Sippin' Mephisto, listenin' to the new Corea "Five Peace Band". Right now, maybe the most interesting version of "Someday My Prince Will Come" that I've ever heard.

Isis wouldn't exist if it weren't for Godflesh. Turner s Broadrick, which I can relate to.

Behold a high horse

High On Fire anyone?

They're aight. I saw them live in 2002 without earplugs and lost some frequencies forever.

I just relaxed last evening with a drink while listening to Herbie Hancock Headhunters. An old fave. Cheers!

Ya gotta look inside that horse to find a joke.

I'm not saying which end to look in, but there's a badge good ol' Stompy wears with pride elsewhere.

Listening to the Ventures and the Repo Man soundtrack here.

Jaco kicked me out of his dressing room--I was in a hallucinogenic daze-- on my 18th birthday. He played 2 great sets. Frickin lunatic...



Did the same thing @ the Bad Brains in '89...



Aphex Twin, various.

Nice work on the Aphex. If I were drinking tonight, I'd be in a Phoenecia, Brownout kind of mood. Intensely lush record.

I may not be the Omega, but I was definitely the Alpha.

MARTEAU Absinthe de la Belle Époque no sugar, ice cold spring water, slow drip louche. Wonderful !!!!

Music --- Over the Rhine - Trouble

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCDVbrg7PqA


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Big thumbs up there, c.hoefler.

I'm a total Eno dork. We had My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and Here Come the Warm Jets in our jukebox for eons. Roxy Music's Greatest, too. Really like his work with Cale as well as Harold Budd.

I remember almost coming to blows with some guy at my bar because I was insisting that Joshua Tree would never have happened without Eno.

Ain't that the truth...

I hope he was dressed! You, as well!

that was around the time he was showing up for gigs totally naked, come to think of it. But no, sorry to disappoint.

My dad had had a week's worth of gigs with him in Miami awhile earlier, he showed up for two nights and disappeared, burning the club and other band members. I declined to ask Jaco for the several hundred dollars he burned my old man for. Although in retrospect it wouldn't have mattered, he'd just have kicked me out a minute or so later than he did..!

A family friend used to bartend at Bradlee's on weekends and Jaco would run up these huge tabs and then argue with him at closing time about how he shouldn't have to pay for drinks 'cuz of who he was....

Just for the record (pun retroactively intended), the Lost In Translation soundtrack goes remarkably well with either of the two fine offerings from Delaware Phoenix (aka Cheryl). I can say this because I've had a glass of Meadow of Love and Walton Waters each while listening

A fine time is still being had!

Green Jello.

It's sure been awhile.

Jeez. They bring back memories.






Just like honey?

I'll drink to that Jay. That's an outstanding OST and a pair of outstanding absinthes.

Drinking a Ramos Gin Fizz with a shot of St. Germain here, listing to Elegy by Amorphis.

Nothing to do with absinthe, but Bill Murray was in Richmond for a couple of hours a few weeks ago. He went into Plan 9, a local record store, to browse. The Lost In Translation soundtrack happened to be on at the time.

Now THAT'S a coincidence!

Ubu, you going to the Peter Murphy concert?

You can run but you can't hide.....

Tipsy's Trip Tease. Excellent morning music.

I hadn't heard about it; thanks! Unless it's tonight, I'm definitely going to try to go.

You guys are screwed. Rock n roll is fuckin' E-vil.

Oh yeah, I was listening to the Stones, Tull, Talking Heads, The Clash and The Doors while painting the inside of the 'Stillery today.

Fleetwood Mac is pretty evil.









Just like Huey Lewis and the News.





I'm sipping a martini and listening to some INXS, cuz they ain't evil. And some Yeah Yeah Yeah's It's Blitz!

I had a friend refer to INXS as crotch rock

damned sexy music

Yup.

No sir, wasn't last night. Next Friday July 3rd (where did June go?). He'll be at the State Theatre in Falls Church, VA.

Just heard a song from the new Alice in Chains. Oh man, is it good.

Whoa--I haven't heard that name in a while!

I'm listening to some NPR podcast where Bjork chooses some tunes and talks about them and sipping some VP. It mellows quite nicely.

I was listening to MPR this morning and they had a science fiction/fantasy theme going.

David Bowie- Starman
Queen- Flash Gordon
Mystery Science Theatre theme song
Led Zeppelin- Misty Mountain Hop


...wait for it




Leonard Nimoy- Bilbo Baggins!!!


I guess, I should add that I'm watching the Rocky Horror Picture Show now...

Bowie's in Space.

Very cool.

Telescopic-nipple antennae cool.

The Bowie episode was my introduction to FOTC. It's still my favorite.

Tonight I'm sipping a verte while watching the Scott Walker documentary.

Holy crap--I must see that documentary! I only have "Drift," but wow is it singular. I've only heard snippets of his old-school work, and it's fun, too.

Sipping some Meadow of Love and listening to Accept's Balls to the Wall.

The first half of it covers his career leading to "Drift", and then the rest shows the making of that album. I'm pretty sure it's the only making-of that shows people building a 5' x 5' wooden box and getting a huge slab of meat shipped in to get the exact percussion sounds the artist wanted.

I knew there was meat percussion, but not 5' x 5' meat percussion. The first half sounds like a good education for me, too. Thanks for letting me know about it!

I was a little too vague. The box and the meat were for two different sounds. I'm glad someone is interested in it. It's called '30 Century Man'.

I learned a lot from the first part. I had the 'Boy Child' best-of, which is great, but there's so much more to his early career. A single disc cannot do justice. I had read of The Walker Brothers in a context of being like a boy band; their music was a lot more interesting than I anticipated.

My favorite part was where they talked about the 'Climate of Hunter' album, and how the actual melodies for the songs were kept secret; no one was allowed to play any part of the root melody.

Sheesh, yet another world of music beckoning to me.

Yes, it's interesting about the 'boy band' label and how it doesn't speak to how interesting a group's music may be. One could even assert that The Beatles and Beach Boys were boy bands starting out.

I had no idea about "Climate of Hunter," and now I must buy it from the samples I've heard. Keeping melodies secret (the way I'm imagining they worked it) must have been a lot of work in the early 80s! Even if they had a Fairlight.

the Bad Brains' Black Dots. Primiteevo, baby.

Revisiting my review of CLB while listening to Wynton Marsalis play the Haydn Concerto for Trumpet in E-flat Major (which I used to play when I was just a lad!). Now on to Mozart...

I have discovered that absinthe does not go well with listening to Michael Chocholak, but I'm going to listen anyway. Cheers!

Is it any good? (the documentary)

The documentary is great. I was worried when I saw the list of musicians who are being interviewed, even though I like most of them. I thought it might be one of those "Let's talk about how great this artist is so we can look cool for being in this" things, but for the most part they're relating relevant stories.

Some of those people: Johnny Marr, a few of the members of Radiohead, Neil Hannon, Jarvis Cocker, David Bowie, Ute Lemper, and Marc Almond.

Drinking a nice blanche while I listen to Souvlaki by Slowdive.

Also listening to two versions of Destination Unknown, originally by the '80s band, Missing Persons. Compare and contrast.

Saw him with Modest Mouse wayyy back in '07. He kicked ass.

Straight up funk. Sly & the Family Stone, Average White Band, and Tower of Power.

Sly is wonderful!

Well, it wasn't technically music, but it's music to my soul--The State is finally on DVD, and it's still as fun to watch as before!