OK AG left, so I guess I have to try some posting. I swear, shes like a lemur on crack and cappucino. She's got a real job and everything, and I can't post like she does.

Kinda rusty and out of practice. I've been making messes at 3Bulls and Sadly, No!....

So, starting off easy with a good old fashioned Friday Random Musical Spew. I KNow!! It's like 2007 all over again! except for not having to listen to GWB alla time.




92.4 days of music, 143 gigs. Had to upgrade my music Hard drive this year. to 600 gigs. That should last me a while. We'll go to 16 BECAUSE AG IS OUT AND WE CAN!!!

1 . Johnny Cash, Rusty Cage. I'm not a traditionalist when it comes to Johnny, at least in that I like his American recordings the best. Oh, don't get me wrong, I love his old stuff too, I've got his classic 'Finger' poster from San Quentin above my workbench, but I feel like he and Rick Rubin connected in a primal way, and the song selections were so, so good. His cover of "Hurt" was for the ages, and spoke of an intimate knowledge that Trent Reznor could never muster. This is a pretty good one from that batch.

2. George Carlin, Hitchiking. I miss George. But this is kind of an outtake.

3. Grant Lee Buffalo, Crooked Dice. Alt-Americana. Grant Lee Phillips' voice has a wonderful yearning quality. One of his better albums before he just dropped the 'Buffalo' from the name.

4. The Figgs, Regional Hits. Great song from their semi-live discs (recorded in someone's dining room, from the look of it) it has all the fire and spit they put into the shows. It helps that it's a great pop-punk song with a killer riff. "International twits/ make international hits" O I loves me some Figgs and they are especially fine on a sunny warm Friday when it seems like winter might be on the wane...

5. Simple Kid, Oh Heart don't be bitter. Did this come from a Song of The Day? Don't remember. Singer-songwriter type stuff, but not from the oblivious school.

6. Utopia, Wild Life. I also have quite a love for Rundgren, especially when he is in Utopia prog-pop mode. This was from one of their later albums, POV, when they were melding prog/pop/and new wave to massive apathy. But we still saw them open for the Tubes at the Riverside, and they were goooood.

7. The Frames, Santa Maria. The Frames do some great guitar work. Definitely building off the work done by Jesus and Mary Chain, if less laconic in the vox.

8. The Planet Smashers, My Decision. Rockin ska. 3rd wave or 4th wave, I can never figure that out.

9. Rush, Spindrift. from the latest ear-violating screeching prog annoyance. One for me and Brando and Zelmo.

10. Paul Westerberg, Gun Shy.

11. Fishbone, Junkie's Prayer. Back in the olden days, they went for epic with The Reality of My Surroundings, and nearly made it. Some excellent stuff on that disc, but this is a spoken word piece. Kinda broke up the musical flow.

12. Iggy Pop, Lowdown. Iggy keeps throwing it. Saw him on the "blah blah blah" tour, and he was phenomenal. This disc wasn't so good though. Eff it, Iggy is still a classic, and his sellout to the Carnival Cruise lines is certainly ameliorated by the fact that the song he licensed was "Lust For Life" . Man, there are some clueless adverrtising weasels out there.

13. Elliot Smith, Speed Trials. Getting into this fella late, I know.

14. Ryan Adams, Goodnight Rose. That follows Elliot Smith pretty well. I just noticed his voice sounds like Grant Lee Phillips filtered through Memphis.

15. Rush, Heresy. Less screeching, but from Brando's Least Favorite Rush Album. Well, Random is Heartless.

16. Primus, To Defy The Laws Of Tradition. Good follow-on to Rush though.


That's it. Work to do. Leave your music in comments, or just talk about goats.