Lately Pt. 2 - Hooting Heads Will Roll

This is the second part of my collection of songs from 2009 that have been in heavy rotation on my various music devices. While the last set had many covers and looked back on previous styles this group is overall very now and more forward looking. 

 1. Wild Beast - Hooting and Howling (Two Dancers, 2009) 

2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (It's Blitz!, 2009) 

3. Metric - Help I'm Alive (Fantasies, 2009) 

4. Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream (Walking On A Dream, 2009) 

5. Phoenix - 1901 (Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, 2009) 

6. Julien Casablancas - 11th Dimension (Phrazes For The Young, 2009) 

7. The Raveonettes - Last Dance (In And Out Of Control, 2009) 

8. The Kills - Cheap And Cheerful (Midnight Boom, 2009) 

9. The Pains Of Being Pure Of Heart - A Teenager In Love (The Pains Of Being Pure Of Heart, 2009) 1

0. The Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts (Wild Young Hearts, 2009) 

11. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Bitch, I Love You (Tell 'Em What Your Name Is, 2009) 

12. PPP - On A Cloud (Abundance, 2009) 

13. YACHT - Psycho City (See Mystery Lights, 2009) 1

4. The xx - Crystalised (xx, 2009) 15.

 Bat For Lashes - Daniel (Two Suns, 2009) 

16. Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move (Bitter Orca, 2009) 

17. Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer (Psychic Chasms, 2009) 

18. Animal Collective - Summer Clothes (Merriweather Post Pavillion, 2009) 

19. Florence & The Machine - Cosmic Love (Lungs, 2009) 

20. The Big Pink - Velvet (A Brief History Of Love, 2009)

Let It Roll... a mix

A collection of songs from some albums released in 2009 that I had on heavy rotation in my various devices. One of several mixes from a pretty good year. The picture is Dead Man's Bones. One of the more interesting new bands of the year and yes the kids sing on the album. 

Let It Roll

1. Yim Yames - The Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) (Tribute To, 2009) 

2. Yusaf (Cat Stevens) - Thinking 'bout You (Roadsinger, 2009) 

3. Fiction Family - When She's Near (Fiction Family, 2009) 

4. Cass McCombs - Dreams Come True Girl (Catacombs, 2009) 

5. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Hard Row (Summer Of Fear, 2009) 

6. Mark Olson & Gary Louris - Bicycle (Ready For The Flood, 2009) 

7. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others (Veckatimest, 2009) 

8. Marianne Faithful - The Crane Wife 3 (Easy Come Easy Go, 2009) 

9. Iron and Wine - Love Vigilantes (Around The Well, 2009) 

10. Roseanne Cash - The Girl From The North Country (The List, 2009) 

11. Ryan Bingham - Dylan's Hard Rain (Roadhouse Sun, 2009) 

12. Assembly Of Dust - Cold Coffee (Some Assembly Required, 2009) 

13. Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Sugar Magnolia (Under The Covers: Vol. 2, 2009) 

14. Wilco - You Never Know (Wilco, 2009) 

15. Monsters Of Folk - Whole Lotta Losin' (Monsters Of Folk, 2009) 

16. Girls - Lust For Life (Album, 2009) 

17. Yo La Tengo - Avalon Or Someone Very Similar (Popular Songs, 2009) 

18. St. Vincent - The Strangers (Actor, 2009) 

19. Animal Collective - My Girls (Merriweather Post Pavillion, 2009) 

20. Dead Man's Bones - My Body's A Zombie For You (Dead Man's Bones, 2009)

Doctor Bill - 1979

Another comment from my 80s Notebook. This one from 11/3/79.

On August 3, 1979 I saw Dr. Wolin for a backache problem and a routine physical. This was the first since Navy separation. I paid $50 for the visit... by check the day of the visit. Right there in the office. 

Since then I've been routinely getting a statement from him about the bill. I think his billing service or computer was stuck on my receipt once a month. So now three months later the Statemen comes with a "Please" written on it. So it is a Bill!. That's what happens when you pay a medical bill on time... harassment. My only medical bill in a decade and they screw it up. I'm batting 1000. What would happen if I really got sick. Horror. 

I sent a copy of the cancelled check to prove I paid the doctor bill. 

11/3/09

Wow, I really find it hard to believe I went ten years without seeing a doctor. I think back on the days living in Germantown after getting out of the Navy and I really can't remember any medical issues or getting sick enough to see a doctor. Of course I always could have gone to the VA for medical treatment. I also think back that if the last time I had a physical was when I got out of the Navy that would have been late 1973 so that means it really was six years of not getting any medical service and not a decade as I wrote in 1979.

Also it's funny that I would blame the billing problem on using a computer. Little did I know back in 1979 how much my life would later evolve around computers.

Car Comments - 1979

From my 80's Notebook. This time November 3, 1979.

New York State law says that a car owner moving to New York has 30 days to register their car in NY. I've been in Buffalo six months now and finally I got my NY tags.

Way back in June, when Betsy and Joe were visiting, I also got a parking ticket that day. I stood in many lines waiting to get my tags but I didn't have my car title with me. It was strange because I didn't remember ever having one although the car was paid off but I looked in vain. It was a 1973 Chevy Vega. 

Next began a typical bureaucratic nightmare with letters and correspondences back and forth but nothing was accomplished. Lost checks, lost titles, liens, bullshit.

Then I finally got some good luck. I found the lost original title and of course I had it all the time. I really need to organize my paperwork better but now I have my NY plates for a fee of course... $20.

Then this week the car's engine died. Nothing. I tried to jump it but it needed towing. Fortunately I was able to use the Better Wire Products, my employer, automotive service Sonny's Car Clinic located nearby. The car was towed at 9:30 am and finished by 12 noon. Better Wire Products had pull.

The car needed a new alternator. They also fixed my flashers and did a NY State Inspection. Total cost was $120.

I wish I could do more work on the car myself. It's just a matter of doing it and having the tools and the time.

11/3/09

Looking back 30 years getting the car fixed was pretty cheap. I would not have that Vega much longer but that's another story in one of these 80's notebooks somewhere.

Irish Eccentricity - 1979

Irish Eccentricity

Originally a notebook entry in 11/3/79 about some Irish resources I was interested in at the time.

• The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan. A novel about the 1798 invasion of Ireland by Republican France and the rebellion of County Mayo. The amazing theme in the book was the notion of the Irish poet, Gaelic, Celtic Owen McCarthy. The oral tradition.
• The Irish Renaissance. The late 19th and early 20th century Irish literature revival. W.B. Yeats, George William Russell (A.E.), James Joyce, and more. Celebrating Irish myth, folklore, drama, poetry, etc. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats. 
• The Celts by Gerhard Herm. The founders of Europe, Druids, King Arthur, The Holy Grail, Headhunters
• Horslips - A Celtic Symphony
• The Historical Map of Ireland
• Irish music by The Chieftains
• The Wild Geese. The Irish soldiers and their families who traveled to Europe to fight in Catholic countries (France & Spain) to fight against England.
• The Irish Diaspora. Display of the ancient Irish treasures at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
• Ireland Today. The legacy of British imperialism.
• The Murder of Mountbatten. The symbol. A divided Ireland will always be a violent one.

11/2/09

I'm not sure what I was writing about in these notebook entries. This was all on one page. I did read Year of the French around that time.

On the Edge of the Eighties - 1979

This was the first entry in the notebook.. On the Edge of the Eighties. Reflections: Past, Present and Future. I started this in early November 1979. Quick writing in a notebook. We had moved to Buffalo from Philadelphia in June of 1979. 

11/1/79

The Eighties. They're nearly here. It seems almost impossible. The new decade and where am I now. Am I really ready for this new experience? What will the eighties bring to me, my life? And what were the Seventies? This is a good time to reflect on them. I've become of age, so to speak, in the seventies. Came to manhood and developed into what I am. A mixing of adolescent and teenage Sixties with the young adulthood Seventies. The Eighties will be the culmination of the previous two decades emerging from the childhood of the Fifties. The three decades were so very much different. What will my fourth decade be like? Age 28 through 38.

This decade approaches the half way mark of an expected lifetime. The Eighties are my mid years. I guess it would be fairer to say the Mid-Eighties through the Mid-Nineties but centuries ago in other times 28 to 38 were the peak years and 40 was an old person. But it this time it is half and maybe less. Anyway, now is a good time to think about myself. Who am I? What am I? How did I get this way? What am I becoming?

11/2/09

So I wrote that 30 years ago. It will be interesting to read through these comments and try to understand them as I put them into this blog.

My Love Is Alien... another mix for Halloween

1. Split Enz - Poor Boy (True Colours, 1980) 

2. A Flock Of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song (A Flock Of Seagulls, 1982) 

3. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet (Special View, 1979) 

4. The B-52's - Planet Claire (The B-52's, 1979) 

5. The Tom Tom Club - Booming And Zooming (The Tom Tom Club, 1981) 

6. The Easy Star All-Stars - The Great Gig In The Sky (Dub Side Of The Moon, 2003) 7. The Easy Star All-Stars - Paranoid Android (Radiodread, 2006) 

8. Dread Zeppelin - Black Dog/Heartbreaker (Un-Led-Ed, 1990) 

9. The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck (Psychedelic Jungle, 1981) 

10. The Fabulous Poodles - Pink City Twist/Vampire Rock (Think Pink, 1979) 

11. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You (Voodoo Jive: Best of Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 1990) 

12. Brian Eno & David Byrne - Help Me Somebody (My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, 1981) 

13. The Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Live) (The Name Of The Band Is Talking Heads, 1982) 

14. The Pixies - Wave Of Mutilation (Doolittle, 1989) 

15. X - Devil Doll (More Fun In The New World, 1983) 

16. Shorty Long - Devil With The Blue Dress (Hitsville USA, Vol. 1: The Motown Singles, 1992) 

17. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - Devil With The Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly (Rev Up: Best of Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, 1990) 

18. The Sonics - Psycho (Here Are The Sonics, 1965)

Rockin' Bones - a mix for Halloween

1. The Cramps - Rockin' Bones (Psychedelic Jungle, 1981)
2. The Ghastly Ones - Spooky Girl (A Haunting We Will Go Go, 1998)
3. The Misfits - Ghouls Night Out (Misfits, 1986)
4. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil (Beggars Banquet, 1968)
5. H.P. Lovecraft - At The Mountains Of Madness (Dreams In The Witch House: Collection, 2005)
6. Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years (Swordfishtrombones, 1983)
7. Dead Man's Bones - My Body's A Zombie For You (Dead Man's Bones, 2009)
8. Michael Jackson - Thriller (Thriller, 1982)
9. Brian Eno & David Byrne - The Jezebel Spirit (My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, 1981)
10. David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (Scary Monsters, 1980)
11. Alan Vega, Alex Chilton & Ben Vaughn - The Werewolf (Cubist Blues, 1996)
12. Gnarls Barkley - The Boogie Monster (St. Elsewhere, 2006)
13. Split Enz - Dirty Creature (Time and Tide, 1982)
14. Dave Edmunds - The Creature From The Black Lagoon (Repeat When Necessary, 1979)
15. Redbone - The Witch Queen Of New Orleans (Redbone, 1970)
16. Dr. John - I Been Hoodood (In The Right Place, 1973)
17. Donovan - The Season Of The Witch (Sunshine Superman, 1966)
18. The Byrds - Mr. Spaceman (Fifth Dimension, 1966)

Message of Love... a mix

An 80s night tavern mix. 

1. Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind (Labour Of Lust, 1979) 

2. Rockpile - Teacher Teacher (Seconds Of Pleasure, 1980) 

3. Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk (Repeat When Necessary, 1978) 

4. Elvis Costello - Lip Service (This Year's Model, 1978) 

5. John Hiatt - Pink Bedroom (Two Bit Monsters, 1980) 

6. Moon Martin - Bad Case Of Loving You (Shots From A Cold Nightmare, 1979) 

7. Split Enz - I Got You (True Colours, 1980) 

8. The Cure - Close To Me (The Head On The Door, 1985) 

9. Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough (Speak & Spell, 1981) 

10. The Clash - Train In Vain (Stand By Me) (London Calling, 1979) 

11. Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World (Big Smash, 1980) 

12. Crowded House - Something So Strong (Crowded House, 1986) 

13. Marshall Crenshaw - Someday Someway (Marshall Crenshaw, 1982) 

14. Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen (Too-Rye-Ay, 1982) 

15. The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) (Sunshine On Leith, 1988) 

16. The Pretenders - Message Of Love (Pretenders II, 1981) 

17. The Cars - You're All I've Got Tonight (The Cars, 1978) 

18. Prince - When You Were Mine (Dirty Mind, 1980) 

19. Robert Palmer - Johnny & Mary (Clues, 1980) 

20. The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed (Beauty And The Beat, 1981) 

21. Talking Heads - With Our Love (More Songs About Buildings And Food, 1978) 22. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Substance, 1988) 

23. Squeeze - Goodbye Girl (Cool For Cats, 1979)

I Wanna Be Trash... a mix

First mix in May. Part of the May Mixathon at ZeRO. A bunch of new things I've been listening to the past few months. The opening song has a catchy repetitive chorus exclaiming I wanna be trash. Thus the mix title. There is also a trashy feel to a lot of the songs here and some trashy dance beats too. Photo is from one of the trash people installations by German artist HA Schult.

I Wanna Be Trash

1. The Whip - Trash (X Marks Destination, 2009) 

2. The Harlem Shakes - Strictly Game (Technicolor Health, 2009) 

3. Peter Bjorn and John - It Don't Move Me (Living Thing, 2009) 

4. Franz Ferdinand - Turn It On (Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, 2009) 

5. The Kills - Cheap And Cheerful (Midnight Boom, 2008) 

6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (It's Blitz!, 2009)

7. The Presets - Talk Like That (Apocalypso, 2009)

8. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - A Teenage Love (The Pains Of Being Pure Of Heart, 2009) 

9. The Airborne Toxic Event - Happiness Is Overrated (The Airborne Toxic Event, 2009) 

10. Dan Auerbach - Heartbroken, In Disrepair (Keep It Hid, 2009) 

11. The Upsidedown - Light (Human Destination, 2008) 

12. Bat For Lashes - Sleep Alone (Two Suns, 2009) 

13. PPP - On A Cloud (Abundance, 2009) 14. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Sugarfoot (Tell 'em What Your Name Is!, 2009) 

15. Friendly Fires - Lovesick (Friendly Fires, 2008) 

16. Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire (In Ghost Colours, 2008) 

17. Late Of The Pier - The Bears Are Coming (Fantasy Black Channel, 2009) 

18. Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes (Merriweather Post Pavillion, 2009) 19. Richard Swift - The Atlantic Ocean (The Atlantic Ocean, 2009)

20. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust (Kingdom Of Rust, 2009)

How Long Must I Dream... a mix

First mix in a while... first post in a while actually. A quickie mix done in almost one sitting. Used iTunes to create a list of songs with dream in the title as a source to work from. Why dreams? I had a mix in progress that started with the Tyler Ramsey song and then I was inspired by my friend Cliff's posting of his "mind" theme mixes on ZeRO. My list of dream songs was quite large and I'm planning on a second volume of this theme mix and maybe even a third. I was pleased with this collection and I think they work quite well together. 

How Long Must I Dream 

1. Tyler Ramsey - A Long Dream (A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea, 2008) 

2. Eels - The Trouble With Dreams (Blinking Lights And Other Revelations, 2005) 

3. Randy Newman - Last Night I Had A Dream (Sail Away, 1972) 

4. Love - Dream (Four Sail, 1969) 

5. The Lovetones - Inside A Dream (Meditations, 2005) 

6. Of Montreal - I Was A Landscape In Your Dream (The Sunlandic Twins, 2005) 

7. My Morning Jacket - Dream A Lil Dream Of Me (Ch.2 Learning: Early Recordings, 2001) 

8. Dion - Life Is But A Dream (Acappella Underdub) (King Of The New York Streets, 2000) 

9. Daniel Johnston - I Had A Dream (Why Me? LIve Volksbuhne Am Ros, 2000) 

10. John Lennon - #9 Dream (Walls & Bridges, 1974) 

11. Olivia Tremor Control - Define A Transparent Dream (Dusk At Cubist Castle, 1996) 

12. Hawkwind - You Know You're Only Dreaming (In Search Of Space, 1971) 

13. The Teardrop Explodes - When I Dream (Kilimanjaro, 1980) 

14. Pixies - Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons (Trompe Le Monde, 1991) 

15. Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream Of Trains (I Often Dream Of Trains, 1984) 

16. Nico - Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (Chelsea Girl, 1967) 

17. The Zombies - Hung Upon A Dream (Odessey and Oracle, 1968) 

18. John Martyn - Dreams By The Sea (Solid Air, 1972) 

19. Richard Thompson - I Still Dream (Amnesia, 1988) 

20. Los Lobos - Dream In Blue (Kiko, 1991) 

21. Roy Orbison - Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) (The Soul of Rock and Roll, 2008) 

The Tyler Ramsey lead song is also the lead song off his recent solo album. He plays in Band of Horses. I could listen to song over and over. I did. I'm a big fan of Eels and Blinking Lights... may be my favorite of albums of theirs although I really like the recent Useless Trinkets B-sides & rarities collection. Sail Away is probably the only Randy Newman album that I could listen to all the way through but that album is a classic. Every song is great. I like a few of his songs scattered throughout his career but overall I don't pay much attention to him. I close the mix with Roy Orbison. You can't have a collection of dream songs without him. He is the King of Rock 'n Roll Dreams. I'll probably start the next mix with him. 

Nothing Ever Happened - New Mix

This is a collection of some songs from some albums released in 2008. Not really a best of the year collection but certainly lots of great songs that sound good together. This mix will be finding it's way to my brother's bar next week and a few patiently waiting people. I highly recommend all of the albums highlighted here.


Nothing Ever Happened

1. White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes (Fleet Foxes, 2008)
2. Gordie Can't Swim - The Junipers (Cut Your Key, 2008)
3. Lost Coastlines - Okkervil River (The Stand Ins, 2008)
4. Heads Roll Off - Frightened Rabbit (The Midnight Organ Fight, 2008)
5. Nothing Ever Happened - Deerhunter (Microcastle, 2008)
6. Give A Little Love - Noah And The Whale (Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down, 2008)
7. You Don't Love Me Yet - Winterpills (Central Chambers, 2008)
8. I Don't Live In A Dream - Jackie Greene (Giving Up The Ghost, 2008)
9. Out Of Time - Jason Collett (Here's To Being Here, 2008)
10. Walk Through A Cloud - The Donkeys (Living On The Other Side, 2008)
11. I Believe In You - Cat Power (Jukebox, 2008)
12. Sister Lost Soul - Alejandro Escovedo (Real Animal, 2008)
13. So Well - Benji Hughes (A Love Extreme, 2008)
14. Twisted - The Wood Brothers (Loaded, 2008)
15. Methamphetamine - Old Crow Medicine Show (Tennessee Pusher, 2008)
16. Ain't No Lord - The Moondoggies (Don't Be A Stranger, 2008)
17. The Sound - Human Highway (Moody Motorcycle, 2008)
18. No One Does It Like You - Department Of Eagles (In Ear Park, 2008)
19. For Emma - Bon Iver (For Emma, Forever Ago, 2008)
20. Something More - Kelley Stoltz (Circular Sounds, 2008)

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