Driving is one of my favourite things to do. I put up up there as the fourth element fo the triumvirate of Sex, Drugs and Rock n' Roll.There are a lot of songs that are great driving songs... depending upon the time of day and my state of mind, but the song that always makes me think of a long road trip where I have been up all night, just me and the road, is Screenwriter's Blues by Soul Cough...
Signal got lost to the satelliteGot lost in theRideup to thePlungedown; Man sends the ray of the electric lightSends the impulseThrough the airDown to home And you can standOn the armsOf the williamsburg bridgeCryingHey man, well this is babylonAnd you can fire out on a busTo the outside worldDown to louisianaYou can take her with you Ive seen theRains of the real worldCome forward on the plai...
Wow… I don't even know where to begin for this one. A best friend & brother of the highest order is my "*Tallpo*":http://mog.com/Tallpo. We've been friends since meeting through a mutual friend our sophomore year in college. They dated for a while & when things went south for them - he & I still kept in fairly close contact, visiting each other while the ex fell further & further off our rad.
I was driving around looking at apartments in West Hollywood today and this song came on about the same time that my eyes met a GIGANTIC advertisement on a wall for Rush Hour 3. And it hit me that all of the talented, creative, UNEMPLOYED screenwriters in this town must die a little inside every time a pre-packaged, formulaic movie like that makes millions. And they always make millions. I don'...
Hearing Super Bon Bon today took me back to a flashback moment of the soundtrack that is my life. Before I moved to the 504, I got my first tattoo, a tribal design, at Crescent City Tattoos on Magazine St, in uptown New Orleans with Mike Doughty singing in the background. The tattoo artist was playing this beautifully strange music in the background. As he was inking me up, I had to ask him, "W...
I love it when a long lost song from your past finds your via the shuffle.I don't think I have listened to this song since the first X Files movie came out, years and YEARS ago...such a shame, a great song.