PopTodd

That's one good-looking set.

 

If it wasn't for Tracy Ullman, I don't know if I would have discovered Kirsty MacColl. I loved her video for "They Don't Know" (with Paul McCartney!) when I was a kid. Years later, when I found out Tracy's version was a cover, I wandered into MacColl's catalog.

Such a brilliant, underrecognized songwriter. I actually shed a few tears the day that I heard of her death.

Seriously.

Not only were Stiff:

"The Worlds Most Flexible Label"

But all of their albums were:

"Electrically Recorded".

Their roster included:

Nick Lowe

The Damned

Graham Parker

The Rumour

Elvis Costello

Tenpole Tudor

Madness

Kirsty MacColl

The Pogues

Desmond Dekker

Tracey Ullman (yes, her)

and many more that you've never heard of, but you really should hear.

I have a small condensation of the 4-disc set, if you need convincing.

But, you should really just buy it!

There was a reason that people said:

how do you keep winning all of these tickets?

I don't know.

But I bought a lottery ticket this week... just because.

This will be something to see.

Thanks for the info.

Maybe I'll win tickets to this too.

I've seen him a couple of times -- both solo/acoustic -- and he is phenominal. So intense.

But it's been a few years (like, 10), so I'm pretty stoked.

Frisbie - The Subversive Sounds Of Love

Mark Sultan - The Sultanic Verses

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

Stiff Records Box Set (disc 3)

Sonu Nigam - compilation

Just got this email from WXRT:

Congratulations! You've won a pair of tickets to see a very intimate performance from Bob Mould live from Studio X at Martyrs' on Tuesday, February 5th! Martyrs' is located at 3855 N. Lincoln Ave in Chicago. Doors open at 5:30pm and the show begins at 6:30pm.

I met Louie and Wendy at the Steve Earle Studio X show a couple of months ago... which is how I wound up here.

Wow.

Just wow.

Good run.

Someone told me that the recent Sesame Street dvd release has a parental advisory sticker of some sort on it - is that true?

Summuffabitch.

Just more evidence that we are moving backwards... back to the puritanical values that we had previously been liberated from.

As soon as my wife finishes with it:

i'm a big big fan of self-censorship.

Me too, at least when it comes to what my kids see and hear.

For instance, when I play a cover of Camper Van Beethoven's "Good Guys and Bad Guys", I change the line:

Just get high while the radio's on

to:

Just say hi while the radio's on

They're 6 and 8. Old enought to get it, but not really. They don't need to be asking me why I condone such things by singing about them.

Kermit and the Mystery Box:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYiFxGtseHw

I watched this with the family yesterday, and we were ALL laughing out loud. Hard.

It's also pretty good with just strings. Have you ever heard the Kronos Quartet cover?

Yes. That is one of the main reasons I picked up that (sadly, middling) Rub

Pulp = Different Class

Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways

Latcho Drom (OST)

Steve Ison - The Stars Are Never Really Distant

http://www.iacmusic.com/thegoodstuff

(Streaming playlist of both known and unknown bands)

Oh, and speaking of amazing guitar players from New York City:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MquZLRdhRUE

Sure wish it had subtitles.

Absolutely agree.

Still entertaining. I plan on buying the DVD... presuming, of course that THAT has subtitles.

So did anyone watch that trailer?

Thank you for saying so, Mary Shelley.

Exactly.

There is something terribly Frankenstein-like about this.

The group hopes eventually to use engineered genomes to make organisms that can produce clean fuels and take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Without a doubt the intent is noble, even heroic. But there are just a lot of things tha can happen when you start messing around with things like this. No matter what you try to account for, there's gonna be something unexpected that comes up.

Not sayin' this is Doomsday, just that this is some pretty heady shit that they're messing around with.

So, if man was previously 5, and God 7, is man now 7 and God 9?

 

Is my question.

This monkey ain't goin' to heaven, me don't think.

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US scientists make breakthrough in quest for synthetic life

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01...?section=justin

Fabricando Tom Z

Seriously, Tom Z?s something else. He is one of my all-time favorites and a total character. At 70 years old, he has more energy than I do at 37. I just heard about this documentary that came out and am wating anxiously to be able to see the damn thing.

http://www.fabricandotomze.com.br/

Any of you fans of his?

Heard of this documentary?

Have you seen it? (It already came out in Great Britain.)

There is a trailer at the site that, despite being entirely in Portugese, is extraordinarily entertaining.

No. That's gross.

And this poll disturbs me.

Especially the results.

Ew.