4 posts tagged “music”
How the fuck did I make it to age 37 without ever hearing "Masters of War?"
Yours truly,
Tim
P.S. Back down the Dylan rabbithole. See you on the other side.
Having finished my draft, I find myself kind of in a weird headspace. I've been so ludicrously obsessed with the thing that I feel like the rug's been yanked out from underneath me. I feel like Kramer* after Kenny Rogers Chicken shut down.
Kenny.
Kenny.
Per the advice of every real writer I know, I did start a new project today, just to be working on something. It could be kind of good, but mostly it feels like I'm hitting on an ugly chick because my real girlfriend and I are on a break.
Spent Easter at the in-laws', and it was very nice. The food was aces, and the Knuckleheads did a great job of keeping each other entertained, so I could actually relax a bit. Gramma did, of course, practically pour chocolate and sugar down their throats, so by bedtime, they were wound extra-tight. Knucklehead One was pretty much just vibrating in bed. The duclet tones of Joe Castiglione calling the Sox game** on the radio finally knocked him out, though.
The Missus insisted I buy her and her sister*** Morrissey tickets at the very instant they went on sale last week, and since I did it online, I got two free iTunes downloads from Ticketbastard, which I kept as my fee for being their ticket mule. Since I almost never buy individual tracks, being more of an album-oriented geezer, I decided to snag a couple of songs that I love but have lost possession of somewhere in the cassette tape to CD to iPod transition, namely Crazy Mary by Victoria Williams and Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns by Mother Love Bone, both of which were played a million times back in the day, when I had just graduated from college with a degree so useless that the only job I could get was delivering bundles of newspapers to 7-11's at 3:00 in the morning.
I'm fumbling through the chords for Crazy Mary on the guitar now. I cannot stop listening to this song.
*Pre-Nazi Kramer, natch.
**Jonathan Papelbon, motherfuckers! JONATHAN PAPELBON!!!
***I demand kudos for the phrase "Missus insisted I buy her and her sister..."
The Boston Globe does a thing where once a week, they interview a local notable (their term, not mine) and have them shuffle their iPod and then ask them the first ten songs that come up. They did me this week:
http://www.boston.com/ae/sidekick/saturday/ipod_shuffle_saturday/
I swear I don't ONLY listen to country/alt.country/americana; it just seems that way.
So here's the deal: I downloaded an MP3 from a rival (and much, much crappier) social networking site about six months ago. One of the many, many crappy things about said site is that it gives the downloadable MP3's names like "38584343_e75539b2.mp3."
So now, six months later, I can't remember who the hell this singer is. I'd love to buy his record, because I really dig this song.
Anyone know this? I'm not trying to break copyright rules here. If someone can let me know who it is, I'll take it down and post a copy of the receipt from me buying the dang record.
UPDATE: The ever-brilliant Nick Zaino lets me know that the band is Girls, Guns, and Glory, based right here in balmy Boston, Massachusetts. I was hoping this would be a victory for the "hive mind" of the internet, but once again, a solo music geek wins!
And as promised, here's my receipt for the CD:
