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Blackhole sun, won’t you come?
Posted by Tom in Damn Cardinals, Linkage, Ramblings on music, Wii-tastic on October 1, 2007
Soundgarden was a great band, but you really have to wonder about what kinds of drugs they were on. You know between the lyrics and the Iron Butterfly esque guitar solos, I would be willing to bet it was a great live show.
As all of 3.2957838 (<– almost to 3.3 loyal readers!) know in addition to thinking that Soundgarden was the best band to come out of Seattle in the 90′s I’m a pretty big Pearl Jam fan. So when Eddie Vedder comes out with what is basically a solo album I take notice. The rub is the “solo album” is actually the soundtrack to the movie “Into the Wild”. OK Eddie did a movie soundtrack so I go and read about the movie. This guy gives up all of his worldly possessions for a life as free of trappings of modern life where he eventually ends up in the Alaska wilderness living off the land. Which appeals to me because I’ve always had this desire in the back of my mind to drop off of the grid totally and disappear. Problem is the only person who would notice would be Kristina since there would be leftovers and beer for Curtis all of a sudden.
And how did I know all of this about a movie that I hadn’t heard of up until two weeks ago? Why Cody of course! So Cody and I go see “Into the Wild” at what I call a “Art Theater” because it’s the first theater I’ve been to in Phoenix that has less then 20 screens (it only had four?!). Of course when you goto the movies they have the commercials before the movie now instead of just the trailers… don’t get me started on commercials before movies that is another rant in of itself. The last set of commercials are for Team Fortress 2!!! It’s a fucking brilliant commercial (click the link to see them all, the one that was in the theater was the “Meet the Heavy”) I thought it was a brilliant commercial.
So the movie finishes which was also excellent you need to go see it! And I’m looking at all of the people in the theater… Cody and I are the youngest ones in their. Wow they must have been really annoyed by the Team Fortress commercial. It’s a great commercial from a gamers perspective but if your not a gamer (Cody) then I can understand your annoyance.
So as a somewhat direct result of that commercial I purchased the Orange Box and have been playing Team Fortress 2 on and off all weekend. Holy cow that game is fun!!
So looking back at the title of the post it is rather true, because Team Fortress is a “Black Hole Sun”.
And oh yeah to top off a great weekend the Cardinals offed the Steelers!
Like Suicide (Acoustic Version)
Posted by Tom in General Carnage and Bloodshed, Ramblings on music on May 31, 2007
I’m a pretty big Soundgarden fan.
Now I’m not the worlds greatest Soundgarden fan, I’m not a “back in the day before they blew up Soundgarden fan”, I’m not “crazy about Chris Cornell like some people I know are about Kurt Cobain Soundgarden fan”
I’m just a pretty big Soundgarden fan. To the point that of the 90′s rock bands that came from Seattle Soundgarden is my favorite of these bands (though Pearl Jam does rock Eddie and CO can’t hold a candle to Soundgarden).
So you now have my thoughts on Soundgarden and how they rock.
The only people who rock harder then Soundgarden is Tenacious D.
So for whatever reasons I was looking through iTunes this evening and found an acoustic song of my favorite Soundgarden song.
“Like Suicide”
It was never released as a single and is 7+ minutes long. If you’ve known me for any amount of time then you know that a song must be at least 7 minutes and feature generous amounts of high minded guitar playing (thank you Kim Thayll)
And yes “Like Suicide (Acoustic Version)” I would highly recommend it for anyone who has ever listened to music.
Except for Curtis, he doesn’t like Chris Cornell…
And before you say I should get some newer music I would like to point out that there has been no real music of note that has come out in the last 10 years that I haven’t already talked about.
Are you there Beer? It’s me Tom…
Posted by Tom in General Carnage and Bloodshed, Ramblings on music on March 3, 2007
Inspiration level… still not there…. But I’ve had two things pop up in the last 24 hours that have spiked my built in inspiration level. So come with me if you will down that deep and dark path that is my head and I’m sure along the way we will find a couple pounds poo or so.
Nine Inch Nails has a new album coming out….
Yes I know I checked the calender too it’s not 2010 it’s 2007. I don’t know what’s up with Trent but he must have become inspired or something like that. Normally it’s 5 years (give or take) between NIN albums…
1989 Pretty Little Hate Machine…
1994 Downward Spiral….
1999 The Fragile (Great Album can’t tell you how many times I listened to it)
2005 With Teeth.
Now this is just the new material this is not including the live stuff or reissues anything like that. So with that list you can see why I’m a bit concerned…. This new album is coming much to soon. I have great hope and great fear for it.
The second thing that I came to my attention was actually posted by Brandi… and well since Brandi keeps her blog password protected, locked, DNA sampled, and Voiced ID’ed behind serveral layers of barbed wire and a helliacious mine field I will just give you a link and you can read it your self.
Recruiting the self centered
I saw a blurb on CNN earlier this week about the college students of today being more self centered then previous generations but I hadn’t read it… I read this article. You know I got to say that I’m just about offended that I’m apart of this generation after reading this article.
Not because there is anything wrong with the article, but because it is so dead on and it pisses me off that people who have no reason think that they are the greatest thing since Moses or at the very least Joan of Arc (you know the first woman to get a job outside of the home). I really see it in people my own age and it pisses me off. Of the people in my age group I know some that are work workaholics… some that are students (still)….. some that skate by…. and still others that are so wrapped up in their own lives they can’t see past themselves.
Where did this come from? I’m going to pick on the one cultural touchstone that everyone has been through… School… school taught you that you were a unique snowflake… just like everyone else. When schools started coddling children instead of teaching them that is where the trouble began. Yes I know there are things like no child left behind and insufficient funding for school and lord forbid we use corporal punishment to discipline children.. hell teenagers even. Because giving them a couple of good swift kicks to the ass might hurt their feelings and we can’t do that now can we?
While we are at it… I need take down my parents generation a notch or two also… but I need to work on that one… those old people are wily.
TOOL Covers….
Posted by Tom in Ramblings on music on December 8, 2006
So while searching youtube for a clip from the daily show where Lewis Black goes off (Lewis Black go off? Never!) on Fox news about the that damned dancing penguin movie.
I was unsuccesfull but for some reason I decided to go looking for TOOL cover songs… and well now you get to ignore the glory that is TOOL covering another band.
Covering the Ramones
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Covering Led Zepplin
Oh no… I’ve been listening to the radio again….
Posted by Tom in Ramblings on music on October 16, 2006
So I’ve been listening to the radio a bit more then usual.
My usual is the drive into work while listening to either The Morning Ritual on 103.9 (which is actually stand able now that Heather is on maternity leave) or The Morning Sickness…
Anyway I miss mandatory Marley at 4:20 but I will get over that. What I am hearing though is a lot of Evanescence… talk about drivel, the subject matter is trite, the musical style has been played to death over the last 10 years, and aside from being catchy in the moment it doesn’t stay with you.
Even with all of that I still find Amy Lee very hot. So their maybe hope for them yet.
These views are mine and mine alone… if you don’t like them don’t read this drivel and go listen the drivel I’m bitching about.
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