Dougie
2005-09-17 02:39:09 UTC
I haven't been reading much here lately due to lack of time,
compu-troubles, and still having to read it via Google, which sucks
major unfortunately-not-my-cock, so I don't know if there's been one of
these threads recently, but...
Current listening:
The fucking radio at work - which mostly sucks, but at least had the
decency to play a couple Lennon songs today. (Woman and Watching The
Wheels, two of my favorites.)
Warren Zevon - Sentimental Hygiene, Excitable Boy, Genius: Best Of
(I've had the bizarre need to play Lawyers Guns And Money about
seventeen times a day recently. Probably because I've been trying to go
home with a waitress.)
Jean-Luc Ponty - pretty much all his 1970s catalog. Big fusion week.
Dennis Most & The Instigators - Vampire City
Dennis Most & Audio Love - Live At El Cid 1976 - Dennis is a friend
living here in Indy (his brother is the lead singer of one of my
current bands) and we're about ready to start work on reviving an old
acoustic duo project we haven't done since fall of '98. (I played with
three bands in five hours on the last gig I did with him.) He's
currently undergoing a bit of underground punk success from some of his
'70s material (even Jello Biafra has praised his stuff), playing some
gigs on the East Coast, and having doing a brief tour of Italy a few
years ago. Vampire City is the newest album, and if you like good fast
raw punk-metal (with titles like Sex Is An Art Form and Excuse My
Spunk), it's a lot of fun. The Audio Love live disc is a fucking
terrifying blast of metallic Stooges-derived debris from a time when
virtually no one sounded like that. The grinding versions of Lucifer
Sam and Who Are The Brain Police are worth the pice of admission on
their own, but the whole thing is a blazing motherfuck of a ride and
I'm proud to know the guy. Our project will be far more sedate, with
lots of '50s and '60s rock/blues stuff. I like playing with him. He
inspires me to play as simply but effectively as possible, which I'm
not good at when behaving like Jack Bruce on crack in my other bands.
XTC - Wasp Star, Nonesuch - Practically my soundtrack these days. They
get play in my car during breaks at work almost every day. Then She
Appeared and We're All Light have become two of my favorite things
ever, and compliment my current mood very, very well. Love is a very
fine thing.
Jethro Tull - Catfish Rising - I can't get enough of this shit. My
current favorite lyric on the planet is in When Jesus Came To Play -
"I got no twelve disciples, and I got no cross to bear
If you thought you had me crucified, I guess you weren't there."
Steve Hackett - The Unauthorized Biography - a very nice collection of
early solo stuff. Spectral Mornings still sends shiverage.
MKB at Progday - D9 and JD, I send you virtual oral sex in honor of
your fine work in bringing this audio documnetation to the masses.
Huzzah!
Burst Of Reality - '92/'93 demos. A band I played in years ago. These
crazy fuckers got in touch with me last week for the first time in over
a decade. I've been listening to this stuff and missing them terribly,
thinking about how much of an asshole I felt like when I left that
band. Our original tunes were interesting, and our guitariast was a
motherfucker. I'm a bit embarrassed by some of my playing on this shit,
other times I can't believe how good I used to be before I let life get
in my way of being creative. I'm glad to be talking with them again.
Current viewing:
Real Time With Bill Maher - Yay! I have cable again! Seeing Kurt
Vonnegut this week was a treat, but does that guy look like an elder
being from a Star Trek movie or what? And seeing George Carlin
was...damn, he's getting old. He's one of my heroes, and I'm going to
be very fucking sad when he leaves us. Great Carlin quote: "Let Bush
choose his Supreme Court. They chose him, he can choose them."
Chris Rock - Bring The Pain. Older stuff, still funny as fuck.
La Vallee - old hippie movie Pink Floyd did the soundtrack to.(Obscured
By CLouds.) I haven't actually watched this yet, because I'm scared.
The Weather Channel - Jesus Christ, that Mother Nature has been a
fucking BITCH lately.
Current reading:
Hunter S. Thompson - The Great Shark Hunt - which I've been working on
for three months now.
H.P. Lovecraft - various - Re-reading The Shadow Over Innsmouth, which
is one fo the most original, atmospheric and ridiculous pieces of
horror short-fiction in existence. I adore it like the pretentious Iron
Maiden-worshipping brother I never had.
Kurt Vonnegut - Brekfast Of Champions. not actually reading it yet, but
it's on my table ready to do.
The newspaper - But only for short bits. I'm trying not to be depressed
these days, and every fucking thing I read is one king-hell bummer.
Current drinking:
Jim Beam Rye and Woodchuck Amber Cider. Talk about Breakfast Of
Champions, bitch!
Shrimp scampi is making lovely trails in my colon.
Dougie
compu-troubles, and still having to read it via Google, which sucks
major unfortunately-not-my-cock, so I don't know if there's been one of
these threads recently, but...
Current listening:
The fucking radio at work - which mostly sucks, but at least had the
decency to play a couple Lennon songs today. (Woman and Watching The
Wheels, two of my favorites.)
Warren Zevon - Sentimental Hygiene, Excitable Boy, Genius: Best Of
(I've had the bizarre need to play Lawyers Guns And Money about
seventeen times a day recently. Probably because I've been trying to go
home with a waitress.)
Jean-Luc Ponty - pretty much all his 1970s catalog. Big fusion week.
Dennis Most & The Instigators - Vampire City
Dennis Most & Audio Love - Live At El Cid 1976 - Dennis is a friend
living here in Indy (his brother is the lead singer of one of my
current bands) and we're about ready to start work on reviving an old
acoustic duo project we haven't done since fall of '98. (I played with
three bands in five hours on the last gig I did with him.) He's
currently undergoing a bit of underground punk success from some of his
'70s material (even Jello Biafra has praised his stuff), playing some
gigs on the East Coast, and having doing a brief tour of Italy a few
years ago. Vampire City is the newest album, and if you like good fast
raw punk-metal (with titles like Sex Is An Art Form and Excuse My
Spunk), it's a lot of fun. The Audio Love live disc is a fucking
terrifying blast of metallic Stooges-derived debris from a time when
virtually no one sounded like that. The grinding versions of Lucifer
Sam and Who Are The Brain Police are worth the pice of admission on
their own, but the whole thing is a blazing motherfuck of a ride and
I'm proud to know the guy. Our project will be far more sedate, with
lots of '50s and '60s rock/blues stuff. I like playing with him. He
inspires me to play as simply but effectively as possible, which I'm
not good at when behaving like Jack Bruce on crack in my other bands.
XTC - Wasp Star, Nonesuch - Practically my soundtrack these days. They
get play in my car during breaks at work almost every day. Then She
Appeared and We're All Light have become two of my favorite things
ever, and compliment my current mood very, very well. Love is a very
fine thing.
Jethro Tull - Catfish Rising - I can't get enough of this shit. My
current favorite lyric on the planet is in When Jesus Came To Play -
"I got no twelve disciples, and I got no cross to bear
If you thought you had me crucified, I guess you weren't there."
Steve Hackett - The Unauthorized Biography - a very nice collection of
early solo stuff. Spectral Mornings still sends shiverage.
MKB at Progday - D9 and JD, I send you virtual oral sex in honor of
your fine work in bringing this audio documnetation to the masses.
Huzzah!
Burst Of Reality - '92/'93 demos. A band I played in years ago. These
crazy fuckers got in touch with me last week for the first time in over
a decade. I've been listening to this stuff and missing them terribly,
thinking about how much of an asshole I felt like when I left that
band. Our original tunes were interesting, and our guitariast was a
motherfucker. I'm a bit embarrassed by some of my playing on this shit,
other times I can't believe how good I used to be before I let life get
in my way of being creative. I'm glad to be talking with them again.
Current viewing:
Real Time With Bill Maher - Yay! I have cable again! Seeing Kurt
Vonnegut this week was a treat, but does that guy look like an elder
being from a Star Trek movie or what? And seeing George Carlin
was...damn, he's getting old. He's one of my heroes, and I'm going to
be very fucking sad when he leaves us. Great Carlin quote: "Let Bush
choose his Supreme Court. They chose him, he can choose them."
Chris Rock - Bring The Pain. Older stuff, still funny as fuck.
La Vallee - old hippie movie Pink Floyd did the soundtrack to.(Obscured
By CLouds.) I haven't actually watched this yet, because I'm scared.
The Weather Channel - Jesus Christ, that Mother Nature has been a
fucking BITCH lately.
Current reading:
Hunter S. Thompson - The Great Shark Hunt - which I've been working on
for three months now.
H.P. Lovecraft - various - Re-reading The Shadow Over Innsmouth, which
is one fo the most original, atmospheric and ridiculous pieces of
horror short-fiction in existence. I adore it like the pretentious Iron
Maiden-worshipping brother I never had.
Kurt Vonnegut - Brekfast Of Champions. not actually reading it yet, but
it's on my table ready to do.
The newspaper - But only for short bits. I'm trying not to be depressed
these days, and every fucking thing I read is one king-hell bummer.
Current drinking:
Jim Beam Rye and Woodchuck Amber Cider. Talk about Breakfast Of
Champions, bitch!
Shrimp scampi is making lovely trails in my colon.
Dougie