Friday, April 23, 2021
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Friday, April 17, 2009
MUSIC FROM THE UNDERGROUND 4/17/2009
So I subbed a KAOS show for the first time in a long time. It was a lot of fun. I totally have no time for it, but it was fun to splash around in the metaphoric pool nonetheless.Here's what I played:
Artist - Song - Album - Label
Marmalade / Kaleidoscope /Rainbow: The Decca Years / Castle
Apples in Stereo / Dreams / Electronic Projects for Musicians / YepRoc
Val McKenna / House for Sale / Sassy and Stonefree: Dream Babes, Vol. 6 / RPM
April March & The Makers / Sad Little Bug / April March Sings Along With The Makers / Sympathy for the Record Industry
The Small Faces / Afterglow (of your love) / Ogden's Nut Flake Gone / Immediate Records
Bone Cellar / Dryrot / Now that it's all over / {your name here}
Enoch Light / Petite Paulette / Spaced Out / Project 3
Music Machine / Point of No Return / Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll (v\a)
13th Floor Elevators / Scarlet and Gold / Bull of the Woods / Decal
Lovin' Spoonful / Voodoo in my Basement / Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful / Kama Sutra
Love / Bummer in the Summer / Forever Changes / Rhino
Manfred HΓΌber & Siegried Schwab / The Lions and the Cucumber / Vampyros Lesbos Sexadelic Dance Party / Crippled Dick Hot Wax
Flight of the Conchords / Prince of Parties / Flight of the Conchords / Sub Pop
The Mode / Eastern Music / Rubble Collection Vol. 1 (v/a) / Bam Caruso
Enoch Light / Get Back / Spaced Out / Project 3
Pink Floyd / Apples and Oranges / Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Deluxe Edition) / Capitol
Donovan / What a beautiful creature you are / Hurdy Gurdy Man / EMI
Hood / end of one train working / outside closer / domino
Robyn Hitchcock / Shimmering Distant Love / I Wanna Go Backwards / YepRoc
T-Rex / Sun Eye / Peel Sessions / Strange Fruit
Plasticland / Wonder Wonderful Wonderland / Wonder Wonderful Wonderland / Pink Dust
The Double U / Sing for Your Brown Supper / Absurd Fjord / The Communion Label
Dungen / Svart Ar Himlen / Tio Bitar / Kemado
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore / Bedazzled / The Score (v/a) / Mojo
Paul Roland / Matilda Mother / Danse Macabre / Bam Caruso
Pink Floyd / The Red Queen Theme (take 2) / The Complete Zabriski Point Sessions
Soft Boys / The Yodelling Hoover / Raw Cuts / Overground
The Brass Ring / Don't Sleep in the Subway / The Now Sound of the Brass Ring featuring Phil Bodner / Dunhill
Cul de sac / Electar / ECIM / Strange Attractors Audio House
Sonic Youth / Hits of Sunshine (for Alan Ginsburg) / A Thousand Leaves / DGC
"And so it goes..."
Friday, September 19, 2008
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Post Number One Hundred
Hello Blog,
My wife and child have been away on a mini vacation for 2 days now. I guess that means that I'm decompressed enough to write a blog entry. All this solitude is sure weird on the mind. Granted, I've been sick and that's a large part of my foggy headedness, (spell check doesn't like my new word) but I don't think I function very well in the absence of family. I don't tend to get much done. All this free time and no motivation. It'd be funny if it weren't so annoying.
I guess I'm being hard on myself. I am sick and I did get a lot of reading done today. I finished reading "Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before" by Tony Horwitz which I started three weeks ago. I don't get a lot of reading done when the family is around. It was a fun read. I think that it's anecdotal style gave me a much better sense of Cook that I previously had. I've also been listening to Horwitz' previous book "Confederates in the Attic" as an audio book for the past few weeks. I'm enjoying it also though not as much as the Cook book. God, I loved getting to type that last sentence. I swear that that was unintentional.
I went for a long walk tonight instead of running like I usually do and it was nice. I walked along the railroad tracks that pass near my house. Don't worry, there are almost never trains on them. I had been wanting to do that soon because I'm afraid that it's going to become a much more dangerous affair once Tacoma Rail opens up its new logistics center or whatever-the-hell-it's-going-to-be in Maytown. The whole time that I'd been envisioning the facility I'd been mistakenly thinking that the rail line in question was the BNSF line that AMTRAK and all the other north-south freight in the region runs on. Unfortunately, no. The line that they're talking about expanding is the hitherto derelict very same (duh) Tacoma Rail line that runs 400 yards from my house. Bummer. That is going to be loud. And inconvenient. The tracks cross lots of roads in the Yelm-Rainier-Tenino area with only cursory crossing signs. Lots of people have little or no memory of trains passing by. I foresee a lot of accidents.
Anyway, I took a very nice walk on the tracks since I might not have very long to do so in relative safety. It was a nice night for it.
I'm off to bed.
My wife and child have been away on a mini vacation for 2 days now. I guess that means that I'm decompressed enough to write a blog entry. All this solitude is sure weird on the mind. Granted, I've been sick and that's a large part of my foggy headedness, (spell check doesn't like my new word) but I don't think I function very well in the absence of family. I don't tend to get much done. All this free time and no motivation. It'd be funny if it weren't so annoying.
I guess I'm being hard on myself. I am sick and I did get a lot of reading done today. I finished reading "Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before" by Tony Horwitz which I started three weeks ago. I don't get a lot of reading done when the family is around. It was a fun read. I think that it's anecdotal style gave me a much better sense of Cook that I previously had. I've also been listening to Horwitz' previous book "Confederates in the Attic" as an audio book for the past few weeks. I'm enjoying it also though not as much as the Cook book. God, I loved getting to type that last sentence. I swear that that was unintentional.
I went for a long walk tonight instead of running like I usually do and it was nice. I walked along the railroad tracks that pass near my house. Don't worry, there are almost never trains on them. I had been wanting to do that soon because I'm afraid that it's going to become a much more dangerous affair once Tacoma Rail opens up its new logistics center or whatever-the-hell-it's-going-to-be in Maytown. The whole time that I'd been envisioning the facility I'd been mistakenly thinking that the rail line in question was the BNSF line that AMTRAK and all the other north-south freight in the region runs on. Unfortunately, no. The line that they're talking about expanding is the hitherto derelict very same (duh) Tacoma Rail line that runs 400 yards from my house. Bummer. That is going to be loud. And inconvenient. The tracks cross lots of roads in the Yelm-Rainier-Tenino area with only cursory crossing signs. Lots of people have little or no memory of trains passing by. I foresee a lot of accidents.
Anyway, I took a very nice walk on the tracks since I might not have very long to do so in relative safety. It was a nice night for it.
I'm off to bed.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Friday, March 07, 2008
Day 6
I decided to make this one reddish when I realized how much it looked like the cover of King Crimson's debut album, In the court of the crimson King.
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Monday, March 03, 2008
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Day One
I'm gonna try to do this 365 self portraits thing now that we're past the extra day of this year. 366 was just too big a commitment.
One new self portrait every day for 365 days.
One new self portrait every day for 365 days.
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Random post
I had a day to myself. I haven't had a day to myself in quite a while. So, as is my way, I squandered it. Productivity = zero until 4, then groceries, else blog. No, not really. I got the groceries AND wrote a blog. Though, you must admit, it's not much of a blog entry.
PS:
Here's a little meat.
Okay, I've got a question for all you iTunes users out there. When you move folders with actual files and iTunes loses track of them, how do you point the library to the new file locations as a batch? I can redirect iTunes one song at a time but that's way too time consuming when you've got several hundred songs to do. What I've been doing is deleting the library entry for the old file location and importing them in again, but that strips the play count info and so forth. I actually use play count info in my auto playlists so I don't like to do that.
Anyone have any tips?
PS:
Here's a little meat.
Okay, I've got a question for all you iTunes users out there. When you move folders with actual files and iTunes loses track of them, how do you point the library to the new file locations as a batch? I can redirect iTunes one song at a time but that's way too time consuming when you've got several hundred songs to do. What I've been doing is deleting the library entry for the old file location and importing them in again, but that strips the play count info and so forth. I actually use play count info in my auto playlists so I don't like to do that.
Anyone have any tips?
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Once more into the breach.
Hey all.
I'm subbing Free Things Are Cool for Jenny Jenkins this evening from 9 to 11 PM on KAOS Olympia 89.3FM. You can also listen live online here.
I haven't done a show in nearly a year so it's sure to be sloppy and good!
-Brooks
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Scrabulous
My new Internet addiction is Scrabble. I can't control myself. The Facebook app makes it so easy to be playing and checking back on a multiplicity of games all the time. It's insidious. At any given time I'm playing scrabble with three to ten friends, day in, day out. There are worse things to be addicted to, I'm sure, but I've got to tell you, the dreams are starting to get a bit oppressive.
The upshot is that my vocabulary of words of seven or fewer letters has been increasing exponentially.
When I was a kid we played cards and board games all the time. I miss that in my adult life. I wish my sister lived closer so that we could play Canasta all the time like we did when we were
teenagers. Those were the days.
Piece, out.
The upshot is that my vocabulary of words of seven or fewer letters has been increasing exponentially.
When I was a kid we played cards and board games all the time. I miss that in my adult life. I wish my sister lived closer so that we could play Canasta all the time like we did when we were
teenagers. Those were the days.
Piece, out.
Monday, November 05, 2007
Facelift
Okay, perhaps getting a new look will inspire me to return to my blogging ways. Unfortunately it's now bed time, so blogging will have to wait. But at least it looks fresh, right?
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