(My Baby Does) Good Sculptures

It's funny how they shoot you down
when your hands are held up high
open up your heart and soul
but that's not enough for most.

Friday Musical Poop Shoot, Pre-Summerfest, Happy Birthday TBD Edition

ZORG: Summerfestblog is active and ready for the new season. Bookmark it and stop by for commenting and hangovers!! Or look at my schedule and come buy me a beer and a Famous Dave's Link Snorkel!!!


OK, now for a quick confession: I like the new Coldplay album.

I fully expect agents to revoke my IMS charter immediately.


Itunes tells me we're at 32,355 items. I deleted the Maroon 5 video yesterday. Do not attempt if you are not aware of all INternet Traditions.


1. Give Me Back My Name from the album "Little Creatures" by Talking Heads When this album came out, I played it incessantly. One of the few times I would put the turntable on repeat. Albums. You know, vinyl. 12" black discs, with mechanical translations of sound pressed into a concentric groove. Stone knives and bearskins, children. Unlike many other IMSs, I don't feel transitioning to digital sound reproduction has lost anything; what happened, especially in the early days, was that digital reproduction avoided the ability of the mechanical process conceal the real noises, which sound engineers had been able to compensate for. When I first got a CD of Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, I heard parts of the music that simply were not audible from the vinyl.

2. Home Motel from the album "Twisted Willie" by X
3. Adventures In Solitude (Live) from the album "Live from SoHo (iTunes Exclusive)" by The New Pornographers iTunes EXCLUSIVE, there Zelmo. You don't have this song. Hah-hah!
4. Mistress Of The Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl) from the album "Tyranny And Mutation (Remaster)" by Blue Öyster Cult
5. Breaking The Choke Hold from the album "Contemplating The Engine Room" by Mike Watt This is an excellent post-punk concept album, tribute to Watt's father. Watt hasn't had a ton of output since fIREHOSE broke up, but what there has been is fantastic. Check it out if you like the Minutemen, or even if you didn't.
6. Gin Soaked Boy from the album "Swordfishtrombones" by Tom Waits What's a Friday without Tom Waits? It's a Monday, that's what it is. Or maybe the second Thursday in February.
7. Frank and Jesse James from the album "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Disc 1)" by Warren Zevon Waist to Warren is a pretty good seque, actually.
8. House Of Fun from the album "The Business (Disc 2)" by Madness Madness were always at least as much of a pop band as they were ska, but they got labeled with the other Two-Tone bands and their later, more pop-oriented output got kind of overlooked. This song, although a big hit, showed the first indications of change...
9. A to B from the album "The Futureheads" by The Futureheads
10. Land from the album "Horses" by Patti Smith What would you say about Patti Smith? She was punk before there was such a thing.

11. Ever Open Door from the album "Brother Where You Bound (Reissue Remastered)" by Supertramp Admitting Supertramp affection is an Internet Tradition.
12. Dead End Street from the album "To The Bone (Disc 2)" by The Kinks Nick never believed, I think, that I had plenty of Kinks on my iTunes. Do so!!
13. The Will of a Volcano from the album "Feel Good Ghosts" by Cloud Cult. One of my favorite bands, and excellent live, if too earnest for Canadians. I keed, I keed!!

14. Sealine from the album "El Momento Descuidado" by The Church
15. Lucky from the album "OK Computer" by Radiohead
(My Baby Does) Good Sculptures


Furthermore: I am aware of all internet traditions.

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