Saturday, December 27, 2008
Water Bottles: Spiked Egg Nog Edition
I watched Godzilla 2000 with my 5 year old son today. He really liked it and kept saying he hoped Godzilla didn't get killed. The boy has a thing for lizards and snakes. But here's my question: What's up with Godzilla and sparks? He doesn't really do explosions, but everywhere he goes he's running into high tension lines, stomping on power plants, and generally throwing off more sparks than a dude trying to arcweld a bunch of July 4th sparklers while walking around in a steel foundry. It's not just Godzilla 2000 with its luddite / enviro themes, but every Gojira movie has been that way since the start. Being his rubber glove and safety boot supplier must be a tough job, tough but lucrative.
We also watched Star Wars (Episode IV) for the first time tonight. The kid was amped by that. I'd forgotten how magical that film was when it came out during the summer of my eleventh year.
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Here's one for my friend Gwadzilla. Not exactly the D.C. scene but I think he'll like it - it's Public Image Limited, Johnny (Rotten) Lydon's 'next' band. Any of you guys post-punk / hardcore fans? DKs, Butthole Surfers, Black Flag, that stuff? I suspect a few of you older Gen X'ers know what I'm talking about, and I also suspect BettyBetty knows exactly what I'm talking about and is now scared of me.
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While I'm on the subject of post-punk and hardcore, here is the wrongest music video of all time. It's The Dead Kennedy's, Rawhide, with an all-midget cast and a western theme. It's not good, just so, so wrong.
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Okay, after inflicting that bit of leftover juvenalia on you, I feel obligated to show you to some good tunes. Here's a jam featuring Les Claypool, Buckethead and Bernie Worrell. It's guaranteed to put funk in your trunk, or double your money back. I like Les because he's a great, innovative slapping bass player, for one thing; plus he plays well in a number of genres, from metal-ish (Primus), to alt country, to straight up funk and jazz. Amazing musician, very creative artist, and serious fisherman.
If your trunk is still short on funk, check out a little more Les Claypool here, here, or especially here.
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Clayool projects are some of my favs, especially Oysterhead. I never got into Rotten and his ilk, I prefer music over statements. Since I've always had eclectic tastes in life, I choose to weed out politics and go for the solid, innovative types of musicians.
Boz, I agree with you up to a point, but sort of ignore the politics if I like the music unless the politics are completely unavoidable, as in hip-hop where the lyrics often are the music. Most people of all persuasions are pretty sadly un- or mis-informed about the facts underlying their politics, especially a lot of activists, whose advocacy is often about Deeply Caring and Speaking Up, and not so much about doing. Any more, if somebody is expounding on an issue I actually know a lot about, I just try to smile benevolently and change the subject to something less controversial like the weather, Red Sox v. Yankees, or which religion is best. I tend to smile benevolently at most celebrities who chirp about various political issues.
Wow - PIL. Great to see them, not many people realize how good punks became as musicians in thier post-punk days (including The Damned, Cockney Rejects, Vice Squad, and The Clash). Many early mountain bikers (late 80s) were into this kind of music.
I disliked pop in the mid-80's and was more into serious music - jazz fusion, the more virtuouso-like blues rockers (Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughn) and some more innovative stuff like the hardcore scene. I always liked the Clash, thought them sort of the opposite of the Sec Pistols, which were a glam band with music layered over the top. I like the NY Dolls and Ramones for the same reason as the Clash - maybe not virtuousos but innovative and energetic, and consciously about their music with the marketing a distant second.
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