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5 Songs
A “chain-blog” from my buddy Gordo:
List five songs that you are currently digging – it doesn’t matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying right now. Post these instructions and the five songs (with artist) in your blog. Then tag five people to see what they’re listening to:
The Shins – “Gone for Good” (aka “A Call to Apathy”): Although it is close to 2 years old, Chutes too Narrow has really been growing on me for the last month or so, and this is easily my fav. track. I love the choral refrain: “I find a fatal flaw, with the logic of love, and go out of my head…”.
Marah – “Walt Whitman Bridge”: This isn’t technically released until October 18, but I was able to score and advance through some industry contacts. I’m still not really sure about If You Didn’t Laugh, You’d Cry as an album, but I do know that WWB shows why I came to love Marah in the first place — just awesome, infectuous rock n roll that harkens back to the Kids In Philly days.
Bloc Party – “Like Eating Glass”: The opening track to the hit or miss Silent Alarm. Man this song is so damn catchy!
Mountain Goats – “You or Your Memory”: A weird band and a weird song, but it just draws me in every time. “St. Joseph’s Baby Asprin, Bartles & James, and you, or your memory…”2 for 1 – Commerical Songs: “Easy” by Faith No More. It’s strange that these hardcore rockers would cover Lionel Ritchie, but I dig both the Levi’s commercial it resides in and the tune. Also really liking Madeleine Peyroux’s “Don’t Wait Too Long”, currently featured in a Dockers commercial — just a beautiful voice.
Also meriting consideration: The Killers “Mr. Brightside”, Stevie Wonder “For Once in My Life”, Death Cab for Cutie “Soul Meets Body”, Joe Purdy “Wash Away”, anything by Jack Johnson.
Since most of my friends don’t blog, I tag you if you are reading this and are not one of the originators. Feel free to post in the comments section below. Also, link back to Gordo, Wisdom, and K-Mac for their lists.
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Talk Like A Pirate Day
Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19th. Arrrr!
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I’m Afraid of Spiders
Alright, I admit it. I’m afraid of spiders. There was a big black one on a pair of pants I picked up in my room tonight and I screamed like an effing little girl while I beelined out of the room. What, you’re not afraid of anything stupid? It takes a big man (6’3″ to be exact) to admit he’s afraid of something that’s only about an inch long (that’s a big spider around these here parts if isn’t a daddy long legs).
Other bugs freak me out too. There, I said it. I found a dead cricket on my couch and I didn’t want to sit back down for a while. Hey, crickets can be dangerous. Wait, I mean spiders. Whatever!
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Looting and Finding in the wake of Katrina
A friend, Tom, observes:
I was looking through some of the horrible pictures of the hurricane Katrina aftermath and I noticed something: White folks wading through the water carrying food and supplies simply “found” them at a local store. The black folks however, “looted” the local store. Check it out:
Black people “loot”
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/480/ladm10208301530%3EWhite people “find”
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/photos_ts_afp/050830071810_shxwaoma_photo1Coincidence? Maybe.
Update: I noticed today that BoingBoing picked up on this as well. See also: Romenesko & Salon
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A poem by Scott Holman
Matchstick
The artist and the critic
Must coexist
On the tip
Of a matchstick