one ear to the ground and one to the sky
monday's trip to the library(s) produced some good selections. "Day for Night" by the Tragically Hip was the first Hip cd i ever owned, then i got rid of all of them, then i bought "phantom power". when i found it ("Day for Night") at the library i grabbed it. it's still the best album in my opinion. its so dark and seedy, even more than "fully completely" which is also wonderful. then i finally found a Cardigans cd. i'd been looking for one, but there was never one there. anyway, i've decided that england and sweden produce 80% of the worlds good music. it includes the most messed up version of "iron man" i have ever heard. the last cd i got that impressed me (there were others, one which i'm still pondering and two that blah) was boards of canada. this band is not from canada. neither is the label secretly canadian, but that has nothing to do with this. very cool stuff, trippy electronic old moog synth style stuff. so it was a good trip.
i also got a book on all the beatles gear (guitars and suchlike.) between the beatles anthology (which i own) and the books i own and have read i had already sussed out what most of them were. but it is interesting to read about how they were acquired and changes made and such. i pride myself on being able to look at almost any image of a guitar or bass and know what it is. yeah i am a nerd.
Comments
Nerds of the world unite.
Everyone is a nerd, noone is without bizarre quirks....at least yours is in a cool and funky realm....
I'm a nerd about bacteria and viruses.
What that says about me, i'm not sure.
Posted by: Lo | August 27, 2004 4:25 PM
I had never taken you for a Hip fan. I used to own Day for Night too and then I sold it too. How trippy is that? ;-)
Posted by: Rie | August 27, 2004 8:52 PM
i had all the albums up to trouble at the hen house. i got rid of them along with my nirvana and primus cd's. i've got the primus back, i'm not sure if i care about the nirvana (i'd probably buy them on vinyl if i bought them again), but i miss the Hip. they're great, very canadian. not like i want to be british or i want to be american canadian, but really canadian. plus any band the Stereophonics absolutely love must be ok..... right.
Posted by: eustace | August 27, 2004 10:48 PM
but the greatest band of all is quiet riot. which boards of canada did you get?
Posted by: kirk | August 28, 2004 2:35 AM
music has the right to children
Posted by: eustace | August 28, 2004 7:15 AM