A lot of favorites in here. “Body” is a new one, “Blood” one of my favorite Pearl Jam tunes, “Legs Away” and “Hands” have both been in my heavy rotation for some time now, so I guess the Frankenmix was inevitable. “Best Friend’s Arm”, of course, is from one of my all-time favorite albums. And, yeah, I like the Nirvana version of “Molly’s Lips” better than the original, so that’s the one that goes in the list.
The other great thing about building around random criteria is the discovery of songs that you had but hadn’t ever given just time to. GBV’s “Skin Parade” is definitely in this category, a song that starts out beautiful and wistful, lingering in an ashtray-laden greasy spoon atmosphere before kicking in to a driving rhythm in beautifully fuzzy high gear. Music to build monsters by.
June 12th, 2010
The third entry and I’m already egregiously breaking my own rules. Way too long and the sound is a bit all over the place on this at times…
Still, I think it’s a pretty good playlist, despite failing to find any good songs for the eight missing states. I’m open to suggestions for those.
May 1st, 2010
Songs playing during this morning’s commute:
- Cotton Jones – Mary
- P.S. Eliot – Hail Mary
The Muslims The Soft Pack – Religion
March 1st, 2010
I decided I should maybe release some of the songs that I’ve written into the wild, so here are a couple of songs I wrote & recorded over the last couple of weekends:
February 27th, 2010
So my friend Ben brought over a DVD of Muppet Show the other day; I probably hadn’t seen it since the early 80s, when I was knee high to a bugbear, but watching Rowlf and his self-deprecating piano humor gave me the idea that, in a “live action Muppet Show” casting, Zach Galifianakis would be perfect for the part:
In pulling up the requisite pictures for the other choices that rounded out this random thought, I was kind of surprised to see that I wasn’t the first one to think of this. But, that’s the internet for you. Some of the choices are pretty inspired (Bobcat as Animal; Richard Moll as The Eagle), some less so (Christian Bale as Kermit?), but here are the other ones that leapt to mind for me:
John C. Reilly as Fozzie Bear:
The earnest-but-awful humor says it all. Once I had this in mind, I couldn’t watch any of Fozzie’s stand-up bits quite the same. John C. Reilly has been playing Fozzie in every movie he’s been in. Someone get that man a polka-dotted scarf.
Steve Buscemi as Gonzo:
Who else is quite so convincingly strange? Buscemi is versatile, weird, and, well, just look at that picture.
Ben Stiller as Kermit:
The inevitable question among my friends after proposing the above absurdities was, “Who plays Kermit?” Well, no one plays the lovable loser like Ben Stiller. The hard-working guy with the steady job who can never make the other parts of the puzzle of his life quite fit together. It’s not easy being a Focker.
November 29th, 2008
