Todd Rundgren is telling me right now that I'm in the clique. Sounds like an affirmation.

That's kind of a coincidence. I was listening to A Wizard, A True Star earlier today.

I still enjoy that album. I saw Todd during the A Wizard, a True Star tour over 30 years ago, sitting on a linoleum floor in the Memphis State University cafeteria. There couldn't have been more than 300 people. The first half he performed solo with his guitar and a tape recording but after a short respite, returned for the second half with Utopia. I saw him again a couple of years later for the Something/Anything tour in the Memphis North Hall Auditorium with an audience closer to 35,000. He was still very impressive but obviously, the intimacy was gone.

Hey now Dakini! Hissy and I followed the dead for years before we knew each other. She was one of the Beer Goddess's who sold the killer beers on tour. Funny how the Wheel turns. I would love to have met her sooner but I thank the Lady and Lord everyday she has been in my life. We are listening to Loreena McKennitt.

Samuel Smith for a less per bottle than the local liquor store?

Her first new album in about 10 years?

No, but when you're in a parking lot in the middle of nowhere, a $3.00 Sammy was just the right price.

It's a Blondie afternoon here, and a beautiful freaking day.

Well Mr. you're a better man than I.
In honor of the chosen.

That is just so amazing. The connections and interconnections between so many of us...

LK's The Mask and the Mirror is still one of my favorite CDs.

Very true.

Not better, just more partial to pain, but thanks.

Thank the Yardbirds.

Thanks PB for the memories, yeah the train kept a rollin'...

One of my first memories of being blown away by music was seeing the film Blow Up on tv when I was a kid. The Yardbirds' performance of Stroll On with Jeff Beck destroying his guitar freaked me out!

So, I can't sleep. I'm still sitting here listening to music. Right now the song Three Days by Jane's, but for some reason I have listened to the song "Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs for about 150 times while I drank absinthe tonight while singing along - rather loud into our PA. I love my room mate. He's pretty kick ass. I've just been getting into the complexities of the vocals of that song, and trying to master it. Big Daddy Kane (roomie) says I have it down cold. I don't think I'll have a voice tomorrow. Cool.

"Maps" is such a great song. I'm really enjoying their newer album. Nick Zinner plays guitar on the new Psychic TV album coming out next Spring. I think Gibby Haynes sings on a track as well. I'm looking forward to that.

Keith Relf, thirty years gone. Without him, the Yardbirds are but a Box of Frogs. :(

Sorry, I know this is from a few days ago but just wanted to say Elliott Smith was/is amazing; one of my favorite artists.

Damned sorry you missed it.
The opening band "The Hudson Falcons" were awesome,
The Duckys still one upped them.
The crowd was odd though, I'll post later tomorrow, um, today (Sat.)
after I clarify and sharpen my thoughts on that.
The beer at the club, normaly a great beer was poorly treated
by the staff and seemed off, sadly an all too normal occurance
around these parts.

I must add that the show was so damn good
because at the end of the night
I wore more alcohol than I drank.
I love physical concerts.

2726.18 miles away, This is the best I can do. :(

Nice. Sounds like it was a very good concert. Nice video T73.


I have a play list of all "short songs" under 3:30 long. Quite interesting to jump from some old cover done by the Stones, to FM Einheit, to the Airplane.

Frederick Chopin's nocturnes...any/all of them.

Oh my, but what big teeth you have.

Could you tell us a little about how threatening or innocent you are here?





(And what's happened to our GrayWolf, anyway? I miss her.)

YES to the Nocturnes! I also love the Etudes, Preludes, and Ballades.

Here's a lovely CD of Belle Epoque songs by Reynaldo Hahn, sung by Susan Graham:

La Belle Epoque

Thanks. I like your Tarantula. Please look again under Hi My Name is Hiram.
and unfortunately, I do not know where Miss. GrayWolf is. Sorry.

Reynaldo Hahn! I haven't heard that name mentioned since undergrad. Great stuff but all of the French composers used to give me fits whenever I tried to sing their pieces. The piano part is just so flowy and ethereal that I never could find the beat and always missed my entrances.

Doc, you said it best. Very visceral and celestial at the same time.

I'm listening to Sonic Youth's The Destroyed Room and reading some Grant Morrison comic books.

I suppose it could make good "sipping" music, depending on your perspective I guess, though I don't know if it would be my first choice...but lately I've been obsessed with Sunn 0))). Anybody else into these guys? Peridot?

Imagine something like Black Sabbath slowed down to 3%.

I actually still haven't listened to any Sunn O))) yet but I'm quite familiar with that style. I really love sludge metal. My favourite band in that style is Rigor Sardonicus.

"Sludge metal"? Thank you for making me feel like an old, obsolete turd. Er, nerd. Especially since I think this is a genre of music that does, or could, really appeal to me. Guess, I'm just feeling sludgy today. Too sludgy to even check those bands out right now, though. If I can get the sludge to ooze a little I'll take a (one-eyed) peak.

Flowy, all right. I learned recently that Reynaldo shacked up with Marcel Proust for a few years. (I reckon freshly-baked Madeleines, a glass of absinthe, and Reynaldo at the keyboard would make for a pleasant afternoon.)

Do you still sing?

How difficult would it be to set up a Wormwood Society Mp3 vault? I think it would be very cool to share tunes (even if no one downloaded Reynaldo).

Earth, Sunn 0))), Boris, Sleep...I love all that stuff.

I believe it was Earth's "2" album that started it all. Great record. Sunn 0))) started out as an Earth tribute band.

Mmm, I loves me some flowy mens!

I do still sing on occasion. Ususally there is either duress or alcohol (or both) involved. I got out of singing because of an unrelenting case of stage fright that never seemed to get much better no matter how much I performed. That and I realize that teaching a bunch of urchins to sing poorly was not what I wanted to spend my life doing.

My absolute favorite composer is Schubert. His lieder, and frankly anything he wrote, is just so melodic and full of emotion that I can't turn away from it. My cat loves his stuff too. When I would practice for my senior recital in my apartment in college she would go crazy whenever I sang Gretchen Am Spinnrade. She also loves Jessye Norman's rendition of Erlkonig. My cat has excellent taste in music. She's my biggest fan.

I like the idea of a WS mp3 vault.

I love Schubert, and for whatever reason, I always connect his music with Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors and his use of String Quartet #15 in G. Perhaps because it's my favourite of his films.

It's interesting how we conncect certain pieces of music with certain things in our life, whether it be movies, TV shows, relationships, whatever. I always associate one of the key motifs from the Unfinished Symphony with the Smurfs and the evil characher Gargamel.

I also really love his Death and the Maiden string quartet, and always associate it with the film of the same name, starring Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver. Great movie, BTW.

Joan Jett - "Bad Reputation"

the world's in trouble there's no communication.

In one of the threads MPC mentioned how things in different threads interweave, and then it was mentioned that things in threads from different forums can interweave. I was watching Freaks and Geeks yesterday and first someone mentioned James Franco, and then PB makes a post about "Bad Reputation", the theme song from that show. The biggest indicator that I spend too much time on this forum is that things from my real life have started interweaving with different threads.
Yikes.

That is scary, Ubu.
My fear is one night I'll start dreaming of people on here and their images (in my dreams) will be just the avatars.

If that ever happens to me, your avatar will have to autograph my copy of 'Replicas'!

Consider it done.

Right now I am listening to the Placebo version of "Running Up That Hill". I am in tears. This is what I want the songs I write to be.

For some reason I just had an urge to put on some Primus.... Click to view attachment

But wait.... "They don't don't love you like I love you..."

I gotta stop drinking absinthe.....tonight

Alyssa, with regards to Kate Bush, what do you mean by "placebo" version of that song?

I never liked Placebo until I saw their live dvd. I think that's the best live performance dvd I've seen. It doesn't hurt that he plays a Jaguar a lot. Jags have been my favorite guitars since my shoegazer days in the early 90's. I think I'm still in my shoegazer days.

Placebo is a band. They did a cover of the song. It's awesome.