After being called out for liking T.I. songs (which I had coming), here some things to listen to that Neil and Kevin can enjoy:
- a while back I got into a singer/songwriter phase after watching Heartworn Highways and Be Here To Love Me. Then the other day I came across a singer named after two of my favorites from those movies: Townes Van Zant and Steve Earle.  Justin Townes Earle has the last name Earle because he is the son of Steve, and looks just as messed up as both Steve and TVZ were. The single off his new album, Yuma, is good along with the few other songs I heard from him.
– as mentioned before, Dan Auerbach, one half of The Black Keys, has a solo disc worth listening to. You can listen to the whole thing over at his myspace page.
– a charity compilation disc, Dark Was The Night, looks like it could be really cool. Its bigger name artists doing covers. But because its for charity, no blogs like to post anything up to listen to (rightly so, probably). Artists include Spoon, Sharon Jones and the Daptones, My Morning Jacket, Feist with Ben Gibbard, and so on. The myspace showcases a single song a day or you can listen snippets of each song at Amazon.
– Legend Booker T. of Booker T. And The M.G.’s is coming out with a solo album, Potato Hole. His backing band is fucking Neil Young and The Drive By Truckers. The sound of that Hammond B3 organ is unmistakably awesome. You can preview a song at Pitchfork.
– Finally, head over to Doctor Mooney to check out a disc from Ike and Tina. It took me a day to realize that the line from the Hunter, “Got you in the sites of my love gun,” is said in How Many More Times by Led Zeppelin.
A recent game of ‘would you rather’ with Carrie triggered an internet voyage through the abyss of bad (awesome?) tattoos. And with what bountiful booty have I returned to share.
Ok, so this is where my expedition took a change of course as I got WAY too into mugshots (apparently thesmokinggun.com will keep me ‘busy’ for hours.)
As for ink, I came across a lot of these (seriously, who gets those?) There were also a few masterpieces I left out for the sake of our pre-adolescent bruceblog regulars. But if you’re interested and can figure out how to disable your netnanny, google image ‘homer simpson tattoo’ and ‘zen pretzel dragon tattoo.’ (You’re google filter should also be off.)
And finally, were there a Bruce Blog ‘Eternal Regrets 2009’ prom, well… may I present your King and Queen.
With the economic “depression” in full swing and talks of some ridiculous bailout plan I felt like cheering everyone up at least for a short while. So I stumbled across this website [and by stumbled I mean it was on Electra’s (Q101.1 radio station for the out of towners) ways to waste time at work]. It tickled me and hopefully will tickle everyone else.
Using the excuse of being a dj for grade school dances, I like to occasionally listen to KissFM. It’s a convenient excuse when your manhood’s in question for having C’est La Vie (or say levie when spelled/texted by a drunk Kelly) by B*Witched on your ipod. Having just dj-ed a grade school father-daughter dance party last weekend, I thought it would be fun/appropriate to have a post about what the kids are listening to.
Taylor Swift is by far the crowd favorite. Every other request was for a different song by her. You know when you are getting older when you and everyone around you has almost no clue who the fuck the best selling artist of previous year was. “Isn’t she one of those American Idol girls?” “Shes gotta be one of those Disney Channel singers.” Nope.
Other popular requests at a Catholic grade school dance include songs that aren’t appropriate at Catholic grade schools. For a long time, songs like Big Butts and Shake ya Ass have not been able to be played at the schools for their obvious and raunchy lyrics while songs like Get Low and Crank That fly underneath the radar due to either being rapped too quickly for teachers to understand, using slang like “skeet skeet” or “superman that ho” (or “laffy taffy”) that no white person over 20 knows without internet research, or just that its the radio edit. Some of the new songs obviously can’t be played even when you have the radio edit: Ludacris has a song with the chorus saying “If I take one more drink, I’m gon’ end up fucking you.” All American Rejects have a song with the chorus that goes “I hope it gives you hell” and says damn a lot. 3Oh!3 have a songs that are hilarious and raunchy yet aren’t popular enough to have radio edits for lyrics like “tell your boyfriend if he’s got beef, that I’m a vegetarian and I ain’t fucking scared of him.”
Here are my favorites that were played at the recent dance: Lady Gaga‘s Just Dance has been around for awhile and is now getting some other songs on her disc some radio play. Good songs if you don’t mind bad lyrics. Flo-Rida has a new song with some signer called Kesha (doing her best Katy Perry impression) that most kids don’t know is basically a cover. I can’t decide if I like T.I. or not, but radio has played his songs so many times that I now find myself enjoying Whatever You Like and Live Your Life. This stupid song by V.I.C. has been stuck in my head for whatever reason. Lil Wayne can get annoying, can’t deny that he can be pretty clever with songs like Ms. Officer, A Milli, or La La.
Using the excuse of being a dj for grade school dances, I like to occasionally listen to KissFM. It’s a convenient excuse when your manhood’s in question for having C’est La Vie (or say levie when spelled/texted by a drunk Kelly) by B*Witched on your ipod. Having just dj-ed a grade school father-daughter dance party last weekend, I thought it would be fun/appropriate to have a post about what the kids are listening to.
