What really matters is what you like, not what you are like...Books, records, films -- these things matter. Call me shallow but it's the damn truth....
-High Fidelity
Blogs are all about overestimating the significance of one's life and opinions, right? How else do you account for "dear diary" blog entries? "Today I slept late, took out the trash, had pancakes for breakfast. I thought about children without insurance. And it made me sad :(" Yeah, well, I thought about my rapidly declining yard and that made me sad too. Or the rise of self-appointed commentators on all aspects of the human endeavor. Particularly those creepy political blogs from people you've never heard of or who never actually come out in the sunlight. (Just kidding Maureen Dowd. You know I'd run off with you to Tora Bora and be your white American male-hating valet if you'd ever return any of my calls). I have this feeling most political bloggers got the crap kicked out of them on the playground in second grade. Jimmy Carter taking advice from Amy about nuclear war thinks paying attention to bloggers is ridiculous.
But just as sharks hunt, government workers slack, and Steve Francis, well, um, I'm not sure what exactly he does when he's not napping on the court, anyway, just like all them, bloggers inflict their own taste on their readers. So to avoid swimming upstream, here are the 5 songs I'm listening to the most these days:
1. Sisely and the Safety Pin-Ups, "Do the Robot." Like the Go-Go's or the Donna's, but a lot less tidy. Imagine if Ally Sheedy in the Breakfast Club had a band.
2. The Greenhornes, "There is an End." This was the theme song to the Bill Murray movie of a couple of years ago, Broken Flowers. I really identify with the Murray character in this movie, and the song reinforces the character.
3. Nancy Sinatra, "Tony Rome." One of Frank's best movies. I dug the hat. Probably Nancy's swinging best song.
4. The Ramones, "Teenage Lobotomy." Maybe the biggest regret of my musical life is I passed up the chance to see the Ramones at Liberty Lunch in the 80s. Granted, they were way past their prime and would have been in some glue sniffing haze, but it would still have been revelatory. I usually am late to appreciate musical genius. Sad that it fell to Green Day to play Ramones songs when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
5. The Raspberries, "Let's Pretend." Now, this is 70s AM radio pop, granted, but its a beautiful song. If I had a longer list, this group would have been in my Hall of Sort of Fame. Its been fun discovering this long-neglected gem.
Now, go knock yourselves out.
But just as sharks hunt, government workers slack, and Steve Francis, well, um, I'm not sure what exactly he does when he's not napping on the court, anyway, just like all them, bloggers inflict their own taste on their readers. So to avoid swimming upstream, here are the 5 songs I'm listening to the most these days:
1. Sisely and the Safety Pin-Ups, "Do the Robot." Like the Go-Go's or the Donna's, but a lot less tidy. Imagine if Ally Sheedy in the Breakfast Club had a band.
2. The Greenhornes, "There is an End." This was the theme song to the Bill Murray movie of a couple of years ago, Broken Flowers. I really identify with the Murray character in this movie, and the song reinforces the character.
3. Nancy Sinatra, "Tony Rome." One of Frank's best movies. I dug the hat. Probably Nancy's swinging best song.
4. The Ramones, "Teenage Lobotomy." Maybe the biggest regret of my musical life is I passed up the chance to see the Ramones at Liberty Lunch in the 80s. Granted, they were way past their prime and would have been in some glue sniffing haze, but it would still have been revelatory. I usually am late to appreciate musical genius. Sad that it fell to Green Day to play Ramones songs when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
5. The Raspberries, "Let's Pretend." Now, this is 70s AM radio pop, granted, but its a beautiful song. If I had a longer list, this group would have been in my Hall of Sort of Fame. Its been fun discovering this long-neglected gem.
Now, go knock yourselves out.
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