Crazy

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"I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral." - Moon Unit Zappa

"They'll probably make it unpatriotic to be Democrat. It's pretty crazy." - Neil Young

"I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn." - Muddy Waters

"We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet." - Max Walker

"When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again." - Mike Tyson

"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up." - Hunter S. Thompson

"Like, the kind of arrogance that some of the policy makers and world leaders are carrying with them right now is, I think, reflective of the very worst of the United States. It's that teenage arrogance, as a young country, the know-it-all kind of thing. That makes me crazy." - Michael Stipe

"What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?" - Freddie Mercury

"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy." - Charles Manson

"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy." - Sigmund Freud

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?" - Albert Einstein

"My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names." - James Brown


mp3 Let's Go Crazy

Prince And The Revolution - Music from the Motion Picture "Purple Rain"


mp3 Crazy Beat

Blur - Think Tank


mp3 Went Crazy

The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro/Wilder


mp3 Wild And Crazy

Division Of Laura Lee - Black City


mp3 Crazy About You

Whiskeytown - Pneumonia


mp3 Crazy (Studio Version)

Her Space Holiday - Audio Astronomy


mp3 Crazy

The Afghan Whigs - 1965


mp3 Still Crazy

The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic

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It's All About Getting In Tune

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"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." - Woody Allen

"If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune." - Count Basie

"For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life." - Bjork

"It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents." - Samuel Butler

"I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem." - Julian Cope

"You can't teach the old maestro a new tune." - Jack Kerouac

"The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune." - Bruce Springsteen

"Once in a while and really the exception, will be when I have an idea, then I'll write a poem first and then write a tune to the poem." - Roger McGuinn


mp3 Getting In Tune

The Who - Who's Next


mp3 Dream Wanderer's Tune

Deerhoof - Milk Man


mp3 Her Melancholy Tune

Superdrag - Last Call For Vitriol


mp3 I Could Never Tune

The Subjects - With the Ease Grace Precision and Cleverness of Human Beings


mp3 Intro And Theme Tune

Six. By Seven - Club Sandwich At The Peveril Hotel


mp3 Pavement Tune

The Frames - Set List


mp3 Sugartune

Sloan - Smeared


mp3 Stay Tuned

Ambulance Ltd - Ambulance LTD

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Summertime Mix - Part II

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mp3 Summer

The Church - Forget Yourself


mp3 Summer Chill

Chapterhouse - Mesmerise


mp3 Summer Here Kids

Grandaddy - Under the Western Freeway


mp3 Summer

Mogwai - Ten Rapid (Collected Recordings 1996-1997)


mp3 Summer In The City

Vietnam - Vietnam


mp3 Summer Loop

Folksongs For The Afterlife - Put Danger Back in Your Life


mp3 Summer Skin

Death Cab For Cutie - Plans


mp3 Summer

Wheat - Medeiros

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Summertime Mix - Part I

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Sorry about the lack of posting lately, the Black Dog has been seriously on my ass and I have been under. I woke up the other day and realized it was summer, wtf... My whole life is passing me by and I sometimes wonder why I am even still alive.
There is no need though for you to miss out on some summer tunes. Just a word of advice, don't ever ever take the good things you have (a job, a significant other, money, a nice place to live) for granted. It is when you reach the lowest of lows as I have, that you realize how lucky you are to have had those things and you pray everyday that you can once again have them. Words of wisdom from a down and out, depressed loser..


mp3 Endless Summer

Follow The Train - Breath of Sigh


mp3 Feel Good Hit Of The Summer

Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R


mp3 Gold In The Air Of Summer

Kings Of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street


mp3 It's Summertime

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots


mp3 Lone Summer Dream

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Origin, Vol. 1


mp3 Skills Of Summer

Wire Train - Last Perfect Thing: A Retrospective


mp3 Summer Gold

The Eaves - The Eaves


mp3 Summertime Blues

T. Rex - Electric Warrior Sessions

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Untitled Records

The always lovely Rachel from the Untitled blog has moved to a new blog with a new domain name. The new blog is called Untitled Records and is looking awesome to say the least. Rachel is one of my most favorite bloggers and is one of the nicest, friendliest bloggers you will ever meet. She also has excellent taste in music. So, update your bookmarks and visit Rachel at her new site and leave a comment congratulating her on the new digs.


mp3 Untitled

Blonde Redhead - Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons


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Six. By Seven - 04


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Charlene - Charlene


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Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea


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The Cure - Disintegration


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Superchunk - Cup of Sand


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Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights


mp3 Untitled

Salim Nourallah - Polaroid

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Anger

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According to Live Science, Anger Fuels Better Decisions.

"Despite its reputation as an impetus to rash behavior, anger actually seems to help people make better choices—even aiding those who are usually very poor at thinking rationally. This could be because angry people base their decisions on the cues that "really matter" rather than things that can be called irrelevant or a distraction."

"Previous research has shown that anger biases people’s thinking—turning them into bigger risk-takers and making them less trusting and more prejudiced, for instance."

"In both studies, the researchers found that the angry subjects were better at discriminating between strong and weak arguments and were more convinced by the stronger arguments. Those who were not made to feel angry tended to be equally convinced by both arguments, indicating that they were not as analytical in their assessments."

Read the full article here.

What the hell? I guess all that money spent on self help books and countless clinics/seminars was just all a waste. Forget about toning down that anger, instead ratchet it up and start making better decisions. Jeebus.....


mp3 Anger

The Czars - The Ugly People Vs. the Beautiful People


mp3 Never In Anger

Rainer Maria - Past Worn Searching


mp3 A Little Anger

Sleet - Volume Drops


mp3 Don't Be Afraid Of Your Anger

Clem Snide - The Ghost of Fashion


mp3 Don't Look Back In Anger

Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?


mp3 Angryman

Band Of Bees - Sunshine Hit Me


mp3 This Angry Silence

Television Personalities - And Don't the Kids Just Love It

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Oblivion Mix

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Oblivion - the condition or state of being forgotten or unknown


But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. - Thomas Browne

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion. - Philip Wylie

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion. - Al Goldstein

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. - Alfred A. Montapert

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. - Horace Greeley

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. - Auguste Renoir

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. - Antoine Rivarol

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? - James Thurber

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain. - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh


mp3 Feeling Oblivion

Turin Brakes - The Optimist LP


mp3 Cmon Cmon Oblivion

Macha - Forget Tomorrow


mp3 Have You Forgotten

Red House Painters - Vanilla Sky


mp3 What's Forgotten

Vitesse - You Win Again Gravity


mp3 Forgotten Works

Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future


mp3 For People Unknown

Windsor For The Derby - We Fight Til Death


mp3 Unknown

Tortoise - It's All Around You

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The Moon Mix

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Yeah, I love astronomy and the amazing mysteries surrounding the stars, planets and galaxies. A favorite site is the Astronomy Picture Of The Day Archive which shows a daily picture of some fantastic and beautiful features of our universe. It's mind boggling stuff to say the least.

An awesome, recent pic is the Great Mountain Moonrise:

"On May 31st, a gorgeous Full Moon rose over Uludag Mountain in Bursa Province, Turkey. This alluring telephoto view of the twilight scene is a composite of images taken roughly every two minutes beginning shortly after Sunset, following the rising Moon as it moves up and to the right. Of course, as the Moon rises it gets brighter and changes color, becoming less reddened as the sight-line through the dense atmosphere is steadily reduced. Each of the final two exposures also captured a rising planet Jupiter. Like the Full Moon, the bright, wandering planet is nearly opposite the Sun in Earth's sky and was caught on the lefthand side of the picture in two places, just above a small peak in the mountain side. Intriguingly, some considered this Full Moon a Blue Moon." - source


mp3 Low Red Moon

Belly - Star


mp3 Moonrainbow

The Comas - Conductor


mp3 Blue Moon Rising

Gomez - Liquid Skin


mp3 Blue Moonlight

Los Lobos - Just Another Band from East L.A.: A Collection


mp3 Moonlight

My Bloody Valentine - Geek! EP


mp3 Red Moon

Turin Brakes - Jackinabox


mp3 The Whole Of The Moon

The Waterboys - This Is the Sea


mp3 Gentle Moon

Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway

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Random Associations

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Do you feel any colder, locked as always in a strangely isolated place?

The Stars, they beckon you, dancing in the sky...

If only you could reach far enough to touch one, then it would be

The whole world shines in front of you but it is not yours to see

For the weariness of untold secrets, all you really need is an honest friend

But all you find there is a scattered soul and a kingdom of lies

And you grasp, you reach, you push, harder against the grain

Only to find yourself, more than ever, locked deep in that cold dark place


mp3 Colder

Travis - The Boy with No Name


mp3 A Strangely Isolated Place

Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place


mp3 The Stars

Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position


mp3 Dancing In The Sky

Moonbabies - Moonbabies at the Ballroom


mp3 The Whole World

The Dilettantes - 101 Tambourines


mp3 An Honest Friend

Summerbirds In The Cellar - With the Hands of the Hunter It All Becomes Dead


mp3 Kingdom Of Lies

Folk Implosion - One Part Lullaby


mp3 More Than Ever

Bedhead - Transaction de Novo

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Seas, Oceans Mix

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Yeah, I stole part of the name of the post from the wonderful Tim over at the Contrast Podcast. For some reason I can't get my act together to contribute and Tim has been nice enough to invite me numerous times. I guess I am a little leery about contributing since I will probably pick some depressing song and talk about how it depresses me (my constant state of being for quite awhile now). Anyhow, you should go check out the latest edition of The Contrast Podcast entitled Seas, Oceans And All Things Marine. It's a good one for sure!


Also, if you like mixtapes and mixes in general than please go visit Monkey Bastard's MP3 Blahg where you will find some of the best mixes in the music blogosphere. Mr. MB has definitely put some time into these mixes and they are outstanding. You can download the latest or check his archives. The latest one up is titled Golly! It's Monkey Bastard's Beach Party Compilation 2007!!!. Truly one of my favorite blogs these days, I love well thought out and eclectic mixtapes like these.


And speaking of Seas, Oceans - here is a little mix of that flavor to make up for not contributing to the latest Contrast Podcast.


mp3 The Ocean

U2 - Boy


mp3 In Deep Sea

Pillow - Flowing Seasons


mp3 At Sea

Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls


mp3 Salty Seas

Devics - Push The Heart


mp3 Sea Shanty

The Pogues - Red Roses for Me


mp3 We Sleep In The Ocean

The Cloud Room - The Cloud Room


mp3 Way Of The Ocean

Three Mile Pilot - Another Desert, Another Sea


mp3 Blue Blue Ocean

Echo & The Bunnymen - Echo & the Bunnymen

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Holy Shit - Mars Really Does Need Guitars!

Got this one from The Constant Skeptic

According to the Nasa website:

"Black spots have been discovered on Mars that are so dark that nothing inside can be seen. Quite possibly, the spots are entrances to deep underground caves capable of protecting Martian life, were it to exist. The unusual hole pictured above was found on the slopes of the giant Martian volcano Arsia Mons. The above image was captured three weeks ago by the HiRISE instrument onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling Mars. The holes were originally identified on lower resolution images from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, The above hole is about the size of a football field and is so deep that it is completely unilluminated by the Sun. Such holes and underground caves might be prime targets for future spacecraft, robots, and even the next generation of human interplanetary explorers." - link

Another post here on the subject.


Holy Shit Batman, my theory is these are large alien concert halls where the Martians rock out. Now all we need to do is to fly to Mars and bring them some of our Earth guitars to try out in those huge concert halls. Just think, the first Earth based concert on the planet Mars. And I know just the band to send:


mp3 Mars Needs Guitars!

Hoodoo Gurus - Mars Needs Guitars!


mp3 Black Hole

Jetscreamer - Starhead


mp3 Polaroids From Mars

Tullycraft - Disenchanted Hearts Unite


mp3 Oxygenating Mars

The Polish Ambassador - Diplomatic Immunity


mp3 A Love From Outer Space

A.R. Kane - "i"


mp3 Prince Of Mars

Kitchens Of Distinction - Capsule: The Best of KOD 1988-94


mp3 Trip To Mars

Skatalites - Greetings from Skamania

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Memories & Of Lust

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You know really it was only and all about the passion, the physical. There was a connection there sure, but the main link in that connection was primal lust. Of course is was not destined to last, nothing built on just that could ever last the time it really takes. But it was incredible nonetheless. Just the thought of it now drives me to a place that is not comfortable to go to because I cannot have what I want so bad. Just the memory of her touch, her taste, her scent evokes the most erotic filled thoughts that literally have me running for the cold shower. I long to be with her, to feel her, to be inside her and to hear her slowing breathing next to me. But it's gone, gone, gone like every good thing that has ever happened to me.

There is only a memory now, a vivid memory and nothing will ever bring it back to life. And I sit, a shallow mess, wondering why something so wonderful happened to me and only to lead to just a mind blowing memory. I guess that is the way of life, we don't ever get to 'keep' anything, we are only here temporarily and everything we touch will turn into only a memory. And it seems as I get older the more of these memories I have. Some so real and beautiful that they are almost lifelike while others bring me to the bitter tears of loss and abandonment. I think the answer is to be able to 'cope' with these memories, to channel them into new things but for me all they seem to do is put me in a circle of doubt, regret and despair. I don't want these memories anymore, the good ones or the bad ones, I just want to be in the here and now. But they won't leave me, they stay to torture and tempt me of the way things were. The circle remains unbroken and continues on it's vicious and perpetual cycle, never stopping once to let me out of it's nasty grip.


mp3 Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of

U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind


mp3 Touch From Your Lust

Ben Harper - Diamonds on the Inside


mp3 The Passion Of Lovers

Bauhaus - 1979-1983


mp3 Circular Memories

Statistics - Leave Your Name


mp3 From Despair To Where

Manic Street Preachers - Gold Against the Soul


mp3 Coping

Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish

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Frozen Still & Numb

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Frozen Still & Numb

Frozen still

Solid as ice

Numb like a charcoal gray day

Eyes feasting on the remains of nothing

Things that once were, now forgotten dreams

Forward is reverse, light is dark

Trickles of emotion dry like the Sahara

Movement ceases to exist, stillness surrounds

Only the echoing, empty pain manages to survive

A constant reminder of something called life

-dwm


mp3 Numb (Gimme Some More Dignity Mix)

U2 - U2 - The Best of 1990-2000


mp3 Frozen Feet

Tacks, The Boy Disaster - Oh, Beatrice


mp3 Forget To Be Numb

Dora Flood - Welcome


mp3 Still Life

Suede - Dog Man Star


mp3 Going Numb

Tin Cup Prophette - Liar And The Thief


mp3 Empty Picture Frame

Jets To Brazil - Four Cornered Night


mp3 Desert Island

XTC - Mummer


mp3 Frozen Stiff

Freescha - Head Warlock Double Stare

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Random Bits & Bytes

Checking out the email inbox and new music submissions:

Bonde Do Rolê is a Brazilian trio - "DJ Rodrigo Gorky gathered friends Pedro and Marina together, went to Role's, a snack bar that played heavy rock in their hometown of Curitiba and, many vodkas later, Bonde do Rolê was hatched". This is party music crafted from electro beats, metal riffs, and funky rhythms. This shit will drive you crazy to dance....

mp3 James Bonde

mp3 Bondallica

Bonde Do Rolê MySpace

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