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Music Shit / Re: Scene Creamers - I Suck On That Emotion

« on: June 13, 2009, 11:19:03 AM »

Agreed. I was just listening to his new group, Chain and the Gang today and thinking that I had severely underrated their new LP.  Always loved the work of Svenonious.  He steals from so many, yet he is unlike any other.  Clever writer, great interviewer (Soft Focus show on Vice online) and excellent performer.  He's  a rich man's Henry Rollins.

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Music Shit / Re: Essential Records

« on: June 13, 2009, 08:20:07 AM »

But somehow nobody's mentioned Captain Beefheart?

Thread sucks anyway.......

Nobody's really taking this thread seriously are they?  I swear I cannot tell anymore.  Maybe I need to give those Tracy Chapman and Primus records another spin.  Perhaps I was too young to comprehend their greatness the first time around.

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Cities / Re: Who lives in DENVER, COLORADO?

« on: June 13, 2009, 08:12:54 AM »

Where did Ladonnas play on New Years Eve of '97? I was at that show, fun stuff.

Hey Simon -

This is Dave.  I was with you at that show.  Well, me and my lovely wife.  It's been a long time since I've seen you, but you were visiting us when we were living in Boulder.  I think it might have been '98, but maybe i'm wrong.  It was at the 15th St. Tavern.  Small world, eh.  Well, at least on the internet it is.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Movies I've been watching

« on: June 11, 2009, 08:55:33 AM »

"Cranes are Flying" is an all time top ten for me.  I am Cuba is great too.    Two of the the most visually stunning movies I've ever seen.  There are shots in those movies that baffle me even to this day and they were filmed over 40 years ago.  No matter how much crappy CGI is available to every modern director with a $100 million budget they will never be able to touch these films.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: existential movie endings

« on: June 10, 2009, 01:45:35 PM »

Kubrick's "The Killing"

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Non-Music Shit / Re: ATTN: ABC

« on: June 09, 2009, 08:38:11 PM »

If he really wanted to overcome diversity, they'd put Adam Morrison in the game.

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Music Shit / Re: Best Record Store In Town

« on: June 09, 2009, 07:12:36 PM »

Really, the record store Beatles fan is the bane of all record sellers. They are never as smart as they think they are, they have absolutely no charm, they are dullards, and they are cheap. The info they pass on to you is shit you already know or don't care. They are Paul partisans and can't believe that John would go for someone "as ugly as Yoko" when he could have any woman in the world and they are happy to tell you this at least once every visit. While Zappa fans and KISS collectors are also noxious, neither will communicate with you: The Zappa head because you are of a lower order than he (and it is always a he) and the KISS collector is inherently anti-social. The other record store bore is the collector who feels a need to recite every score they've made over the past two years - more often than not these are punk collectors. I am sure Barry has to deal with all of the above as well as the tourist dicks who walk in and say "DOES ANY ONE EVEN LISTEN TO RECORDS ANY MORE? I GUESS SO OTHERWISE YOU WOULDN'T BE IN BUSINESS A YUK YUK YUK!" and the shitty teens trying to rip him off. On the other hand, I am sure that there are the handful of regulars that he looks forward to seeing and shooting the shit with and the impressionable youngsters that he gets to push records on, who eagerly come back for more. But those Beatles fans. They are the fucking worst.  

This is real talk right here.  Anyone who has ever worked in a record store knows that this is spot on.  Of course the other side of the Beatles coin is your average dude/lady off the street bringing them in to sell and they're sure they're worth hundreds of dollars or more.  They must be worth a lot of money.  I mean, it's the fucking BEATLES!! right.  No matter how many times you tell them that there were a billion copies of every Beatles LP pressed and no, there's are not the ones they saw on Antique's Roadshow, they just flat out won't believe you.  And so off they go to some other store somewhere, where I assume pretty much the exact dialogue is played out for eternity.


P.S. My Mind's Eye in Cleveland.  Wax Trax and Black and Red in Denver. Dusty Groove, Reckless, Hyde Park Records, 2nd Hand Tunes in Chicago. and although I lived in D.C. for a year I cannot really recommend any shops there.  although, I hear a good one has opened since i moved.  But, really any record store that is still open in this dark age is a minor miracle and should be celebrated.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Movies I've been watching

« on: June 05, 2009, 08:09:11 PM »

Tokyo Drifter- flashy, colorful bat shit crazy hitman pic from the early 60's.
Blast of Silence- moody understated hitman pic from the early 60's.  kind of the opposite of Tokyo Drifter

both are so good. be sure to watch all the other suzuki movies.
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I watched "Branded to Kill" years ago and loved it, but never watched anything else by him til just now.  Got a bunch of em in my netflix queue now, starting with "Youth of the Beast."

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Music Shit / Re: Mirrors "Something That Would Never Do" LP

« on: June 05, 2009, 11:03:40 AM »

Need to get this Mirrors LP.  I know it's not the label's fault, but over $20 for a single LP?  Things are getting crazy. 

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Music Shit / Re: Mirrors "Something That Would Never Do" LP

« on: June 05, 2009, 10:56:27 AM »

There was some kind of Sacto-CLE connection through the Twinkeyz and the Mirrors, etc. I think through Michael Wheldon. I would not doubt that the Barrett fan club had something to do with it.

interesting.  i recently bought a box of 45s off a dude and it was all ohio stuff except for 2 twinkeyz singles. 

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Movies I've been watching

« on: June 05, 2009, 08:36:40 AM »

Tokyo Drifter- flashy, colorful bat shit crazy hitman pic from the early 60's.

The Hunger- Tony Scott's clusterfuck of a vampire movie.  Starts out alright and gradually falls apart until it reaches it's ridiculous climax.  Features appearances by the Bauhaus, young Ann Magnuson, and a two second Willem DaFoe cameo.

Blast of Silence- moody understated hitman pic from the early 60's.  kind of the opposite of Tokyo Drifter.

Johnny Got His Gun - kind of disappointing.  the voiceover narration was really rough.  Guess I should of just stuck with the Metallica version.


anyone seen JCVD yet? 

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Music Shit / Re: Best British R&B bands

« on: June 03, 2009, 03:04:36 PM »

what about the jimi hendrix experience?  2/3 British right?

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Music Shit / Re: Best British R&B bands

« on: June 03, 2009, 01:13:58 PM »

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Music Shit / Re: Best British R&B bands

« on: June 03, 2009, 01:02:53 PM »

How about the one that actually has black people in it?  Oh wait.....   

Equals had some black people as members.  So did the Doobie Brothers.  Doesn't make em any more soulful.  Probably cuz they had the biggest honkey of all time (Michael McDonald) in their ranks.

While American blues and R&B is the obvious starting point for most of these bands, I like most of those bands better once they started to outgrow that sound. 

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Music Shit / Re: Epiphany.

« on: May 27, 2009, 04:51:54 PM »

worked for Joey Ramone.