I watched We Jam Econo yesterday during my son's nap, but he woke up towards the end and came in to watch with me. One of my proudest moments as a dad came at the end when, after a powerful acoustic performance of "History Lesson Pt II," my son, who'd been watching rapt, turned to me and said "More? More? More?". We rocked out to the video to "This Ain't No Picnic."
Well, if we followed the recipe...should be cake. A demon-violence-free-zone cake.
Lorne ,'Why We Fight'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Hayden - Aug 14, 2006 5:46:37 am PDT #3776 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
victor infante - Aug 14, 2006 5:49:44 am PDT #3777 of 10003
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
"We Jam Econo"
Ah, the Minutemen. I get warm fuzzies just thinking about them.
Hayden - Aug 14, 2006 6:04:28 am PDT #3778 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I hear you. Have you seen it yet? I've been a Minutemen fan since I was 15 (two years after D. Boon died), so I knew what was coming, but it was still a blow to the belly, especially seeing how fresh that loss still is to Georgie and Watt, 20 years later.
victor infante - Aug 14, 2006 7:06:25 am PDT #3779 of 10003
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
That doesn't surprise me. Mike Watt is one of the most genuinely nice guys in music, so I can believe he's still shaken up.
(He's also playing bass with the new Stooges right now, which I'm finding terribly exciting.
ETA: And no, I haven't caught it yet. Keep meaning to.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 14, 2006 7:08:26 am PDT #3780 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I've been a Minutemen fan since I was 15 (two years after D. Boon died)
...and once again buffistas.org makes me feel really, really old.
sumi - Aug 14, 2006 7:24:00 am PDT #3781 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Me too.
Damn.
I was lucky enough to see the Minutemen on that last tour -- what an excellent band. On their own and opening up for R.E.M.
Hayden - Aug 14, 2006 7:27:47 am PDT #3782 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Mike Watt is one of the most genuinely nice guys in music
That's for damn sure. Another interesting side of the movie is the extra where Thurston Moore talks about meeting Watt for the first time back in the 80s: Watt was boisterous, like I've known him to be in real life. However, in the movie (which is all after his recovery from the near-death experience), he's very subdued the whole time. Some of the footage is from very soon after his recovery (when he was sporting the 'stache and weighed about 86 lbs) and he looks frighteningly close to death.
tina f. - Aug 15, 2006 9:04:38 pm PDT #3783 of 10003
I swear to god, I am only going to play this heartbreaking, wonderful song forty or fifty more times before I go to bed tonight.
It's a song called "Dream On" by a producer named Christian Falk and has someone I've never heard of named Robyn singing, and apparently isn't available to download anywhere but Swedish iTunes. And it is been filling my apartment for the last several hours.
I discovered it from a friend's music blog: Inquisitive Garments. Beware that so far he's only written about a couple rap videos, the parallels between Mark E. Smith and Mike Skinner and his frightening obsession with the Fall Out Boy song "Sugar, We're Going Down." But I expect great things.
Jon B. - Aug 16, 2006 10:16:11 am PDT #3784 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Performance and hilarious interview with Tom Waits on the Mike Douglas show in 1976: [link]
Nicklas - Aug 17, 2006 2:41:11 am PDT #3785 of 10003
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
It's a song called "Dream On" by a producer named Christian Falk and has someone I've never heard of named Robyn singing, and apparently isn't available to download anywhere but Swedish iTunes.
I think it only exists as a CDS right now since it's a pretty new release. Considering the airplay it gets though, I wouldn't be surprised if it spreads outwards soonish. (But please, don't take my word for it. I've been wrong about these things before.)