This FRT is coming out early because I will soon be leaving the computer for the duration of the next 24 hours. My garden calls and I’m spreading hay inbetween the rows and rows of tomatoes. Additionally I decided to resume my old workout routine and have been kicking my own ass at the YWCA where sixty-year-old women regularly put me to shame with their endurance. There is living to be done away from the computer, goddammit.
And now, if it’s Friday somewhere it’s time for the Friday Random Ten. Believe it or not I didn’t make this one up. This one goes out to Scotty McC.
1) Slayer – South of Heaven
2) Al Kooper and Shuggie Otis – Bury My Body
3) Danzig – Mother
4) Sufjan Stevens – [Frog] Marching Band
5) Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah! – Details of the War
6) Bjork – Crying
7) The Hives – Main Offender
8) Erykah Badu – Danger
9) Nico – Frozen Warnings
10) The Ojays – Backstabbers
Bonus Guilty Pleasure: Guns n’ Roses – Live and Let Die
Have I ever mentioned that Axl Rose is from my hometown and that his parents lived around the block from mine? I went to a garage sale at their house when I was thirteen, bought a Tom Petty tape, t-shirt with sweat stains, and a bandana, hoping all three were Bill Bailey’s. I later decided that I hated Tom Petty but still have a very soft spot in my heart for GnR. True story.
This is what I idolized:
Lynn tagged me with this handy game in which I’m supposed to tell you what’s on my bedside table. Unfortunately I’m incredibly boring and the only shit on my bedside table includes a lamp, an alarm clock, a bowl full of bracelets and rings (I don’t wear necklaces but love bracelets and rings), and a David Sedaris book.
I’m no fun.
What’s on your bedside table?
A lamp. A box that once contained Astroglide, KY, condoms and hypodermic needles but now contains none of those things. Paris After the Liberation by Anthony Beevor and Artemis Cooper. She’s using the unfair advantage that her father, Duff Cooper, was London’s “man in Paris” in the postwar years, and she has access to the sources. I have the book, and my ever-present LCD booklight. Also, a small lamp and clock radio.
I think this qualifies me as boring also.
Two tea candles, alarm clock/radio, lamp, phone, ball point pen, aromatherapy bean bag frog, a courtesy reminder to have the septic tank pumped, The Civil War, Collapse, Tao Te Ching, ear plugs, and a receipt for prescription drugs.
Lessee… phone, answering machine, my sister’s address, some crap for my house insurance, a year-old newspaper, old tax forms, and some other random crud. Should have asked what was on the *computer* table.
General, I have no bedside table.
I’ll play.
On my side, the table holds a lamp, an alarm clock, a box of tissues, and a Kama Sutra book.
Lamp, oscillating fan, alarm clock, stapler, back-up headphones, small tool kit for when I decide to actually install those blinds instead of utilizing the window-blanket.
As for music, I think I had my weirdest 12 of all time, from Elgar to the Supersuckers to the Gap Band.
And you’d better forget about Axl, he’s more whatever species the Predator is than man now.
Axl maybe fair. He is a hoosier afterall.
As for my bedside table:
Glasses case; Microphone/headset; CD burner; scarf; bookmark from Barcelona; tin foil used as candle holder; bag o’tea lights; Former plate, current holster of wax of candles long since burnt out; Björk promotional postcard.
It’s kinda weird that, as a fucking librarian, my bedside table is, for the moment at least, one of the few spaces in the haus not yet colonized by the printed page.
Rocking out on a Friday morning with the cats and the FRT
Friday–finally. Major goal for the weekend is to see if I can get up early enough to make it to the farmer’s market tomorrow morning, since I’ve never actually gone to check it out. And more obsessing over plants and…
Lamp, glass of water, alarm clock, boyfriend’s wristband (Why it’s always there, I don’t know. I guess he rocks out until he passes out or something.), coasters printed with vintage cowgirl pinups. Sexual stuff goes into a drawer, since we are always having friends over.
FRT:
1 My Wife: The Who
2 Power to the People: Public Enemy
3 Pass the Mic: Beastie Boys
4 I’m Gonna Crawl: Led Zeppelin
5 Driftin: Eric Clapton
6 Been Caught Stealin’: Jane’s Addiction
7 Monkey Wrench: Foo Fighters
8 Grandmother’s Eyes: Rock Salt and Nails
9 No Quarter: Led Zeppelin
10 Maggie’s Farm: Rage Against the Machine
Non-Random Bonus Track: Institutionalized: Suicidal Tendencies
Friday Random Ten: Join the ARFM!
The ARFM (Agitprop’s Revolutionary Front for Malta) is an organization that I formed yesterday which seeks the restoration of the Maltese monarchy into the hands of yours truly. My grandmother was Maltese. Before she died in 2001 she used to
Sydney’s FRT:
1. Mariah Carey- Stay the Night
2. Aaliyah f/ DMX- Come Back in One Piece
3. Van Halen- You Really Got Me
4. Camp Soundtrack- Here’s Where I Stand
5. Dilated Peoples- Right On
6. Mary J. Blige- Real Love
7. Liz Phair- Support System
8. Fugees- Ready or Not
9. Tony Toni Tone- Anniversary
10. Four Star Mary- Pain
Not a bad mix- i’m cool with it at least.
Welcome to today’s first edition of my Friday Random Ten™, complete with coolness ratings because I haven’t done them yet, and I feel like wasting a few minutes.
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band — “I’m Sittin’ on Top of the World”
Good countryish stuff from an older band. I like it, so it gets a 7/10
Coal Chamber — “Mist”
Low-talent underground metal band, but it has a special place in my heart because Coal Chamber marked the beginning of my exploration of non-Black Sabbath/Metallica metal. 6/10
Jimi Hendrix — “Purple Haze”
It’s Jimi. Nuff ced. 9/10
A Perfect Circle — “Thinking of You”
Maynard James Keenan is my musical hero. While APC is not my favorite Maynard band, it is still very cool. 7/10
The Roots — “The Spark”
It’s The Roots. “Organic hip-hop/jazz”. It doesn’t get much cooler than that. 9/10
Johnny Cash — “Hurt”
Beautiful song by the Man in Black. I don’t know if it was Trent Reznor’s idea first, or Johnny’s, but this was a brilliant collaboration. 10/10
Black Sabbath — “Changes”
Despite the fact that Black Sabbath marked the beginning of my awakening to non-Christian metal and I consider Ozzy Osbourne to be something slightly less than a god, I really hate this song. Ozzy was not meant to sing ballads. 1/10
Talib Kweli, feat. Black Thought & Pharoahe Monch — “Guerrilla Monsoon Rap”
Talib Kweli is too good to be as unknown as I think he is, though I found him to be better when he was teamed with Mos Def as Black Star. 5/10
Coleman Hawkins — “For You, For Me, Forevermore”
Decent bebop. 6/10
Cannonball Adderley — “Straight, No Chaser”
Greatest song title ever. And the song itself is just as awesome. 10/10
Adding up, I see that I have a coolness of 7. Now, a bonus song that I think Jill may appreciate, being in Italy:
Lacuna Coil — “Swamped”
Friday Random Ten – 07.15.05
Time for Friday Random Ten, where you hit shuffle on your favorite digital music player (for me my Windows MediaPlayer at work) and report on the first ten songs that it spits out. Three soundtracks (plus a theme song), a
Muzak XXI
The “Check out my new CD database” edition.
Tok Tok Tok :: About*
Neurosis :: The Eye of Every Storm*
The Flower Kings :: The Road Back Home
John Zorn :: Time Twist
Esmerine :: Mados
Sufjan Stevens :: Seven Swans*
Smashing Pumpki…
Calvin’s got a message for me:
1) Angel Gone – Beat Happening
2) Satisfied Mind – The City on Film
3) Census – Your Enemies Friends
4) Cherry Chapstick – Yo La Tengo
5) Shake a Puddin’ – Dub Narcotic Sound System
6) Ass Ravaged Beats – Run Chico Run
7) Axons and Dendrites – Shipping News
8) Dreamy You – All Girl Summer Fun Band
9) Cast a Shadow – Beat Happening
10) The Employment Pages – Death Cab For Cutie
My Friday Random Ten:
1. MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
2. The Zombies – Time Of The Season
3. Steely Dan – My Old School
4. Beastie Boys – Hey Ladies
5. Pink – 18 Wheeler
6. Alan Parsons Project – Games People Play
7. The Donnas – Too Bad About Your Girl
8. Digital Underground – The Humpty Dance
9. Geto Boys – It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
10. Ice Cube – It Was A Good Day
Bonus Friday Guilty Pleasure Track: Boston – Foreplay/Long Time
Linnaeus, I have both the MC5 and the RATM “Kick Out The Jams” on my iPod, and I may get the Rollins/Bad Brains version from the PUTV soundtrack. One can never have too many Kick Outs The Jamses.
I also have multiple versions of many blues standards.
What song do folks have the most versions of?
Thomas, those are all good ones. Being a Detroit boy by birth, I’m partial to MC5.
As for your question, I don’t really know. I’ll have to look.