Feeling Good (obviously)

do you wanna eat do you wanna sleep do you wanna drown?

good times for a change

the abbreviated version:

Hip to be Square

A couple of things, neither one related to the other:

Combat Baby

Got bored and made some not very well thought out mixes. Oh well - it kept me entertained for 15 minutes.

1. House of Jealous Lovers / The Rapture

2. How Near How Far / ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

3. Police Bastard / Doom

4. Le Garage / Futureheads

5. New Sensation / INXS

6. Y Control / Yeah Yeah Yeahs

7. Ace Of Spades / Motorhead

8. PlayGirl / Ladytron

9. Slow Hands / Interpol

10. Born In the U.S.A. / Bruce Springsteen

11. Bliss / Muse

12. U-Mass / Pixies

13. Monkey Man / The Specials

14. So Many Animal Calls / Q and Not U

15. Sloop John B / Beach Boys

16. Don't You (Forget About Me) / Simple Minds

1. Women's Realm / Belle & Sebastian

2. Twistin' The Nite Away / Sam Cooke

3. Worked Up So Sexual / The Faint

4. Saw Her Standing There / Apollo Up!

5. Negative Creep / Nirvana

6. Change Clothes / Jay-Z (Danger Mouse remix)

7. The Sweat Descends / Les Savy Fav

8. Hotel Yorba / The White Stripes

9. Rebel Yell / Billy Idol

10. Wicked Light Sleeper / Joggers

11. Stuart / The Dead Milkmen

12. Hot Lite / King Straggler

13. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight / The Postal Service

14. The King Of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1 / Neutral Milk Hotel

15. When You Were Mine / Prince

16. Yellow / Coldplay

1. What Ever Happened / The Strokes

2. Stop / Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 

3. She Bop / Cyndi Lauper 

4. Modern Love / David Bowie

5. Bandages / Hot Hot Heat

6. Taper Jean Girl / Kings Of Leon

7. Hung Up / Madonna

8. Combat Baby / Metric

9. Walk You Home / The Features

10. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart / Wilco

11. Wheelz Of Steel / Outkast

12. A Better Son/Daughter / Rilo Kiley

The non-Duckie version

Here's a little early feel good for your Friday:

will you worship moons in winter's night?

Just got done making a mix:

(click image to enlarge)

An entire CD's worth of really great songs didn't make the cut, so another will be forthcoming.

Average Homeboy

Oh lordy ThePodBaron just showed me a guy who HAS to be Speak's American cousin:



UPDATE: Also, see Average Homeboy 18 years Later!

Stop your business

I've determined that it's YouTube night. I bring you Speak, the Hungarian rapper:

Feel Good Friday: Say What?!

There really are no words...

What do you thrash?

Gotta get in on this FGF business simply because I'm on a tear with Thrashin':

Tell me now baby is he good to you

I got quite a bit of video at Springsteen. I make no claims for good quality of video or sound (as it's quite awful), but I'm excited nonetheless. This particular video is from when he made an attempt at a cover of "Walk the Line" per fan request, followed up with "I'm On Fire" (my favorite Springsteen song). Without further ado...

a one world state as human freight

Just because...

The Boss in Gnash's House

I've uploaded the first chunk of photos from Springsteen. None are phenomenal because my camera just didn't have what it took, but they're worth a peek. I'll try and get the rest up post-iced coffee tomorrow, but I'm having immense difficulty keeping my eyes open at the moment.

I'll dream of the Obama-Biden White House!

xo

What the hell is in that rrrroom?

I like Ludacris - as a musician and an actor - but come on...  This is no way to help out.

Obama Camp Says Ludacris should be 'ashamed'

The song, called "Politics: Obama Is Here," was released earlier in the day and refers to the New York senator as an "irrelevant b***h." Ludacris, whose real name is Chris Bridges, also takes aim at John McCain in the song, saying the Arizona senator "don't belong in ANY chair unless he's paralyzed."

Edited to add: I may sound like a hypocrite because I don't exactly do much to elevate the discourse (*cough*NoCUNTryForOldMan*cough*), but I'm also not a celebrity ... or someone that anyone listens to/reads for that matter - so suck it.

I always feel like somebody's watching me

I went out to Mount Olivet to take pictures yesterday. I probably only spent about 15 minutes doing it, though, because it was just too fucking hot. I plan to get more in the fall when it's cooler, as well as a possible trip to Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.

It's a beautiful cemetery, and not particularly creepy except for one thing - the old funeral home. The door was wide open (as well as numerous busted windows, but I couldn't bring myself to go in with it just being Mal and myself. In spite of the humidity and the elements, I doubt it's structurally unsound. I had more concern of running across scary squatters. However, if I could add a couple more people to my excursion, I would like to go in and find the embalming room. Morbid, I know. It gets worse. I have this ridiculous notion that I want to get one of those little head rests - the ones they use during embalming - just to have. I found one on eBay not too long ago and begged mom to bid on it for me (I know it's ridiculous, but I don't know the first thing about eBay). She ignored my request. Anyway, I kind of want to go in on the off chance that I might find one in a cabinet. So if anyone's up for a little adventure, let me know and we'll do it next weekend.

There were a couple of close-up shots I got of curtained windows in the place. Take a look at them and tell me you don't feel like you're being watched!

The full set is here.

Oh, and one more thing...

Avenues and Cities of the Dead

I'm going to try and upload the pictures I took at the City Cemetery this morning in the next bit (ok, so I don't really have anything else to do).  Until then, enjoy some music-type things compiled by yours truly: janeqpublic.muxtape.com

get my money, buy my medicine

There's a castle-like house that pops up at 2:35 appears to be a house that belonged to (and was maybe built by?) my great-great uncle, who was a bootlegger. If I'm correct, I believe it is now a recording studio. Verification from The Tatie is needed.

UPDATE: The house did, at some point or other, belong to my great-great uncle Walter Blankenship, a man of dubious occupation.  It's now Castle Recording Studio, from whose website I gleaned the following interesting information:

The Castle is one of the truly unique recording studios in the world in that its' physical plant was once a rest stop and hideout for one of the Roaring Twenties' most notorious figures, Al Capone. Built between 1929 and 1932 on 34 cedar-covered acres just 15 minutes south of Nashville, Tennessee, the stone edifice housed Capone bookmaker John Welch. During Welch's residency, the building was served many purposes, including serving as a bootlegging site, and local gambling house. Since that time, The Castle has seen various incarnations, including a rather elite restaurant whose clientele reportedly included Spencer Tracy and Bob Hope.

I'm still trying to get more info from The Tatie, which is proving to be difficult as she is generally too busy for anything that involves me. *insert tune from world's tiniest violin here*

love games

In honor of the awesome speakers I bought on impulse today, I give you a moment of Old Gregg...

Metallica plays secret show at the basement

Metallica plays secret Nashville show for audience of 175

Crazy!