Music

Remember in Ghost World when the guy wants to rent Fellini’s 8½ and the video store clerk offers him 9½ Weeks? Yeah, that’s Ping.

So my iTunes database has 9+ years of data about my listening preferences, and Ping suggests Taylor Swift, DMB, Linkin Park? Really?

Snap judgement: Ping is a fucking joke. “A social network for music”? No. “A social network for people who shop at the iTunes Store”.

Prepping for a trial Skype video guitar lesson with @tysavias. Hope this works.

After losing most of my guitar calluses to the relocation process, it feels really good to punish my fingers back into submission.

Yesterday: Go West’s “King of Wishful Thinking,” ALL DAY, courtesy of jeep-tinkering neighbor. Today: Sweet, sweet silence. Thank you, rain.

Wow, Echo & The Bunnymen’s cover of “All You Need Is Love” is fucking terrible.

This… is BULL SHIT!!

Annoyed by box sets that collect both essentials for the uninitiated and rarities for the completist. Two completely different audiences.

Wow, Justin Bieber slowed down 800% is surprisingly lovely.

♪ “Go to the field, past where the kids are buried.” A gray day is an Austerity Program day.

Very sad to hear that the Khyber in Philly stopped doing shows. I saw so many awesome bands there over the years. citypaper.net/articles/2010/07/29…

Next time I am in a bad mood, remind me of tonight, when Cynic played the entirety of Focus, in sequence, a few feet away from me.

Remember that dumb Dashboard Confessional song where he’s all, “Your hair is everywheeerrre”? That was totally about cleaning the bathroom.

All I wanted was a Pepsi. Just one Pepsi.

My favorite alphabetical juxtaposition in my music collection is Carnivore and The Carpenters. What’s yours?

Saxophone Muzak Beatles makes Rob something something.

Just passed Zakk Wylde on I-95.

Not that they owe it to me, but between @DischordOrders and @amazonmp3, guess who let me re-download the MP3s I lost to hard drive failure?

♪ “My name is Lucifer. Please take my hand.” I’ve always loved how Black Sabbath’s Lucifer is a proper English gentleman. Pip, pip, cheerio!

“Why did Red Hot Chili Peppers go ‘Under the Bridge’? There was a plate of shit there that they wanted to jack off into.” — Neil Hamburger

Last time I saw Faith No More, I didn’t know how to make a web site, and Limp Bizkit opened. Tonight’s was a better show for a better time.

Stellar night of quality karaoke with my now-former coworkers. Lump in my throat.

Ozzy Osbourne’s “Slow Down” has inspired me to make a playlist of montage music. This is going to be awesome.

“Henry & Glenn Forever” + “Out of Stock” = “Sad Face” microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/z…

Subsisting on a steady diet of mid-’90s post-hardcore, perhaps trying to channel a certain something from my college years.

Must I be so lonely in the knowledge that Band of Horses is thoroughly boring? Brothers and sisters, let me hear your voices!

And the radio man laughs, because the radio man fucks a model too. — at LAX Los Angeles International gowal.la/r/5Do7

The whistling guy on the bus seems to be making a medley of "The Girl from Ipanema" and the "Doogie Howser, MD" and Tecmo Bowl themes.

Great review of a deluxe reissue of one of the best records of the 90s.

Getting seriously giddy over the narrative richness of my iTunes Music Library XML file.

Tonight's Futureheads setlist distribution: The Futureheads: 7, Area EP: 1, News and Tributes: 2, This Is Not the World: 3, The Chaos: 7.

The shape of Chicago looks like Lyle Lovett in profile.

Sunday morning medicine courtesy of Gillian Welch.

My #firstconcert was Lollapalooza ’92 (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, Jesus and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Lush).

The crowd here is reminding me of why it took me so long to bother checking out The National. — at House of Blues gowal.la/r/dNa

There are not enough dicks in the universe for House of Blues to suck.

I love this so, so much.

This is going to keep me smiling all day: wimp.com/wronggig

A sleepless red eye flight proved the perfect environment to finally spend some quality time with The National. Consider me convinced.

At JFK, whose speakers are treating me to Tears for Fears, Escape Club, Journey. I am 12 and anything is possible. Must I get on the plane?

"My Name Is Jonas" has looped in my head enough times this morning that I'm pretty sure the workers have all gotten home by now.

May Ronnie James Dio rest in peace. His soul will occupy both Heaven and Hell, and both had better LOOK OUT!

Judas Priest toured through the summer of 2009, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the seminal metal album British Steel by playing it live in its entirety every night. Now fans can celebrate too by playing live versions of all nine tracks from the album in Rock Band!

Could Judas Priest’s landmark British Steel be the most metal album in history? Let us examine the facts. To begin with, the cover depicts either an ordinary man’s hand… See more →

Tonight, a handful of coworkers and I will lead a fully orchestrated Beatles sing-along with the Boston Pops. bso.org/bso/mods/perf_detail.…

"Sing onstage with the Boston Pops" has been added to the to-do list and checked off.

My first guitar lesson was one year ago today.