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No worries, my dear mog, I haven't forgotten about you. My macbook is just currently sick. That, and I also just took a weekend jaunt to Oklahoma City.
Anyways, I hear this has been making the rounds on the internet lately, but I figured I would share it with you. Because this, ladies and gentleman, is what music is all about. It's what life is all about.
Yes, I know I'm being a cornball. Just watch the video.
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Oh man, so I accidentally came upon something spectacular today that I never knew exsisted...
I was at Best Buy today, where I picked up Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twin's album, Rabbit Fur Coat. Then, being the good friend that I am, I took it to meet my friend Travis and allow him to enjoy the musical goodness with me. (Aren't I such a great friend?)
Anyways, after hearing the song Handle With Care , which has M Ward and Ben Gibbard accompanying her (!!!!), Travis got online and looked it up, where he found out that it was a cover of a song by the Traveling Wilburys, which I had never heard of..
According to good ol' Wiki, The Traveling Wilburys were a "supergroup created by George Harrison and Jeff Lynne. Initially an informal grouping with Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, they got together at Bob Dylan's studio (Santa Monica, California) to record an additional track as a B-side for the single release of Harrison's "This is Love". The song they came up with was 'Handle with Care'"
Their name comes from a phrase coined by Harrison and Lynne, when they recorded "flubs" that could be eliminated during the mixing stage (i.e. "'We'll bury' them in the mix").
They were nominated for a Grammy in 1990, and ranked number 70 on Rolling Stone's of 100 Greatest Albums of the 80's.
Am I the ONLY person who's never heard of the Traveling Wilburys?
Here's part one of the true story of The Traveling Wilburys..
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You're probably not the only person who hasn't heard of them but they aren't as famous, as you know, the Beatles. Also, were you excited for M. Ward or Ben Gibbard?
I've heard of them, but I'll bet I'm not the only one here who's never heard the origin of their name. (I bet a nickel deadmandeadman knew it, though.) Great story, sordidhipster.
Damn, you make me feel old. Yeah, they were the talk of the music world, you'd had trouble not knowing about this project back when it occured and I was already getting old then.
A friend dropped off a whole plethora of fabulous new literature for me to dive into this evening. Enough to keep me entertained for quite some time, I think. The Idiot (Dostoevsky), This Side Of Paradise (Fitzgerald), Atlas Shrugged (Rand) and Pomes All Sizes by Kerouac, Needless to say, I'm pretty excited. Any advice as to which I should read first?
In other news, I found this band a few months ago randomly on Myspace and fell absolutely in love with their sound. I saw them play live when I was down in Orlando a couple months ago, and they were simply amazing. Their lyrics are beautiful and I especially love her voice on this track. Hope you guys like..
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I've not heard good things about Ayn Rand, but that's me. I'd go with the least interesting to most interesting, so that way you're building towards some sort of reward. The Kerouac seems interesting, but only because it was brought up in this class I took this past semester. I'd also suggest Really The Blues, which is a memoir by Mezz Mezzrow. Don't know who he is? This book explains that. Reads like he's talking to you, and all together memorable. Currently, I just finished Boomsday by Christopher Buckley, who wrote Thank You For Smoking, and I'm working on the new David Sedaris book, When You Are Engulfed In Flames. Books are fun.
Don't read Rand at all. Read Dostoevsky until your eyes burn, and then read some more (The Idiot is very good, and everyone should read The Brothers Karamazov at some point). I don't know much Fitzgerald, because what I have read has left me thoroughly unimpressed, but late work must be better than early. Kerouac is extremely, extremely overrated (Capote famously said, "He doesn't write; he types."), but read in a relaxed spirit, with relaxed standards, he won't warp your mind or anything.
(The above does not pretend to be anything other than one man's opinion.)
By the way, this gives me an opportunity to say that you've piqued my interest about C.S. Lewis. Thanks.
An extra word of ... opinion:
Dostoevsky is someone you can only read through the mind of a translator (unless you know Russian; some of my fellow English speakers do, to my great respect). If you get into him, you may want to sit down with 3 or 4 different translations of any given novel, read the first half-dozen paragraphs of each, and see which one sounds the truest to your ear.
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i hope your macbook feels better soon! i think mine has a permanent disability.
i think my fav is when hes in papua new guinea. freakin hilarious. HOW IS HE GOING TO TOP THIS?!