Hey guys,
I was poking around the web this afternoon and saw an article on the man who has managed to be our president for the past few years...
President Bush is now (as he is about to leave office shortly) quoted as saying, "I didn't compromise my soul to be a popular guy."
Hmmm... Didn't compromise his soul, huh? Is that some last ditch effort to make us sympathatic? Is he trying to tout his integrity? That's what it comes off like to me...
Am I supposed to just sit back now and say, "Goddamn... You know... A lot of lives have been lost in Iraq, gas prices are just now starting to come down from ridiculously astronomical prices, and they tell us that the economy's a fucking mess, but you know what? Mr. Bush never compromised his soul... and that makes him a real neat-o guy with me..."
Yeah, don't look for that (at least from me) anytime soon...
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The Audio of Excellence
Hey guys,
What can I say?
I'm tired, I don't wanna go to sleep, I'm bored, I'm back on the blog, I feel like doing more and right now, I'm obsessed with listening to Matthew Good...
Here we go...
First, let me say that if you haven't read some of my prior posts on Matthew Good, you might do well to go back and read them... I've got interview footage, reviews of prior albums (chronologically), live stuff and all kinds of goodies... One thing I regret not doing is going really in-depth with the first couple of Matthew Good Band albums as I have with Beautiful Midnight in the prior two posts and as I'm about to do with the Audio of Being...
This album, as albums by my favorite artists tend to do (or not do) did not grab me right away... This was the final album from the Matthew Good Band and was said to be very stressful on all of them... Matt himself is said to have been ill through the recording of it and Dave Genn (one of the guitarists in the band) compared the making of the album to "taking a long, painful shit"...
Despite that, going back and listening to this one a few times, I've really grown to love it as with all the other Matthew Good stuff I've listened to...
The album only produced two music videos (for the songs "Carmelina" and "Anti-Pop") and I'm going to include those below... Those will be the only two "official" music videos from this bunch...
After doing all the work on posting about Beautiful Midnight, I decided to try and locate some YouTube clips for other songs on this disc, as well... I wanted to more represent the whole album to you readers of the Llog and highlight some of the songs that I actually like better than the ones which had music videos made for them...
So anyway, here they are... Titles of the songs are posted ABOVE the videos... (Are you frequent readers tired of hearing that yet? Ah well, I just wanna make sure you know the correct names of the damn songs... Live with it... Haha!)
Man of Action
Carmelina
Tripoli
Advertising on Police Cars
I, the Throw Away
The Fall of Man
Under the Influence
The Rat Who Would Be King
Anti-Pop
Sort of a Protest Song
Well, again... There they are... That's not every song on the album, but it's a pretty good taste (I'm only missing two tunes from the disc)...
I really love the videos that they've done for some of these tunes, from this and other albums... The video for "Anti-Pop" looks like a chaotic, juvenile romp of a Travelocity ad... Even if you're not digging all of this Matthew Good stuff, you should still be able to find that enjoyable... The same goes for the video for "The Future is X-Rated" from Beautiful Midnight. In that one, Matt's ranting on like Sally Struthers in a kind of spoof ad for helping vain people... Awesome...
And as far as liking the songs... Well, some of these tunes really speak to me... The clip of "Tripoli" ripped my heart out when I saw it. It's just a great, sad, brooding song... And the clip's so personal... Right up there with Matt as he pours out his soul in the song... Ah well, here's your cue to make fun of me...
Well, I think that's all the Matt Good stuff I'd like to rant on for now... I am listening to his first solo album right now, though, so I'll probably give you the lowdown on that one at some point...
As I said, too, I'm really regretting not going as in-depth with the first two albums... I'm thinking of putting posts up on those that are more like these recent ones with more songs and stuff... If you're digging the Matt Good stuff (or already do), that'll be a treat for you... If you're not, just wait a couple of weeks and I'll be obsessed with something else...
Peace...
What can I say?
I'm tired, I don't wanna go to sleep, I'm bored, I'm back on the blog, I feel like doing more and right now, I'm obsessed with listening to Matthew Good...
Here we go...
First, let me say that if you haven't read some of my prior posts on Matthew Good, you might do well to go back and read them... I've got interview footage, reviews of prior albums (chronologically), live stuff and all kinds of goodies... One thing I regret not doing is going really in-depth with the first couple of Matthew Good Band albums as I have with Beautiful Midnight in the prior two posts and as I'm about to do with the Audio of Being...
This album, as albums by my favorite artists tend to do (or not do) did not grab me right away... This was the final album from the Matthew Good Band and was said to be very stressful on all of them... Matt himself is said to have been ill through the recording of it and Dave Genn (one of the guitarists in the band) compared the making of the album to "taking a long, painful shit"...
Despite that, going back and listening to this one a few times, I've really grown to love it as with all the other Matthew Good stuff I've listened to...
The album only produced two music videos (for the songs "Carmelina" and "Anti-Pop") and I'm going to include those below... Those will be the only two "official" music videos from this bunch...
After doing all the work on posting about Beautiful Midnight, I decided to try and locate some YouTube clips for other songs on this disc, as well... I wanted to more represent the whole album to you readers of the Llog and highlight some of the songs that I actually like better than the ones which had music videos made for them...
So anyway, here they are... Titles of the songs are posted ABOVE the videos... (Are you frequent readers tired of hearing that yet? Ah well, I just wanna make sure you know the correct names of the damn songs... Live with it... Haha!)
Man of Action
Carmelina
Tripoli
Advertising on Police Cars
I, the Throw Away
The Fall of Man
Under the Influence
The Rat Who Would Be King
Anti-Pop
Sort of a Protest Song
Well, again... There they are... That's not every song on the album, but it's a pretty good taste (I'm only missing two tunes from the disc)...
I really love the videos that they've done for some of these tunes, from this and other albums... The video for "Anti-Pop" looks like a chaotic, juvenile romp of a Travelocity ad... Even if you're not digging all of this Matthew Good stuff, you should still be able to find that enjoyable... The same goes for the video for "The Future is X-Rated" from Beautiful Midnight. In that one, Matt's ranting on like Sally Struthers in a kind of spoof ad for helping vain people... Awesome...
And as far as liking the songs... Well, some of these tunes really speak to me... The clip of "Tripoli" ripped my heart out when I saw it. It's just a great, sad, brooding song... And the clip's so personal... Right up there with Matt as he pours out his soul in the song... Ah well, here's your cue to make fun of me...
Well, I think that's all the Matt Good stuff I'd like to rant on for now... I am listening to his first solo album right now, though, so I'll probably give you the lowdown on that one at some point...
As I said, too, I'm really regretting not going as in-depth with the first two albums... I'm thinking of putting posts up on those that are more like these recent ones with more songs and stuff... If you're digging the Matt Good stuff (or already do), that'll be a treat for you... If you're not, just wait a couple of weeks and I'll be obsessed with something else...
Peace...
Friday, December 12, 2008
Beautiful Midnight - The Second Chime
Hey guys,
FIRST OF ALL, IF YOU HAVEN'T READ MY LAST POST (My "Beautiful" Discovery), GO DO THAT NOW!!! I'll wait...
Ready?
OK...
I figured I'd get right back on the second post for the praise for the Matthew Good Band album Beautiful Midnight... I wanted to show you guys a little more of why it's one of my favorites...
Now the following YouTube clips are going to be "unofficial" videos for the other songs from the album... Again, I wanted you guys to get more of a feel for why I'm praising it so much... The clips may include TV footage that has nothing to do with the songs or Matthew Good, a still picture with a song played behind it or homemade videos, but some of them will be pretty cool acoustic or live (or both) renditions of the tunes... As I've said, some of the songs have music videos that are from the album Underdogs... If you're curious, go check out a prior post on the Llog entitled Rooting for the Underdogs...
If you're an OCD geek like me or you wanna put the time in and listen to the album in the order of the tracks on the CD, they go like this:
1. Giant
2. Hello Time Bomb
3. Strange Days
4. Deep 6ix
5. Load Me Up
6. Failing the Rorschach Test
7. Suburbia
8. Apparitions
9. Jenni's Song
10. A Boy and His Machine Gun
11. The Future is X-Rated
12. Everything is Automatic
13. Born to Kill
14. Running for Home
If you bounce back and forth through this post and all the ones I've mentioned above, (it is my hope that) you'll be able to hear a semblance of the album in its entirety...
Now then, the songs (with the titles of the songs posted ABOVE them, which is my usual format on here...)
Giant
Deep 6ix
Surburbia
Apparitions
Jenni's Song
A Boy and his Machine Gun
Born to Kill
Running for Home
And there they are...
Sorry guys, but I couldn't find anything for the song "Failng the Rorschach Test"... If you're interested, you can download this album (and a lot of Matthew Good's other stuff) from iTunes and hear that tune, as well... I definitely recommend it...
Well, there's the two-post, in-depth, Llog-ified look into the album
Beautiful Midnight by the Matthew Good Band... I'll be posting soon on the next (and final) Matthew Good Band album chronologically, entitled The Audio of Being... And then we'll start getting into his solo stuff, which includes another of my favorite albums of all time...
Hope I've given you guys enough to chew on for a while...
Until next time and as always...
Peace...
FIRST OF ALL, IF YOU HAVEN'T READ MY LAST POST (My "Beautiful" Discovery), GO DO THAT NOW!!! I'll wait...
Ready?
OK...
I figured I'd get right back on the second post for the praise for the Matthew Good Band album Beautiful Midnight... I wanted to show you guys a little more of why it's one of my favorites...
Now the following YouTube clips are going to be "unofficial" videos for the other songs from the album... Again, I wanted you guys to get more of a feel for why I'm praising it so much... The clips may include TV footage that has nothing to do with the songs or Matthew Good, a still picture with a song played behind it or homemade videos, but some of them will be pretty cool acoustic or live (or both) renditions of the tunes... As I've said, some of the songs have music videos that are from the album Underdogs... If you're curious, go check out a prior post on the Llog entitled Rooting for the Underdogs...
If you're an OCD geek like me or you wanna put the time in and listen to the album in the order of the tracks on the CD, they go like this:
1. Giant
2. Hello Time Bomb
3. Strange Days
4. Deep 6ix
5. Load Me Up
6. Failing the Rorschach Test
7. Suburbia
8. Apparitions
9. Jenni's Song
10. A Boy and His Machine Gun
11. The Future is X-Rated
12. Everything is Automatic
13. Born to Kill
14. Running for Home
If you bounce back and forth through this post and all the ones I've mentioned above, (it is my hope that) you'll be able to hear a semblance of the album in its entirety...
Now then, the songs (with the titles of the songs posted ABOVE them, which is my usual format on here...)
Giant
Deep 6ix
Surburbia
Apparitions
Jenni's Song
A Boy and his Machine Gun
Born to Kill
Running for Home
And there they are...
Sorry guys, but I couldn't find anything for the song "Failng the Rorschach Test"... If you're interested, you can download this album (and a lot of Matthew Good's other stuff) from iTunes and hear that tune, as well... I definitely recommend it...
Well, there's the two-post, in-depth, Llog-ified look into the album
Beautiful Midnight by the Matthew Good Band... I'll be posting soon on the next (and final) Matthew Good Band album chronologically, entitled The Audio of Being... And then we'll start getting into his solo stuff, which includes another of my favorite albums of all time...
Hope I've given you guys enough to chew on for a while...
Until next time and as always...
Peace...
My "Beautiful" Discovery...
Hey guys,
Yeah, I'm still alive... I know it's been quite a while since I've posted...
I was thinking about the blog a little bit the other day... I was also thinking about Matthew Good, which is what I've been listening to lately (again)... I just always return to listening to good ol' Matt here and there... I guess he's become one of my favorites...
Anyway, I was think about the blog and wondering which Matthew Good (Band) album that it was that I last commented on... Well, it turns out that in accordance with the albums of his that I've now listened to in depth, I'm a little behind on posting about them... So... I may hit you with a couple of posts in a row about this magnificent musical genius I've grown to love...
Where I left off last time with Matt Good was posting about the Matthew Good Band album Underdogs. The next one in chronological order is the one that got me into him... I remember hearing a tune called "Hello Time Bomb" on the radio and going out and getting the CD Beautiful Midnight (which I'm about to comment on)... I didn't take the thing out of my CD case that I carried back then for about a year... It's that, um, good and that special to me... Probably one of my favorite albums of all-time... It's the body of work that got me hooked on Matthew Good and it'll always have a special place in my heart... I remember listening to it when I was sad (several times, some fairly recently), rocking out to it when I was happy, the nighttime drives that my brother and I used to crank it on, and just enjoying the hell out of the record in general...
Keeping with the traditions of the Llog, I'm now going to post all of the videos that this album spawned below with the titles of the songs ABOVE the videos... Please check them out...
Hello Time Bomb
Load Me Up
Strange Days
The Future is X-Rated
There we go... Those are the videos from Beautiful Midnight... If you're familiar with this album and only this one and you're wondering where the videos for songs like Everything is Automatic and Apparitions are, those songs were actually originally from the album Underdogs, which I've already done a post on... Go back in the Llog and you'll find the videos there...
Since I love this album so much, I may do a second post about it and try to find some acoustic or live versions of some other tunes from it here in the near future and post them in the second part for all guys...
LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK on this and all other things on the Llog or in the universe... Here's hoping I don't stay away as long between this post and the next one...
I hope you're all doing well...
Love and peace...
Yeah, I'm still alive... I know it's been quite a while since I've posted...
I was thinking about the blog a little bit the other day... I was also thinking about Matthew Good, which is what I've been listening to lately (again)... I just always return to listening to good ol' Matt here and there... I guess he's become one of my favorites...
Anyway, I was think about the blog and wondering which Matthew Good (Band) album that it was that I last commented on... Well, it turns out that in accordance with the albums of his that I've now listened to in depth, I'm a little behind on posting about them... So... I may hit you with a couple of posts in a row about this magnificent musical genius I've grown to love...
Where I left off last time with Matt Good was posting about the Matthew Good Band album Underdogs. The next one in chronological order is the one that got me into him... I remember hearing a tune called "Hello Time Bomb" on the radio and going out and getting the CD Beautiful Midnight (which I'm about to comment on)... I didn't take the thing out of my CD case that I carried back then for about a year... It's that, um, good and that special to me... Probably one of my favorite albums of all-time... It's the body of work that got me hooked on Matthew Good and it'll always have a special place in my heart... I remember listening to it when I was sad (several times, some fairly recently), rocking out to it when I was happy, the nighttime drives that my brother and I used to crank it on, and just enjoying the hell out of the record in general...
Keeping with the traditions of the Llog, I'm now going to post all of the videos that this album spawned below with the titles of the songs ABOVE the videos... Please check them out...
Hello Time Bomb
Load Me Up
Strange Days
The Future is X-Rated
There we go... Those are the videos from Beautiful Midnight... If you're familiar with this album and only this one and you're wondering where the videos for songs like Everything is Automatic and Apparitions are, those songs were actually originally from the album Underdogs, which I've already done a post on... Go back in the Llog and you'll find the videos there...
Since I love this album so much, I may do a second post about it and try to find some acoustic or live versions of some other tunes from it here in the near future and post them in the second part for all guys...
LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK on this and all other things on the Llog or in the universe... Here's hoping I don't stay away as long between this post and the next one...
I hope you're all doing well...
Love and peace...
Friday, November 7, 2008
"See! Now! Our sentence is up."
Hey guys,
I finally got to finish reading Grant Morrison's comic book epic The Invisibles this past week.
The series was very rewarding and while wanting to get to the end, it was a powerful enough saga to make me sad when I got to the end. There very likely will not be any more adventures for our favorite cell of freedom fighters. The sadness I felt when getting to the end and realizing that was almost like what I felt when I got to the end of Anne Rice's Memnoch the Devil. (You see, I thought there'd be no more adventures for Lestat and I actually cried because of it... Go ahead, laugh all you want. It's a great story and Rice actually tricks you into thinking Lestat is real in some parts...)
Anyway, that's off the subject at hand...
I realize that most of you who read this probably don't have the Invisbles on your bookshelves to go and pull off, so I'll use my trusty blog friend YouTube to post some vids of some artwork and such from the series to give you just a taste (that doesn't even scratch the surface) of the masterpiece that is the Invisibles...
A short, movie trailer-esque thingy
Miscellaneous art set to trippy dance/Eastern music
Cover art gallery
Ah well...
As I said guys, that's not even scratching the surface... Grant Morrison bascially took everything that he thought was cool and sunk it into this comic... In doing so, he churned out a magical masterpiece worthy of study, praise and repeat reads... Go check it out (with an open mind) if you're so inclined...
Until next time...
Peace...
I finally got to finish reading Grant Morrison's comic book epic The Invisibles this past week.
The series was very rewarding and while wanting to get to the end, it was a powerful enough saga to make me sad when I got to the end. There very likely will not be any more adventures for our favorite cell of freedom fighters. The sadness I felt when getting to the end and realizing that was almost like what I felt when I got to the end of Anne Rice's Memnoch the Devil. (You see, I thought there'd be no more adventures for Lestat and I actually cried because of it... Go ahead, laugh all you want. It's a great story and Rice actually tricks you into thinking Lestat is real in some parts...)
Anyway, that's off the subject at hand...
I realize that most of you who read this probably don't have the Invisbles on your bookshelves to go and pull off, so I'll use my trusty blog friend YouTube to post some vids of some artwork and such from the series to give you just a taste (that doesn't even scratch the surface) of the masterpiece that is the Invisibles...
A short, movie trailer-esque thingy
Miscellaneous art set to trippy dance/Eastern music
Cover art gallery
Ah well...
As I said guys, that's not even scratching the surface... Grant Morrison bascially took everything that he thought was cool and sunk it into this comic... In doing so, he churned out a magical masterpiece worthy of study, praise and repeat reads... Go check it out (with an open mind) if you're so inclined...
Until next time...
Peace...
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
MOB/ROBIN 2008
With all the hubbub about the election I thought I'd better "cast my vote"...
Art by Brian Bolland, The Invisibles (King Mob, Ragged Robin) created by Grant Morrison, published under DC's Vertigo imprint
Monday, November 3, 2008
Things du jour
Hey guys,
I typed that last post to let you know about the writing but then I got to thinking... "Man, there's been some cool stuff I've been taking in lately... I oughtta let 'em know..."
So, as before, a quick rundown of those things...
MUSIC
-THE BEATLES!!!
TV/DVD
-Heroes (Watching my DVDs of Season One after someone very special to me recommended the show... Pretty cool stuff...)
THINGS I'M READING
-The Invisibles (Yes, again!!! I just got the final volume for my birthday... I'm now about halfway through Kissing Mister Quimper... Wow, that sounded bad...)
-The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (A crazy book that touches on every conspiracy theory you've ever heard of...)
That's pretty much it, guys... If any of you want to rap about any of these things or anything else... HIT ME!!!
See ya next time... Peace...
I typed that last post to let you know about the writing but then I got to thinking... "Man, there's been some cool stuff I've been taking in lately... I oughtta let 'em know..."
So, as before, a quick rundown of those things...
MUSIC
-THE BEATLES!!!
TV/DVD
-Heroes (Watching my DVDs of Season One after someone very special to me recommended the show... Pretty cool stuff...)
THINGS I'M READING
-The Invisibles (Yes, again!!! I just got the final volume for my birthday... I'm now about halfway through Kissing Mister Quimper... Wow, that sounded bad...)
-The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (A crazy book that touches on every conspiracy theory you've ever heard of...)
That's pretty much it, guys... If any of you want to rap about any of these things or anything else... HIT ME!!!
See ya next time... Peace...
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