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July 18th, 2006

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April 8th, 2006

01:03 am - Box Of Rain I'm a music-before-lyrics kind of guy. Always have been. It's not that I don't appreciate lyrics or what songs are about. They just aren't the first things I notice in a tune. Take this song. "Box of Rain" by the Grateful Dead. It's the first track off of their 'American Beauty' CD. It's one of my favorite CD's, and it's one of my favorite songs in the world. (editors note: American Beauty is NOT a jam record. Don't think for one second that it is just because it's the Grateful Dead.) I always found it as a pretty uplifting song, and it always put me in a good mood. Tonite I just learned what it was about. It was a song for Phil Lesh to sing to his father in the hospital, as he was dying of cancer. Not so uplifting anymore. But I still love the song. ( Here Are The Lyrics for BOX OF RAIN ) Current Music: American Beauty - Grateful Dead

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April 5th, 2006

02:53 am - DRESDEN DOLLS TO PLAY SUMMERFEST! This just in! (at 3am!) According to Pollstar, the Dresden Dolls are going to play Summerfest on July the 7th! This is very very cool. Pollstar also is reporting that the following bands will be there... Cowboy Mouth My Morning Jacket Kings of Leon Soul Asylum Panic! at the Disco And of course the perenials...(bluh) Styx REO Speedwagon Blue Oyster Cult (a nickel for everytime some says the word "cowbell" at that show) Foreigner Cheap Trick The Big Wu And various other sources say... The Bravery Yellowcard The Gufs Elvis Costello & The Imposters Medeski Martin & Wood So far so good, ya'll.

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March 31st, 2006

03:14 pm - Breaking News.... Kris and Anna Benson are getting divorced. That's a shame. A damn shame. Now he's pretty worthless to the Orioles.

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March 28th, 2006

01:25 pm - File This Under 'WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??!?!?!' So this was news last week, but I just found out about it today while reading the blog of a friend of a friend (Fancy Robot -> Ren)...text selections from the Capla Kesting Fine Art Museum press release... What is it about Britney Spears that makes people absolutely lose their minds?!?! I've made no secret that I'm pro-choice. But seriously, pro-lifers... ... do you really want Britney Spears as your posterchild? Or, sculpturechild? "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston DEDICATION HONORS NUDE BRITNEY SPEARS GIVING BIRTH Pop-Star’s Pregnancy Idealized In Brooklyn ‘Monument to Pro-Life’ BROOKLYN (March 22, 2006) --- A nude Britney Spears on a bearskin rug while giving birth to her firstborn marks a ‘first’ for Pro-Life. Pop-star Britney Spears is the “ideal” model for Pro-Life and the subject of a dedication at Capla Kesting Fine Art in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg gallery district, in what is proclaimed the first Pro-Life monument to birth, in April. Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston,” believed Pro-Life’s first monument to the ‘act of giving birth,’ is purportedly an idealized depiction of Britney in delivery. Natural aspects of Spears’ pregnancy, like lactiferous breasts and protruding naval, compliment a posterior view that depicts widened hips for birthing and reveals the crowning of baby Sean’s head." The 'ideal model?' Helllllo? Drivers seat? Slutty persona? 'Oops I did it again?' You want an ideal model? Try the Virgin Mary. That's as far away from Planned Parenthood as you can get. Unreal. ( For further craziness, read the full press release here )

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March 24th, 2006

09:51 pm - George Mason This is for you upper-midwestern-types... Meet George Mason. (thank you Wikipedia) George Mason (December 11, 1725 – October 7, 1792) was a United States patriot, statesman, and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention. He has been called the "Father of the Bill of Rights". Mason wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which detailed specific rights of citizens. He was later a leader of those who pressed for the addition of explicitly stated individual rights as part of the U.S. Constitution. His efforts eventually succeeded in convincing the Federalists (such as James Madison) to modify the Constitution and add the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments of the Constitution). The Bill of Rights is based on Mason's earlier Virginia Declaration of Rights. The French Revolution's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was also based on George Mason's work. And they have absolutely no business being in the elite 8...but it's pretty fun nevertheless. We'll see if Georgetown can follow suit...

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March 23rd, 2006

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March 22nd, 2006

11:37 pm - Unacceptable Oh, I'm home in Maryland, by the way... Classic Rock 94.7, The Arrow. The Capital of Classic Rock. I interned there back in the summer of 1999. Had a great time... they're still doing classic rock now...or at least they say they are. They played 'Shine' by Collective Soul today. This leads me to a few possible conclusions... 1. They use the word 'classic rock' very liberally... 2. They played a wrong song....maybe they were going for "Shine on you crazy diamond" by Pink Floyd instead.... 3. 1993 is officially considered classic rock now. I refuse to accept any of those. Here's the thing...I don't have a problem with classic rock stations playing newer stuff when it's by bona fide classic rock artists. Neil Young has a new record out? Sure, spin a few tracks off of it. And then later in the day, play Harvest Moon or Heart of Gold as usual. But when you start playing bands who got their start in the so called 'grunge' era on classic rock stations...we have a problem. Hell, we play 90's bands all the time at my radio station...and we STOPPED playing Collective Soul!!! Made me want to throw up. Made me a bit....sblounskched... In other Washington radio news...I got my first taste of a JACK radio station today. (for you non-radio peoples who don't know....JACK stations play hits from the 60's through the present, and they brag how they've got these huge music libraries...(which they do)...and they market themselves as "Playing What We Want"....no boundries...Ipod shuffle radio...stuff like that).... They've got good attitudes. A sweeper said, "JACK-FM...the wave of the future. (long pause) we hope." The segues were as trainwrecked as advertised. Let's go from 'Land of Confusion' by Genesis into 'All The Small Things' by Blink 182. Why not? And then let's follow that up with 'The Long Run' from the Eagles.... oy vey... I can just hear the radios switching as every subsequent song starts.... March 23rd. I'm finally having Christmas! Hooray-ah for me!

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March 17th, 2006

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