Thursday, September 30, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
VILLA Move to 5th with win over Wolves
Midlands derby day with Aston Villa at Wolves. I didn't get to catch the match as it wasn't on FSC, but saw the highlights. Great goal from Emile Heskey.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
I'd like you to write Punk Rock Warlord...with Warlord being one word.
Interesting piece over at the NME suggesting that London's legendary 100 Club might be closing. There's a campaign in the works to save it, but overhead costs are becoming too high for the club to continue to operate the way it's been operating.
Mick Jones has even said that he would do what he can to help.
I remember seeing old flyers of the Clash with the venue listed as the 100 club, or a number of other punk bands (the Vibrators, Sex Pistols, Damned are the first that come to mind). When venues get shut down like this--much like CBGB's in New York--I always wish I would have had the opportunity to play a show there before it disappeared. Sad.
Flowers and Football Tops...
For those of you who saw, today saw a lot of interesting results in football/soccer.
EPL -- Tottenham lost to West Ham 1-0, West Bromwich Albion beat Arsenal, Liverpool drew with Sunderland, and Chelsea, who looked all but unstoppable, lost to Manchester City. In La Liga, Real Madrid were held goalless by a side who just got promoted from the Segunda. With as much money as Real Madrid has invested on the biggest players in the world, including new World Cup stars like Angel Di Maria and Mesut Ozil, it's incredible to me that they don't dominate with as much fluidity as a team like Barcelona (who won 3-0 without Lionel Messi). Manchester City's money-spending has got them a team of complete all stars, but it still seems like the only one they really needed is Carlos Tevez. He scored in between the legs of Ashley Cole today and it was fantastic. I felt like I could feel the goal building as soon as Tevez got the ball.
Anyway, my Saturday has been completely spent between soccer and music. I hung out with a few friends and played quite a few riffs/jams I've been trying to work on and I was super excited about the way everything sounded. Here's to hoping we're able to do it again some time soon. I'll post recordings here if I ever end up doing anything with them.
UPDATE: Here's a really great interview on Tevez being given the Captaincy at City.
EPL -- Tottenham lost to West Ham 1-0, West Bromwich Albion beat Arsenal, Liverpool drew with Sunderland, and Chelsea, who looked all but unstoppable, lost to Manchester City. In La Liga, Real Madrid were held goalless by a side who just got promoted from the Segunda. With as much money as Real Madrid has invested on the biggest players in the world, including new World Cup stars like Angel Di Maria and Mesut Ozil, it's incredible to me that they don't dominate with as much fluidity as a team like Barcelona (who won 3-0 without Lionel Messi). Manchester City's money-spending has got them a team of complete all stars, but it still seems like the only one they really needed is Carlos Tevez. He scored in between the legs of Ashley Cole today and it was fantastic. I felt like I could feel the goal building as soon as Tevez got the ball.
Anyway, my Saturday has been completely spent between soccer and music. I hung out with a few friends and played quite a few riffs/jams I've been trying to work on and I was super excited about the way everything sounded. Here's to hoping we're able to do it again some time soon. I'll post recordings here if I ever end up doing anything with them.
UPDATE: Here's a really great interview on Tevez being given the Captaincy at City.
Punk Shows and Firestorming.
Went to a show at a place called Albion House tonight. I got there late but was able to catch 2 1/2 bands -- Thought Crusade, Black & Blue, and Gryphyns. Gryphyns were like the "Safety Second, Body Last" Locust record without guitar having a seance with Neurosis and salted with City of Caterpillar--all informed with a certain rock swagger, a genuflection of je nais se quois. Thought Crusade and Black & Blue were fucking stompers.
After that I cruised to my friend's house for a High Life around a campfire. I remembered watching the Joe Strummer film by Julien Temple, The Future is Unwritten, where so much of it focused on Joe's affection for the campfire setting. Fantastic portrayal of a really talented communicator.
After that I cruised to my friend's house for a High Life around a campfire. I remembered watching the Joe Strummer film by Julien Temple, The Future is Unwritten, where so much of it focused on Joe's affection for the campfire setting. Fantastic portrayal of a really talented communicator.
Friday, September 24, 2010
WHAT.Album of the Day today...
The album of the day today over at allmusic.com was Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds with Your Funeral, My Trial.
I love that record. I used to talk about those lyrics with one of my professors and counting the references to Shakespeare in that album, of which there are many.
OTHER NEW RECORDS I NEED:
New Black Mountain album
New No Age
I'm tired. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
I love that record. I used to talk about those lyrics with one of my professors and counting the references to Shakespeare in that album, of which there are many.
OTHER NEW RECORDS I NEED:
New Black Mountain album
New No Age
I'm tired. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Thursday, September 23, 2010
More Marr
Aglophilia has set in. More British music news:
Johnny Marr is releasing a single in a philanthropic move to end homelessness. The charity benefiting from the whole thing is a called Centrepoint, and you can read all about it here. The reason this is particularly of interest? I spent a good portion of my evening last night talking about how much I love The Smiths and Oasis, as per usual, and this video came up during the course of conversation. Check out Noel talking about Johnny Marr, it rules.
Johnny Marr is releasing a single in a philanthropic move to end homelessness. The charity benefiting from the whole thing is a called Centrepoint, and you can read all about it here. The reason this is particularly of interest? I spent a good portion of my evening last night talking about how much I love The Smiths and Oasis, as per usual, and this video came up during the course of conversation. Check out Noel talking about Johnny Marr, it rules.
Glaswegian Legend Bobby Gillespie
After listening to the Jesus and Mary Chain nonstop this morning, I was doing a little research on my favorite Glasgow rockers and saw this article on Bobby Gillespie from the Guardian way back in 2008. Favorite quote has to be when he's asked if he supports Hamas, and he responds by saying "No, I support Celtic FC." Legend!
Of course, this bit of reading did move me directly from The Jesus and Mary Chain straight to Primal Scream today. Great band.
Link to the article: HERE.
Of course, this bit of reading did move me directly from The Jesus and Mary Chain straight to Primal Scream today. Great band.
Link to the article: HERE.
Strange and possibly true
1 Bobby Gillespie named his second son Lux after Lux Interior, the singer of horror rockers the Cramps.
2 Gillespie attracted controversy during Primal Scream's set at the 2005 Glastonbury Festival for insulting the crowd with a Nazi salute. He later claimed he did it because a hippy stole his ale.
3 Though Gillespie once defaced a 'Make Poverty History' poster so that it read 'Make Israel History', he does not support Hamas. 'No,' he said in 2006, 'I support Celtic.'
4 He was a roadie for the Eighties band Altered Images and the drummer for the Jesus and Mary Chain before forming Primal Scream.
5 Gillespie owns a bow tie formerly owned by Johnny Thunders.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
HESKEY SCORES AND VILLA WIN
Villa win 3-1 vs. Blackburn today in the Carling Cup Third Round.
I know it's a silly thing to be so excited about, but Heskey got one in the net and Ashley Young put in two in two minutes time.
It certainly brightened my day. I can't wait to see the highlights.
I know it's a silly thing to be so excited about, but Heskey got one in the net and Ashley Young put in two in two minutes time.
It certainly brightened my day. I can't wait to see the highlights.
Houllier takes charge at AVFC today...
Gerard Houllier takes over at Aston Villa today during their League Cup clash against Blackburn Rovers. I'm massively interested to see his team selection, and I'm more excited about his evaluation on getting confidence restored at the club and changing the mentality.
Brilliant. Win some shit. Come on you villains.
"Villa is a club which is liked in Europe. It has an identity," Houllier said. "Aston Villa is known as [being like] Paris Saint‑Germain. This club is known to be a good club. I've not met anyone saying it's a bad club. What the club needs is more ambition, more biting teeth.
"When you are a good club everything is fine, the comfort is there. What we need to do is get out of this comfort zone a bit more and get the results. The passion is there [but] the ambition to win things could do well at this club. The image is that it's a nice club. We want to be a winning club. A nice, winning club."
Brilliant. Win some shit. Come on you villains.
Grinderman terrorize
New single out called Worm Tamer. Way too wild. Grinderman come to Chicago on November 22, San Diego on December 1. I have to be at one of those shows.
Insanely upset I haven't picked up the new record yet.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Running Out of Time
Always feel like I'm running out of time.
I picked up a lot of good new music lately and I'm really excited to start listening to more and more of it. I got a repress of the Spacemen 3 record Sound of Confusion, and it's incredible. It's strangely addicting--like everything else I want to listen to feels like a derivative of that record for whatever reason.
I have to stop by Hard Boiled Records soon in Chicago's Roscoe Village. The last time I was there I was waiting for my bike to be fixed, and someone had sold a huge collection--Jesus and Mary Chain, tons of Smiths records, tons of Moz singles, Echo & the Bunnymen, Pistols, Beatles, etc. Tons of good late '70s kinda post-punk stuff. Knowing that I shouldn't spend any more money, I only picked up two records -- The Fall's I am Kurious Oranj and a record by The Housemartins. I doubt much will be left but it's not too far.
My bike got stolen. Full bummer. I put like $500 into that thing before it disappeared.
I picked up a lot of good new music lately and I'm really excited to start listening to more and more of it. I got a repress of the Spacemen 3 record Sound of Confusion, and it's incredible. It's strangely addicting--like everything else I want to listen to feels like a derivative of that record for whatever reason.
I have to stop by Hard Boiled Records soon in Chicago's Roscoe Village. The last time I was there I was waiting for my bike to be fixed, and someone had sold a huge collection--Jesus and Mary Chain, tons of Smiths records, tons of Moz singles, Echo & the Bunnymen, Pistols, Beatles, etc. Tons of good late '70s kinda post-punk stuff. Knowing that I shouldn't spend any more money, I only picked up two records -- The Fall's I am Kurious Oranj and a record by The Housemartins. I doubt much will be left but it's not too far.
My bike got stolen. Full bummer. I put like $500 into that thing before it disappeared.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
hey blog, it's been a while
dude i don't know why i haven't written in ages.
records i'm excited about:
Deerhunter - Halycon Digest
Crocodiles - Sleep Forever
Darker My Love - Dear Author
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
...and in a weird way I want to pick up Alejandro Escovedo's Street Songs of Love.
Just had to share.
records i'm excited about:
Deerhunter - Halycon Digest
Crocodiles - Sleep Forever
Darker My Love - Dear Author
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
...and in a weird way I want to pick up Alejandro Escovedo's Street Songs of Love.
Just had to share.
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