In honor of our sabbath, here’s some Sonic Youth Jesus, thanks for dying for my sins again bud! I’m sure everyone will recognize the star of the video.
Chris
All We Want Baby Is Everything!
Nope, this is not a post about the fabulous Handsome Furs number of the same name. Instead, this is a quick rant about the oft-stated “I like everything” or “I like everything…. but country” response many humans spew when inquired about their personal tastes in music. Really now? EVERYTHING!? What a burden?! So, as my brother claimed, do you have that recording of me taking a shit on your ipod as well? Since, you like everything I’d gather it would appear in your shuffle. Then again towards the end of that shit it started to resemble Hank Williams’ southern drawls. Haha, anyway back to my ACTUAL point it is impossible to listen to everything and obviously most purveyors of said statement don’t, but I get the feeling they don’t actually have a diverse taste in music as the eclectic label would indicate. Now, I do know some folks that say they like “everything” and do listen to a wide regiment of artists. With that being said, 95% of the everything people listen to only mainstreamers or what’s big on the radio today. So, for example they may have Kings of Leon (“alternative” whatever that means), T Pain (Hip Hop), Kelly Clarkson (pop), Fall Out Boy (rock lol), Rolling Stones (classic rock), etc. on their ipod and this is supposed to represent “everything.” And sometimes you can throw in the occasional “indie” (whatever that means) band too. It varies from person to person, but that’s the standard. So, basically when they say everything they mean everything mainstream. Well, boys and girls, there is such a thing as underground music. In fact, most of the best music comes from the latter. I suggest y’all expand your horizons and check out bands that don’t appear on KISS 108 or Jammin’ 945 or whatever. Finally, there are also several great bands that have achieved mainstream levels of success, but sound anything but, like Tool for example.
P.S. the biggest reason I don’t make the claim of listening to everything is the fact that most of the shit I hear on the radio I disdain, so why the fuck would I ever want to listen to “everything?!”
Chris
Mail Order Husbands
Randy Randall’s Shoulder
Dean Spunt (noagela.blogspot.com)
Hey Randy is okay. He dislocated his shoulder and was in extreme pain for an hour or so. We are on our way to Lollapalooza, we are going to still try and play if we can. Thanks to everyone
All of us at KLYAM are glad that guitar legend is okay.
Here is footage of Randy’s fall (around the 2:50 mark) caused by a beer spill.
Stars Pay Tribute To John Hughes
WENN.COM
Steve Martin, Macaulay Culkin and Matthew Broderick are leading the tributes to director John Hughes, who died on Thursday.Hughes passed away after suffering a heart attack while out walking in Manhattan, New York.
The father of two stepped away from the limelight in the 1990s but stars from the big screen have offered their fond memories of the director, whose career spanned back to the 1980s.
Broderick, who was directed by Hughes in the 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, was devastated to hear of his death and has sent his condolences to the moviemaker’s grief-stricken relatives.
He says, “I am truly shocked and saddened by the news about my old friend John Hughes. He was a wonderful, very talented guy and my heart goes out to his family.”
Actress Molly Ringwald, who starred in three of Hughes’ hit movies – Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink – was equally shocked to hear of his sudden passing.
She adds, “I was stunned and incredibly sad to hear about the death of John Hughes. He was and will always be such an important part of my life. He will be missed – by me and by everyone that he has touched. My heart and all my thoughts are with his family now.”
Veteran star Steve Martin, who worked with Hughes on 1987’s Planes, Trains And Automobiles, remembers the director with affection: “John Hughes was a great director, but his gift was in screenwriting. He created deep and complex characters, rich in humanity and humour.”
And former child star Macaulay Culkin, who worked with Hughes on Uncle Buck and the Home Alone movies in the early 1990s, is adamant that the late film-maker’s work will live on for decades to come.
He says, “I was a fan of both his work and a fan of him as a person. The world has lost not only a quintessential filmmaker whose influence will be felt for generations, but a great and decent man.”
Harry Patch (In Memory Of)
Wall Street Journal
With little fanfare this week, Radiohead made a new track available for download on its Web site. Entitled “Harry Patch (In Memory Of),” it demonstrates how the band views the contemporary music business—and how little regard it has for the conventional view of what a rock band should do.The song is a moving tribute to Patch, who was believed to be the last surviving British soldier to have fought in World War I. He died on July 25 at age 111. In September 1917, Patch was wounded by a bomb that killed three of his comrades at the Battle of Passchendaele, one of the most horrific actions of the war that saw British casualties in the hundreds of thousands during the three months it lasted. In a 2005 interview with the BBC, Patch said that he went 80 years without discussing his war experiences, even with his family.
But through his longevity, Patch became a reluctant spokesman, eventually testifying with candor to what he had witnessed in France more than four-score years ago. He said that he still had nightmares about the bomb that struck his unit.
Click here to listen: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8184000/8184802.stm
CD Review: Watch Me Fall
Band: Jay Reatard
Label: Matador
Release: 2009
1. “It Ain’t Gonna Save Me” – 10.0 –
2. “Before I Was Caught” – 9.1
3. “Man of Steel” – 9.0
4. “Can’t Do It Anymore” – 8.7
5. “Faking It” – 8.9
6. “I’m Watching You” – 8.6
7. “Wounded” – 9.3
8. “Rotten Mind” – 8.7
9. “Nothing Now” – 8.4
10. “My Reality” – 9.2
11. “Hang Them All” – 8.9
12. “There Is No Sun” – 9.5
Comment: This album is quite like a lot of what Reatard has done in the past: fast paced, catchy garage punk, yet this time around it’s more accessible (though at some times a smidge more boring). “It Ain’t Gonna Save Me” is in the mix for best song of 2009, while “There Is No Sun” is an extraordinary closer.
Grade: 9.1
Here’s The Good News!
Here I am sitting outside on one of the most beautiful days of the summer (sunny, 79 degrees) listening to Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day” on WERS and reading “Believe!” by Richard M. Devos. At this exact moment, I am reading about good news! Amidst all the criticism of what’s going on in the world today and all the sad news of the day…
“…80 million people went to work today! The country’s plants operated today. The banks and stores were open today. All that money was handled by people who are still truth-worthy and dependable…Thousands of production lines operated today, and you’ll have their goods on your table…in a few good weeks… You turned on the radio…and there was someone to play some music for you…People are waiting in tens of thousands of gas stations to pump gas into your car to get you where you are going…the people who work hard to keep [society] moving are to be saluted!”
Song of the Day
Black Lips – Take My Heart (Acoustic) –200 Million Thousand
Intense Typhoon Hits Parts of Taiwan
And now a weather report for…Taiwan?
Taipei, Aug. 7 (CNA) The edge of Typhoon Morakot made landfall in eastern and northern Taiwan early Friday, with wind and rain expected to intensify around the island, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) reported later that day.
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