Monday Shuffle

Ok, it's been a long time between posts - what has been going on... Uh, Herr Munkey der Murder has been spying on Americans without a warrent, budget has exploded like Mariah Carrey's thighs, Steelers win the Super Bowl, Bird Flu still hasnt cleansed the Earth of the cancer of humankind.

Anyway, here is your shuffle.

1) I Need A Miracle - Grateful Dead. This is the album version and I have no idea when or why I DL'd it. "Too much of everything is just enough" - indeed. God damn prophetic.

2) Original Of The Species - U2, Chicago 5/12/05. "Give you everything you want except what you want". Spoken like a parent. Or a God-Parent (of the Edge) as the case might be... if I remember correct. "Somethings you shouldnt get too good at - like smiling crying and celebrity - some people got too much confidence, baby". God damn I love this band.

3) Down By The River - Neil Young. There are two kinds of people in this world. People who get Neil and people who have zero clue what they are talking about.

4) The Street Parade - The Clash. Actually, the first time Ive heard this. But I will say this, something like punk is gonna make a comeback. The shit status of the music industry demands it - the shit status of our politicians and our culture beg for it.

5) Couting Train Cars - Widespread Panic, New Year's Vacation Shows. A smile bringer. Ole JB singin sweet. You wanna take a drive on a sunny Sunday afternoon, put this fucker on.

6) Country Roads - Toots & The Maytals. John Denver done reggae style. "West Jamaica take me home" Shit, see number 5.

7) Stella Blue - Grateful Dead, So Many Roads box set. "All the years combined" indeed. I can remember the band bathed in blue shafts of light and the lip of Deer Creek's shed looking like a sky scraper. Oh but for those times to come again - they will just not for me.

8) Spin The Black Circle - Pearl Jam, 8/24/00. Me thinks this is about playing LPs and ragin the fuck out -- or heroin. Hell, I dont know. But it makes me pump my fuckin fist and curse Preznit Pretzel Choaker. So its good by me.

9) Sometimes A River - String Cheese Incident. Damn. This one is full of happy songs. SCI. They were my world for a short dreamy few years. Then they lost their soul. Or I did. With this album they attempted, with varying success, to reclaim their soul... and in this song at least - they did.

10) Yahweh - U2, 5/12/05. "Take this shirt, polyester white trash made in nowhere, take this shirt and make it clean. Take this soul, stranded in some skin and bones, take this soul and make it sing" My fucking god, how I love this fucking band. "Take these hands, teach them what to carry, take these hands, dont make a fist, take this mouth, so full of violence, take this mouth, give it a kiss - yeah"

Believe in THIS

What do you get when you cross a Hasidic Jew, reggae and rap? You get the smoothest, most soulful mother trucker around. You get Matisyahu.

I aint bullshitin ya. This cat can drop the shit on a dime -- and he does it with the sincerity of a highly devout man. You can shake your ass or you can contemplate the deeper meaning of things - Matisyahu is there for you.

His "Live From Stubbs" album just came out. Check it. A brand new album will be out soon.

Ok, I know it sounds freaky... really it does ... but the dude got SKILLZ. So, please, check him out ASAP.

Coming attractions part two....

Maybe it was better that Kerry lost. My goodness. I need a Blackberry just to keep up with the various Republican scandals... can you say: CULTURE OF CORRUPTION.

So, anyway, some say (like how I say that, just like Fox News) some say that ole Duke Cunningham (douche California Republican who took more than 2 million bucks in bribes from a defense contractor) wore a wire - and that some other asses are gonna fry.

Between this and Abramoff-gate, will there be any Republicans left in Congress before the 2006 elections? One wonders.

Coming attractions ??

This could get VERY exciting in the Hoosier state.

Might Indiana become to Roe v. Wade what Kansas is Creationism in the classroom? I hope so. Let's get this fuckin thing started. If the Republicans are SERIOUS about outlawing abortion rights and if its not always just been a ruse to get the Evangelicals to vote for em - let em put their money down.


Lawmaker's goal: Overturn Roe v. Wade

KICK ASS

As I loved the old (and quite shit) show when I was a bit younger... so I do love the update (and it's hardly shit).

Battlestar Galactica. That's right. Season 2.5 started tonight.

It's a retelling of the original show. Man creates Cylons, Cylons rebel, Cylons are defeated in war against mankind, Cylons leave, Cylons evolve to look and act like man, Cylons attack, humankind is destroyed save one old military ship and a "rag tag fugitive fleet" (that's from the original, I can still hear old Alpo man saying those words) with a total of 45k+ humans left alive searching for a 13th Colony (Earth) that might or might not exist.

Anyway, if you dig Sci-Fi at all - check it out. It's a good show. Well acted, very respectable writing, and some cool effects (especially for a TV show)... and me thinks it a great story.

Plus, it's got hot chicks... and Edward James Olmos (who, while hardly hot, is a great character actor).

Im Steve Guttenberg, bitch

Holy crap.
I have no idea what to think.

The star of stage and screen, Mr. Steve Guttenberg is back on the press junkets and seems to be a great interview.

He must have been stoned.

Or he's fuckin crazy.






Here are some tidbits:

"From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild apart from Gene Hackman. Everyone keeps asking me that stupid question: "What are you doing?" I say: "Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich."

Er, well, yeah, I guess. But what about your craft? What about following your muse?

"I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that".

Geez, points for honesty. But dont you feel the need to use your fame to better the world, a la Bono?

"I'm not going to say "I'm an actor and I'm changing the world." Ewan McGregor - who cares? God bless you, Ewan, you're cute and adorable but just do your job".

But what are you doing next? Surely it's something massive...

"There are great movies I do on the Hallmark Channel called Single Santa. I've just finished a sequel called Meet The Santas. It's like Meet The Fockers. Mr and Mrs Santa have to come and meet my wife's parents. It's great".

Yeah, Im sure it's JUST LIKE Meet The Fockers, except it stars you and not DiNiro & Ben Stiller... and that Hoffman fellow. Yeah, Im sure it's the exact same thing.

Now if we can just find out what happened to that guy who made all the weird noises.

And I am not THAT paranoid

So here we go. Enemies of the State lists and shit. We can put the blessings off for a while, GOD SAVE AMERICA from these jackbooted mother fuckers.

Osama is free - are you?

Are you?

Monday Shuffle

Here we go again:

Junko Partner - Anders Osborne. This NOLA (by way of Sweden) guitar player & singer/songwriter is one of the criminally under-rated musicians of our day. I aint bullshitin ya. His live shows are absolute magic... and instead of a bass player, he employs a tuba - that's flippin sweet. It's in dire need of an update, but you can check www.andersosborne.com for more info.

Faithful - Pearl Jam, 5/26/00. Is Eddie a vegan? I really dont know. Dont care, but am curious. Anyway, good song.

My Favorite Things - Holy Moses & The Holy Rollers, 4/2/04. Discovered this band on the Archive. As for the song, they do it just fine. MFT has to be the one song that when done right is fabtastic, but when done wrong sounds like Andy Williams wearing platform shoes on the Dinah Shore show.

My Little Humidor - Galactic. If there was justice in the world, THIS BAND would play halftime of the Super Bowl (or at least do that stupid ass NFL Kick-Off special shit at the start of the year). Too bad Americans dont have the attention span to dig bands that make music sans vocals.

God Put A Smile Upon Your Face - Coldplay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever. Chris Martin and the boys got skillz, and he can write a great song. Deal with it. Plus, he's jowl deep in Gwen Paltrow and you arent.

Under The Weather - Dubconscious. More from Georgia's favorite white boy reggae/dub band. Rightous stuff it is. "Did we get caught under the weather or did we get bought and sold down the river"? Id say a little of both.

Dont Touch My Bikini - Halo Benders. Eh, some deep voiced new wavish stuff with a rap tip. Eh, gotta love impulse buys on I-Tunes. I think it's about a strip club, I know it's got musicial immitations of somebody getting a stiffy. "Take a ca-ca, take a postcard, you're so heavy, you've my honey, getting ready, easter bunny, rocking steady, making money, toasting Vegans, thats not funny".

Fantastic Voyage - Lakeside. Great song. Thanks to my brother who thought he was black, or wished to be black, before it was popular (even though he's whiter than Frasier Crane). This shit is smooooooooooooooooth as Johnnie Blue Label.

High Time - Grateful Dead, 9/30/80. Always loved this song. Typical lushiousness that was the majority of the Jerry ballads... Bobby's harmony vocals is what puts it over the top. It was also one of the ones that seemed to get more soulful there toward the end of the run as Garcia really started to fade.

Dont Go Back To Rockville - REM. Put this on at a party. Or after having a fight with someone you love. Trust me. It'll make you smile. Dont know why, but it does.