Monday, February 13, 2006

Quote for the Day, 2/13/2006   "I wake up every morning when my little bell rings—I'm civilized.  I don't care what kind of hardship my job brings, because I'm civilized.  What about you?  What about you?  Do you want to be civilized, too?"   -Menace, "I'm Civilized"   I used to have an alarm clock that would start a tape when it was set to wake me.  This song was the first one on the mix; the second was the Clash, "Straight to Hell".  I don't remember what was third.  By that time, I was always up.  I wish I still had that tape; somewhere on it was the Replacements covering "If I Only Had a Brain". 10:51:32 PM    comment []

Download This!   Diamond Nights-The Girl's Attractive  This is slightly different than the version you might have heard as a single, and on the new Smallville soundtrack.  I don't think the instrumentation is at all different.  It might be that the vocal's different; but there's definitely a difference in how they were mixed.  But, at least for now, you can get this version for free.  It's catchy and hooky and all that.  (I bought the other version at the iTunes music store...and there's really very little to choose between them.) The Dears-Lost in the Plot  The vocalist for this band reminds me of somebody...I can't think who.  My first guess was Morrissey, but that's wrong.  If you have any idea who he sounds like, let me know.  Anyway...it's another latter-day New Wave Britpop type band, and they do that thing very well. 10:08:28 PM    comment []

Belated Quote for the Day, 2/12/2006   "The clever men at Oxford Know all that there is to be knowed But they none of them know half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad!"   -Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows   God, I love that book.  I deeply resent that my parents didn't read it to me when I was a child.  It's still very good as an adult, but it would have been wondrous as a kid. 5:20:29 PM    comment []

More Business as Usual   In the wake of a report that said that Homeland Security czar Michael Chertoff had either been hopelessly incompetent or utterly indifferent to the people suffering in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Secretary Chertoff began by accepting responsibility for the (non-)performance of his department.  And then he went on to say none of it was his fault.  I think he's due for a Medal of Honor. If only there were more straight shooters in the White House...like Vice President Cheney.  But perhaps that's unfair to the Veep.  Sure, he shot a close personal friend.  But maybe the guy crossed him.  And he was bird hunting.  Everybody knows how easy it is to mistake a guy in a dayglo orange jacket for, say, Daffy Duck. 5:12:19 PM    comment []