your gypsy soul

Who wants to go see The Swell Season at the Knitting Factory? No matter that only a few of us will live in the Spo at that time - COME VISIT!

Maybe they will cover "Into the Mystic" again and we can get all sniffly reminiscing about Matt & Becca's wedding:

Wedding Playlist

Blog resurrection!

I need songs for the reception. I need a mix of modern pop, 80's, and classic songs.

Power Ballads

TOP 5 POWER BALLADS (any order)

Mötley Crüe - You're All I Need
Cinderella - Nobody's Fool
Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry (original lyrics)
Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever
Scorpions - Still Loving You

Life is hard.

If you had a teenage boy cousin who listened to really terrible screamo (like this) and you wanted to make him a CD of good ol' fashioned 90s grunge/I-hate-my-life music, that would be much more fulfilling for him than any of that crap, if I can force him to actually listen to it, what would you put on it? I've got so far:

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Hole - Doll Parts
Radiohead - Creep

I'm also thinking some Metallica, Pearl Jam, I dunno... SUBMIT IDEAS.

Matt and Becca's Future Child?

Tesh on Facebook...and more!

"New August show just announced! John’s in concert in Portland, OR on August 20th & 21st (new!), in Spokane on August 22nd. Great seats and VIP packages still available. VIP packages include ticket to show, a complimentary copy of John’s best-selling book, Intelligence For Your Life, and a meet & greet with John! Hope to see you out on the road! -Team Tesh"

Who's In?

...& the nerd reference:

"Some of you have seen this, but because of the new movie I am still getting hundreds of emails....so here you go. Me, on Star Trek Next Generation." - John Tesh

Tesh Music:

YouTube recommended this to me today

Dammit! My Name Is Jonas

http://pitchfork.com/news/35330-weezer-to-tour-with-blink-182/

I Just Bought an iPod

What would your essential playlist include?

Announcement

I'm actually....

starting.......

....to really like Modest Mouse.

Every so often I need to groove to this song

best 75 minutes of cycling ever

Playlist for last night's spin class:

1. Nothin' But A Good Time - Poison
2. Cherry Pie - Warrant
3. Kiss Me Deadly - Lita Ford
4. Nobody's Fool - Cinderella
5. Once Bitten, Twice Shy - Great White
6. Rock You Like A Hurricane - Scorpions
7. Poison - Alice Cooper
8. I Hate Myself For Loving You - Joan Jett
9. Don't Treat Me Bad - Firehouse
10. Edge Of A Broken Heart - Vixen
11. Cum On Feel The Noize - Quiet Riot
12. The Final Countdown - Europe

You all should've been there. It was freaking amazing.

Reeling Back The Years

Since we like music lists, I've seen this one a few times. Pick a song for every year of your life. Not your favorite song during that year, but a song that came out that year. If you need help, Wikipedia helps.

1984: "The Heat Is On" - Glenn Frey
1985: "Money for Nothing" - Dire Straits
1986: "Master of Puppets" - Metallica
1987: "Welcome to the Jungle" - Guns n' Roses
1988: "Do What You Want" - Bad Religion
1989: "Gouge Away" - Pixies
1990: "Enjoy the Silence" - Depeche Mode
1991: "Something in the Way" - Nirvana
1992: "Would?" - Alice in Chains
1993: "Returning the Screw" - Fugazi
1994: "Carousel" - Blink 182
1995: "The Dandy Warhols' T.V. Theme Song" - The Dandy Warhols
1996: "Dramamine" - Modest Mouse
1997: "The Mollusk" - Ween
1998: "Holland, 1945" - Neutral Milk Hotel
1999: "198d" - At The Drive-In
2000: "Salty Dog" - Flogging Molly
2001: "We Laugh Indoors" - Death Cab for Cutie
2002: "Don't Know Why" - Norah Jones
2003: "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt" - The Mars Volta
2004: "Evil" - Interpol
2005: "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" - Dropkick Murphys
2006: "Little Lover's so Polite" - Silversun Pickups
2007: "Fluorescent Adolescent" - Arctic Monkeys
2008: "Black River Killer" - Blitzen Trapper
2009: "My Girls" - Animal Collective

Reader poll:

a.) Favorite Bob Dylan song?
b.) Favorite Beatles song?
c.) Favorite Led Zeppelin song?
d.) Favorite Rolling Stones song?

Justification & arguments welcome.

Nutcracker Tomorrow!

Alright kids, we have 6 tickets for The Nutcracker tomorrow at 2. They're at will-call under my name, so either you have to come hang out with me before them, or go to the ticket counter place and convince them you are me. HaHA!

Should we all congregate somewhere before hand? I know we'd talked about having tea... I could whip up some cucumber sandwiches , crumpets, and tea cakes if anyone's interested. Matt and Tooley could also spike their tea. All just suggestions.

Also, tags are fun.

A Song for Craven

This is a song that Tooley wrote in approximately 3 minutes, 40 seconds. The title of this is "A Song for Craven", as a pun of the Headband album "A Song for Tooley".


A Song for Craven

Craven, how I love to see you smile.
To not have you as a friend would be a loss, you are anything but weak sauce.
You love beer and music (and so do I), together we drink and sing and they we cry.
I make fun but only in jest, but I think my words have made me a pest.
I work so hard to make you glad, but you say mean things which make me sad.
Oh Craven my remorse is so strong, that is why I wrote you this song.

(followed by several verses of me wailing "CRAVEN!!!" in a very Roxanne manner)

The Final Countdown... or is it

http://view.break.com/73443 - Watch more free videos

I kind of like the minimalist approach...

TuneUp

I tried out this program, it's kinda cool. There is a free download for 500 song clean ups and cover art, which in retrospect is not that much, but for a download it will save some time. I tested it out and it works alright, but still, for a free sample it's worth trying out.

http://www.tuneupmedia.com/download/

What is Emo Music?

Did Rachel just call The Shins Emo?

In a response to an earlier post, she wrote,

Left and Leaving - The Weakerthans
Past and Pending - The Shins


Mmm, symmetrical emo.

Which leads to the question, what is the definition of emo music. According to about.com,

These days, the term emo is used to describe any band playing guitar-based music that is emotional either in approach, lyrical focus or affect.

[...]

Today, "emo" can describe almost anything emotional.

So how can a genre that can describe anything as eliciting emotion be a genre at all? A genre, as the dictionary defines it, is

A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content

And for reference, a wikionary definition of emo.

The Price Point

I thought I'd tell everybody about the new deal at Amazon MP3. If you don't know, Amazon MP3 is Amazon's online MP3 download service much like the iTunes store. The advantage to the Amazon store is its MP3's don't have DRM (that's what makes it so you can't play iTunes tracks on other computers without a password). Also most albums are $9 compared to iTunes $10.

Now I started using Amazon MP3 when I really wanted to buy a new album. For me, its MP3 or vinyl. I don't feel the need to buy CD's, unless I can get them as cheap as the MP3. I'm only going to rip them anyway and its one less thing to clutter up the apartment. Ok, so Amazon MP3 was working great for me when there was an album I really wanted and couldn't find it on vinyl.

Then Amazon MP3 instituted the Friday 5 deal. Every Friday, Amazon MP3 puts up 5 albums for $5 each. This was bad news for me because I couldn't help but find an album on the list that would buy for $5. Then they started the daily deal. They now add one album a day for $3. I've bought 3 in the past week.

I think Amazon has done what the record industry should have done a long time ago, back when piracy became such a huge deal to them. Amazon has found my price point. There are a lot of albums that I would pay $3 for. They are very few I would pay $10 for. Consider how much Amazon has increased their sales to me just by lowering their price a couple of dollars. It doesn't cost Amazon that much extra to send the bits to me over the internets. They got me to purchase three albums I probably wouldn't have thought about buying for $10, but would buy for $3. That's $9 more than they had before.

For the record the three albums I bought were Peter Gabriel, Interpol, and Elliot Smith. This leads me to my conspiracy theory. Amazon has the perfect opportunity with buyer history to just offer me an album everyday that I would buy for $3. What's stopping them from giving everybody their own "daily deal". I'm not so sure how I would feel about that, except I'm still getting an album I want for $3.