I’ve not ever heard of this band before today, but I quite like them. So I grabbed a couple vids.
A response of some sort…
Mostly I’m just angry because I had to find pics and movies instead of watching teh movie I wanted to watch.
You can’t attempt that rant and then discount Amy Winehouse…nor can you discriminate against men. Well I guess on your page you can do whatever you want, but not here 😉
How are you defining “made it”?
Headline:
Lady Gaga, Susan Boyle top UK Pop Charts in 2009
and
that’s no lady!!!
Madonna “made it” as a youngster, but still seems to be around (I only know this cuz she seems to be at teh pub often)…
and since they’re “from” Portland now they get two..
and she might be an evil robot overlord, and she’s not ugly…but since we have no standards tonight 😉
and for die past half hour I’ve just been watching Pixies videos 🙂 now back to whatever the heck I was talking about…
Oh yeah Kim Deal…worshipped by millions…
I think Francis lives in Eugene now, so they get like 7 videos…
talk about unmarketable…Frank Black as rock star…I don’t see it.
They’re such kids here…
I love teh Pixies…
I may have lost my mojo or just forgotten what I was on about… 🙂
Andy McKee and Vigilantes
Let’s see…So the nice vigilante man came to my flat yesterday morning at about 10 til 8 (am). Asked some questions…wrote something down…made me sign it…shook my hand. It was kind of like a job interview or something. I was kind of nervous, but he was very pleasant.
I still have a flat tire, so I was waiting for the bus this morning and a colleague happened to see me and gave me a ride to work (thanks Cristina!)…the italians are so nice. Massimo gives me a ride home whenever I need it, so I’m lucky for that.
Matteo keeps saying I look like Andy McKee (damn…I am fat and ugly)…or maybe it’s my guitar playing that makes you think of him 😉
More amazing is that anyone in Italy knows of Andy McKee…he’s a’ight
My best friends girl…
I spent literally hours today flipping through my music looking for something to hold my interest for more than 2 minutes and ended up listening to The Cars…seriously?!? The Cars?
Ric, you have the biggest adams apple EVER!!!
Also had an hour+ skype video chat with Matt until about 2am…That was fun…It’s the future now….How about next week we bust out our guitars 🙂
show them all of your good parts. Leave town when the bad parts start to show…
My three favourite bands of the last couple weeks. 2 of each…Avett Brothers, Leningrad, and El-P. All new stuff to me…I guess I’m a bit out of it…Thank me later.
What does Ленинград mean?
I watched “Everything is Illuminated” yesterday as it was a holiday here, I was home all day, and I heard part of an interview with Eugene Hutz a few days ago. Since it was a boring day I kept the credits on and downloaded some of the bands from the soundtrack…One of them is Ленинград…I don’t know what that means. Other bands are “Leningrad”, “Csokolom” annd “Kocani Orkestar”. I see Tin Hat Trio got a song on the soundtrack as well. Haven’t listened to them in a long while…
I’m enjoying all of it. Music is always more interesting when you have no idea what the singer is saying.
In the Hutz interview he said the Gypsy word for tomorrow and yesterday is the same. Is there a gypsy language, or was he just talking about a local language somewhere in eastern Europe?
Possessed by Paul James
I’m glad to see that I wasn’t the only one to draw the US invasion of ‘Mexico’ to Russian invasion of ‘Georgia’ comparison…Glad to see that America has learned from its past mistakes and is now focused on righting wrongs in the world…
…see….it’s funny cuz….
So a couple days ago I downloaded the CD of ‘Possessed by Paul James’. I saw this dude last year at Dreikoenigskeller with some friends. He was AMAZING and blew me away…Dude was super nice and hung out with us outside between sets. I even managed to invite myself to sit down on the side of the stage as he was coming back from the first set. He said something like ‘sure man, then it’s more like a living room’. He was so super nice I knew he wasn’t being sarcastic or anything.
He is the son of a mennonite (as in not quite amish – but backwards enough) minister. He plays banjo, fiddle, diddley bo (more on that to come), guitar, mandolin, stompbox etc.
So listening to the CD I am amazed again and forgot how great he was. I’m actually surprised by what a pure voice he has when he wants to, and how quite jazzy his singing style is in amongst the sort of traditional old americana musical instruments.
so as promised here’s a song with an instrument apparently called a ‘Diddly Bo’. The song isn’t that great, but interesting for it’s use of the instrument.
PossessedbyPaulJames-PossessedbyPaulJames-08-DiddlyBoTraditional.mp3
OK some dude giving us the ‘Norm’ – too detailed version of what this instrument actually is…kind of interesting if you’re into that sort of thing….though I think he’s attempting to play the wall at one point 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT5O6M-nWA8&feature=related
there are more of these types of clips on you tube if you search on it.
One other song from Possesed by Paul James (Paul James is a singer but the name of this dude in the songs is actually Konrad something…). Anyways I love this song cuz you don’t hear a lot of mandolin solo songs…The percussion you hear is actually him. If I recall he had some chimes attached to his legs which were also stomping on a box..hmmmm stompbox… 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCLqLBSb3gM
This was filmed in Frankfurt…the recording is the same one off the CD, and you can’t really hear percussion on the youtube version, but if anyone wants the CD you can buy it online, or ask me nicely 😉
Here’s the trailer of the movie he’s in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckOl7ddbDDo&feature=related
it’s the oppressors corner
I was at a house party last night talking to Seattle in the corner (the only yanks at the party – were were probably talking about Mexican food at the time cuz that’s all Pete and I ever talk about – and I just realized I have two american friends, not just one like I mentioned a few days ago)….Mexico comes up and says ‘oh look…it’s the oppressors corner’…
My response was ‘remember the alamo’…which is possibly my greatest comeback ever 🙂 It was all I could think of and that was probably only because earlier in the day I was attempting to compare Russia’s ‘defense’ of South Ossetia to the American’s ‘defense’ of the free state of texas…
here’s an article titled ‘Looking for the next South Ossetia’
http://www.slate.com/id/2198292/
Georgia does border Turkei…I was wrong on that one…
I downloaded some Flogging Molly yesterday. I used to listen to them in the States, but got bored and when I started listening to the Pogues again I couldn’t go back to Flogging Molly, but after a long break from hearing them I really like them again…
Watched a movie called “the proposition” and it might be the best western I’ve ever seen. It takes place in Australia an the feeling of desolation shown in that movie is so much more sweeping than I’ve seen in anything up to this point. Credit the Australian landscape and the Aussie, Irish and brit actors. Great performances. Great scenery. Well shot!
I’ve seen 2,0 for the last 3 days in a row…Cheers for doing my taxes mate!
He wanted me to write an epic blog entry about him…all I can think of at the moment is how I beat him at scrabble for 2 days in a row…I win you lose!!!!
I’m just going to go ahead and be embarrassed for you dude…
…Besides you only read this once every 4 months…I won’t have to mention the s.p. for a while then eh?
So I’ve been downloading some music this weekend (legally even!)…
The albums I’ve gotten…
Cracker w/ Leftover Salmon – O cracker where art thou – Great…bluegrass versions of their own songs…love it!
The Dead Brothers – Wunderkammer – These guys are on the same label as C.W. Stoneking (pre war 20’s calypso blues)…this is a gem. Closest/simple comparison is Tom Waits…but imagine if Tom Waits had only good songs…This is what it would be like…recommended…if anyone wants a listen lemme know.
I suppose I could also say this is overproduced Stoneking songs with a full band…but then I suppose that sort of describes Tom Waits as well…
Todd Snider – East Nashville Skyline – Love it! With songs like ‘Tillamook County Jail’ and ‘the Ballad of the Kingsmen’ he sometimes reminds me of Oregon. Just found out today he was born in Portland. Did not know that…great folk/Country singer…great album.
Zeno Tornado & the Boney google Brothers – Lover of your Dreams -Â Also same label as Stoneking and the Dead Brothers…Sort of covers the country/Rockabilly crossroads, but much better than the straight rockabilly bands you find about all the time (though they aren’t bad either, but they do get repetitious after a bit). This I think I will be listening to for a while…probably because it’s more country/bluegrass than rock n roll…recommended as well of course (else I wouldn’t have downloaded it I suppose…)
Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely – Better than their first album…
Forced 2,0 and Katja to watch Ricky Gervais series ‘Extras’ this weekend. Great show…I saw the first series in the States, but had never seen in on DVD here until last week…snapped up the season 1 DVD immediately. That was the only season they had so I am still waiting for season 2 (and no idea if there was a season 3). For anyone who doesn’t know who Gervais is – he was one of the creators of The Office…that’s the British one…not the american one…
Read a far lefty blog who is convinced McCain wins…this is a great election season…love it!!!