Anyone for a nightcap?

[CutieMouse]

White zin makes me cringe often, though I make allowances for certain people (and our dear mousely one would certainly be granted such allowance). But who, pray tell, is Dave Matthews? Yes, I know I could google a zillion Dave Matthews in four nanoseconds but how's about some kind kinkster just helps out the yankster here, ok?

Netz, one of my favorite bloggers keeps mentioning TV on the Radio. I suppose I should expose myself for the sake of upgrading my awareness of current popular culture, eh?

I normally don't skip down the white zin path, myself (well, unless it's Llano from down near Austin), but did I mention what a long weekend it was?

Dave

Older DMB -

Crash

Newer DMB -

Hunger for the Great Light

There's just something about the way the man writes/performs music... pure.lust.pleasegodpinmedownanddohirridlywickedthingstomepleasepleaseplease.

 

[midwestyankee]

I normally don't skip down the white zin path, myself (well, unless it's Llano from down near Austin), but did I mention what a long weekend it was?

Dave

Older DMB -

Crash

Newer DMB -

Hunger for the Great Light

There's just something about the way the man writes/performs music... pure.lust.pleasegodpinmedownanddohirridlywickedthingstomepleasepleaseplease.

Thanks for the resources. I'm still not sure that I've ever heard any of the band's work, but perhaps I'll take the opportunity to poke around for some soon.

Guess I won't have to poke around quite as much as I had thought. Thanks for the musical linkies, too, CM.

 

[Netzach]

White zin makes me cringe often, though I make allowances for certain people (and our dear mousely one would certainly be granted such allowance). But who, pray tell, is Dave Matthews? Yes, I know I could google a zillion Dave Matthews in four nanoseconds but how's about some kind kinkster just helps out the yankster here, ok?

Netz, one of my favorite bloggers keeps mentioning TV on the Radio. I suppose I should expose myself for the sake of upgrading my awareness of current popular culture, eh?

Read:

Yes, this is shit-hot thrilling music. But it's also brainy and ambivalent, and more engaging for it. TV on the Radio remain a true Event Band, and the sign o' the times they capture here isn't audacious hope, or fierce revolution: it's confusion. They're the house band for a country that has no idea what'll hit it next, and Dear Science is a jagged landscape of self-doubt, Bush-hate, and future-fear.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/145780-tv-on-the-radio-dear-science

Listen/look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7mMoc-x_v0&feature=channel_page

 

[midwestyankee]

Read:


http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/145780-tv-on-the-radio-dear-science

Listen/look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7mMoc-x_v0&feature=channel_page

Thanks. I'm getting quite an edumacation in current culture this afternoon.

 

[Netzach]

Thanks. I'm getting quite an edumacation in current culture this afternoon.

Sometimes I think my mandate in life is to get people of intellect over 48 hip to the indie rock thing.

 

[midwestyankee]

Sometimes I think my mandate in life is to get people of intellect over 48 hip to the indie rock thing.

It might be easier to get some of them to dig CBT, but that's just my inside-the-ropes bias.

 

[Netzach]

I hope I'm not 55 and going "man they're good but they're no TV on the Radio, that was MUSIC"

 

[midwestyankee]

I hope I'm not 55 and going "man they're good but they're no TV on the Radio, that was MUSIC"

Why not? I make similar comments all the time, though not usually in reference to particular current bands. Rather, I find it both interesting and a bit comforting to know that so much of the music that was au courant for me (Beatles, Stones, Who, Led Zeppelin, Allman Brothers) is still played frequently by kids in my children's generation.

 

[intothewoods]

Quoted for the permission granting. Just absofuckinglutely had to have this on the record.

Ha, my thought exactly!

I take my photos to a playlist completely made up of TV on the Radio. Go find "Dirtywhirl" and you'll feel better.

MW - you'd like their song "Dry Drunk Emperor." You could go put the lyrics onto that thread I used to watste my time on if you want to provoke.

Although I have been drinking Kalhua in warm milk, so you can spank me later.

Yes, ma'am! Have you tried Pandora? I'm sure you have - I love it! It gets me to hear new things.

White zin makes me cringe often, though I make allowances for certain people (and our dear mousely one would certainly be granted such allowance). But who, pray tell, is Dave Matthews? <snip>

Reason #5billionand3 to date an older man.

 

[Netzach]

Why not? I make similar comments all the time, though not usually in reference to particular current bands. Rather, I find it both interesting and a bit comforting to know that so much of the music that was au courant for me (Beatles, Stones, Who, Led Zeppelin, Allman Brothers) is still played frequently by kids in my children's generation.

*channels Lester Bangs and explodes*

I listened to my mom's (actually more my stepdad's, he was all Lou Reed and Warren Zevon and Eno and Fripp where my mother was all Quicksilver Messenger service) records - yes there is/was greatness. No debate there.

I've just watched the Dick Cavett Woodstock episode, which is really interesting and weird to watch. But it hammers home the point I'm about to make which is that the beauty of pop/rock/whatever you want to call it, IS it's mutability and newness. They were so young. Joni Mitchell was doing something undone - her shit was NEW NEW NEW.

Yes, there's a canon, and it's really good to listen to it if you want to understand what's going on. But Pynchon's written stuff since Lot 49, too! Keren Ann is just as soothing and sweet and smart.

 

[Netzach]

Ha, my thought exactly!



Yes, ma'am! Have you tried Pandora? I'm sure you have - I love it! It gets me to hear new things.



Reason #5billionand3 to date an older man.

The pandora is addictive in the extreme. But it kept feeding me Radiohead and more Radiohead no matter how many times I said NOOOOO....

(anyone can enjoy this site, pandora.com - you feed it a song or an artist and it feeds you things it thinks you will like )

 

[midwestyankee]

*channels Lester Bangs and explodes*

I listened to my mom's (actually more my stepdad's, he was all Lou Reed and Warren Zevon and Eno and Fripp where my mother was all Quicksilver Messenger service) records - yes there is/was greatness. No debate there.

I've just watched the Dick Cavett Woodstock episode, which is really interesting and weird to watch. But it hammers home the point I'm about to make which is that the beauty of pop/rock/whatever you want to call it, IS it's mutability and newness. They were so young. Joni Mitchell was doing something undone - her shit was NEW NEW NEW.

Yes, there's a canon, and it's really good to listen to it if you want to understand what's going on. But Pynchon's written stuff since Lot 49, too! Keren Ann is just as soothing and sweet and smart.

Indeed. Vineland had some good moments, too.

I'm not opposed to trying something new but I have next to no exposure to anything except the country that one offspring likes and the heavy metal preferred by the other. I've actually shared songs with the third, but she's not at home any longer so the opportunities there are nearly nil.

 

[Netzach]

Indeed. Vineland had some good moments, too.

I'm not opposed to trying something new but I have next to no exposure to anything except the country that one offspring likes and the heavy metal preferred by the other. I've actually shared songs with the third, but she's not at home any longer so the opportunities there are nearly nil.

I love Vineland, because I love the dude's job, the act of televised idiocy thing. I also love the way Pynchon writes women, more than any male writer except maybe Flaubert or Wally Lamb.

Oh dear, if I had children pulling my sleeve in the direction of country or metal I'd dig my heels in too. Unless it was Lucinda Williams or Neko Case or something.

The Kaluha has grown up and migrated into coffee.

And btw, I think *everyone* needs to be spanked for something at some point.

 

[midwestyankee]

I love Vineland, because I love the dude's job, the act of televised idiocy thing. I also love the way Pynchon writes women, more than any male writer except maybe Flaubert or Wally Lamb.

Oh dear, if I had children pulling my sleeve in the direction of country or metal I'd dig my heels in too. Unless it was Lucinda Williams or Neko Case or something.

The Kaluha has grown up and migrated into coffee.

And btw, I think *everyone* needs to be spanked for something at some point.

I honestly don't care what they listen to for music, so long as they're sincere about listening to what they enjoy. The oldest had a thing for Glenn Miller swing at one time. As long as they really like it and aren't just copying someone else, you know?

You know a great deal more about much of this life than I—indeed, you've probably forgotten more than I know—but it will be a rare hand that is turned on me.

 

[Netzach]

I honestly don't care what they listen to for music, so long as they're sincere about listening to what they enjoy. The oldest had a thing for Glenn Miller swing at one time. As long as they really like it and aren't just copying someone else, you know?

You know a great deal more about much of this life than I—indeed, you've probably forgotten more than I know—but it will be a rare hand that is turned on me.

It's entirely likely that no one will ever get to do it.

Doesn't mean you haven't earned one.

You'd be sad if you could say you had not.

 

[CutieMouse]

Home from my first sitting as a figure model for a local artist; sipping a white somethingorother (the roommate's).

 

[midwestyankee]

Home from my first sitting as a figure model for a local artist; sipping a white somethingorother (the roommate's).

It's not a zin, though, is it?


How did the modeling go?

 

[midwestyankee]

It's entirely likely that no one will ever get to do it.

Doesn't mean you haven't earned one.

You'd be sad if you could say you had not.

Fair enough.

 

[CutieMouse]

It's not a zin, though, is it?


How did the modeling go?

No, not a zin.

It was interesting... I've talked with, but still haven't met the artist. All the photography is being done by his [female] assistant; contract protected w/ all processing done in house, then turned into a mixed media canvas project. It'll probably be a year or more before the series ends up in a show. At this point we're looking at only 2-3 more sittings, depending on how well tonight's shots come out.

 

[midwestyankee]

No, not a zin.

It was interesting... I've talked with, but still haven't met the artist. All the photography is being done by his [female] assistant; contract protected w/ all processing done in house, then turned into a mixed media canvas project. It'll probably be a year or more before the series ends up in a show. At this point we're looking at only 2-3 more sittings, depending on how well tonight's shots come out.

It will be interesting to hear how this progresses and what sort of shape the ultimate piece takes. Thanks.

 

[LilyBart]

I honestly don't care what they listen to for music, so long as they're sincere about listening to what they enjoy. The oldest had a thing for Glenn Miller swing at one time. As long as they really like it and aren't just copying someone else, you know?

You know a great deal more about much of this life than I—indeed, you've probably forgotten more than I know—but it will be a rare hand that is turned on me.

Don't knock it yet...

Now, all of you kids have been quite chatty today while I was toiling away at the office. It going to take a while to catch up.

A few fleeting thoughts though. The best music on my iPod is from my kids. Some of that music they gave is old. Some is new and different. My music is really all over the place. I hate country, but one kid gave me some country tunes I love. Just keep your mind open to the sound, or really, the words, I think. My favorite words are: "Mom, I think you'd really like this." (A quick check though and realized that despite my age, there is not a single Beatles or Stones song on my iPod...which surprised me). I have indie (courtesy of musician child), rock, limited country, current pop, opera, orchestral, old stuff etc...no heavy metal. Except that one Deep Purple song that reminds me of my first ever concert (OK, probably not really heavy...Smoke on the Water, anyone?) Another story for another day.

A little funny though...one child gave me "4 Minutes" a Madonna, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake ~song of the moment~ in early 2008. I love the song for workouts (or "chores that need motivation"). Another, younger, child of mine heard me play it this weekend, rolled her eyes and said "that is so last year"!

Oh, and I kind of dig Timbaland. Musically, that is.

~LB

 

[LilyBart]

No, not a zin.

It was interesting... I've talked with, but still haven't met the artist. All the photography is being done by his [female] assistant; contract protected w/ all processing done in house, then turned into a mixed media canvas project. It'll probably be a year or more before the series ends up in a show. At this point we're looking at only 2-3 more sittings, depending on how well tonight's shots come out.

I would like to hear how this progresses, too. Please let us know. Some of us might be living vicariously through you, from time to time...

(Or at least want to know how this works.)

And want to see the final series.

~LB

 

[intothewoods]

Ahhhh. Added Daily Show and Colbert Report to Mister Man's record list. Much better now.

 

[CutieMouse]

PSA -

A glass of Berringer Pinot Grigio after a very very very long day of fitting women in bras [All of whom had PIA unrealistic expectations... seriously - Angelina Jole looks like Angilina Jole 5 month post twins because she has a personal trainter/nutritionist/chef. We must not compare ourselves to Martians. Really.], on top of very little food eaten today (finally having Chipotle at 9pm) + many errands after said long day at work = somewhat tipsy mouse.

 

[midwestyankee]

PSA -

A glass of Berringer Pinot Grigio after a very very very long day of fitting women in bras [All of whom had PIA unrealistic expectations... seriously - Angelina Jole looks like Angilina Jole 5 month post twins because she has a personal trainter/nutritionist/chef. We must not compare ourselves to Martians. Really.], on top of very little food eaten today (finally having Chipotle at 9pm) + many errands after said long day at work = somewhat tipsy mouse.

Ahhh.....PG can be a very nice sipping wine. Nice choice.