![[image: Peter Hughes’ happy face above a cake that says “HAPPY END OF TOUR MOUNTAIN GOATS!”]
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[image: Peter Hughes’ happy face above a cake that says “HAPPY END OF TOUR MOUNTAIN GOATS!”]
adorable.
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Peter Peter Hughes - Bad Times
Work has been gradually grinding me down, like one of those slowly-boiling frogs that are apparently apocryphal, and today while waiting to find out if my boss would reply to my email about needing to talk to him before I gave up and went home 1 I looked at the Wikipedia article on burnout and thought “oh dear”.
I guess change is imminent, one way or another.
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He didn’t. ↩
[first image: a Tumblr post by ontrash, reblogged by faketrain, with a cartoon and caption as follows - “a cartoon from the New Yorker, in which a man crouches in his garden, surrounded by various signs he has presumably written by hand, such as; ‘what I’m up to right now: chilling out’, ‘me in 1986’ (with an 80’s appropriate photo), ‘25 things about me’ and ‘leave a comment’, which he is hammering to the side of the letterbox. A woman leans out the door, saying “Why can’t you use Facebook, like everybody else?”.]
[second image: a Tumblr post by superdiscochino, with a link titled “Facebook in new privacy row over facial recognition feature” followed by text: “reason no. 12,749”. This post is timestamped about an hour later than the first one.]
These two posts were very nearly next to each other on my Tumblr dashboard. Fitting.
Whoa. Whoa. Well, I just found out where the title of Peter Hughes’ Livejournal came from. Amazing!
“Rock ‘n Roll Dreams’ll Come Through” – Ted Leo (Live on The Best Show on WFMU)
As previously mentioned, Ted Leo and WFMU’s The Best Show on WFMU have a shared history. During the WFMU fundraising marathon in 2007, Ted learned a song from one of The Best Show’s most famous bits. In the bit (found on the New Hope for the Ape-Eared collection), Jon Wurster calls in as Barry Dworkin, an aged “rock star” with very specific requirements for his bandmates and a “complete” song (without any of the music). Scharpling becomes increasingly bewildered by Dworkin’s call, especially when he sings his future hit song for his band (Barry Dworkin and the Gas Station Dogs), a “true story” about his rise to fame with countless continuity errors.
Leo went a step further after this performance, recording a full band version of the song for a limited released 7” single for Chunklet magazine (the flip side of the single is “Up in Them Guts,” Zach Galifinakis and Fiona Apple). The full band version is cool, but I’ll always love this solo performance and its lovingly animated video (which I will credit to Youtube user kidcolin unless someone corrects me). It’s especially great for the joy in Scharpling’s voice as one of his bits becomes something a little bigger.
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It’s on.
JD threw down the gauntlet last night with his “power in a union” video, and challenged fellow musicians to cover old union songs with him. this isn’t exactly a union song, but it’s a rallying cry and a call to arms, and it’s been running through my head pretty much nonstop for the past couple, well, years now. it’s by the minutemen, quite possibly the best band this country has ever produced, and without question the most eloquent on the subjects of class and privilege.
all these men who work the land
should evaluate themselves and make a stand
can’t they see beyond the rhetoric
the lies and promises that don’t mean shitand all the men who learned to hate them
they keep themselves hidden away
they keep themselves upon a hill
afraid of the day they’ll have to pay
for all the crimes upon their headsand all the men who learned to hate them
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Serious music business.
(AAAH SO EXCITED)
So … I just downloaded this video. So that I can watch it when there’s an internet outage, I guess?
AAAAAAA SO EXCITED SO EXCITED AAAAAAAAAAAAA
If you need me, I’ll just be quietly and unproductively vibrating in anticipation until the album comes out.
TL;DR?
- The Common Law
- Massive Immigration
- The Great Scientific Exodus during WWII
what’s amazing to me about this is that nowhere in either this article or any of the attendant comments (the first page, anyway — i’m not that bored) does anyone bring up the larger question: why is the first world so rich?
1. because the third world is so poor
the entire western world is built upon a foundation of wealth that was directly stolen — in the form of both natural resources and slave labor — from the african, asian, and south american lands it saw fit to, ahem, “colonize.”
it never ceases to astonish me that so few citizens of the first world seem to appreciate, or even be at all aware of, the fact that the baseline comforts and legacies of prosperity we enjoy derive principally from these crimes, past and ongoing alike.
This guy is my kind of musician.
the English are waiting, and I don’t know what to do
November is well and truly underway. Time to turn my attention to the “2010” playlist that’s been growing quietly in my iTunes sidebar for eleven months, and decide what this year’s mix CD is going to sound like.
I’ve had to be fairly stern with myself to make room for bands that don’t include any members of the Mountain Goats. Fifty minutes of music I’ve loved this year could easily be filled entirely by a roster like this:
- The Mountain Goats
- The Extra Glenns
- The Extra Lens
- Peter Peter Hughes
- Diskothi-Q
- Superchunk
I haven’t actually been obsessed with any Diskothi-Q songs, but I was still pretty pleased with the random single I got for $3.
Maybe I should just make a bonus disc and be done with it.
