Anything music.
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I’ve rented too many cars with great tunes beamed from 22,300 miles above. Sirius satellite radio has finally worn me down. I think I’ll be picking up my own subscription soon!
Kiss Them For Me
Siouxsie And The Banshees
(music video on YouTube)
It glittered and it gleamed
for the arriving beauty queen
a ring and a car
now you’re the prettiest by far
No party she’d not attend
no invitation she wouldn’t send
transfixed by the inner sound
of your promise to be found
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Kelly’s cousin’s husband is on the road in an up-and-coming band from Minneapolis, Romantica. Jim Orvis (on the left in the photo) plays percussion for the band. Jim is a great drummer and an equally great guy.
Romantica has been generating some buzz, selling out their Minneapolis CD-debut show. They’ll be playing at Starr Hill in Charlottesville next weekend, no doubt to a large crowd.
Give their songs a listen at Purevolume.com, visit their website or their MySpace page for tour dates and other information. MT.Net says check ’em out!
My Dutch friend Guus’s recent introduction to Pabst Blue Ribbon got me thinking back to the days I wandered around Sleazefest, where PBR was prevalent. Few shows can make me willingly stand in a sweaty, smoke-filled room for hours on end, but Sleazefest could. Bands right in front of you (and sometimes on top of you) played sloppy surf rock while girls wearing bumper stickers shimmied in cages. Three days and multiple stages! Man, that show was a blast.
Last year, the Indy went searching for the lost Sleazefest. I hope it turns up soon.
Jack
Widespread Panic
Jack was really a jester
Who held his one good eye on the queen
And there sat the king beside her
He’s pointing his sword up and down with every scene
And the wizard’s in the corner
Catching peanuts between his teeth
And the dog’s lying in the shadow in the archway
There’s one good dog sleeping filled with good ol’ dog dreams
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The Bug
Dire Straits
Well its a strange old game – you learn it slow
One step forward and its back to go
You’re standing on the throttle
You’re standing on the brakes
In the groove til you make a mistake
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GarageBand is a tool of the devil. I don’t think I’ll ever sleep again now that I can make music so easily.
Why did it take me so long to see things from the Mac perspective?
One of the aforementioned Merlefest-attending family members was my brother, Jeff. He took a handful of fantastic photos of some of the big names at the show.
I’ve heard from my Merlefest-attending family members. They all tell me Elvis Costello was awesome.
Man am I wishing could’ve gone! I was lucky enough to temporarily claim the two tickets Paul Jones put up for grabs but had to decline them due to existing weekend activities. Someday I’ll go!
Surf over to my buddy Larry’s HickoryWind.Org site for what is bound to be the best Merlefest coverage on the net.
Beck
Girl
I saw her, yea I saw her
With her black tongue tied round the roses
A fist pounding on a vending machine
Toy diamond ring stuck on her finger
With a noose she can hang from the sun
And put it out with her dark sunglasses
Walking crooked down the beach
She spits on the sand
Where their bones are bleaching
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This song is irrevocably stuck in my head thanks to a Dan Zanes DVD we were given.
Go Down Emmanuel Road
As Performed By The Sandy Girls and Dan Zanes
go down emmanuel road girl and boy fe go break rock stone
go down emmanuel road girl and boy fe go break rock stone
break them one by one (girl and boy)
break them two by two (girl and boy)
break them three by three (girl and boy)
break them four by four (girl and boy)
break them five by five (girl and boy)
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