Mighty Mighty Bosstones - A Pretty Sad Excuse

A Pretty Sad Excuse by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones  
Download now or listen on posterous

14 A Pretty Sad Excuse.mp3 (10695 KB)

In the last few days a staggering number of verses caught my attention that was somehow about making "it" happen as the only way to, you know, make it happen.

I'm talking everything from Eminem to The Soft Pack to TV On The Radio. I didn't write them all down, and it could just be me. This Mighty Mighty Bosstones song was the tipping point though.

It remains to be seen if anybody outside of my house actually heard Pin Points and Gin Joints. No doubt, it slides in nicely with the run of classic mid-90s albums the Bosstones pumped out before crashing the mainstream with Alicia Silverstone.

Dicky Barrett may have a psuedo-day job, but he knows what it takes to get there, because he's still Dicky-friggin-Barrett.

Skank on, my friends.

Posted via email from One Stupid Mop

Astronautalis & DJ Fishr Pryce - Do You Believe In Life After Thugs

Do You Believe In Life After Thugs by Astronautalis & Dj Fishr Pryce  
Download now or listen on posterous

01 Do You Believe In Life After Thugs.mp3 (8280 KB)

Who knew white-boy rappers could be so good for a Saturday night jam? Granted, Astronautilus isn't new to the game but that beat made me stand up a little straighter and then go into a schizophrenic funk walk that scared the shit out of the child I was holding.

This album has been sitting on my computer for a couple weeks and I just got around to listening to it. I apologize for the negligence. This is the first track on DANCEHALLHORNSOUND!!!!, and it makes me want to worship the rest of the mixtape, which you can grab for whatever you do or don't want to pay for it.  

I don't know shit about DJ Fishr Pryce, but you can jump headfirst into his world by clicking that link. Whatever he did to this mixtape, it worked out really well.

Now, it's the weekend, get off yer computer and go do something.

Posted via email from One Stupid Mop

Make sure you thank a veteran today...

That person was forunate enough to make it home alive after serving our country.

War is a political policy that can and should be argued but those who actually fight the wars deserve a lot more than they get. Happy Memorial Day.

Posted via email from Stephen Feller

Radiohead - Polyethylene (parts 1 & 2)

Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2) by Radiohead  
Download now or listen on posterous

02 Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2).mp3 (6188 KB)

Been humming this song for hours. Or maybe it's been days that I haven't been able to get it out of my head.

Of all the Radiohead b-sides and rarities, and there are many, this is absolutely one of the best. It's jerky moodiness, like the College Karma EP that it comes from, was the hallmark of the band's ascent to "Best Band In The World" status: the OK Computer era.

I swear to god I had a six-hour anxiety attack tonight, from about mid-afternoon to around 10:45 pm when I got on the highway to come home. I couldn't sit still, and had no desire to be anywhere, really. But I had this song stuck in my head the entire time. 85 mph, Motley Crue singing about strippers and cocaine on SFL's main modern rock station, and all I heard was Thom Yorke...

Sometimes the right song is what you need. In my case, I need to swap out the stereo in my car for the one sitting on a shelf in my garage because not having the ability to choose what I want to hear, or just shuffle a collection of songs I choose to carry, is killing my modern life. 

The delay made this song all the more perfect when I got home though.

Posted via email from One Stupid Mop

The only thing better than tricking people into drinking your urine...

is making them think they just drank your urine. 

Fat Mike comes out onstage dressed as Cokie The Clown, passes out shots of Patron and the proceeds to tell depressing and true stories, with a few acoustic songs mixed in, before starting a video that shows he pissed in the bottle before pouring shots for everybody. The world flipped out, he got banned from the club and nobody questioned whether he had actually done it because, you know, he's Fat Mike and it's believable.

So, he filmed it with two cameras: one for the crowd to watch after he was offstage, and the other to prove the illusion. Performance art of the highest order? I think so. Fat Mike is a god.

(via Punknews.org)

Posted via email from Stephen Feller

Black Sabbath - Time Machine

Time Machine by Black Sabbath  
Download now or listen on posterous

11-Time Machine (Wayne's World)-mw.mp3 (4046 KB)

I was introduced to the Dio era of Black Sabbath - and very possibly, for the first time, Sabbath - by way of the soundtrack to the first Wayne's World movie.

That movie is awesome, and this song is awesome. It's pretty simple.

RIP Ronnie James Dio

Posted via email from One Stupid Mop

About FB privacy concerns: If you don't want people to know your info or favorite things, why would you post it ON THE INTERNET?!?

Since Facebook changed the way you "like" stuff, and made user info available on community pages, and generally put a lot more info out there - including making it easier to let people know what you like on the Internet - there's been an outcry about privacy concerns. But Facebook promotes this stuff before they do it - they talk about what they're thinking about doing, and hundreds or thousands of writers put stuff about it all over the Internet and in newspapers. Unless you live in a box, you should have heard something.

Regardless, hit the privacy controls and change stuff. You can tell FB exactly what you want out there. Be proactive and take care of your shit. Seriously - if you didn't want it out there, why did you post it ON THE INTERNET?!? 

The New York Times counted everything for you. Frankly, the number of options is impressive:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/technology/personaltech/13basics.html

But apparently, the Financial Times doesn't know how the Internet works. 

FYI - everything you do online is recorded and trackable. EVERYTHING. Every single website you go to leaves a cookie on your computer so that it will load faster. Every search you do, not just at Google but at whatever search engine you dig, is recorded to offer you more ads you might be interested in and improve the results you get when you search. This isn't new. It's just that now, you're telling a website what movies you like, and where you hang out, and what your politics are, and whether you prefer blondes or brunettes, and what websites you go to... And that website is selling ads and services to businesses based on the information you tell it so that it can provide a free service that we've all become obsessed with.

There is no conspiracy. It's not Orwellian. You have entered information into a website that tells you up front - and in the press - that it will use that info to make money off of you. Come on people, pay a little more attention and take some responsibility for what you're doing. Maybe that's asking too much in modern America (and the world). In which case, you get what you deserve.

Posted via email from Stephen Feller