Bulletin Board of Bad Behavior

ok -- so mc and ooh and his wife are on a bender. mc is having difficulties with coming down, or getting up, or something: i think i know the feeling when you cannot sleep because you feel too close to life and death. it is immaterial whether i feel envy or not (i guess). but you do have my sympathy, my friend matt, and i sincerely hope you are just feeling dramatic when you write about death.

right now, for what it's worth, i am in a different scene, over here in old europe. i am limping like mark linkous (and i do know that identifying with linkous is a whole lot more dramatic than mc ever is when his hangover makes him feel like death.) still: i am enjoying life and sex and love and i am looking forward to my new apartment.

anyway. for some reason, maybe in order to connect with pax acidus?, i'd like to hear what you people are listening to right now. just a whim of mine. or perhaps all along i just wanted to say how much i like ariel pink. here are my current favorites:

- Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti (utterly weird and strangely satisfying low-fi madness)
- Ryan Adams: Love is Hell 1&2; Demolition; RocknRoll (appeals to my conventional side)
- Mingus Ah Umm (no explanation required)
- Fun Lovin Criminals: Bump ("i met the finest girl of my life on gay night" says it all)

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Elliot Smith
Pedro the Lion

matt worries me but i am a worrier by nature. there's one in every bunch. we were always the designated drivers. even at frat parties.

listening to ...

jimmy eat world "futures"
InXS "listen like thieves"
green day "american idiot"
u2 "rattle & hum" & "wide awake in america"
del amitri "change everything"
toad the wet sprocket "fear"

MC worries everyone doesn't he... ah well....
we all love you MC.

I'm listening to a strange mix of
The Killers
Pulp
Deathcab for Cutie
The Cure
Air
Fiona Apple

Before I didn't know MC as well as I don't know him now -- he worried me. Then it worried me for me to worry about a person I don't know -- then I said, to myself, if it is wrong to care about someone, even if that person is someone you don't know -- then by all means, let's blow ourselves up before georgie gets the chance to -- so with that said, MC, you worry me too.

I'm not listening to anything, but if I were I think it might be Loretta Lynn's -- High on the Mountaintop -- did anyone get that cd, album, tape, download, whatever mode -- has it been discussed at some point -- produced by Jack White, Van Leer Rose anyway -- it's a fun song, I like to dance around in my living room to it.

Tragic I saw Deathcab twice this year -- they are okay live, what do you think?

I was jonesing for Postal Service, but I got no nachos

sara - I've never seen them live; in fact, I'm not entirely sure I even like them. But they seem to suit my mood.

What am I listening to. A lot of crying. The word, "mine."

In the car Henry seems to like hard rock. "Dad, play the scary music."

last week I was out and heard, "Quiet is the new loud" by Kings of Convenience. I lost my copy a while ago and I have to get a new one. If I was laid up and having pints of blood drawn by surrogate vampires, then the soothing tones of this Scandanavian Duo would hit the spot. The albumn has been remixed by clubbing types and is supposedly very good. I can't say. Get your hands on the original>

they are playing here on sunday at a norwegian festival. i will amongst the listeners and will even take my minidisc recorder along. and, just to demonstrate my irrepressible beavishniss, if they ask me what that hard thing in my pants is i will say it is norwegian wood.

Wasn't it George Harrsion who wrote "Me Me Me Mine" you know the one? Harrison on my mind, still.

I've actually been spending a considerable amount of time trying to force myself to like the last Church album more than I do. The song where Peter Koppes does vocals is the exception though - best thing on there by far.

I heard Led Zeppelin blaring from a kid's headphones in the library today. I almost thought I could identify the song, from several meters away...but not quite. I wish there was a game you could play "guess the Led Zeppelin song". Kind of like bingo for the older folks, eh? Like a game show. That would be so much fun.

"Dad, play the scary music"

That's brillant.
It reminds me of the story I read about Bauhaus and John Peel...

Tommy, Play that scary music, white boy -- yep, that is funny.

Is Henry really your boy's name -- that is such a nice name -- before I had dogs, I had cats -- two, Henri and Matti -- after my favorite artist. Not to compare your child to a pet

On to other musical things -- there is a guitar riff on the opening of a pretenders song, that I was listening to this morning and it sounds like a Ryan Adams' song -- exactly, I don't know which song by either and will have to go figure it out soon.

Tragic, Deathcab -- I like em (what's the word, shoegazers, is how I would describe them), to me they are no Postal Service, but I like em -- I would definitely go see Ben Kweller over them -- Ben Kweller is absolutely a fun loving riot he opened for them at the Cat's Cradle this spring -- at that show, I didn't even stay for Deathcab

Also it is Van Lear Rose and High on a Mountaintop -- I am such a ding-dong when it comes to titles.

Mark, a friend of mine and I do a similar game with a different band on road trips -- I like yours, that's cute --

Martino,

they are Norwegian, you are right to expect a little quizling. Geddit. (phonetic gags don't work on paper because of the spelling)

Marky,

"I've actually been spending a considerable amount of time trying to force myself to like the last church albumn more than I do."

I'm of the opinion that I have more than a 50/50 chance of getting you committed to a loony bin on that sentence alone. We are different people. I'm very pleased that you exist, but I will never fathom the mystery of your relationship with the collection of noises commonly described as music.

HA ha, well if I'd capitalized "Church" it all would have made sense. "Under The Milky Way Tonight", the band who did that song - they were (are) called The Church. I used to be a huge fan of them, owned everything, but their last two albums just aren't quite up to par, I think. Their last one was from 2003 called "Forget Yourself" and I've been listening to it in the car.

I have a Dutch broadcast of an hour long John Peel program from 1986. Tears have streamed down my face for the better part of an hour listening to it. Now I know that he really really was the most incredible DJ ever in history. God bless his heart. And soul.

And I thought today - completely sober, mind - how much I love McC and all the Paxacidus crew. I really do love you all.

favorite lates lines, from a Will Oldham song.

"And I lick you dry and you are laughing,
my fingers in your behind.
I woke up fat and almost unhappy
but the bigger the laugh the bigger the belly."

i'm not listening to anything right now but i'm hearing voices...shit.