldas that seemed to marr their professional lives.
grayson is a soul man, not in the classic blues man sense, but his songs of sin, redemption, and everything leading to the two poles makes him such. his plaintive delivery and what you see is what you get lyrics may be a turn off for those looking for a “challenge” but does everything need to push you to the edge of wtf? when something can lovingly carry ya down the river of love and hope and sex and dreams. whatever the hell that is supposed to mean. listen, i you may get my point.
his new record rott n roll is out now, and its pretty great.
sup folks? well if all goes well, and it probably wont, i worked my last night last evening. this month i am going to days, and i pray to god, or whoever will help make this happen, that i hear something about our move to new orleans. what sounded like a wham-bam-thank you ma’am deal last week has turned into who the hell knows?
before i forget, go sox!
been listenin the hell out of blitzen trapper’sfurr as of late, in fact i am listening to em as i type, and its definitely going to end up on a bunch of end of year lists - including mine. in case you have failed to check em out thus far, well what the hell?
here is a loverly sun kil moon show from malmö, sweden on 9.6.08. am i the only one that really hasnt listened to april at all? as always, thanks to the original taper
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