More Countdown! 80-71

You know I get scared thinking that the greatest song of the decade will be released later this year. Here's the next 10!

80. Shake by Yin Yang Twins featuring Pittbull
I too can get down to hip hop!
79. The Night by Morphine
If this song is on your top 100 I will high five you from this point on!
78. The Infanta by The Decemberists
Indie rock goes show tunes
77. Galvanize by Chemical Brothers
Q-Tip lends some vocals to this anthem
76. I Bet You Look Good On The Dance floor by Arctic Monkeys
This band was supposed to be so huge and it didn't really happen but still he rhymes "it's cold tonight" with "you're dynamite" and that's solid lyricism
75. Into Action by Tim Armstrong
A great song from Rancid's singer; I think the girl singing is only 13
74. Soak Up The Sun by Cheryl Crow
pure ear cheese
73. Blah Blah by Lady Sovereign
The biggest midget in the game . . . what else is thee to say
72. Tear You Apart by She Wants Revenge
Interesting song because it sounds like Interpol trying to be sexy who sounds like Joy Division who's most well known song is "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

71. Fat Lip by Sum 41
These guys make me laugh and there is something earnest in this teen stupidity song

Baseball Stuff

I guess I'm a pitching fan more than a hitting fan; it could be because I'm pretty sure all the hitters are juiced accept Ichiro (9 200 hit seasons in a row . . . Amazing!)
So with that said my current favorite pitcher still active is Tim Lincecum
So he doesn't win too much but that's because nobody does anymore, Pitchers usually aren't around in the 8th inning anymore so it appears that win totals for starters have gone down some. I recall when I was growing up that there used to be about 3 or 4 guys a year who had 20 victories and one of those guys would have 24 or 25 wins and that was a lot but I guess not in comparison to the guys who were winning 30 or more games way back in the day.
Anyway "The Freak" as they call Mr. Lincecum has a great wind up, he strikes everybody out, he's thin and he has goofy hair and tattoos which combined with the fact that some say he looks like the lead singer of 70s, 80s new wave/rock band The Cars,Rick Ocasek (below)makes him pretty damn cool in my book . . . err blog. In some ways he's like a slightly taller and much paler version of Pedro Martinez. I hope the guy can last in the bigs and continue to pitch like he has the past two years and because I'm old fashioned I think it would be great if always pitched for the San Francisco Giants
I have to wonder if Tim's mom was a Cars fan . . .

Dead Stars: Swayze Edition

Mr. Dirty Dancing, Mr. Ghost, Mr. Roadhouse has left the building, the final curtain has been lowered, the credits have rolled.
Your films have touched a lot of folks and so have the jokes that have been made at your cost.
I'll tell you this, he made me laugh, yup. if you ever saw his Saturday Night Live appearance from 1990 where he appeared in all his blond mullet, ripped shirtlessness Adonis as an aspiring Chippendale's dancer going against Chris Farley (RIP)and as a white Trash son opposite Phil Hartman (RIP). My favorite film of his was The Outsiders if that means anything
There is no doubt he had great hair and looked good in tight clothes.

RIP Jim Carroll

The song, "People Who Died" was a good one, thank you.


I don't know much about the man besides that they made a movie about a part of his life based on a book of his, "The Basketball Diaries" and that's somethin!

Muscle Time

This could be a sign of the apocalypse or it could just be the cheese ball in me showing it's full capacity.



I'm not sure where this obsession came from; it sort of crept out of nowhere.



It's disheartening however that I haven't had this urge for one of these beasts my whole life like a primal animal just waiting to tear out and speed off with the pungent aroma of burnt rubber left behind



Somewhere however I got a notion that these cars were so, so, so cool.



Don't worry though I'm not going to buy an IROC or a fire bird Trans Am; I'm just an observer.

My First Mix CD

So I gave up my first Mix Tape to you and it was embarrassing but that won't stop me from sharing my first Mix Cd with you. I think it's a lot better than the tape but the reasons . . . I guess it's the whole older and wiser thing. What really matters is that I love to make a mix of songs after all these years, yeah? This mix Cd was created in 1998 a year that was well after anything intersting happened in music and before ... Eminem?, The Strokes?, Kid Rock? It's all the same to me in that era of stuff that didn't move me too much.

Play List:
1 Good Times Roll, The Cars
2 Special, Garbage
3 This is a Call. Foo Fighters
4 Big Bang Baby, Stone Temple Pilots
5 Fake Plastic Trees, Radiohead
6 Morning Glory, Oasis
7 I Am The Walrus, The Beatles
8 Beatles And The Stones, The House Of Love
9 Miss You The Rolling Stones
10 The Spy. The Doors
11 The Phoenix, The Cult
12 Big Balls, AC/DC
13 Planet Of Sound, The Pixies
14 Hate Your Friends, The Lemonheads
15 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
16 The Man Who Sold The World, Nirvana
17 Death Defies Me, The 360's
18 Do The Evolution, Pearl Jam
19 The Ocean, Led Zeppelin


In actuality this mix is some of the better moments of the many tapes I put together such as "The Spy"'s segue into "The Phoenix" or "Fake Plastic Trees" into "Morning Glory". I guess "The Ocean" remains as the song that remains the same on both tape and CD.

My First Mix Tape

I recalled today as I walked around and listened to my little iPod shuffle the point in my life I would like every other kid make mix tapes. some were iffy while others are classics of the genre. yes, classics because friends used to ask me to make them mixes after hearing mine . . . I should have been a DJ, right?
Anyway, after much digging I found my first mix tape that I created on August 1st 1987 just a month before I started High School and less than 6 months before I discovered Gins n' Roses



Here is the track list:
SIDE A
1 What you Need, INXS
2 Message In a Bottle, The Police
3 If This Is It, Huey Lewis and The News
4 Walk of Life, Dire Straits
5 Best of Both Worlds, Van Halen
6 Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel
7 Can't Stop Rockin', ZZ Top
8 The Ocean, Led Zeppelin
9 Take My Breath Away, Berlin
10 To Be A Lover, Billy Idol
11 Keeping The Faith, Billy Joel



SIDE B
1 Last Child, Aerosmith
2 Twistin' The Night Away, Sam Cooke
3 Some Like It Hot, Power Station
4 New Religion, Duran Duran
5 Mighty Wings, Cheap Trick
6 In Your Eyes, Peter Gabriel
7 Rock and Roll, Led Zeppelin
8 If I Could Only Flag her Down, ZZ Top
9 Every Breath You Take, The Police
10 Sweet Sixteen, Billy Idol
11 Get Up, van Halen


So I'll let you be the judge on whether or not this mix was any good. There are a couple songs here that I still listen to but most of them are pieces that I'd leave off of any list at this point in my music listening life. I think I still have about 20 or so of these tapes in a nice carrying case from years ago; where was I bringing these tapes?
Enjoy!