Driving around Montana, listening to a mix tape of Los Lobos, Jason and the Scorchers, and Lucinda Williams' first album -- that was a hell of a perfect setting.by blasmo
Absolutely.by blasmo
Wanted to like Glee. Parts of me really do. Can't. Certainly, there are moments, but for the most part, it jut seems like the show is exploiting its characters for their sadness/physical deformity/family crisis rather than making them a part of a three-dimensional character. Then, the money started rolling in, which is all Murphy's concerned about here, and the power. So when he says heby blasmo
Mid-Period Zappa. Usually listen to just the Mothers, but recently started to finish the FZ collection, and those picked up quite a bit -- post-Flo/Eddie, pre-Zappa Records era.by blasmo
I would order such a thing. As long as he keeps that damned clock necklace from dipping into the deep fryer.by blasmo
Yup. How to balance complaining about product by becoming one. The age-old question: What to do for leisure? I haven't heard the whole thing yet, just stuff off their website, but musically it's just okay, and lyrically, they can't quite hit the mark anymore. They're trying too hard. Putting theory into practice and being interesting is a hell of a lot harder than just theoryby blasmo
Wow. And he started out as a parody of a B-Boy.by blasmo
"At Least It Was Here" -- The 88by blasmo
I was 7 when my brother took me to Jethro Tull. With my dad, too, standing at the end of the aisle to intercept joints that were passed. I bought Born to Run and The Ramones album because of reviews of Rolling Stone. I listened to that Ramones album every day for weeks, and didn't really get to the Springsteen album again for years.by blasmo
They have all those Gene Roddenberry TV movies that were failed pilots, almost all with John Saxon. Utterly watchable and fun.by blasmo
1st album(s): Born to Run; The Ramones 1st CD: Into the Woods -- The Call 1st concert -- Jethro Tull, 1975.by blasmo
Questions. Questions filling the minds of the youth of America -- from "Billy the Mountain"by blasmo
This service is awesome. They burn the discs individually, but don't do any serious remastering of the films. Some of them are old 70's TV movies, and many are awesome. Post Edited (01-22-11 07:50)by blasmo
It took a few listens, but I really like the song. Haven't sampled the rest of the album. Not the best song of the year, at least not for me. Very beautiful in parts, and spacy as hell in others. Only works for me because right when you get saturated with one section, it hits another and the flow...just...keeps...going...by blasmo
I wish WAIATA sounded like ... the drummer was in the same room.by blasmo
Fiiine. May I remind you of a little album called Tarkus?by blasmo
"I don't mind concept albums in general, simply because it's been my experience that most of the time the storyline is pretty much just window dressing, often forgotten halfway through, like a plot-driven porn flick." May I remind you of a little album called Kilroy Was Here?by blasmo
Man With The Golden Ear.by blasmo
Knew a few in high school.by blasmo
Oh, sir. CVB is a beautiful band. One of the better examples of "they got better as they went, but started out just fine". Smart enough to earn smarmy and talented enough to play whatever they just felt like. And nice enough to let some guy who showed up at an OKC show with a melodica take a couple of solos.by blasmo
I love Breaking, but Dancer is incredibly difficult to watch, possibly because it attempts to take melodrama to its furthest extreme. That concept, I get, but it doesn't make it enjoyable to watch, either viscerally or intellectually. *That* said, the train song is pretty cool. Antichrist is amazing at times, almost like watching Bad Lieutenant, or any other great film that exists to explorby blasmo
It's fucking awesome, because it's a really good song and might actually win.by blasmo
I used to teach Argumentative Writing at OU. I always taught the Evaluation Argument as the last paper and let the students choose what they wanted to evaluate. Most wrote about a film or band -- something like that. I always explained that knowing why you like something is better than just liking it -- it helps you to find more things similar to it, and you can help people understand why they miby blasmo
rhett, the opposite for me on that one... "Who keeps the hipsters in their place? Who keeps the Mekons in your face? We do! We do!"by blasmo
For the opposite, Merle Haggard left his wife for one of his backup singers, and they all kept working and living together for quite a while.by blasmo
Bubbly synth-pop: Erasure, Yaz, Howard Jones. Blame LCD Soundsystem.by blasmo
I'm assuming they were just worn out by the time they got to OKC. They'd added us as a date late in the tour. Pylon opened, and they were great.by blasmo
"Largest myth-building of the last 15 years: Astral Weeks" Not a bit. It's every bit as brilliant, beautiful and awesome as it has been described -- worth every word. Bruce Springsteen is the actual answer to that, and it's only been building since 9-11, when scared Americans looked to someone that wrote a song most of them couldn't perceive was ironic: "Born inby blasmo
Worst big concert I ever went to was R.E.M. on the Green tour in OKC. I turned 21 that day. Stipe was an asshat back stage -- even after I mentioned seeing him as a teenager illegally during a tour for Chronic Town (along with 3 other times) -- but the rest of the band was really cool. Live, they were obviously bored with the tour, and there was no energy, and some very sloppy playing.by blasmo
Yikes! Hope everything's okay. On the sort-of-plus side, you did get to read a damned fun book: Good Omens. If you haven't, try American Gods next. Post Edited (01-04-11 20:15)by blasmo
