Tomorrow, I'm going to the Insectarium to learn about edible bugs. Later, I'll be going to Iron Hill to enjoy their freshly released Bourbon Porter, a.k.a. angels having an orgy in my mouth....
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Today is a good day to sit in front of the TV. The Phillies will be on in a few minutes, the Eagles are on at 4, and the season premier of Dexter is on at 9. I...
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Whats new - I recently decided to start my own landscape design company. I'm tired of working for other companies that do half-assed work, that use Round-Up, and that run out of work for me by August. I figure if I'm going to be unemployed it should be...
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I'm hopping it was just gas.
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I learned to play it just recently and the band I recently quit and I fashioned our version sort of loosely on this:
Yes, I was born in Philly and raised in Voorhees Township NJ (home of the Echelon Mall - near Cherry Hill NJ) and lived at 2400 Chestnut overlooking the scenic Surekill River for a while.
I'll be back up there in May.
Elvis Costello
Get Emotional [Young American, 1CD]
Live at Leicester, October 22, 1977.
Few people gave Elvis Costello a chance when he set out on the 1977 Live Stiffs tour, and even fewer could blame them. Up against a bespectacled Herbert and his barely-blooded trio, after all, were ranged the twin behemoths of Ian Dury and Rockpile, artists that had positively decades of experience behind them. Costello, on the other hand, had barely had his name for nine months.
Of course, everyone knows what happened next, as Costello not only pushed his co-headliners aside, he proceeded to shove most of the contemporary music scene behind him, banging out a succession of albums, one-two-three, that remain among the most startling statements of the entire end-of-Seventies nightclub. And this show, taped around midway through the Stiffs outing (Leicester, October 22), shows how he did it.
Quite frankly, this might be the crucial document of the Attractions at their peak, with Elvis firmly transitioning between the airy Dylanisms of My Aim Is True, and the darker idiosyncrasies of This Year's Model, and the band battling behind him with an aggression that renders even the darkest-hearted oldies all but unrecognizable.
But it's a playful outing too, as Costello opens the show with Richard Hell's "Love Comes In Spurts"; acknowledges Dury's own influence on his writing with a seething cover of the Kilburns' "Roadette Song," then cheekily teases fellow Stiff star Wreckless Eric, with a turbulent cover of "The Whole Wide World" - the second time the audience had heard the song that evening (Eric was also on the tour), although it's unlikely anyone complained.
The Damned's "Neat Neat Neat," too, finds its way into the show, stripped back, swampy and stark. But it's the songs that would make up Costello's next album - "Chelsea," "The Beat," "Little Triggers" and, looking even further ahead, "Dr Luther's Assistant," that truly reveal where Costello was at - and it was a darker, more dangerous place than he's ever been before. Whatever you thought of Elvis Costello in 1977, Get Emotional will make you re-evaluate it all. - Dave Thompson
"You must take your place in the great circle of... stuff" ~ Mu Shu Fasa
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Road trip to Asheville, NC in a couple of days for the Brian McGee and the Hollow Speed CD release show.
bad note:
I have been getting bit by spiders in my sleep every night this past week. I've got 4 on my arms, 1 on my hand, and 1 on my left index finger.