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Me gusta la guitarra, me gustas tu

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If you use any, of the many social network sites to stay in touch with your friends, you have likely come across one of these silly surveys. I thought, since it’s my birthday, I could get away with using one of these lame surveys to get the week off. Leave any complaints in the comments. /wink


IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?


So, here’s how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool…
7. When you’re finished tag some other people to do it!

Opening Credits:
[Abe Vigoda – Don’t Lie]

Abe Vigoda I got on recommendation from my brother. Not bad at all. I haven’t had a ton of time to really get into them, but it’s one of the greatest names for a band I have seen in sometime.

Waking Up:
The White Stripes – St. James Infirmary

First Day Of School:
Klaxons – Gravity’s Rainbow (Van She Remix)

Falling In Love:
The Offspring – Special Delivery

Fight Song:
The Gutter Twins – Idle Hands

Breaking Up:
Spoon – Stay Don’t Go

Prom:
The Turtles – So Happy Together (Baron Von Luxxury ‘S You Remix)

Life:

[Manu Chao – Me Gustas Tu]

I love this song. It’s catchy, and whenever I am lucky enough to find it on the jukebox, I play it. Mostly because it always will get someone to ask, “Who is this?”
…and you know how I love talking about music.

Mental Breakdown:
Modest Mouse – Broke

Driving:
A.F.I. – Paper Airlplanes (Makeshift Wings)

Flashback:
Goldfinger – If Only

Getting Back Together:
DJ Danger Mouse – Moment of Clarity

Wedding:
The Offspring – Gotta Get Away (LOL)

Birth Of Child:
Foo Fighters – Stranger Things Have Happened

Final Battle:
Mike Doughty – Ways + Means

Death Scene:

[Weezer – No Other One]

Probably Weezer doesn’t need an introduction, although the Pinkerton album might not have shown up on your radar. It is widely considered to be a very underrated album that most people slept on. It has some great dark themes. I think it’s brilliant. Rivers felt differently about it though:

“It’s a hideous record… It was such a hugely painful mistake that happened in front of hundreds of thousands of people and continues to happen on a grander and grander scale and just won’t go away. It’s like getting really drunk at a party and spilling your guts in front of everyone and feeling incredibly great and cathartic about it, and then waking up the next morning and realizing what a complete fool you made of yourself.” – Rivers Cuomo, Entertainment Weekly, 2001

Funeral Song:
Big Bad Zero – Crumble

End Credits:
The Matches – Superman

buy some music. it’s ok. i promise it will be worth it.

"Sometimes", the fans of James swear they can see your soul!

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This is going to be a very short and sweet post. I saw quite possibly the best show out of the probably one hundred or so I’ve seen in my short lifetime this Monday. Now, you folks probably will go, “Who’s James?” I’ve heard that a lot. They’re the guys who sang the song “Laid”. You know it. Trust me. The lyrics start off with the following:

“This bed is on fire with passionate love/
The neighbors complain about the noises above/
but she only cums when she’s on top.”


So that song aside, they have an astounding body of work that most people just don’t really realize. The album Laid is a Brian Eno masterpiece. The album starts off with two of my favorite James songs – “Out To Get You” and “Sometimes (Lester Piggott)”. Below is the latter.

So, the band finished off their setlist with this song before coming back for their encore. Let me tell you, it was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever been a part of! I recorded the video of the song being performed, but the crowd there stole the show. You’ll need to watch the video to understand what I mean.

Now, if that wasn’t the best thing ever, they did something else later on that I’ve never seen a band do. Especially one that’s as well-known as James. The finished with their song “Come Home”, and invited a young man by the name of Jonah on stage to play guitar with them. I found Jonah had posted on the fan page of James’ on facebook, so I messaged him to ask how that came about. Here’s what he wrote (he’s in the middle of the photo posted below!):

At Sunday’s show, I held up a sign asking Tim if I could come up and play “Come Home” with them. I figured the chances of it happening were pretty much nil, but I also figured there was no harm in asking. Tim read the sign and told me, “Sorry, it isn’t on the set list tonight. Will you be here tomorrow? Maybe we can do it then.” I figured he was kidding, but then I ran into him on the street after the show and asked him if he was seriously considering letting me come on stage with them. He asked if I could actually play, if I am any good. I told him that yes, I can play. He said, “Okay, I’ll talk to the band about it.” I still figured the chances of it actually happening were about 1%, and I figured that if I did end up on stage that they would give me an acoustic and maybe not even put a mic on it, just to minimize the chances of me ruining the song if it turned out that I was some imposter who really did not know how to play or I got stage fright. So, when Saul took off his own guitar, handed it to me, and told me to go to it, I was blown away!

So if you all don’t know about this band yet? Go buy their albums! They are not a band that disappoints!