For the record, i have never claimed to be smart. But while broadcasting my love for Clem Snide earlier it probably wasn't the best idea to post a cover tune that they recorded. And since my not so hidden agenda is to win the band more fans, I now feel obligated to share an Eef Barzelay original, so this is from their release way back in Y2K(remember that hysteria?)...'Your Favorite Music'
I saw Rocket Science, by Jeffrey Blitz who made Spellbound, on HBO and liked it a lot. A stuttering high school boy, Hal Hefner, allows himself to be recruited into the debate team in the name of love. The soundtrack is made of Violent Femmes (tangential: check) and Clem Snide (displacing: check) a.k.a. Eef Barzelay who also scored, aptly.The movie could use getting a little less carried away, ...
I have raved about my love for Daniel Johnston songs many times before, so I will be brief. DJ has the most amazing way of stating things so simply, and so matter of fact. In a sea of wannabe poets and word smiths, Daniel beats them all at their own game. You can't learn about heart, or loss, or fear in english classes or art school...you have to live it. Daniel Johnston does, and puts it to mu...
Woo Hoo...my first drunken mog post as a Californian. I really didn't set out to make mog history tonight, but I met these cool guys in the room next door to me from New Zealand and one thing led to another...long story short, many drinks were consumed....much good music was played...and we all agree that we love the unknown
Just a quick salute to one of my favorite bands on the planet that I don't hear many people talking about, Clem Snide. First of all, I never had a chance. I fell in love with these guys from the first time the first few notes of their Ritchie Valen's cover 'Donna' danced into my ear. I am a huge fan of the late 50's stuff, especially Buddy Holly, who Eef Barzelay(the creative spark behind Clem ...
I haven't been sleeping well lately. Not much at all actually. There is no deep rooted psychological reason for this latest bout of insomnia, pure physics i am afraid. When I moved out west, I didn't bring any furniture...just loaded up whatever I could get into my little SUV and headed out, planning on buying or somehow acquiring stuff as I needed to. The plan has actually worked out very wel...