Shore Leave

Sorry folks, I won't be here for my show this week! A million pardons!

Let this sweet video tide you over until next week:

Sakerock - Instro Band

June 21, 2007

Television - Marquee Moon
The Minutemen - One Reporter's Opinion
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This Is My Fist! - A History of Rats
Strike Anywhere - Chalkline
xbxrx - Sheets and Organs
Jawbreaker - Donatello
Operation Ivy - The Crowd
Matt & Kim - Light Speed
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Twinkle - Go! Quickly, Go!
Chisel - The Dog In Me
The Ergs - Books About Miles Davis
Sparta Locals - Ougon Wave
Call Me Lightning - Billion Eyes
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Superdrag - Comfortably Bummed
Jonny Manak & The Depressives - Rebound Town (by request)
The Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
Toys That Kill - Bomb Sniffin' Dogs
Hot Snakes - XOX
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Andrew WK - PARTY PARTY PARTY
The Advantage - Megaman II - Stage Select + Metal Man
The Unicorns - I Was Born (a Unicorn)
The Aquabats - Monsters Wedding
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Lemuria - Silver Children
Dillinger Four - Fired-Side Chat
Crimpshrine - Safely Wasting Away
I Need Sleep - Pervert Like Herbert
Built To Spill - Sidewalk
The Narrator - August 32nd
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Har Mar Superstar - Power Lunch
Manu Chao - Me Gustas Tu
The Specials - Too Much Too Young
Skankin' Pickle - Fights
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Keyboard - S.R.S.F.
Ging Nang Boyz - Inu Ningen
The Damned - Neat Neat Neat
Cap'n Jazz - Little League
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Track Star - West Coast Weather

My Dream Girl

The lovely Shiina Ringo's band Tokyo Jihen has a new song entitled "OSCA". It grew on me really fast. There's also 6 different postings of it on youtube.

Really Get Down!

HOLY CRAP!!! I just discovered a 12 minute version of Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up"!!! SO GOOD!!! Now, it is not only the best soul jam ever, but also the longest, wankiest, best soul jam ever.

GAH!!!! 2K7

There are few things in life that truly get me all worked up and angry. Mainly, I can't stand listening to or watching a sports game where my team is losing. It gives me unnecessary stress that really isn't founded upon any good reason, so I'm usually pretty quick to turn away from such games. The other thing in life that really makes me angry are stupid drivers!!!

While it's easy enough to turn off a game, you can't avoid a stupid driver. Stupid drivers can easily ruin what is otherwise a fairly relaxing pasttime and totally turn your sunny driving disposition sour. Here are the traits of a wack driver:

• They use their brake when the space between them and the next car is giant. HEY PENDEJO, let up off of the gas pedal instead!!!
• They tailgate you despite lanes to the right and left of you being completely free of traffic.
• They don't pull up far enough at a stop light, so they don't trigger the sensor that makes the light change.
• They parallel park head first.
• They drive slowly in the fast lane. This sort of crappy driving ALWAYS results in traffic backups as people have to worm their way through and around other slow cars to pass these troglodytes.

Man, I could probably go on for days. I would sell my car if I could manage life without it, but I'm just not disciplined enough.

June 14, 2007

Mega City Four - Start
Cap'n Jazz - Take On Me
Green Day - Dry Ice
The Ergs - Bike Shoppe
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This Is My Fist! - Wooden Bullets
Sambomaster - Utsukushiki Ningen No Hibi
Crimpshrine - Trying Too Hard
Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?
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Rancid - Maxwell Murder
Eastern Youth - Zigzag, Zigzag, Ticktock, Ticktock
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Andrew WK - Party Party Party
The Misfits - Theme for a Jackal
Big D & The Kids Table - I'm Yours Boston
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Living With the Living
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Murder City Devils - Boom Swagger Boom
Afrirampo - Akan kono mama kaesanai
Rx Bandits - To Our Unborn Daughters
The Exit - Darlin
My Korean Friends - A Story Like the Wind
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The Keegman Cometh
Hockey Night - Get Real
Land of Talk - All My Friends
Guided by Voices - Half Smiles of the Decomposed
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The Dismemberment Plan - Gyroscope
Shapes + Sizes - Islands Gone Bad
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
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Irving - Turn of the Century
Gunmoll - Less Than You Hoped For
Alkaline Trio - Rooftops
Les Savy Fav - Tragic Monsters
Pavement - Cherry Area
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Superdrag - Keep It Close To Me
Built To Spill - You Were Right
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Ging Nang Boyz - Seishun Jidai

Party Party Party

VBS.tv, the online broadcasting branch of Vice Magazine, has a show called "Soft Focus" hosted by Ian Svevonius of Nation of Ulysses. Accompanying his interview with Andrew WK is this interview from an old issue of Vice in 2000. While Vice is one of the stupidest magazines around, this interview is not, and I felt hip for having read this interview in the original magazine despite hating Vice magazine.

http://vice.typepad.com/vbs/2007/03/music_partying_.html

Woohoo!

Shortcake pt. 4

Today 3 brothers came into my work with the most 1994-haircuts ever, each a variation of the look immortalized by Rider Strong of Boy Meets World fame. Their last name also happened to be PAGAN.

It reminded me of this dude who came into the store once wearing a bright orange t-shirt, orange baseball cap, and an orange-chamoflage skirt! He also had a goatee, and his name was TROLLMAN. He also smelled like week old carrion.

The Pagans were well groomed and polite though, they just happened to look like they came out of a timewarp, or like they'd been hiding out in a bunker listening to Tripping Daisy for the last 15 years.

June 7, 2007

Toys That Kill - Moon=Ghettobird
Leatherface - Springtime
This Is My Fist! - Nerd Camp
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Screeching Weasel - Falling Apart
The Ergs - Trouble In River City
Scared of Chaka - Wanna Make It Happen
Brain Failure - Coming Down To Beijing
Lemuria - Piranha
The Hold Steady - Girls Like Status
Elliott Smith - New Monkey
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Pavement - Gold Soundz
The Narrator - Breaking the Turtle
Modest Mouse - Missed the Boat
Eastern Youth - Bura Bura Bushi
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The Pope - The Power of Sports
Nuts & Milk - Night Soldier
Ging Nang Boyz - Doutei Fooku...
Johnny Manak - Every Night's A Friday
The Only Ones - You've Got to Pay
The Thermals - Out of the Old and Thin
The Exploding Hearts - Thorns in Roses
The Unicorns - The Clap
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Silkworm - I Must Prepare (Tablecloth Tint)
Built to Spill - Reasons
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
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Ted Leo / Pharmacists - The Great Communicator
That Dog - Gagged and Tied
Track Star - Payback
Superdrag - Destination Ursa Major
The Weakerthans - Anchorless
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The Fucking Ocean - Adam
Les Savy Fav - We'll Make A Lover of You
Sparta Locals - Violence Summer
Thee More Shallows - Oh Yes, Another Mother
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Keyboard - Spend the Night
Supergrass - Caught by the Fuzz
Operation Ivy - Bankshot
Rx Bandits - Apparition
The Cherry Tempo - City of Squares
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Slow Gherkin - 11:47

Also

Dear Blogosphere

Oh how I have neglected thee.

Recap of the last few weeks/months/epochs:
-The season finale of Heroes was a little disappointing, but the season as a whole was great. I'm looking to forward to seeing what they cook up for season 2. Did anyone else catch the allusion to a WORSE villain than Syler, when the girl referenced a villain who could see her when she thinks of him?
-I saw the season finale of Lost despite ignoring the rest of the season. It started out to so weak, but I heard that it got really good after that... I dunno man, I'm pretty skeptical.
-The Shield continues to be totally insane/amazing.
-I saw Mike Hale, Matt Skiba and Chuck Ragan play a big show in San Jo. Chuck Ragan's set was a pleasant surprise, a step up from the usual singer songwriter stuff that punks are wont to deliver once they step away from a band.
-I went with Chirpy Boy to see Ted Leo at Slim's for the 2nd time in a month. Aside from the large contingent of bros and drunk dads at the show, it was one of the better times I've seen Ted Leo.
-Saw The Ergs and Lemuria last night in San Jose and was incredibly pleased to see such a last minute show get such a good turnout. Hooray for you San Jose, I won't write you off completely just yet.
-I movie-hopped with a beautiful young lady and saw Hot Fuzz and Pirates 3. I loved Shawn of the Dead so Hot Fuzz's awesomeness wasn't a surprise, but Pirates was surprisingly good considering that I haven't seen either of the first 2 in the series, and also the bad reviews that the movie has been receiving. I may even go back to see it again to catch the parts that I slept through.
-I missed seeing Manu Chao and The Hold Steady who were playing at competing shows 2 nights ago. Did anyone go to either, and if so, how was it?
-I'm currently listening to the new album from Your Song Is Good. I'll need more time to soak it in, but it looks like these masters of instrumental caribbean-lounge-soul-ska are back in fine form.
-I went to Fanimecon in San Jose for work, peddling anime wares to nerds. A lot more people are dressing up these days than they used to, and male nerds are learning to bathe more often. I did, however, meet the stupidest fan ever, and she kindly allowed me to make fun of her ruthlessly for at least 5 minutes. Whatever compelled her to withstand my abuse is something I don't understand, but I'm simultaneously grateful/annoyed that she stuck around so long.

That's it! For all of you radio listening folks, the show last week with Morgan was totally fun to do. Next week I'll be having guest DJ JJ down to the station to play annoying J-pop.