the Lashes

The Lashes: They aren't anything new, they're disposable, fun, bubblegum power pop. So don't take it too seriously. The album is a fun listen, lively and catchy and easy to dance to. They may be manufactured or whatever, but wouldn't you rather listen to fun, manufactured power pop than obscure boring manufactured hipster stuff? Sure, they say We Love Girls, which really means they only like Hot Girls and we girls should definitely NOT trust them, but it's all in good fun. Don't think too hard.

You might remember that I posted a link to their album awhile ago. Don't know if it's still working. . .

Check out this Interview from McBoozo:

"We love catchy love songs. What's great about a catchy love song is that Britney Spears can do it and Bary Manilow can do it. It's the closest a song can get to perfect. As far as bands, we love old stuff the Ramones, Cheap Trick, The Raspberries and newer pop music that you just know is good when you hear it on the radio and you're just like singing it for the next month." [full text]

>> (if I get any requests and the old link isn't working, I may post the album - see the clever attempt to get comments) In the meantime, Buy It.

James Blunt

Since we're on this Girly Roll.

I posted a dir. for the album but my sister pointed out that the Third Track was not there. For some reason. So after quite a bit of searching, here you go:

Wisemen - James Blunt - Track 3 off of Back to Bedlam

Also, you can download a song off of Mr Blunt's website here. A studio demo, "Out of My Mind."

And since we're being Girly and Fun and all that shit-- Sorry Boys-- I have to put in that I'm glad he got rid of the facial hair. He looks like Jesus, which is just weird. And he's oh-so-cute clean shaven.

And here's a nice little photo diary... And the Archives, including what might be a Streets reference or just might how everyone from Britain wanders around talking like all the time. And a funny little bio.


OK OK. I'm done. Back to the Exploited. Let's Go!! Put on your game face! Let's kill some bitches. Aaargh.

Kinky Boots

This looks like a fun movie.

"Inspired by the true story of a traditional English men's footwear factory in Northamptonshire which turned to production of kinky boots for transvestites in order to save the ailing family business and safeguard the jobs of the local community."

Review.

Joel Edgerton is adorable.

Just When You Thought You were Safe

You thought we'd actually go a week without a Social D post.

Boy were you wrong.

Because the fantastic Weapon of Sound has 2 for you, Prison Bound and When the Angels sing EP.

When the Angels Sing EP [1996]:

When the Angels Sing
Shame on Me
Lonesome Train
Ring of Fire
Alone and Forsaken

What we see here is Social D, as always, edging more and more towards rockabilly, roots, cowpunk, and all that other good stuff. When the Angels Sing is gorgeous, a beautiful, poignant invocation of Mike's faith, and can be found on White Light, White Heat, White Trash. I realize some people prefer the harder Orange County punk sound that Social D helps to define in Mommy's Little Monster, but even on that album, the influences are still there. It really depends on your preferences and how you define punk; seriously, to each his own. I think I've reached the happy state where I just love it all. (I am consumed by love for Social D. I wore a Social D shirt yesterday, in fact.) And a lot of people do love it all. Social D are equally comfortable playing "The Creeps" as they are playing something off of Sex, Love, and Rock n Roll. It isn't so much an argument over how punk they are. It's an acknowledgement of their ability to still provide mind-blowingly kickass and beautiful music.

Mike Ness: I’ve always described Social Distortion as starting out as a punk band but along the way we grabbed everything we could from American roots music and incorporated it into our sound because I saw a connection from that kind of music through punk…being working class music. And music being of rebellion and revolution, I saw the connection of punk music going all the way back to the 20’s-the depression era, blues, jazz, rockabilly, country…all that stuff. In other words, I grew up with the Beatles and the Stones and then I heard the Pistols.

The EP-
Lonesome Train is, I think, a cover of a Johnny T Talley song from the 1950s. We've got Alone and Forsaken from the great Hank Williams, Shame on Me is a JJ Cale song, and Ring of Fire is, of course, a Cash-Carter song. They're all great performances, and you're probably familiar with the Ring of Fire cover, which Mike cheerfully enhances at Live at the Roxy (an excellent live record) with, "Let it burn, motherfucker!"

Enjoy and make sure to tell WoS thank you!

Mike Ness Interview

If you haven't figured it out, I absolutely adore Social D.

This is a pretty good Mike Ness interview.

"As a co-founding member of Social Distortion in the late 70’s punk explosion in Los Angeles, Mike Ness has evolved into one of punk music’s most recognized and respected musicians and songwriters. Born in Stoneham, Massachusetts and raised in Orange County, California , the lead singer and guitarist for Social Distortion has always held American folk and blues roots music in high regard. Social Distortion's trademark ( ferocious punk cords and aggressive playing style) are infused with thought provoking introspective lyrics, Influenced as much from Johnny Cash and Hank Williams as Joe Strummer and Sid Vicious. . ." [full text-- corrected link]

And my editorial: I think they should have said Johnny Rotten rather than Sid. If they're trying to use the boy to represent the band, it should definitely be Johnny. Mr Strummer is a different matter. Joe's later music is certainly closer to Social D than Mick's later stuff, though it's ALL good and I recommend both BAD and JS & the Mescaleros. Also, I'm pretty sure Social D is considered part of the Orange County punk explosion, and LA and OC do like to consider themselves different from the other.

In other news. . .
February 13, 2006
MIKE NESS BREAKS HIS WRIST BUT SHOW GOES ON!
In case you've heard anything in the rumor mill about Mike Ness breaking his wrist then we're confirming that this is true. Never the less, the show must go on and Mike has reached out to friend Ron Emory of T.S.O.L. to step in and help out on guitar for this tour. We’re excited to have Ron on board and we look forward to seeing all of you real soon!!!"

This tour's been plagued by problems. Sick, cancelled/rescheduled A LOT of LA shows, and there were A LOT of LA shows in the first place. Hope it's a speedy recovery. At least the singing is still going, but it's a lot of fun to watch Mike play. And Johnny. I saw him by the bathroom. That's my Social D story. He's short.

The Hand that Feeds Again and Again. . .

Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds [Photek Remixes]

The Hand That Feeds (Album Version)
The Hand That Feeds (Straight Mix by Photek)
The Hand That Feeds (Dub Mix by Photek)
The Hand That Feeds (Ruff Mix)

will YOU bite the hand that feeds you?

(I haven't downloaded or listened to these yet but figured I'd post the link.)

Indestructible Rancid

I'm INDESTRUCTIBLE!!

Amazon says. . .
"Where Rancid's eponymous 2000 album saw the band attempting to re-seize the moral high ground by aping the hardcore sound of the early 1980s, Indestructible is a return to the eclectic mix of their own breakthrough album And Out Come the Wolves. Thus "Red Hot Moon" and "Memphis" are melancholy, Clash-inspired grooves, "Arrested in Shanghai" and "Back Up Against the Wall" are melodic pop rock, while "Out of Control" and "Born Frustrated" are screaming punk assaults. Their politics, naturally, remain sound, as evinced by "Ivory Coast" and the anti-violence anthem "Spirit of '87"."

Goldfinger, Best of

Goldfinger - Best of Goldfinger (2005)



1. Here In Your Bedroom
2. Mable
3. Miles Away
4. Superman
5. If Only
6. This Lonely Place
7. Just Like Heaven
8. Counting The Days
9. San Simeon
10. 99 Red Balloons
11. Tell Me
12. Open Your Eyes
13. Spokesman
14. The Innocent
15. Vintage Queen
16. Hopeless
17. Rio

clicky for rapidshare
password: neutek.net

Sex Pistols Live

Live at Chelmsford Prison from Modern Music

The Vandals = Happiness

What could possibly make you happier than 3 Vandals albums?

Vandals! Vandals! Vandals!
& don't forget to say Thank You x3.

ps. i adore the vandals.
pps. listen to joe escalante's radio show!
ppps. go to the link and hear Jonesy sing an ode to Joe. ("Joe Escalante, he knows my auntie." Oh Jonesy.)

ppps. screw it. Right click & Save the Song here. Because you LOVE Jonesy, Barely Legal, and Joe.

more Rancid

Life Won't Wait



>>Crane Fist is a really Cool Song.

Amazon.com cuz if you Like it Buy it
Life Won't Wait bursts with a thrilling ambition. On Rancid's past albums, these Clash-via-Cali punks came on with an invigorating twin guitar attack that sounded like it wanted to take over the world--to set it free!--and their fourth release continues in this radical vein, insisting that "all people must rise and decide your fate." But there's newfound ambition in the music, too, as the band's raging attack is supplemented now by new sounds (rocksteady and rockabilly, even doo-wop and soul), new musical textures (the exhilarating "Crane Fist" features a piano battling a B3 organ), and new sources of inspiration, as the boys shout out for Salvadoran immigrants and brag like rappers in anthem after anthem of urgent, beautiful poetry. --David Cantwell

Young Indy? Lost in his own Museum?

I'm a huge fan of the Young Indy Chronicles. I'm a huge Indy fan in the first place. He really did make me want to become an archaeologist. I'm over it now. Anyway, Young Indy: Not only have they taught me a lot about, like, history, they're fun to watch and amazingly well-made. It feels like a separate series from the original, classic Big Three, so it's necessary to not try to make connections and try to compensate. Instead, enjoy the Young Indy series as a different entity, a line of well-made historical adventures that go take us from pre-WWI to during the war and beyond. Sean Patrick Flannery is a great actor, and the plots and characters are always fun. It really is surprising that such an excellent series was made; whuddathunk. . .

So on to the "news."

A long time ago, everyone's favorite dude Rick McCallum said they were working on a Young Indy DVD series. But, but-- Where is it? The article is dated. . . late 2002. He says it'll take 3-4 years. I'd say the time is up. Where are my DVDs?!

Article 1
Aritcle 2:

I think [Indiana Jones 4] will be 2005. We're going ahead with the Young Indiana Jones DVDs; we are so committed to those. Even though the series wasn't a major hit here, it was a huge hit in the rest of the world. It's such a great opportunity, because what we're going to try to do is produce historical documentaries about each of the historical characters. It's a way of giving it to a school and saying, "Look, we know how hard it is to teach children. Try and use this as a tool. Let them see something that is fun for them and easy for them to watch." Hopefully, they can pick something that they can start to learn and watch another documentaries about the person and start to see them in the historical time.

Well, considering how Wrong he is about Indy 4 (mixed feelings about an Indy 4). . . We'll see. Have patience, my young Padawan.

Watch Night Watch in 2.5 Minutes!

I just took a teeny study break and quickly watched Night Watch.
You, too, can see it.
In just a few minutes.
Though I wouldn't recommend doing so if you plan on actually seeing the movie.
A very interesting idea for a trailer, though chock full of spoilers, if you can catch them in lightning-fast mode.
Enjoy.
Now, back to work. I have 7 more pages to go.

Secret Machines

Now Here is Nowhere

Dropkick Murphys - 2 EPs

they make me smile. i'm still debating whether i should go see them in march. after blowing all my money on the pogues show.

Bring Me The Heads: Dropkick Murphys - EPs
& don't forget to tell the nice man other there thank you.

X-Ray Spex

X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents

Poly Styrene's voice is amazing, and Oh Bondage Up Yours!, the last track, is immortal. Check it out.

From Wikipedia:

X-Ray Spex were a UK punk band formed in 1976. The band featured singer Poly Styrene (born Marion Elliot) on vocals, Jak Airport (Jack Stafford) on guitars, Paul Dean on bass, Paul 'B. P.' Hurding on Drums, and Lora Logic (born Susan Whitby) on saxophone. This latter instrument was an atypical addition to the standard punk instrumental line-up, and became one of the group's most distinctive features.

X-Ray Spex's other distinctive musical element was Poly Styrene's voice, which has been variously described as "effervescently discordant" and "powerful enough to drill holes through sheet metal".

01. The Day the World Turned Day-Glo - Styrene - 2:50
02. Obsessed With You - Styrene - 2:26
03. Genetic Engineering - Styrene - 2:46
04. Identity - Styrene - 2:21
05. I Live off You - Styrene - 2:06
06. Germ Free Adolescents - Styrene - 3:10
07. Art-I-Ficial - Styrene - 3:21
08. Let's Submerge - Styrene - 3:23
09. Warrior in Woolworths - Styrene - 3:03
10. I Am a Poseur - Styrene - 2:30
11. I Can't Do Anything - Styrene - 2:55
12. Highly Inflammable - Styrene - 2:32
13. Age - Styrene - 2:36
14. Plastic Bag - Styrene - 4:51
15. I Am a Cliche - Styrene - 1:52
16. Oh Bondage, Up Yours! - Styrene

Up Yours!

Glen Matlock on Green Day

Matlock Defends Green Day

Former SEX PISTOL GLEN MATLOCK has stuck up for punk proteges GREEN DAY, after his ex-bandmate JOHN LYDON dubbed them "a w**k outfit".

Lydon - also known as JOHNNY ROTTEN - claimed the band had stolen the term punk and reduced a political movement into a simple musical style.

But Matlock insists the most important thing is they entertain.

The bassist says, "I think they are just doing what bands do. When Green Day first came out I thought it was kind of funny that there was this Californian band doing this very English sound.

"But I went to see Green Day with my son, who's a fan, and it was very impressive."

but then again, Johnny has never really liked Glen. Including organizing Glen's leaving of the band. Ack. Musicians. Jeez.

I know. . .

. . . that this is the song you sing in the shower when you think nobody is around.

clicky. happy Sunday. :)

The Replacements

THE REPLACEMENTS – LIVE FILES @192

01 Banditos
02 Interstate
03 Nada
04 On the Cover of Rolling Stone
05 Stuck in the Middle with You
06 Wanted
07 Down Together
08 Jenny
09 Insider
10 Mekong
11 Take The Skinheads Bowling

replacements!

Classical music is good for your brain

and it makes your babies smart too.

Wikipedia is offering Free Classical Music, all in .ogg. (I use WavePad to covert to mp3.) They've got the usual (Mozart, Handel, Bach) and then some. I grabbed a Sibelius song among other things, and they also have a couple of Holst's planet suites, which I highly recommend.
hit me up with really really old "pop" music!

&

It was Open Request Friday over at Incoherent Ramblings, so go harass the nice kid over there. And say Thank You. Hopefully it's not too late.
Incoherent Ramblings from a Confused Frenchman: Open Request Friday!

Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez

Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, 80, Film and TV Character Actor, Dies

"Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, the high-spirited character actor and comedic entertainer who became one of the few recognizable Mexican-American movie and television performers in the 1950's and 60's, died on Feb. 6 at his home here. He was 80." X

LATimes Obit

Nochnoi Dozor

Night Watch, the big Russian hit that broke like alll records, was picked up by 20th Century Fox and given subtitles. It was released (limited) yesterday, and I took the 6 down to St Mark's and then walked to Houston and 2nd ish just in time for the 430pm show. I have absolutely no energy or time to write a review, so I'll just throw in some rottentomatoes links and let you go at it. Though I was confused a lot, I can't wait for the 2nd installment or for the English translation of the original novel to be released in the US.

It's fun, stylish, dark. It feels like a film based on a book, which I don't mind at all; rather than frustrate me with unexplained details, it makes me want to read the book and get the whole story. It has a natural progression rather than a rising action-climax-denouenment straight up formula, and also has a pretty Whoa There ending. The movie is sped-up and remixed during the credits, very fun to watch, and the Subtitles are fascinating: they dissolve, they grow big, they appear as dialogue is said. I'm very pleased that it was decided to keep the movie in Russian and not dub it. The main character, Anton, is easy to become attached to, and there are some great conflict moments of Anton and his Dark Other friend, underscoring the message that things aren't just Black & White like they may have been back in the day. Instead, it's modern and it's complicated, and thoroughly enjoyable. Sit back enjoy-- just don't try to understand the plot. And I mean that in a good way.

Positive Reviews:

• "A box-office phenomenon in Russia, the convoluted horror fantasy Night Watch might be described as Star Wars Meets the Vampires in Moscow." (NYTimes gave a positive but mostly ambiguous review).
• "While it echoes a host of CGI-heavy, action-oriented supernatural thrillers, it manages to retain its own distinct identity. Although this first chapter in a three-part tale is inevitably overburdened with back story, it ends on one hell of a cliff-hanger"
• "The filmmaking is highly seductive, from the stylish visual flourishes right down to the creative graphic treatment of the subtitles."
• "Mélange intrigant de science-fiction, d'horreur, de fantastique et premier épisode d'une saga grandiose."

Negative Reviews:

• "A fractious fiasco: whiplash camera movement set to raging blasts of death metal, a story so incoherent it made me wish I was watching, instead, the collected outtakes from Van Helsing."(I didn't notice the Death Metal. Does this guy know what Death Metal is?)
• "To learn the actual outcome of the epic battle, we'll have to wait for Leg 2, Day Watch, which has already been shot, and Leg 3, Dusk Watch, which will be produced in English by Fox. Wake me when they're here."(I really hope it isn't produced in English)
  

Saturday

so after our sorta punked-out Friday night, I give you a poem and some sexy, sexy Muse (see below post) courtesy of Modern Music.

one of my favorite poems:

Langston Hughes' A Dream Deferred

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Sexy Sexy Band

Muse is sexy.

Modern Music: Muse - Absolution

(dir) & tell Modern Music Thank You (and ask them to repost the new Buzzcocks)

Exploited - Punks Not Dead

I guess this is before the thrash started creeping in--? Anyway, check out these boys' from Edinburgh's first album from 1981. Fun for the whole family. Even grandma.

Punks Not Dead

. . . And Out Come the Wolves

Rancid - . . . And Out Come the Wolves

"...And Out Come the Wolves is an album by the punk rock band Rancid, released in August of 1995 (see 1995 in music). Released soon after the breakthrough success of The Offspring, Rancid's cult popularity and catchy songs made them the subject of a major label bidding war that resulted in the band sticking with their indie, Epitaph Records. With a sound heavily influenced by ska, which called to mind Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman's past in cult legends Operation Ivy, Rancid became one of the few bands of the mid- to late-1990s boom in pop punk to retain much of its original fanbase." (from wikipedia).

the Streets

new streets track? ok!

FLUXBLOG: Sometimes Shame Can Be Fun
& tell the lovely man there Thank You

daily Social D fix

"Story Of My Life" A sentimental one. Your intentions are good, but you're just shit outta luck. All you can do is watch everything fall apart. Always a day late and a dollar short. Sorry, dude... What early 90's Social Distortion Song Are You? brought to you by Quizilla

Social Distortion - Story of My Life

Heard Em Say

Nice little song from Kanye (L) featuring that guy from Maroon 5 (R). The music video is adorable.

Heard Em Say

+ I'm looking for track 3, Wisemen, off of the James Blunt album Back to Bedlam. Anyone have it? The link I posted the other day doesn't seem to include it. Thanks!

because there's no such thing as too much t.rex

Electric Mud: T.REX - The Slider

Don't forget to tell the man there thank you.

Ozomatli+Los Angeles = you are too Hot

Best of ...Both Worlds gives you . . .Ozomatli!
& tell the nice person over there Thank You

Great group. Brings you to directories. Ozomatli and Embrace the Chaos. If you like, buy.

Ozomatli shows "a masterful command of a palette of musical styles, a firm commitment to social activism, and an unending devotion to the power of rhythm. Like the L.A. landscape from which the group emerged, Ozo's music is a polyglot of cultures" & "Multiculti Los Angeles-based 10-piece Ozomatli is more than the sum of their parts: hip-hop, salsa, and funk crash head-on in this surprisingly natural collaboration. Their self-titled debut makes Ozomatli sound like one of the world's great live shows--a party band with a brain--and they pull it off deftly" (amazon).

Modern Music: The Clash - Full Discography

the ENTIRE discography.

(even cut the crap.)

Modern Music: The Clash - Full Discography

Johnny Cash @ Incoherent Ramblings

Incoherent Ramblings from a Confused Frenchman: Classic Cash

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros + more Punk

@ Regnyouth
Oh don't we all want to marry Regnyouth.

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Streetcore

& 12 Punk bands -

Agent Orange, The Casualties, The Damned, The Dead Boys, The Dickies, The Dwarves, Lars Fredrickson and the Bastards, Groovie Ghoulies, Horrorpops, Lunachicks, New Bomb Turks, Dee Dee Ramone & The Chinese Dragons

the Smiths & the Damned

look at those pretty flowers.

The Smiths - Self-titled
pick your sin:
megaupload
or
rapidshare

Damned - Anything (zip @ Turboupload)
a little different from the other stuff; by the way, it's 80$ on amazon.

Billy Idol for the Holidays

Billy Idol-Greatest Hits (2001)

1.Dancing With Myself - (with Generation X)
2.Mony Mony - (alternate take)
3.Hot In The City
4.White Wedding (Part I)
5.Rebel Yell
6.Eyes Without A Face
7.Flesh For Fantasy
8.Catch My Fall
9.To Be A Lover
10.Don't Need A Gun - (single edit)
11.Sweet Sixteen
12.Cradle Of Love
13.L.A. Woman - (single edit)
14.Shock To The System
15.Rebel Yell - (live, acoustic version)
16.Don't You (Forget About Me) - (previously unreleased)

Billy Idol called, he wants his hair back.

rar password:ghost

Happy Valentine's Day! (mix)

Enjoy-

1. Fille Atomique - Nous Non Plus
2. Louis XIV - Louis XIV
3. Caught Up - Usher
4. Get a Room - the Vandals
5. Sleeping Aides and Razorblades - Exploding Hearts
6. The World Needs More Love Letters - the Lashes
7. Teenage Kicks - Undertones
8. Should I Stay or Should I Go - the Clash
9. Just Like Heaven - the Cure
10. Gamble Everything for Love - Ben Lee
11. You're Beautiful - James Blunt
12. Melt With You - Nouvelle Vague
13. 99 Red Balloons - Goldfinger

valentine's day is on a tuesday this year.

never enough mike

interviewing people from the Orange County scene. Vh1 did.
here are excerpts:
(hi. i can't form sentences right now. now can't right sentences form i.)

Mike: When I was five I felt a need to escape. Music provided that for me. It made everything all right. I grew up with your basic Beatles and Stones [records] long before I ever heard the Sex Pistols. I wasn't on the varsity football team and had no interest in that. I wanted to play music and do cool things.

Mike: [What happened in] the late '70s was the same thing as what happened in the '50s. You got youth culture being fed stuff by their parents and society. Every now and then, there's an uprising. We were not settling for mediocrity. There was a commercial for Miller's Outpost that used to tell you, "Be a star! Shop at Miller's Outpost." We all thought, "F*ck this! We're not gonna be told by anyone what to do." You can shut up and be a puppet or get off your ass and change it. That's what we set out to do.

Mike: There was a band called the Mechanics from Fullerton who never did anything cause they were so far ahead of their time. I think probably out of all the bands, they influenced me the most. Had I grown up anywhere else, I wouldn't have been surrounded by that kind of musical community. There was the Mechanics, the Adolescents, Agent Orange, T.S.O.L. and my band Social Distortion. We were all looking at each other and without copying each other, thinking, "Wow, that guy plays guitar pretty good." You were feeding off each other in a positive, competitive way.

Mike: In 1979 being a punk rocker in the streets of Orange County was dangerous. We would go to the Cuckoo's Nest, find a place to drink in the alleys or the industrial parks and these guys' masculinity was threatened by our mere presence. The Cuckoo's Nest was an Orange County club. It was very easy to get in if you were under age. Right next door there was a cowboy bar and these guys would come out at two in the morning right when the punk rockers were getting out. It was like, "Hey, I don't like you." "Hey, I don't like you." It was very volatile. If you walked down the street in 1979 with a leather jacket, black shoes and colored hair, just to the liquor store, chances were you're gonna get into an altercation. I was trying to look like Bela Lugosi. Your average family would pull their kid away when I was walking down the street. A lot of us were from broken homes, so we had a lot of rage inside. It was the difference between me and the guy who was the quarterback for the football team who shaved his head and after three beers gets all macho and wants to wrestle.

Mike: There was a public alarm about kids supposedly slashing swastikas in their arms and vandalizing things, and I remember an organization called Parents of Punkers on these talk shows. This was fueling us. If you want to start a band, just turn on your TV. On one channel you’ve got Phil Collins, who makes you want to kick in your television. On the other channel you’ve got this Parents of Punkers stuff. They thought it was satanic, and they were really trying to save these kids. Some of those kids were messed up. I was in jails and psychiatric wards, but I admired these kids who dressed in black and listened to punk rock but during the daytime went to UC Irvine; they had their lives together. For me it was a real lifestyle that almost killed me, and killed some of my friends.

Murphy: Bands like Social Distortion set the tone for great rock to come from Orange County. I saw them at UCI and watched them from the side of the pit like a scared little child going, “Oh my god this is bitchin’!”

Mike: It’s very surprising when you see a new band doing stuff that you and your friends have been doing for 10 or 20 years suddenly “make it.” After Nirvana broke, the whole music scene changed completely. All of a sudden 20 years later, the masses decided that punk rock was okay after all.

Mike: Korn represents their circle, Sugar Ray represents their circle, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re the same as what we are. I imagine there are Sugar Ray fans who like Social D and vice versa. But I’m in Social D, so I don’t know.

Mike: I love Orange County but it’s a love-hate thing. I love to go down to the beach and go surfing but every now and again, I’m reminded about where I live. Go one mile south and you’re in gangland. Go four miles south and you’re in Irvine. I need stuff to be discontented with. That’s how I write songs. There’s still plenty of it left in Orange County, believe me.


the prize for getting to the end is. . . The Creeps - Social Distortion

Want an Assload of Disney music?

i know you do.

Classic Disney @ Best of Both Worlds
have fun.

the Dead 60s

Modern Music: The Dead 60s - Dead 60s

Distraction, Thy Name is Online Quiz

Sick Boy". You are uber-cool. You don't drive a fancy car and you don't have a helluva lotta money to throw around, but you make do with what you've got, and boy are you makin do! Everyone's crazy about you, and those who aren't don't wanna fuck with you. You know why? Cuz you'll rip 'em a new one. Rumor is that you're also really good in bed. The only catch is that people like you don't live to be a ripe old geezer. Whether that's an upside or a downside is all up to you... What early 90's Social Distortion Song Are You? brought to you by Quizilla

this is a fun one to take if you're a Social D fan because the answers are pretty obvious. and this was not an excuse to put up another mike ness picture. i promise.

My Guilty Pleasure

my friend's is some 98 degrees song.
here's mine.
the singer is hot.
like cillian murphy hot.
see the uncanny resemblance?
spooky.
that's all.
are their other songs good?
this is embarrassing.

fantabulastic!

check this little list out.

clicky.

The Lashes

Thrilled to have found this. :)
Album drops February 21 2006!
Don't forget to say Thank You to Yevgeni.

The Lashes - Get It

Rev

"Undeniably, The Reverend Horton Heat, aka Jim Heath, is the biggest, baddest, grittiest, greasiest, greatest rocker that ever piled his hair up and pounded the drinks down." X

Reverend Horton Heat - Lucky 7 @ Weapon of Sound

Mr James Blunt

I haven't listened to the whole thing; in fact, I've only listened to the popular one, "You're Beautiful," but here's James Blunt's album in its entirety. He has a very distinct voice and he's pretty cute. "You're Beautiful" is a gentle little song, but beyond that, that's all I can give you for now. Did I mention he's cute?

here's what amazon.com had to say in a generally favorable review (but they all are over there):

As a piece of propaganda, James Blunt’s album Back to Bedlam does more for changing the face of the British Army than a series of television adverts ever could. Swapping a rifle for a guitar, the former cavalryman’s ballad-heavy debut is a clearly aiming to win the battle for the public’s hearts and minds. The U.K. success of singles like "You’re Beautiful" and "No Bravery" (inspired by his time stationed in Bosnia) are both heartfelt and sensitive, the latter packing an additional emotional punch beyond the typical lovelorn ballads of his contemporaries like Damien Rice. But Blunt also sings with conviction about matters of the heart, and that’s the territory that most of Back to Bedlam visits, with songs of loss like "Goodbye My Lover", "So Long Jimmy" and "Billy".

James Blunt - Back to Bedlam

<edit: so now I'm listening to it, and I'm enjoying it. Slow, but really suits this mellow, snowy day.>

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