Deer Tick, 2009
I think the singer for Deer Tick is some sort of 21′ish year old, and his voice sounds like he’s drank more whisky on a Sunday than I have in the last decade. They have a new album out as of yesterday, Born on Flag Day. The album is sweet, and a great follow up to War Elephant. That is all.
Enjoy, my friends,
Edward H.
Fanfarlo, Reservoir: $1
Women, Men, Fathers and Sons, Mothers and Daughters, Boys and Girls,
Take a listen to one or two of these tracks, then go over to their website and purchase the album plus five bonus tracks for a single dollar (until July 4th). It’s pretty upbeat sweet sounding music for doing a little dance, the making of the sex, the pouring and drinking of a tasty beverage, or even perhaps for just sitting quietly on a bus staring out the window wondering why the hell you’re not still on a boat off the coast of some Caribbean island with some beautiful baby fishing in your skinnies.
Now then, moving forward, Fanfarlo put together this album entitled, Reservoir, and it’s sweet, and a dollar, and you really should put up your dollars so I don’t have to.
MP3: Ghosts by, Fanfarlo
MP3: I’m A Pilot by, Fanfarlo
Edward H.
Hospice, The Antlers
Here is the liveliest tune I could find from The Antlers newest album entitled, Hospice. Which isn’t saying much considering the lyrics are still completely depressing as all hell. All in all, it is an album that seems to be, beginning to end, a depression session regarding the ins-and-outs of waiting in a hospice watching the girl you love, well, die. A story the lead singer and songwriter for the band, Peter Silberman, apparently lived first hand, front to back. Which is likely why the album’s leading track is titled Prologue, with a clear tension, climax and denouement followed by the closing track, Epilogue.
Good God damn, Peter, sorry to hear it and thank you for the music. The whole album really is something to get a hold of and listen all the way through. It should be purchased after your first listen to this track.
MP3: Two by, The Antlers
Monday morning, Sunday night,
Edward H.
Whistler: Now With Pay’fer Parking!
Cut and pasted from my e-mail outbox:
To all whom this concerns,
Here is a brief response I have prepared to the email made public from Ken Melamed regarding the new town-wide pay parking scheme that’s making a handful of people batshit angry.
“Although there are financial benefits to the RMOW, the revenues are not the primary reason for the new and coming parking charges. We can realise improved health by reducing air and water pollution, increased physical fitness, reduced GHG emissions, and reduced encroachment on natural areas. Cars, while extremely convenient do come with the above listed ‘costs’. The less we use them the better.”
I wonder, if the primary concern of the Municipality is to realize improved health over air and water pollution, then why clear-cut a forest right in the Village for an Olympic podium park? Why pave roads up Callaghan, Brandywine, plow forest land and run machines day and night to accommodate exponentially greater volumes of traffic during the coming games, new houses, and the GHG emissions that come along hand-in-hand with any and all of this?
With your round-about hope for pressuring local residents into carpools, buses and general life fitness, are you now expecting the parking lots to remain half empty? Perfect. Make the parking spaces larger. It is probably scientific fact that 99.9% of all the vehicles in town are F-350 Diesel King Ranch trucks anyhow. Now they will be able to fit into the parking stalls without hip-checking someone’s Volkswagen.
If profit is truly not a primary concern, perhaps you could take the reserve raised from taxing the car-enabled into a change jar on top of your fridge that can be used to fund municipality-wide education programs on “air and water pollution, increased physical fitness, reduced GHG emissions, and reduced encroachment on natural areas.” as well as perhaps your own bullshit. Lord knows I could use the one hour forty-five minute walk from Bayshores to get a coffee at Moguls.
A note on the text: Although I am 100% not for them, I am also certainly not an Olympic protester type — have your Olympics and be damned if that is what gets the inside of your pants tingling. I will no doubt be getting out of Dodge before, during, and after that calamity sacks The Village, leaving the town with a massive hang-over, sore in both ends, and wondering what really just happened as all of the traffic with its visitors take the “walk of shame” down the 99 to the airport, never to be heard from again. As well, I am not necessarily a vocal tree-hugger, but rather a bus-taker by financial default; I am only saying and hoping that if you purport to be an environmentally conscious administration that you should perhaps follow through on the rest of your shit, and please, don’t forget to wipe.
Write often,
Edward H.
P.S. If you would like to forward off more articles about other town changes used in conjunction with an environmental agenda, look to free-transit / pollution awareness campaigns. At least then you’re giving something to residents with your left hand while doing something entirely different with the right. I believe it’s similar to the signal left but turn right maneuver known as: The Kansas City Shuffle.
Here’s a link: Petition For Free Whistler Parking Facebook Group
Boats, Bottles
“You know, you should be one of those guys that builds little ships in bottles,” he said.
“That’s what you think?”
“Well, you like boats, and you like bottles,” Dan continued, still suited to the idea.
“Have you seen the shakes these hands get? Besides, I’d much rather have a bottle collection on a boat than a boat collection inside of bottles. While we’re on the subject, pass me that bottle.”
MP3: Boat by, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
Me Gusta!
Here is a song that brings a big happy ass smile to my face and puts my hips into an embarrassing little gringo-jig while I’m seated here. I’m sure it is because it almost solely reminds me of jumping up and down like some kind of jackass shouting, “Me gusta! Me gusta! Me gusta!” at some bar in the coffee belt of Colombia (where you ordered your own 4 pitcher keg to the table for $7), sweating as much alcohol as I spilled. I am also sure it is because the song kicks total fucking ass. I just put it on loop in an effort to help me shop around Google Maps, like the global mall it is, for my next Winter Relocation Program. Come September, adiós amigos por seis meses! As of now, Puerto Rico has the majority vote for its Caribbean waters, colonial San Juan, beach apartments, surfing, rum, and well, Puerto Ricans.
MP3: Me Gusta, Me Gusta by, Silvestre Dangond
Caribbean, I’ll see you soon!
Edward H.
Filed Under Colombia Travel Guide, Dance Fatty!, Foreign Countries, Foreign Women, My Life, The Sound of Music, Travel
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The Chairs Cover Flume
While we are all in the spirit for it, here is another Bon Iver cover from For Emma, Forever Ago, this time it is of Flume by, The Chairs.
MP3: Flume (Cover) by, The Chairs
MP3: Flume by, Bon Iver
Wolves Cover, Friday, Multiple Choice!
Friends, Readers, Womens, Mothers and Fathers,
Ellie Goulding has covered a song called Wolves by, Bon Iver. Here are both versions.
MP3: Wolves (Cover) by, Ellie Goulding
MP3: Wolves by, Bon Iver
Happy Friday,
Edward H.
With Love & Rum. Alcoholics: Anonymously.
