It's a visual pun, innit?

[Mister Chaddy]

Tonight featured a large gay man doing martial arts and yoga on our living room floor.

wow.  pics?

[Moetown]

Death Cab For Emo and My Morning Jacket are on the Austin City Limits tonight, if anyone cares.

Did anyone catch the brilliant Bill Moyers Journal last night?

You should have (best hour of news-y stuff all week):

Even a member of the AEI (father of the PNAC, almost literally. The American Enterprise Institute was founded during WWII by Irving Kristol, father of William Kristol, who started the PNAC to start WWIII) is calling for the Impeachment of George W. Bush.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07132007/watch.html

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/video_popups/pop_vid_impeachment1-1.html

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/video_popups/pop_vid_impeachment1-2.html


Transcript
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07132007/transcript2.html

I sure hope some Senator gets inspired by that dialogue.

[Moetown]

Tonight featured a large gay man doing martial arts and yoga on our living room floor.

wow.  pics?

Damn. I really need a camera.

[matthew]

A lot of these "Russian" spambots are coming from Romanian (a couple from Rhode Island and Korea and Virginia and servers. I have no idea if banning the IP addresses/user names/email addresses is going to make any difference at all considering how they use multiple variations of the same ones to get through the door.

I just wish I knew what their goal was.

I wish I had some goals that might prevent me from sitting around contemplating such trivialities.

[bebopbalogna]

I haven't heard a new band that's knocked my socks off in a while.

moe.  you ever listen to the Bellrays?
the first time i heard them, they totally knocked my socks off.  that was 5-6  years ago.  it was the "let it blast" album.  and that one is still my favorite, though i haven't heard them all.  great mix of punk/garage/soul/jazz.   think tina turner singing for the mc5.  really.   that's probably the most common comparison for them, but deservedly so.  they have a myspace page too.  i would link it, but that takes the fun out of myspace, innit?  hunt them down, if you aren't already familiar.  i haven't heard the newest one "have a little faith", but the songs on their page seem a lot less punk, a lot more soul.  which could be good or bad, depending on what you're into at the moment.  i wouldn't start there though.  start with the older stuff and then watch them evolve.  (they don't evolve much).  

[Mister Chaddy]

Goodnight, moe!

[matthew]

My sister used to really like the Bellrays (I think). Around the time that all that the garage rock revival was starting to reach people even younger than me (around 2001 c. White Stripes) and no one quite did it for me like the Compulsive Gamblers and Oblivians. All those bands and shows at that time...the Neckbones, Doo Rag, Country Teasers, Guitar Wolf, '68 Comeback, The Fastbacks, Mudhoney, New Bomb Turks, Rocket From The Crypt, Royal Pendletons, The Makers, The Drags, Dirtbombs and the Gories, Man or Astro-Man?, Impala, Spaceshits (and later) the Sexareenos, Chixdiggit!, Groovie Ghoulies, Daylight Lovers, Scat Rag Boosters, Huevos Rancheros, Friends of Dean Martinez, Cheater Slicks, Roky Erickson, 13th Floor Elevators, Andre Williams, Gas Huffer, Free Kitten, Southern Culture on the Skids, Tav Falco and his Panther Burns, The Sadies, The Deadly Snakes, Patti Smith, Ramones, The Cramps, The Dwarves, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Pussy Galore, Boss Hog, The Pandoras, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, The Lonesome Organist, Danko Jones (I fucking hate Danko Jones), Quintron, Bob Log III, The Delta '72. Some of them I didn't even like, I just went to the shows. They were mostly bands I was introduced to in 1995-1996 by the same guy who introduced me to a lot of indie bands (like the Grifters) (Gories was introduced to me by John Floyd, who suggested them to me when he learned how much of a fan I was of Compulsive Gamblers and Oblivians). The Country Teasers, (who I have since become obsessed with), I simply read about in a interview with Eric Friedl.

Still, other than I think the Yarber and Cartwright ruined almost all other garage rock for me...nothing measures up to those Obvlivians and Gamblers albums. The Bellrays, The Hellacopters, Streewalkin' Cheetahs, the Bell Rays, The Detroit Cobras, The Donnas, Mooney Suzuki, The Flaming Sideburns, The Devil Dogs, Nashville Pussy, Soledad Brothers, Teengenerate, Nine Pound Hammer, Los Ass Draggers, Bantom Rooster, etc. never quite sunk in, but I feel like I should check them all out again, because I eventually got around to digging the Lost Sounds (who I realized I had confused with The Sounds, who I did not like, for the longest time).

Those were good/the most fucked up years of my life. I was reading my Bukowski and my beats and drinking enormous amounts of alcohol and smoking enormous amounts of weed and doing what acid and mushrooms I could get my hands on and  going to Jailhouse (rip) for just about any show.

I like American Caesar more than I do any Stooges album. Never heard as much of the MC5, Mummies, Thee Headcoats, Biily Childish,

[bebopbalogna]

My sister used to really like the Bellrays (I think). Around the time that all that the garage rock revival was starting to reach people even younger than me (around 2001 c. White Stripes) and no one quite did it for me like the Compulsive Gamblers and Oblivians. All those bands and shows at that time...the Neckbones, Doo Rag, Country Teasers, Guitar Wolf, '68 Comeback, The Fastbacks, Mudhoney, New Bomb Turks, Rocket From The Crypt, Royal Pendletons, The Makers, The Drags, Dirtbombs and the Gories, Man or Astro-Man?, Impala, Spaceshits (and later) the Sexareenos, Chixdiggit!, Groovie Ghoulies, Daylight Lovers, Scat Rag Boosters, Huevos Rancheros, Friends of Dean Martinez, Cheater Slicks, Roky Erickson, 13th Floor Elevators, Andre Williams, Gas Huffer, Free Kitten, Southern Culture on the Skids, Tav Falco and his Panther Burns, The Sadies, The Deadly Snakes, Patti Smith, Ramones, The Cramps, The Dwarves, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Pussy Galore, Boss Hog, The Pandoras, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, The Lonesome Organist, Danko Jones (I fucking hate Danko Jones), Quintron, Bob Log III, The Delta '72. Some of them I didn't even like, I just went to the shows. They were mostly bands I was introduced to in 1995-1996 by the same guy who introduced me to a lot of indie bands (like the Grifters) (Gories was introduced to me by John Floyd, who suggested them to me when he learned how much of a fan I was of Compulsive Gamblers and Oblivians). The Country Teasers, (who I have since become obsessed with), I simply read about in a interview with Eric Friedl.

Still, other than I think the Yarber and Cartwright ruined almost all other garage rock for me...nothing measures up to those Obvlivians and Gamblers albums. The Bellrays, The Hellacopters, Streewalkin' Cheetahs, the Bell Rays, The Detroit Cobras, The Donnas, Mooney Suzuki, The Flaming Sideburns, The Devil Dogs, Nashville Pussy, Soledad Brothers, Teengenerate, Nine Pound Hammer, Los Ass Draggers, Bantom Rooster, etc. never quite sunk in, but I feel like I should check them all out again, because I eventually got around to digging the Lost Sounds (who I realized I had confused with The Sounds, who I did not like, for the longest time).

Those were good/the most fucked up years of my life. I was reading my Bukowski and my beats and drinking enormous amounts of alcohol and smoking enormous amounts of shrimp and doing what acid and mushrooms I could get my hands on and  going to Jailhouse (rip) for just about any show.

I like American Caesar more than I do any Stooges album. Never heard as much of the MC5, Mummies, Thee Headcoats, Biily Childish,

 post of the year.

[matthew]

Reminiscing, I suppose.


The last line started as a short list of bands I had never really gotten around to listening to...I guess that's a list that just does't end, but really, I think I just went to bed.