Peruvian Nights and Jamaican Days

LEFTOVERS..

A couple of amendments to the list of rulez I posted yesterday:

10. Don't force it.

11. When right grammar seems wrong, just go with wrong grammar. It's easier than explaining esoteric 'rules' to people who make fun of your grammar, because they don't know the rules.

By the way, the exact quote, as I remember it, from G-Had's dad was: "Hot dogs are something I tend not to like to save money on." That's such an elegant way of stating it.

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I always sit down on chairs from the left side.

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Some things I've discovered since starting the RealRhapsody subscription:

1) Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, by The Flaming Lips, is an awesome, awesome album.

2) I don't really care if Wilco remains as it is currently, or splits into different bands, or launces into numerous solo careers. The reason for that is that everything that Jeff Tweedy, Jay Farrar, Jay Bennet, or any of the other people in Wilco, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Golden Smog, etc., have ever been involved in has kicked ass. So I'm sure that whatever happens to Wilco in the next few years, ass will nonetheless be kicked.

3) I feel sorry for bands like (the) Old 97's. No matter how earnest their lyrics, it's hard to take them seriously, since they write such playful melodies. Catchy stuff, though. I need to lay off them for awhile, especially Too Far to Care, which I've probably listened to 14 times in the last week.

4) Honcho Overload isn't as awesome as Hum, but it's a good stand-in for those of us who get weepy everytime we think about Hum's breakup.

5) They seem to be adding new music all the time. The first time I looked, they only had Tipsy's Trip Tease, but now they also have Uh-Oh!

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Someday, when I'm rich, I'ma get me one of these futuristic nap pods.

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My favorite genre of music is 'good' music. I feel the same way about music as I feel about food: Nearly everything is good, as long as it's done right.

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I was thinking that for a PhD project, I could create an interactive, animated, temporally dynamic, 'genealogical' tree-map thingy that shows the interrelationships of bands and people and stuff. It could look something like musicplasma, except be less sucked. I mean, if you enter Old 97's in musicplasma, you see that it is 'close' to Whiskeytown, the Jayhawks, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Ryan Adams, etc., but you don't see the connections, really, between all of these. Also, it has Jay Farrar in between Whiskeytown and Ryan Adams. Stupid. The lineage of bands like Hum, Whiskeytown, or even Wilco, is fairly complicated if you're just trying to figure it out by reading band bio's. Mostly, they're incomplete, or at best, you still can't move laterally between bands with much ease. I think that, for instance, it would be enlightening to track the evolution of Siouxsie and the Banshees, from Sid Vicious to Robert Smith, and onward.

-m