Monday Jam: Television - See No Evil & Marquee Moon -- From Television's 1977 debut Album Marquee Moon I present:

See No Evil
and
Marquee Moon

This is really terrific album. I've had in the rotation for a couple of weeks now and I have to say that its pretty brilliant all around.

Moving on here's a link to a very very funny (and profane) spoof on the Clinton Campaigns last days: Hilary's Downfall (All the audio is in German, the subtitles are english. So, unless you work with a German language speaker this is safe for work.)


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Monday Jam: The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner -- First the music, you can listen to it while you read the rest of the post, Roadrunner

I got turned onto the Modern Lovers by the Sturdevant brothers who encountered this album during their formative highschool years. Its clear that it shaped them in many ways.

This made me think about me and my friends and what we were listening to during that crucial 16th year.

I flash back to a camping trip that I went on with Brent Webster and Jason Nunn. On this camping trip we sat in a circle and sang praise music while Brent played guitar.

People that know Brent Webster will scoff at the idea of him playing guitar and singing kumbayah around a camp fire, but its completely true. We were so annoying the couple next to us left the next day and moved to another camp site.

The other thing we did was listen to music. Of course. What did we listen to? We listened to Queensryche, Helloween, Iron Maiden, Megadeath, and a motley assortment of other hairy metal dudez, all turned up to max volume and designed to melt our eardrums and shock and annoy our parents.

So. That was that. Maybe it explains a lot. Maybe it explains nothing.

BUT! What about if an alternate universe we had gone on this camping trip and listened to the Modern Lovers?! What if our older brothers had been slipping us mix tapes of their favorite Velvet Underground songs instead of teaching us AC/DC licks? What if at the age of 15 the album I listened to until I wore the tape out was the Talking Heads' Talking Heads: 77?

Would I have gone to bible college? Would Jason have double majored in philosophy and german at Brown University instead or Murray State? Would Brent not turned out so Brently?

You can't answer those kinds of questions, even asking them is a dangerous and self-serving road trip into a nostalgia for a past that NEVER EVEN EXISTED.

But still, I can't help but wonder.


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Monday Jam: Wednesday Night Heroes - A General Strike -- How 'bout some blue collar punk with a gritty labor movement anthem? Yeah, why not?

The Wednesday Night Heroes General Strike

This weeks Monday Jam was brought to you by the letters: Rising Cost of Oil, Rising Cost of Food, and Starvation in 3rd World Countries to put gas in your car.

Have fun!


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Monday Jam: Fela Kuti - Zombie -- Zombie no go go, unless you tell him to go
Zombie no go stop, unless you tell him to stop
Zombie no go turn, unless you tell him to turn
Zombie no go think, unless you tell him to think

I love Afrobeat. I don't own any because I don't know where to start. Plus people might think that I'm one of those "World Music" guys and that's just like basically one step away from joining the local Zen retreat center with the baby boomer's with pony tails...

Here's a cut from Fela Kuti called Zombie which is a critique of the Nigerian army during the 70s. It's an 11 minute long percussive jam and I think you'll like it.

Zombie


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April Fools + Monday Jam: Sheela-Na-Gig -- April Fools! My website isn't shutting down. The fine people at Aquadoodle don't even know that I exist.

But you do! And you care! About me!

You like me, you really like me.

So, how 'bout a late Monday jam? I've got P.J. Harvey's Sheela-Na-Gig on tap for you.

Sheela-Na-Gigs are ancient pagan carvings of a woman spreading extremely exaggerated vulva.


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Goodbye Aquadoodiloop. Official Takedown Notice. -- Imagine my surprise this morning to find a piece of mail from Aquadoodle Toys makers of the fine Aquadoodle water activated drawing mat informing me that my name was an infringement on their name and that I would have to take my site down or risk their legal wrath.

According to whois records my website has been in continual operation since:
Creation Date: 29-sep-2000

And Aquadoodletoys.com has only been around since:
Creation Date: 02-dec-2004

So, while I think I'm right I just don't have the resources or time to bother taking this to court.

Not like I update anymore anyways.

It was a good ride. So long and thanks for all the fish.


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Monday Jam: The News -- The News. This is the new single from Carbon/Silicon a collaboration between Mick Jones and Tony James, of The Clash and Generation X respectively. Its bouncy and fun.


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True Words About the Internet -- "For guys like us, the internet is like trying to get work done in a library filled with all your favorite books and topics. And, on top of that, the library staff are all beautiful women who keep stopping to get undressed."


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Monday Jam. Black Monk Time Sampler -- I finally got my dirty hands on a digital copy of The Monks Black Monk Time.

This band is totally fantastic and their sound would influence several protopunk and punk bands, most notable to me, the Dead Kennedy's.

Listen to the crazy staccato beat and goofy lyrics, every time I listen I listen to these songs I fall in love with them all over again.

Monk Time
Higgle-dy-piggle-dy
Oh How to do Now
Cuckoo

Check them out, let me know what you think, I hope you love them as much as I do.


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Monday Jam: I Got Something To Say, I killed your season today. -- Watching Tom Brady get knocked on his ass is as fun as watching Batman beat the stuffing out of Superman:



I am a football fan first and foremost. So I wanted to see the Patriots make it 19-0. But, I am also a Colts fan, which means I never mind seeing the Patriots lose either.

As I watched both QBs get rushed, hurried, and hit I realized that it was turning into the kind of dirty street fighting deadlock that only inspired gritty QB play can overcome.

Here comes the desperate kid with a broken beer bottle up against the wily veteran and his custom-made pearl handled razor blade. The wily veteran puts a new scar on the kids face, and then unbelievably the kid rallies Lunging and plunging, slipping in the blood and the mud he puts his beer bottle into the veteran's eye.

Eli Manning eluding 11 hands hanging onto his jersey and getting the ball into the comforting space between Tyree's hand and helmet will be the stuff of Superbowl highlight reels for the rest of my life I'm sure...

But what I'll always remember is watching Brady hurried and hit again and again and again.

So, to send out the Patriots 18-1 season I give you this touching pean from The Misfits: Last Caress


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Monday Jam: American Classics: Dolly Parton, Coat of Many Colors -- They've been playing this song on a radio station I listen to and I'm ashamed to admit it, but it makes me feel a little weepy when I hear it.

Hard to explain really. If I heard this song from a contemporary country artist I'd vomit a little in my mouth and change the channel. But with Dolly Parton it's a totally different song.

Take a listen and tell me what you think Coat of Many Colors


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Monday Jam - Magic Finger -- What if children's music staples The Wiggles woke up one day deciding to snort pure cocaine off of each others bare asses and write music? You would have something that sounded a lot like James Kochalka Superstar.

Kochalka embodies everything that's lacking from children's music; namely a 13 year old boy's sensibilities about life, his body, nature, science and art.

Profane, Naive, Catchy, Simple.... Profound?

Please let me present James Kochalka Superstar's Magic Finger (live) (Warning this song has naughty words.) (Also, pardon the sound quality this was a live recording.)


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Monday Jam - Die on a Rope (A.K.A. That Choking Feeling... Is it the NFL Playoffs already?) -- Last night was another one and out post-season appearance for the Manning era colts. A thing all too regular in my life since moving here.

Lets do the run down:
1999: Colts go 13-3. Lose their first playoff game.
2000: Colts go 10-6. Lose their first playoff game.
2001: Colts go 6-10.
2002: Colts go 10-6. Lose their first playoff game.
2003: Colts go 12-4. Lose AFC championship. (The Patriots.)
2004: Colts go 12-4. Lose in the second round. (The Patriots.)
2005: Colts go 14-2. Lose their first playoff game
2006: Colts go 12-4. Colts win a super bowl.
2007: Colts go 13-3. Lose their first playoff game.

That's 5 out of 8 first playoff game losses. Oh well. Next year right?

In the meantime a song that describes the feelings and questions of every Colts fan after our ignominous exit from the Post-Season.

The Distillers: Die on a Rope


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Monday Jam: Call The Doctor -- In 2007 by my account my family saw or consulted with:
3 Pediatricians
2 Gastroentorologists
1 obstetrician
1 cardiologist
2 pediatric cardiologists
1 neonatologist
3 pediatricians
1 Pulmonologist

I have been put under and scoped twice. Once at the entrance, once at the exit. Poor conrad spent a week in the hospital after being born and he was hooked up to enough devices to track WMD production in the middle-east.

None of it serious, thank God, but can't a brutha get a break?!

Anyways, in the spirit of American's Health Care Crisis have a listen to Sleater Kinney's Call The Doctor

(I'm kind of song by song in my feelings about Sleater-Kinney, but I'll say this, when it comes to vocals they really know how to push the sound. CALL THE DOCTOR CALL THE DOCTOR CALL THE DOCTOR oh hells yeah baby preach it.)


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Monday Jam -- A Belated Merry Christmas Monday Jam: Silent Night -- Heard this on the radio pre-Christmas, but couldn't find a copy of it anywhere. Finally snagged it out of a Bad Religion oriented podcast.

Hopefully you're all still in enough of a holiday mood to enjoy Bad Religion's Silent Night


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