My wife thinks you're dead

Yay for CD shopping. Even though I didn't get any of the CDs I was actually looking for, I did pick these up:

Junior Brown - Junior High: one of the first county artistes I ever got into. He's got this deep voice (most often compared to that of Ernest Tubb, who I've never listened to, so I dunno how true that is). He designed his own instrument, the Guit-steel, sort of a doubleneck deal with a Telecaster-style top and an 8-string lap-steel bottom. He's a raging guitarist and writes really clever, witty songs. Good stuff.

Anticon - Music For The Advancement Of Hip-Hop: mobley turned me on to these cats...crazy beats, crazier MCs; hopefully this really will advance hip-hop, raising the bar for all of the thuggish fools more concerned with blinging than with skills.

Pinetop Seven - Bringing Home The Last Great Strike: I've been waiting to find a used copy of this for a year now, with no such luck, so I finally shelled out the 15 bones for it.

DJ Vadim - Your Revolution/The Higher Standard single: featuring, among others, the amazing Sarah Jones, whose "Blood" was one of the highlights of the first Lyricist's Lounge comp. Apparently, "Your Revolution" was banned by the FCC, which is a shame, because the one time I did hear it (on KEXP), it blew me away, and I thought more people needed to hear it.

various - Live At Moe Vol. 1: This was a comp put out early in '98 after Moe's Mo'Rock'n' Cafe closed, showcasing several local acts doing their respective thangs on stage there. Included are Pond, Goodness, Silkworm, Gruntruck, Critters Buggin, Jessamine, and the Presidents Of The United States Of America doing two songs, one of which is a cover of Soundgarden's "Spoonman". Heh. A little piece of Seattle-acana.

and from the free bin:

The Doors soundtrack, which is really beat up and probably won't play in any but the strongest-lasered CD players.

Cellophane Square on Broadway is also having a sale on tapes - $0.25 each, or 5 for a dollar. I picked up a few:

Mount Shasta - Put The Creep On: A Skin Graft realease, so ya know it's gonna be noisy. The liner notes indicate that the entire record was recorded in an hour and a half. Hmmm...

Tania Opland - Renaissance Fare: Yeah, what it sounds like. She's apparently a member of the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism), those people you see in the park recreating jousts and Medeval king's court scenes - if you remember what the video for Men Without Hats' "The Safety Dance" looked like, you'll get the idea. Song titles include "Call To Battle", "Blow Thy Horn, Hunter", "The Earl Of Salisbury", and "Chastity Belt". I'm hoping to lift some interesting samples off of this one

Kid 'N' Play - 2 Hype: Man, when I was 13, I wanted this tape so bad, but I never was able to get it for one reason or another. Now, 11 years later, I finally have it. I probably won't be able to stand listening to it for more than 5 minutes.

OK. I suppose I should work now or something.

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Damn. This is good.

Better than Rigging The Toplights so far. Not sure if it's better than the first record. And no Charles Kim on this one, which is sort of a bummer, but the results are still good...

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Speaking of the Pinetop boys, the Boxhead Ensemble's new CD is supposed to hit stores in 4 days.

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The Doors vs. The Sun City Girls

So I'm listening to The Doors soundtrack, and the song "Ghost Song"* has a line in it about "their fragile eggshell minds". That same line was used as the title of a song and the refrain on a track from the Sun City Girls' Dante's Disneyland Inferno record. At least now I know who they cribbed it from.

I like making connections in random places.



* I'm assuming that song is from An American Prayer, which I've never actually listened to - my brother, who is a big Doors fan, warned me away from Jim Morrison's "Fat Elvis" period.

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Heh. They fed us beer at work. At about 4:25 this afternoon, someone got on the P.A. and announced "Everyone come to the 4th floor conference room for beer and food" (or something like that). So we did. And everyone who didn't go home early today got to drink a lot of beer and eat hors d'ovres.

As much as I hate my job, that was still pretty cool. Drinking on the clock. Heh.

Junkie

Aigh. I'm nic'ing out. I want a cigarette. I don't have any, which may or may not be a good thing. If I just had one, then I'd just have one. But now I'm tempted to go buy some. And that would be bad. Suck ass.