CortezTheKiller

PT has been on a little Pollard run.  What do you think about the latest Circus Devils album?

NP:

 

re: Alien Lanes

I see.

But, for me it was. Literally.

Inspired me to not only start recording at home, but also allowing other people to hear those recordings, which led to me getting signed to an indie label, who released 2 albums from my band.

So yeah, life changing.

No doubt.

NP:

Disc 2 (Demons & Painkillers)

Life-changing album for me.

I'm not going that far, but it is one helluva record.

Love it!

David Bowie Blackstar

Cambridge is close enough.

We'll have to get a ruling from Jeff on that one.

Handshake drug of choice tonight

 

http://imgur.com/5nDdZtr

As long as you bought it downtown.

There's a 50% off vinyl sale going on at Rockathon Records

Yup.  I like The Lost Tapes, too.

Brace the Wave Lou Barlow

As long as the $$$ is right, I imagine Mick can let bygones be bygones.

Encore

Cortez the Killer (w/ Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Kurt Vile, Kevin Shields)

Heh, heh

As someone with 2,404 days sober, I would just throw in the ideas that addiction is a progressive disease and addicts are brilliant liars and manipulators by necessity. I don't think it's fair to second guess a person's motive for entering a marriage and/or what that person knew or should have known about the horrendous potential of her future spouse's spiritual and mental illness(es).

Well said, Atticus.  As someone who was the recipient of years and years of brilliant lies, not-so-brilliant-lies, and insane amounts of manipulation from an alcoholic spouse, I can fully appreciate the disappointment and bitterness Weiland's ex-wife feels.  I didn't see the signs when I entered the relationship, but once they began to surface, I initially dismissed them.  When it finally registered that it was a problem that could no longer be ignored, I naively thought I could help fix the problem.  Boy, was I wrong.  What a incredibly vicious cycle of sobriety and relapse.  I've recently divorced and my ex-wife is supposedly "sober" for 8+ months, but I gotta be honest, she remains a manipulative liar and hasn't taken a shred of responsibility for the damage and destruction her behavior/addiction did to our family.  She is not a rock star and I won't be writing a letter to Rolling Stone magazine if she tragically dies at some point soon.  However, if she was and I was in a position to write such a letter, I imagine it would be fairly similar to what Weiland's ex penned.

Okay, so here is what I do have:

 

Crickets: The Best of the Fading Captain Series

From a Compound Eye

Not in My Airforce

Robert Pollard Is Off to Business

Coast to Coast Carpet of Love

Standard Gargoyle Decisions

Elephant Jokes

Faulty Superheroes

Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department

We All Got Out of the Army

Blues and Boogie Shoes (Keene Brothers)

I Sell the Circus (Ricked Wicky)

King Heavy Metal (Ricked Wicky)

Brown Submarine (Boston Spaceships)

The Planets Are Blasted (Boston Spaceships)

Zero to 99 (Boston Spaceships)

Our Cubehouse Still Rocks (Boston Spaceships)

Let It Beard (Boston Spaceships)

Alien Lanes (GBV)

Bee Thousand (GBV)

Mag Earwhig! (GBV)

Under the Bushes Under the Stars (GBV)

 

I have a couple songs here and there off albums like Waved Out, Silverfish Trivia, Blazing Gentlemen, Honey Locust Honky Tonk, Space City Kicks, Superman Was a Rocker, and The Crawling Distance.  Where should I head next?

I've gone completely off the deep end.  Over the past several months, I've added the following:

Propeller (GBV)

Earthquake Glue (GBV)

Half Smiles of the Decomposed (GBV)

Universal Truths and Cycles (GBV)

I Am a Scientist EP (GBV)

Do the Collapse (GBV)

Cool Planet (GBV)

Isolation Drills (GBV)

The Bears for Lunch (GBV)

Class Clown Spots a UFO (GBV)

Motivational Jumpsuit (GBV)

Suitcase #4 (GBV)

Tower in the Fountain of Sparks (Airport 5)

Gringo (Circus Devils)

Stomping Grounds (Circus Devils)

A ton of cherry-picked Circus Devils stuff off various albums

Space City Kicks/Robert Pollard

Honey Locust Honky Tonk/Robert Pollard

Blazing Gentlemen/Robert Pollard

Waved Out/Robert Pollard

Fiction Man/Robert Pollard

Kid Marine/Robert Pollard

Lord of the Birdcage/Robert Pollard

Normal Happiness/Robert Pollard

Choreographed War of Man/Robert Pollard and His Soft Rock Renegades

Ask Them/Lexo and the Leapers

Swimmer to a Liquid Armchair/Ricked Wicky

New Theory of Everything/Mars Classroom

Waving at Astronauts/Lifeguards

Mist King Urth/Lifeguards

I am deep, deep, deep down the Pollard rabbit hole.