Thursday, August 07, 2003
what I'm listening to Right Now: Marshal Tucker Band, Country Tucker - Can't You See
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Let’s link some stuff first.
Black Keys on Conan Friday, August 8th. And they have a new website. They don't suck. A little "same old, same old" but it sounds good, you know what I mean?
Richie Havens at Birchmere in DC Saturday. I was going to go, but I can't now. His is the best show EVER!! When he comes to your town, GO AND SEE HIM!!
Lucky Town, a band from across the river (i.e. Norfolk/Virginia Beach) has been making a name for themselves on MTV's Road Rules and Budweiser's "True Music" advertisements. I think that's all I should have to say. (For you New Yorkers, they played the Bitter End on August 1st. That should tell you what kind of stuff we're dealing with here.) I'm not really recommending them, but simply acknowledging their existence. They will be playing at the 7th street stage at the oceanfront of Virginia Beach Sunday. Tell you parents.
Win the Guided by Voices sign from the Strokes "Someday" Family Feud video.
Steve from Blues Clues has his songs online. They aren't bad. This MSNBC article says that the Flaming Lips' producer had a hand in it. MSNBC also says it's good. Well if MSNBC says it's good that's all I need! It actually isn't too horrible. Check it out and tell me what you think.
I stumbled on more Strokes 2nd album news at the NME magazine site. Don't know if you had seen it yet. Did NME get an advanced copy of the CD? How can I get an advance copy of it? I want one.
Listen to the entire new Dashboard Confessional album at Mtv.com. Geez, Liz Phair and now Dashboard Confessional!!! What the heck is happening to me? Seriously though, he writes a decent lyric, but does this guy have any luck with women? Geez, he is unlucky in love, heh? Hey Chris, maybe it's you. Did you ever think about that?
Here's a new song Chris can sing on his next album:
Maybe It's Me By. Matthew "Chico" Cox
I've been thinking, Maybe it’s Me.
They leave me, because of too much whining.
Darkness and Grey are overtaking
Oh why oh why do they have to leave.
MAYBE ITS”S MEEEEEEEEEE
MAYBE IT'S MEEEEEEE.
Maybe if I smiled just a little bit more.
They wouldn't always go run out the door.
Oh, Maybe it's Meeeeee.
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So here's a little back story on the picture and song I posted the other day. The picture was taken without flash, hence the yellow. Then it was printed and erased from the camera. I laid the print on the kitchen counter and took a picture of the picture so I could re-digitize it. That's what gives it its crappy look. But I look kinda cute in it (see, no double chin!) and you can see the Mutton Chops I've talked about before.
This past weekend, not one, not two, but three strangers stopped me to tell me how great my sideburns are. ON Saturday, this girl walks up to me in the buffet line at the restaurant I was eating at. She says, "Did you come here with girl?" I told her I was. "Oh, cause I was going to give you my number. You are so gorgeous." Oh, that's right, she said "gorgeous."
Then I'm walking through Dillards at Patrick Henry Mall and this older sales guy comes up to me and starts telling me that he's jealous of the 'burns and wishes he could grow them out like mine. Was he hitting on me?
Then I'm at this wedding for a friend of a friend of a friend, and this guy starts asking me what I do, and how does my work not care, and how he wishes he didn't work in a bank because they won't let him have sideburns like this.
The burns are a surprising big hit around here.
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The song I sang is from the Velvet Underground & Nico "Banana Album." Did you listen to the whole thing? There is a harmonica break near the end, then I forgot the last verse, and then I do a very early Velvet Underground-esqe random noise outro.
The buzzing sound that starts up in the middle is the fan from my laptop computer. It kinda of gives it a Velvet-esqe drone to the song I guess.
It was recorded live into the built-in microphone on the laptop and using Microsoft's free Sound Recorder. No fancy microphone or software. You can even use Microsoft's Sound Recorder to encode high quality mp3's out of your wav files! Very impressive. I'll have to sit down a write a thing on Sound Recorder so you all can do it to. (The best reason to know this stuff about Sound Recorder is not to record bad cover versions of Velvet Underground songs, but to master your four-track recordings to mp3 or to CD. I'll tell you all about it tomorrow.)
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Let’s link some stuff first.
Black Keys on Conan Friday, August 8th. And they have a new website. They don't suck. A little "same old, same old" but it sounds good, you know what I mean?
Richie Havens at Birchmere in DC Saturday. I was going to go, but I can't now. His is the best show EVER!! When he comes to your town, GO AND SEE HIM!!
Lucky Town, a band from across the river (i.e. Norfolk/Virginia Beach) has been making a name for themselves on MTV's Road Rules and Budweiser's "True Music" advertisements. I think that's all I should have to say. (For you New Yorkers, they played the Bitter End on August 1st. That should tell you what kind of stuff we're dealing with here.) I'm not really recommending them, but simply acknowledging their existence. They will be playing at the 7th street stage at the oceanfront of Virginia Beach Sunday. Tell you parents.
Win the Guided by Voices sign from the Strokes "Someday" Family Feud video.
Steve from Blues Clues has his songs online. They aren't bad. This MSNBC article says that the Flaming Lips' producer had a hand in it. MSNBC also says it's good. Well if MSNBC says it's good that's all I need! It actually isn't too horrible. Check it out and tell me what you think.
I stumbled on more Strokes 2nd album news at the NME magazine site. Don't know if you had seen it yet. Did NME get an advanced copy of the CD? How can I get an advance copy of it? I want one.
Listen to the entire new Dashboard Confessional album at Mtv.com. Geez, Liz Phair and now Dashboard Confessional!!! What the heck is happening to me? Seriously though, he writes a decent lyric, but does this guy have any luck with women? Geez, he is unlucky in love, heh? Hey Chris, maybe it's you. Did you ever think about that?
Here's a new song Chris can sing on his next album:
Maybe It's Me By. Matthew "Chico" Cox
I've been thinking, Maybe it’s Me.
They leave me, because of too much whining.
Darkness and Grey are overtaking
Oh why oh why do they have to leave.
MAYBE ITS”S MEEEEEEEEEE
MAYBE IT'S MEEEEEEE.
Maybe if I smiled just a little bit more.
They wouldn't always go run out the door.
Oh, Maybe it's Meeeeee.
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So here's a little back story on the picture and song I posted the other day. The picture was taken without flash, hence the yellow. Then it was printed and erased from the camera. I laid the print on the kitchen counter and took a picture of the picture so I could re-digitize it. That's what gives it its crappy look. But I look kinda cute in it (see, no double chin!) and you can see the Mutton Chops I've talked about before.
This past weekend, not one, not two, but three strangers stopped me to tell me how great my sideburns are. ON Saturday, this girl walks up to me in the buffet line at the restaurant I was eating at. She says, "Did you come here with girl?" I told her I was. "Oh, cause I was going to give you my number. You are so gorgeous." Oh, that's right, she said "gorgeous."
Then I'm walking through Dillards at Patrick Henry Mall and this older sales guy comes up to me and starts telling me that he's jealous of the 'burns and wishes he could grow them out like mine. Was he hitting on me?
Then I'm at this wedding for a friend of a friend of a friend, and this guy starts asking me what I do, and how does my work not care, and how he wishes he didn't work in a bank because they won't let him have sideburns like this.
The burns are a surprising big hit around here.
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The song I sang is from the Velvet Underground & Nico "Banana Album." Did you listen to the whole thing? There is a harmonica break near the end, then I forgot the last verse, and then I do a very early Velvet Underground-esqe random noise outro.
The buzzing sound that starts up in the middle is the fan from my laptop computer. It kinda of gives it a Velvet-esqe drone to the song I guess.
It was recorded live into the built-in microphone on the laptop and using Microsoft's free Sound Recorder. No fancy microphone or software. You can even use Microsoft's Sound Recorder to encode high quality mp3's out of your wav files! Very impressive. I'll have to sit down a write a thing on Sound Recorder so you all can do it to. (The best reason to know this stuff about Sound Recorder is not to record bad cover versions of Velvet Underground songs, but to master your four-track recordings to mp3 or to CD. I'll tell you all about it tomorrow.)
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