Holy New Post, Batman!

Since I'm still high up the cliff in my hermit cave of seclusion I thought I'd tell you about a few of the friends I brought along. These songs have kept me company and provided inspiration. In no particular order.

Nebula - To the center
Nebula - Full throttle
Nebula - So low
Fu Manchu - The wasteoid
Fu Manchu - Mongoose
Danzig - How the gods kill
Bob Dylan- Isis
Bob Dylan - All along the watchtower
Bob Dylan - Knockin' on heaven's door
Gun's n Roses - Civil war
Gun's n Roses - Knockin' on Heaven's door
Soundgarden - Blow up the outside world
Soundgarden - Burden in my hand
Soundgarden - Fell on black days
Soundgarden - pretty noose
The Band - the weight
The Doors - Riders on the storm
The Doors - Crossroads
B.R.M.C. - Fault line
B.R.M.C. - Grind my bones
B.R.M.C. - Shuffle your feet
Alabama Slim - The mighty flood
Slo Burn - Muezli


And just to keep everyone up to date I have written 187 pages in my book so far. At 215 pages I'll be two thirds done with my book. Yay!

And in case anyone was looking for a Batman reference, I constantly do the Batusi while listening to the music, and quoting these lines.

FABIAN
Butch, whose motorcycle is this?

BUTCH
It's a chopper.


Whose chopper is this?


Zed's.


Who's Zed?


Zed's dead, baby, Zed's dead.

Battlestar Withdrawals and New Music

Battlestar Galactica ended its season until next year but it took me until last night when my Tivo didn't record a new episode for it to fully sink in. This is seriously one of the best shows on TV. I say one of the best because I couldn't decide between it and 24, otherwise it would be the best. And now I have to wait a full year until 2008 before the next season starts.

But there is some good news. The last 10 minutes of the season finale were simply awesome. It was filled with unexpected plot twists, impending doom, bringing people back from the dead, and more cliff hangers than you can shake a stick at, but wait there's more.

It also had one of the coolest renditions of Bob Dylan's All Along The Watchtower cutting in and out with lines from the song mixed into the dialogue and plot. The new arrangement was done by Bear McCreary, who scores the show, and his cousin sings the lyrics. And I have to wait until August before it will be released on a soundtrack. (The marketing guys should have had this ready to go, but oh well.)

So instead of getting the version I wanted, I went to Napster (not an illegal music site for many years, despite the out of touch with reality Rosie O'Donnell's assertions on her new show "Believe Everything That Spews From My Mouth and No One Gets Hurt") to find a similar version.

It turns out to be covered by quite a few bands but almost all of them took the Jimmy Hendrix route instead of an original one. Surprisingly, Bob's original version was the closest, so I jumped on over to Pandora.com and built myself a Bob Dylan channel (yes even I can't believe I didn't already have one).

But here's the cool part. Up pops this band that I've never heard of before called the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and they're awesome. So I went back to Napster and downloaded all their songs. So the good news is I found a new band and with Tivo's "don't delete until I tell you to" feature I can replay the end of Battlestar until August, when I can get my hands on that song.

(Lack of links are due to the late hour. But you're smart people Google's just around the corner.)

Downbeat Sandwich

Some of these I've been listening to for awhile and some are new.
It goes fast, slow, slow, slow, fast.
Have you noticed that sandwiches are always defined by what's in the middle not the bread on the outside?

Now get your funk on.

Ghostland Observatory - Sad Sad City
Cut Chemist - The Garden
Supreme Beings of Leisure - Ghetto
Mellowdrone - Beautiful Day
Arctic Monkeys - Brainstorm (This was added for the name alone. Those who know me know why.)

Techno Road Trip

If I was going to visually classify music styles I would have to say that techno is the closest form to abstract art you can have audibly. And since I'm going down that road visually here is a sound track for your road trip.

Bust out the chocolate pies and easy cheese and put the pedal to the metal.

DJ Krush -Road to Nowhere
GB - The Black Monolith (No official website. Af link)
Hybrid - Higher Than a Skyscraper
Jake Fairley - Radiator
Ada - Les Danseuses

Electronic Nostalgia and Something New

I love electronic and down tempo music. This is what I'm listening to right now.

Tricky - Aftermath
Dj Shadow - Organ Donor
Daft Punk - Aerodynamic
Dj Sted-E - Zone
Lilly Allen - Smile

Godsmack Muse(s) on Shiny Toy Guns in a Soundgarden waiting for the Velvet Revolver to be delivered by Stone Temple Pilots

What I'm listening to right now.

Godsmack - Shine Down
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko
Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days (affiliate link)
Velvet Revolver - Fall To Pieces
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush (Acoustic)