Austin Improv

I just got a Lyrics Born retrospective that has been churning all over my shit lately.

Also, Do Make Say Think's Goodbye Enemy Airship again has me in its grips.

I keep listening to "They'll Need a Crane" and "Stormy Pinkness" by They Might Be Giants.

Finally, I listen to Shout Out Louds a whole bunch a lot, and I don't know whether or not to be ashamed of this.

Bob McNichol!

I'm assuming you're already up on O-Dub's music blog, Soul Sides?:

http://soul-sides.com/

jose wrote:Bob McNichol!

I'm assuming you're already up on O-Dub's music blog, Soul Sides?:

http://soul-sides.com/

José Gonzalez!

Well I'm up on it now ...thanks!

THIS SINGLE FROM MAYYORS

IS ONE OF THE LOUDEST/AWESOMEST THINGS IVE HEARD IN AWHILE

I just found out about this guy, Rodriguez, and the re-issue of Cold Fact. It was recorded in 1970 but tanked and reemerged in South Africa and Australia as a hit record.

If Jose Feliciano and Bob Dylan had a love child, he would be Rodriguez.

A tangent, in honor of the Large Hadron Collider and the black hole we might get sucked into on Wednesday afternoon (which I'm actually a little afraid of, no matter what this Boing Boing article (http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/04/lh ... stroy.html) says: If you knew the world was going to end, and you had enough advance notice to listen to a song while it was happening, what song would you choose?

I'd choose "In the Aeroplane of the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel because it's goddammed beautiful and celebratory while also existience-questioning. How strange it is to be anything at all, indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH3CRVVBL9o

Runner up goes to Stevie Wonder's "Heaven Help Us All," a gospel-y number from the Signed, Sealed and Delivered album which I think would well serve an ironic, Dr. Strangelove-esque montage of falling bombs (probably because of the part where Stevie sings "Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmGZC0oMFo8

I realize this is morbid, but come on: Scientists are poised to begin slinging protons around a 17-mile track in order to find out what it was like moments after The Big Bang. Which reminds me: Most anything off of The Flamings Lips The Soft Bulletin would also work under these circumstances.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWBdPkWkjkw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gKEdq23le8&feature=user

i'd have to go out rocking. Baba O'Reilly by the Who...or, if i wanted to be more relevant, Disintegration by the Cure.

It's sad that the LHC crew keeps getting hammered with death threats and desperate pleas to stop this experiment. Yes, it could be a bit scary to think a giant underground machine will crank out minuscule black holes, but the black holes can't possibly have enough mass to sustain themselves. Plus, how can you possibly dislike CERN when they flew Charna in to teach them some improv basics?

What really does scare me is all this nonsense the producers of Lost keep throwing in about episodes taking inspiration from the LHC. Just what everyone needs: yet more cryptic/misleading clues to pile atop a mountain of mystery.

I do second the nod for Neutral Milk Hotel, however.

This is an album done by a friend of mine. Really sweet 8-Bit ballads.

bradisntclever wrote:Plus, how can you possibly dislike CERN when they flew Charna in to teach them some improv basics?

One of the CERN physicists (Mr. Stanek) was the monologist last week for the Armando Diaz show. He talked some about the experiment and took questions at the end.

scook wrote:

bradisntclever wrote:Plus, how can you possibly dislike CERN when they flew Charna in to teach them some improv basics?

One of the CERN physicists (Mr. Stanek) was the monologist last week for the Armando Diaz show. He talked some about the experiment and took questions at the end.

That is the most awesome thing that I've heard in a good while.

majcher wrote:

scook wrote:

bradisntclever wrote:Plus, how can you possibly dislike CERN when they flew Charna in to teach them some improv basics?

One of the CERN physicists (Mr. Stanek) was the monologist last week for the Armando Diaz show. He talked some about the experiment and took questions at the end.

That is the most awesome thing that I've heard in a good while.

Word. ...music thread hijacked.

DEEP CUTZ