drat fink

the poz that (duh) refreshes

"Johnny H dropped me off at my friend's house, which was located in the backroom of a rundown thread and scallop factory that his family owned. With the mesmerizing whir from the embroidery machines greeting me, I found my two pals already hoisting the moist--a case of Blatz beer and a fifth of Southern Comfort. So we killed some time yakking up baseball, needling down some choice Three Dog Night cuts (what, you were expecting Sir Doug Saldana or Wild Man Fischer?) and rummaging through his baseball card collection. As a companion piece to my growing fluency with Blatz, I started draining some rhythmic shots of Comfort (I now realize how easy it was for Tiny Tim to fall into that horrid three-jar-a-day habit he had of drinking straight-up Ragu Spaghetti Sauce!). I had never tasted that Southern Comfort peach-flavored bourbon liqueur befueur, but "Godfrey Jack Daniels" it went down smooth. Smooth enough that before I knew it, I was more than a half a bottle in and half a bottle out of it. And BP time at the stadium was quickly approaching."

pancake!

couple of nice takedowns:

rude pundit on tom friedman
max blumenthal on christopher hitchens

not chopped ham

this is the bestest filibuster fallout summary ive read in the last, oh, three minutes.

x-winger

""It's one thing to put your faith in a religion founded by a real person who claimed divine revelation, but it's something else entirely to have, as the scripture of your religion, a storyline that you know was made up by a very nonprophetic human being."
....

Wha...? Your irony meters may have been spared if you didn't already know that Card is devoutly religious. Your meters are glowing heaps of radioactive slag right now if you knew that Card is a devout Mormon."

david cross is overwrought

"Top Ten CD's That I Just Made Up (and accompanying made-up review excerpts) to listen to while skimming through some of the overwrought reviews on Pitchforkmedia.com."

sigh ops

i eagerly await rupert murdocks "dressing down" for endangering our troops by enciting the enemy. or not.

"The Washington Post report on the preliminary investigation into the release of photos of Saddam Hussein in his underwear seems to be suggesting that the photos were released for military psy-ops reasons, rather than out of individual cupidity..."

z2z

"We propose to acquire the rights to digitally duplicate and store THE BEST of every record company's difficult-to-move Quality Catalog Items [Q.C.I.], store them in a central processing location, and have them accessible by phone or cable TV, directly patchable into the user's home taping appliances, with the option of direct digital-to-digital transfer to F-1 (SONY consumer level digital tape encoder), Beta Hi-Fi, or ordinary analog cassette (requiring the installation of a rentable D-A converter in the phone itself . . . the main chip is about $12)."

not a friend

Artist: Sebadoh
Date: 05.07.93
Venue: Cotton Club
Location: Atlanta, GA

cant explain

The WHO

"Fallout '73-Take A Little Too Much Dope..."
Cow Palace-San Francisco
20nov1973-Opening Night of North American Tour
Black & White-In House audio/video feed w/time code.
MPEG-2 w/2.0 Dolby

"A very significant piece of RnR history caught on the house system at The Cow Palace...Keith Moon collapses and is down for the count late into the first show of the tour...to be replaced by an audience member...who must have felt like the luckiest guy on Earth...at Keith's expense."

this is not greenday

"004: Neutral Milk Hotel
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
[Merge; 1998]

There are very few albums that resist categorization quite so effortlessly as In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. For forty staggering minutes, Jeff Mangum short-circuits all conventional modes of expression, forging a private language that is endlessly intriguing and haunting in the truest sense of the word. Mangum sings as if possessed, painfully conveying fractured and moving tales with the imagistic skill of a brilliant novelist. He gnashes his teeth at the fabric of time, then wraps himself in it like a blanket, channeling the violence of his personal past through a claustrophobic frustration with his dejected present. His band, whose contributions to Aeroplane remain criminally underappreciated, elevate Mangum's songs from chilling sketches into vibrant opuses, fully realizing the antique otherworldliness of Mangum's storytelling.

Opening with the achingly gorgeous nostalgia of "The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1", Aeroplane immediately plays upon a potent conflation of cultural and personal past. The world of Aeroplane is haunted by Anne Frank-- the specter of childhood's unimpeachable innocence amidst the unfathomable horror of the holocaust. In the feverish "Oh Comely", Mangum longs to save her in "some sort of time machine." By "Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2", the album's indelible and heartbreaking closing track, he seems to have resigned himself to loving a ghost, singing with a thoroughly unnerving blend of heartbreak and exhaustion: "In my dreams you're alive, and you're crying/ As your mouth moves in mine, soft and sweet." The way people have been affected by Aeroplane is ample proof of its power and uniqueness. Like all classic art, it is widely misunderstood; yet to some, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea has become a riddle the likes of The Wasteland-- an impossibly rich text that begs to be deciphered, yet continually evades any singular interpretation. --Matt LeMay"

that torrs it

**Bob Dylan - Going Going Guam (The "Complete" Rolling Thunder 1976 Rehearsals)
**Cream 1967-10-15 Grande Ballroom - Detroit, MI (SBD)
**The Carpenters Clean-Living Millionaires Live In Japan 1972
**Arlo Guthrie's Gerde's Folk City1966 SB
**The Shins 2005-05-15 Portland, OR
**Bloc Party, 2005-05-16 , Pinkpop
**Elvis Costello 2005-03-09 Nashville with Emmylou Harris

man of the times

"People think nothing of ordering a $25 martini at the hotel bar -- but pay fifty bucks for archived material at the Times? Oh my God!"

zone din

"Alderson presented charts and actual game footage to make his point. Nobody was surprised by his assertion that the top of the strike zone was being called about waist high. The rulebook calls for the top of the zone to be at the letters. This would raise the zone by at least 10 inches, and everyone knew that a change of that magnitude was outrageous. So, the mandate was to call it roughly halfway between the waist and the letters, or from another perspective, just above the belly button. As a former pitcher, this sounded reasonable to me."

indestructably beat

The Kinks - Act Nice And Gentle
Sly and The Family Stone - Chicken
Gotan Project - The Man (el hombre remix)
Grateful Dead - The Only Time Is Now
Wali and the Afro Caravan - Hail the King
Budo - Miles Davis
Margie Joseph - What You Gonna Do?
The Faces - Pool Hall Richard
Edith Piaf - C'est Un Monsieur Trés Distinguè
Winston Francis - A Little Today, A Little Tommorow

take me to the bridge

this here link has a frightening amount of music blog links. something fo everyone.

flash card

GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE - live @ Auto Bonn (Audubon) Ballroom, New York City, NY December 23rd 1978 - soundboard recording

mushed ass...heee....oooh'd

"According to a shock claim by Larry Flynt and Hustler magazine, trumpeted on the Raw Story site, Bolton was a paid visitor to Plato’s Retreat, which in the seventies brought together many people of differing viewpoints, penis and bra-cup sizes, much as the United Nations has done since its founding. Perhaps Bolton went (if he indeed went—we must preserve the benefit of doubt) for the excellent buffet, of which the owners of Plato’s Retreat always expressed pride. I understand the conversations in the buffet line could get quite racy. ("Hey, this salad dressing tastes funny...") Or perhaps it was the aromatic atmosphere he couldn’t resist as he padded around in a white towel and flipflops. According to one former enthusiast, "One of the things I'll never never never forget -I think it was Plato's Retreat - it was walking in and having a waft of red energy, but it had no thorns in it, everyone was there consenting to be there. Everyone was there for the same purpose. It was so hot and so heavy.""

toodayessaday

the herbaliser - 8 stong men
they might be giants - dr worm
built to spill - shameful dread
miles davis - concerto de aranjuez
ray charles - wichita lineman
eddie floyd - knock on wood
astrud gilberto - wish me a rainbow
pretty things - i see you
polysics - im a worker
johnny cash - there you go

kleptocrats unite!

"King Abdullah of Jordan has agreed to pardon Ahmed Chalabi, the controversial Iraqi political leader, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison for fraud after his bank collapsed with $300m (£160m) in missing deposits in 1989."

two noodle

two tracks from forthcoming albums on matador --

*laura cantrell - 14th street
*new pornographers - twin cinema

ridley me this

juan cole, historian film critic

SIGN IN

X - WHISKEY AU GO GO, HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, JULY 27TH 1980.

1. SOUL KITCHEN
2. WHEN OUR LOVED PASSED OUT ON THE COACH
3. BACK TO THE BASE
4. NAUSEA
5. SEX AND DYING IN THE HIGH SOCIETY
6. YOUR PHONE'S OFF THE HOOK
7. WE'RE DESPERATE
8. UNHEARD MUSIC
9. SUGARLIGHT
10. THE WORLD'S A MESS ; IT'S IN MY KISS
11. LOS ANGELES
12. BEYOND AND BACK
13. JOHNNY HIT AND RUN PAULINE
14. YEAR 1
15. CROWD
ENCORE :
16. UNIVERSAL CORNER

dylanographix

"KEXP presents a series of stories on the musical life of Bob Dylan. Told by Dylan’s friends, scholars and fans, "Honest With Me" features firsthand accounts from Joan Baez, Al Kooper, Izzy Young and the Band’s Robbie Robertson."

real people

"What's all the fuss with the Real ID Act about?

President Bush is expected to sign an $82 billion military spending bill soon that will, in part, create electronically readable, federally approved ID cards for Americans. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the package--which includes the Real ID Act--on Thursday."

weed wackers

the sentencing projects report on the changing nature marijuana prosecution in the 90s.

your liberal media

"Given the present bitterness, given the angry irresponsible charges being hurled by both camps, the nation will be in dire need of a conciliator, a likable guy who will make things better and not worse. That man is not Al Gore. That man is George W. Bush.""

comity is central

""The Daily Show" regular will star each night in "The Colbert Report," likely starting in September. Comedy Central is revamping its schedule, recognizing that late-night programming is essentially prime time for its youthful audience."

indifunkarai

A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation
Gang Of Four - He'd Send In The Army
Can - Moonshake
The Decembrists - Clementine
Gregory Issacs - Tam Tam
The Grifters - Pretty Notes
Cat Campbell - Hammering
Dump - Raspberry Beret
Funkadelic - Baby I Owe You Something Good
Lisa Germano - Candy

all lubed up

something for the reality-based conspiracist in you. as if there were any doubt that blair and bush were not just holding hands before the war.