175 posts tagged “music”
Notice the sparing use of exclamation marks. I love me some Aretha, but for some reason I'm just not jazzed about it as I should be. I think part of the problem is she the big opener for the college's newest performing arts space down in Silver Spring and other than doing a lot of grunt work to get it up and running, I don't know what my role with the new space is going to be. And does that involve mo' money for the mo' problems I'm already tackling.
Then there's diva rep I have heard about. I just don't want to witness that first hand or have one of the techs backstage to confirm it. She's just one of those people I'm cool with admiring from afar-- especially if she insist on wearing spaghetti straps.
I made it! I reached my hundred mile mark with the walking today and here a few of the songs that helped me along the way.
- "The Weight" by the Staple Singers
- "Nothing Better to Do" Leanne Rimes (Link not original version but an awesome version she did with Joss Stone on Crossroads.)'
- "Blow Off My Dick" Andre Legacy (NFSW-- obviously)
- "Red Alert" Basement Jaxx
- "Flashing Lights" Kanye West
- "Already Gone" Sugarland
- "Closer" Ne-Yo
- "No Looking Back" Damita (One of those ambiguous gospel songs that would get me on the floor at the club until I got a good listen and sat my ass back down before God struck me down.)
- "Wig in a Box" Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- "We Break the Dawn" Michelle Williams
- "Plastic Man" The Temptations (Just discovered this one recently. Love it. Great strutting tune.)
- "25 Miles" Edwin Starr
Reading
The narrator kind of reminds me of Joe Pitt from Huston's other books, just a little less hard-boiled but a bit of an ass just the same. Still it is an entertaining read and got to find out why he has an aversion to buses.
Listening to . . .
I discovered King Britt and Sister Gertrude Morgan through True Blood (whose music department is doing a heckuva of job this season.) This album is ambient dance music meets Sunday morning praise service. Even more entertaining are the unadorned version of these tunes of Sister Gertrude's Let's Make a Record, but this remixed version makes for good walking music.
Here's my favorite remixed track that I usually queue up when I got a hill trying to stare me down.
Seeing (and saw)
I saw LeAnn Rimes last week at the Wolf Trap. The weather wasn't as nightmarish and brutally humid as it was last year when I went there to see Donna Summer. It was a cool night full of cool music country-- and classical! She was performing with the National Symphony orchestra. I wasn't too excited about the pairing, but the tickets were free. However LeAnn and the NSO meshed pretty well and it was an entertaining night.She sounds just as good in person as she does on her recordings.
Saw Bruno. There a few laugh out loud moments, but it was a bit of a disappointment. On Da Ali G my favorite segments with Bruno were when he was taking the piss out of the fashion and entertainment industry. There some of that here but not enough. And I don't if exposing America's homophobia. It seems more like he's exposing people's (surprisingly high) threshold for dealing with bullshit. For example, I think I may have had a similar reaction that one hunter had when Bruno kept pestering him in the middle of the night and trying to get into his tent. It had little to do with the fact that Bruno's gay and more to do with the fact that he is an un relenting pest.
Both Bruno and Terminator: Salvation were disappointments. Here's hoping Harry Potter (seeing it tomorrow) doesn't disappoint.
Trying to Avoid
Flamin' Hot Funyuns! *drool* Damn you litterbugs! I wouldn't have known this existed, if someone gave a hoot and didn't pollute. I went walking around the lake and saw an empty bag of these along the path. Of course, I could've picked up the bag and searched for a trashcan, but didn't. I was too afraid that before I had the chance to find one. I would've ripped open the bag and licked out the crumbs.
Dammit, man! If hearing about David Carradine passing wasn't enough to make this day a bummer, I just read over at SOULBOUNCE we lost a blues legend as well. Miss Koko Taylor.
I need Jason Aldean and Kevin Aviance to do a collaboration entitled "She Country/He's Cunty"
