01. If I Could – October Project
02. Moonraker – Shirley Bassey
03. Xingu – Ozric Tentacles
04. Kissin’ Hot Dog – The Archies (the anti-emo group)
05. Soul Experience – Iron Butterfly (again. Someone is trying to tell me something)
06. And Your Bird Can Sing – The Beatles
07. Taboo – The South Sea Serenaders
08. You’ll Be Under My Wheels – The Prodigy
09. Tank! – The Seat Belts
10. Momentum – Project Pitchfork
Happy Easter.
Before the Storm: The Ten
01. Mona Lisa Overdrive – Juno Reactor
02. Fireball (Take 1) – Deep Purple
03. The Real Me – The Who
04. Run Fay Run – Isaac Hayes
05. Our House – Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
06. The Work Song – Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
07. Zeitfalle – Project Pitchfork
08. Morning Dove – Moby
09. Black Blade – Blue Oyster Cult
10. Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da – The Beatles (and what a bizarre segue THAT was! – and if we went to 11, it would have been Martin Denny…)
Almost 2000 songs on the ol’ Nomad Zen, probably one of the best purchases I have ever made.
Ew.
Sorry. Genuinely miserable week, culminating in a literal bloody nightmare at The Hated Job Tuesday.
To turn the corner, looks like I may have picked up some writing work today. Here’s hoping, since somehow I wound up owing the gummint money this year. At least I managed to dodge the Mystery Cafe bullet last weekend, as the actor whose actual job that managed to get back in town to do it.
If I had the time, I’d find some YouTube thingie to amuse you, but the family demands meatloaf, and I must get cookin’.
Neener Neener
…and HA! to haters, quitters and oh-so-cool “I’m taking it off my Tivo cycle” -ers.
Lost has gotten very interesting again in the last few weeks.
So there.
Expectations done got violated
The Pat Boone album was a big hit.
Go figure.
The Ten v.001
As I try to get my writing life back in gear, I find myself returning to old ideas that never got utilized. One is the time I decided to write a novel using the Tarot as a guide. Yeah, I know, it’s not original at all; Philip K. Dick did the same thing using the I Ching. I’m not totally following that old route yet, though – for one thing, I can’t find my favorite deck. For another, I simply don’t have the time or unassailable personal space to reach a point of clarity for the cards to speak to me.
What I have done is become oddly obsessed with my MP3 player and what gets connected via the Random function. As this point, I’m unsure whether I’m trying to suss out things about myself or if my subconscious is trying to find usable patterns in sonic synchronicity. More bulletins as they occur, I guess. For the curious, today’s Ten was:
1. Shirley Bassey – Diamonds are Forever
2. Mitchell Froom – The Key of Cool (getting a 404 on that name? It’s the music used in Cafe Flesh)
3. Danny Elfman – Midnight Run
4. Spanky & Our Gang – Sunday Will Never Be the Same
5. Spirit – A Dream Within A Dream
6. Mandingo – Jungle Wedding
7. Nine Inch Nails – Last
8. Oingo Boingo – Dead Man’s Party
9. Pink Floyd – Goodbye, Blue Sky
10. Les Baxter – Tahiti, A Summer Night at Sea
Some Inspiration
Well, perhaps not inspiration, but a bit of balm and perspective on War and our children, coming, from all places, an editorial in USA Today, via Fark. Jonathan Turley’s piece is low-key, pragmatic, and affecting in a way that I wish every voice on the op-ed page could emulate.
And on a completely unrelated note, Happy Year of the Pig, everyone! Gong Hee Fot Choy!
Then again…
Well… I wasn’t expecting that.
Summer. Phoo.
I was told that Summer is a crazy time for dentistry. That made little sense to me at the time, but I have found that it is true. Kids out of school = OMG get them to the dentist when we don’t have to get them out of class, or something. We’re currently booked up through the first week in July, for pity’s sake… and that’s just the scheduled cleanings, fillings, root canals, und so weiter. Getting emergencies in involves quite a bit of triage, diplomacy, prior experience with Tetris, and sometimes just being a bastard.
Probably no wonder that I come home late in the evening muttering about “Frickin’ people and their frickin’ teeth…” Smaller wonder that when I log onto City of Heroes for my catharsis, my avatar, whilst kicking villainous butt, can be heard screaming “I bet you have teeth too, don’t you? DON’T YOU???!!!”
But why dwell on this, past the fact that my parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last week, which means that I, too, am staring the half-century mark in the face, and still have not achieved the great things for which I was destined?
Ah, screw it. Let’s talk about music.
As I mentioned earlier, my broadband cratered just I was finding a large world of vinyl share sites in the Blogosphere. These hardy obsessed souls rip and clean up audio files from out of print records and make them available, usually on the rapidshare.de site, with which I was familiar from my obsession with Datajunkie. The only trouble with Rapidshare is that, of course, they’re trying to turn a profit, and would really like you to purchase an account there. If not, you’re limited to one download every hour or so. Fair enough. If I were serious about this, I would plop down the $12 or so (9.90 euros for one month), but I’m still paying for that new air conditioner.
Anyway.
Through these sites I have lucked back upon music I thought lost forever (to paraphrase Roger Zelazny, enemies don’t steal your records, friends do), like Black Mass by Lucifer… Lucifer being one Mort Garson, in one of the first and best purely electronic albums. In fact, it is through these sites that I’ve found that Garson produced some other memorable albums.
Indeed, if I have found out anything, it’s that I will never have enough time to listen to all the music I want. I made that realization about movies a long time ago, too, so I’m in for some serious frustration.
Anyway.
lelebelle is a good place to start. The link is the January archive, which is particularly awesome.
Garden of Delights is aptly named.
For sheer length and breadth of postings, it is hard to beat Time Traveller at this point.
And, if you are so inclined, simply peruse the links at each of these sites; your journey will be long and – hopefully – fruitful.
I Tell You This
The Great Outdoor Fight may very well be this generation’s Iliad.
Absolutely no one asked for this, but here it is anyway. I mentioned earlier that synchronicity is one of the few things that makes life worth living… so what are the other things?
Well…
1. Absurdly bad movies.
2. Gazangas
3. General Tso’s Chicken.
4. …
I’m still workin’ on it.
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