Category: Music

Currently playing song: “Well Well Well” by John Lennon on Plastic Ono Band. Good old John. I can always count on him to do some primal screaming for me when I can’t.

Currently playing song: “Rebecca Sylvester” by Gastr Del Sol on Upgrade & Afterlife. What a weird, wonderful song by a weird, wonderful band. I think the great thing for me about this band (unfortunately defunct) is the way David Grubbs’ lyrical melodies seem so comfortable with the weird sounds that Jim O’Rourke wraps around them. Besides, how can you dislike a song that ends, “Why did the sharks watch him drown?” … I owe Tyler a big debt of gratitude for introducing me to the band (even if he did freak me out when he told me, “Their songs sound like the noise inside my head when it’s quiet”).

Currently playing song: “Ain’t That A Groove” by James Brown on Star Time (Disc 2) The Hardest Working Man In Show Business. Ow! I just gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta know!!! Boy, it makes working on finance cases much harder. 🙂

Currently playing song: “Blue Angel” by Squirrel Nut Zippers on Hot.

Currently playing song: “KEXP Live (56kbps)”.

(Fixed it.)

Currently playing song: “KEXP Live (56kbps).

Currently playing song: “Feel the Pain” by Dinosaur Jr. on Without a Sound.

Currently playing song: “Horses In My Dreams” by PJ Harvey on Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea.

Currently playing song: “Creep” by Richard Cheese on Lounge Against The Machine. This is an alarming little big band lounge Radiohead cover that almost made me hurt myself laughing. “You know, folks, I was talking with my honey the other day, my Pablo Honey, and I said to her, I said, I said, you go to my head, my Radiohead. OK Computer! When you were here before, couldn’t look you in the eye…” There’s an interview with the perpetrator here.

Currently playing song: “Like Spinning Plates” by Radiohead on Amnesiac.

Currently playing song: “Tom’s Diner (DNA Remix)” by Suzanne Vega on Solitude Standing.

Currently playing song: “Still Learning How To Crawl” by Daniel Lanois on For The Beauty Of Wynona.

Currently playing song: “The boy with the thorn in his side (live Smiths cover)” by Jeff Buckley.

Currently playing song: “The boy with the thorn in his side (live Smiths cover)” by Jeff Buckley.

Busy morning, but then which mornings aren’t?

Scary music flashback: “Here Comes the Rain Again,” by the Eurhythmics. I think I’ve only heard their performance about three times, but when I was at Virginia I heard one of the a cappella groups, the Virginia Belles, perform it about 500 times. I’m no longer worried about wearing out repertore with the E-52s.

Alarming visual of the day: Furniture rooftop quickies. Link courtesy Greg Greene, horrific brain scarring images courtesy Adam Pesapane’s production company PES. Both Virginia alums, of course.

Keep Greg in your thoughts. It’s election day and he’s working on an Atlanta campaign. Maybe after today he can get some sleep.