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What Kind of Monday Are You Having?
What Kind of Monday Are You Having?A "Come Monday"?You actually enjoy Mondays! Instead of being sad that the weekend's over, you're thrilled that it's Monday. You also enjoy tropical climates, but don't like to go outside, the ocean, but not when you're in it, khaki, but only if it's above the knee, wildlife, but only when it's printed on a shirt, and music, but only if you don't have to list...
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What Kind of Monday Are You Having?
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What Kind of Monday Are You Having?A "Happy Monday"?You are on drugs. Enjoy it while it lasts (Hopefully till Friday).~~
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What Kind of Monday Are You Having? Mondays are generally the...
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What Kind of Monday Are You Having?Mondays are generally the most maligned day of the week. The weekend is over and you're back to work or school, where you'll be trapped for five days.Though the day is mostly unfavorable, there are different types of Mondays, all with different levels of displeasure, some of which aren't too bad.Here's the first of four examples with a brief description of th...
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“It’s Not Jackie Chan”
"It's Not Jackie Chan"A sketch I've been searching for from Season 3, Episode 2, "Chan", of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! that had me laughing hysterically.It's a perfect blend of their brand of satire (commericals, cable access, informercials) and those awkward, uncomfortable and creepy moments that have been described by others as "Lynchean".~~
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week: Bonus #4 I went...
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week : Bonus #4I went and saved the best for last, Vanessa.In 1999, while on tour, Pavement enjoyed busting out a vicious cover of "Sinister Purpose". Here's them at the Glastonbury Festival, shredding the hell out of it.The late, great John Peel stated that this was one of the highlights of the festival.~~
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week: Bonus #3
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week: Bonus #3On Blank Generation, Richard Hell and the Voidoids do a cover of "Walking on the Water", which, in my opinion, outshines the original. Three reasons: Hell's delivery captures the fear of the situation much better than Fogerty's, the lead guitar line Robert Quine came up with for the chorus, and the shorter length of their version, which g...
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week: Bonus #2
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week: Bonus #2I must admit “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” is my least favorite CCR song. I also don’t care too much for the other rain-related track, “Who’ll Stop the Rain”. Despite this, I have to admire R.E.M.’s penchant for playing the track at outdoor shows when the audience is being rained upon.Here’s the band in 1985 playing an in
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week: Bonus #1
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week: Bonus #1(I was going to do this over the weekend, but hey, why wait?)Here’s CCR live, tearing through one of my favorites by them, “Green River”.~~
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week: Day Five In...
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week : Day FiveIn 1970, CCR released Cosmo's Factory , their fifth album in two years. It was a huge success. The album reached number one on the Billboard Pop Album chart and the three singles "Lookin' Out My Back Door", "Travelin' Band" and "Up Around the Bend", were all top five hits. The album also featured one of the greatest covers of all time...
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week: Day FourExcerpt from Cross-Tie Walker by Jackson Belleville:"It's day four. Coal Run, Kentucky, 'where what remains gets pressured till it combusts', is thousands of rusty tracks behind me.I imagine my father is back there on his fifth Redhook Rye. Drinkin' from that filthy cup with the broken handle and chipped rim from when he brought it too h...
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When Kevin sings “We can do it softcore” on the new...
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When Kevin sings “We can do it softcore” on the new album, he’s obviously not talking about the insane goody bag. This is hardcore.~~
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week: Day Three
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week: Day ThreeWhat A Fool Believes: Can you jam away Death? On the closing track of CCR’s self-titled debut, “Walking on the Water”, the band seems to be trying to do jus——The ghost of 19th century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard appears. WAFB jumps, drops jaw, and recoils at the wavering, translucent spectre, which hovers but a few fe
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week: Day Two"Keep On Chooglin'", the closing track on CCR's second album, Bayou Country, is nearly eight minutes of muggy, greasy, backwater boogie. This scene from the highly underrated film Black Snake Moan gives you a visual idea of what Fogerty's explaining in the song.For further explanation of "chooglin'", here's the dictionary definition:choogl...
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On Friday night, I attended the Boredoms’ 88BoaDrum, on...
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On Friday night, I attended the Boredoms' 88BoaDrum, on the Williamsburg Waterfront, conducted by Gang Gang Dance.I had missed out on last year's 77BoaDrum and was excited to hear that they were doing it again this year. Thanks to Lady Luck and Oh My Rockness, I was able to do so.The show was very impressive and very powerful. A spiral of 88 drummers surrounded the small gazebo-like stage, wh...
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Welcome to Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week!
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Welcome to Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week!Last week, I read a funny and interesting piece about The Least Rockin' Song of All Time, which was a compliment to the even more interesting The Most Rockin' Song of All Time, written a year earlier. Following specific guidelines (Examples: It had to be released between 1955 and 1980 and "It must make you drive at least 10 mph faster ...
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Of Montreal: “Id Engager”
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Of Montreal: "Id Engager"I am always fascinated and entertained by artists who follow their muse. The ones who follow them everywhere. Artists who don't stop at the cliff's edge, but ones who dive off of it into the black depths of the ocean, emerging from time-to-time with a new artifact. Sometimes those artifacts are brilliant pieces of beauty and truth and sometimes those artifacts are ma...
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Though I enjoy the minimal, droning, shoegaze thunder of...
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Though I enjoy the minimal, droning, shoegaze thunder of Spacemen 3, what I've heard of former member Jason (Spaceman) Pierce's Spirtualized, most of it being orchestral and mellow, hasn't really appealed to me.I found out they were playing the Late Show with David Letterman last night, so, taking into consideration all the positive reviews for this year's Songs in A & E and my appreciation for...
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Jay Reatard - “Hammer I Miss You”
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Jay Reatard - "Hammer I Miss You"After reading reviews over the past year or so, filled with descriptions like "storming modern garage rock-new wave nuggets", "jerked-out full-frontal attack of noise and hooks", and "slow and loopy power-pop", seeing videos of him punching and kicking audience members, and hearing about an infamous show performed at NYC's Cakeshop, I decided to give Memphis' Ja...
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