1) We got tickets to see Bella Morte on Wednesday! This one had kind of slipped beside or under the radar, so it was a very last minute "hey, we should go!" As it turns out, Bella Morte is NOT headlining, but that's okay. The headliner is Gorgeous Frankenstein, which is Dr. Chud and Doyle from The Misfits. And seeing as that's about as close as I can get to seeing The Misfits from the Danzig era, heck yeah we're going!
1.5) Bella Morte's new album is pretty darn good. I think tomorrow I'm going to go on an all Bella Morte kick, because I'm probably not as familiar as their music as I was at one point. :)
2) At my co-worker's birthday party yesterday, she told me to pick out some CDs to play from the extensive collection. I found an R.E.M. CD I had never seen before, which turns out to be a German bootleg. Particularly as it had a cover of "Spooky" on it, I had to borrow it. It is fabulous R.E.M. from the just before Out of Time era, and that's probably some of my favorite R.E.M. around.
3) No one made too much fun of me for failing to recognize Faith No More and Iron Maiden songs. :)
4) (Possibly only one person who reads this blog may be able to help.) Jerome wants to go see Gwar in November, and I am very much opposed to seeing Gwar live. So if you know anyone in the Seattle area who is going to see Gwar, let me know. I want to say the date is either the day before Thanksgiving or possibly the week before... He'd rather not be the only person he knows there. And we both already asked the above co-worker's husband if he wanted to go... :)
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Friday, April 04, 2008
And some music ramblings!
I never manage to watch the Colbert Report when it airs, but I normally catch it a day late. Jerome occasionally watches it when it airs, and so he mentioned to me that R.E.M. had been on it on Wednesday night... meaning that I watched it last night.
Now I was a HUGE R.E.M. fan in high school. In fact, I think R.E.M. is a lot of the reason why I became this strange part hippie, part grunge type person (later supplemented by goth and punk). The first time I heard R.E.M. was 1989, when I was a freshman in high school. The song was "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" (oddly enough, in the movie Dream a Little Dream). And so I was hooked.
Of course, I became a fan of the band right as they were finishing up the tour for Green, and then they opted to not tour for several years. I finally got to see them live when I was a senior in college, in 1995. I have very distinct memories of that show--it was September, it was colder than St. Louis had any right to be, and the show sucked. A lot. We missed seeing Radiohead open for R.E.M. because we were running late, and I dropped my new R.E.M. T-shirt at some point during the trek back to the car.
Now I was already on the decline of being an R.E.M. fan by that point. Out of Time was fabulous. Automatic for the People was pretty good, but I was beginning to have my doubts. I hated Monster (1994), though I think if I gave it another listen now, I might change my mind. But basically, by the fall of 1995, I was disillusioned.
And stayed that way, for 13 years. Jerome had been trying to convince me to give the new R.E.M. a listen, but I was grumpy about it. But when I saw them on the Colbert Report, I told Jerome to go find the album (Accelerate) online and buy it. And it's good. It's really good. So it would appear that I have four albums to catch up on, and am going to have to give Monster another listen.
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And, in other news, End of the Work Week Wisdom:
"I love living vicariously through the pain and suffering of others."
--Joe (Andy Griffith) in "Waitress"
Because that single line had us rolling when we watched the movie. :)
Now I was a HUGE R.E.M. fan in high school. In fact, I think R.E.M. is a lot of the reason why I became this strange part hippie, part grunge type person (later supplemented by goth and punk). The first time I heard R.E.M. was 1989, when I was a freshman in high school. The song was "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" (oddly enough, in the movie Dream a Little Dream). And so I was hooked.
Of course, I became a fan of the band right as they were finishing up the tour for Green, and then they opted to not tour for several years. I finally got to see them live when I was a senior in college, in 1995. I have very distinct memories of that show--it was September, it was colder than St. Louis had any right to be, and the show sucked. A lot. We missed seeing Radiohead open for R.E.M. because we were running late, and I dropped my new R.E.M. T-shirt at some point during the trek back to the car.
Now I was already on the decline of being an R.E.M. fan by that point. Out of Time was fabulous. Automatic for the People was pretty good, but I was beginning to have my doubts. I hated Monster (1994), though I think if I gave it another listen now, I might change my mind. But basically, by the fall of 1995, I was disillusioned.
And stayed that way, for 13 years. Jerome had been trying to convince me to give the new R.E.M. a listen, but I was grumpy about it. But when I saw them on the Colbert Report, I told Jerome to go find the album (Accelerate) online and buy it. And it's good. It's really good. So it would appear that I have four albums to catch up on, and am going to have to give Monster another listen.
+++++
And, in other news, End of the Work Week Wisdom:
"I love living vicariously through the pain and suffering of others."
--Joe (Andy Griffith) in "Waitress"
Because that single line had us rolling when we watched the movie. :)
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