Lonesome Cowboy Bill and the death of Hippy Dips

This has got to be the lowest of the low for The Velvet Underground. I wish I knew how to do something other than type on a computer because I would post this song, but I don't know how, so seek it out for yourself, it's terrible, and if you want another cringe inducing spectacle, watch PHISH!!!!! do it live, it was probably during one of their crazy halloween cover shows!!!! on you tube.com!!!! I never realized how awful of a song it was until it popped up in a shuffle the other day, and I almost threw up on the computer.
I at one point listened to Phish, I went to one of their concerts, too. I have no idea what I was thinking, oh wait, I was in college, and they pass out Phish CDs, Dark Side of the Moon, long hair wigs, UGA ball caps, and hemp necklaces when you walk through the door, so I don't really have an excuse ( I probably do). So, I got into DMB, as they are called, Phish, Blues Traveler (ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!), Blind Melon( not that bad, really, except that one song, "Tones of Home" is good), 311 ( someone shoot me for that one, bad bad bad music), and other "noodlers" as they are called. I thought these guys were music pioneers because they could play long "jams", guess what, the only reason they play those "jams" is to make a hippies head explode as they listen to the "Tweezer" thirty minute version as they drive through the mountains tripping on mushrooms. If you have a one minute song that rocks, and is good then that is better than a bass player who drinks opium for dinner and decides to put on a concert. What was I thinking? I can't listen to this music at all any more, though I do like the "neo, freak folk" kids. I'm sure I'll hate it in four years, but for now I'll listen to Brightblack Morning Light drone for five minutes instead of looking for DMB bootlegs, and seeing how many different ways that they played "All Along the Watchtower."
The more I look into music, or trying to find new music that I may like, I've realized that music is only of a moment. I loved Interpol a few years ago, I still like them, but not as much, I would punch someone if they said Radiohead was bad, but now I'm not really into it, I say now that I will always love Band of Horses and Arcade Fire, but who knows. Two years ago I loved the Beatles, now I can't listen to it. Not that I hate them, but I've heard it enough, just like Led Zeppelin ( if some eighteen year old "music nerd" gets on this blog he will assassinate me).
Back to the subject, "Lonesome Cowboy Bill" stinks, and I will never listen to Phish again, but I can tell you where I first heard almost every song that has meant the world to me, sadly enough these days its in front of a computer, instead of a cd player on the beach, a car radio, under my covers with headphones on just to listen, in a van in the middle of the night, in my uncle's living room after a funeral, at Lenny's, in my friends basement.....I'm listening to The National now, downloaded The Boxer yesterday, I will probably hate it in a year, but "Mistaken for Strangers" is a great song.

The Tops of 2007

Here are my top ten favorite movies:
1. The Assassination of Jesse James- flat out amazing.
2. No Country for Old Men
3. The Diving Bell and The Butterfly- I've never seen anything like it.
4. Once- No film made me feel like this one did. The song he sings at night at the beginning of the film and the "Falling Slowly" business is lump in the throat.
5. Control
6. The Lives of Others- Saw it this year, came out last year, still an awesome movie.
7. The King of Kong
8. Margot at the Wedding
9. Superbad
10. Southland Tales- For the sheer guts this movie shows. So many questions unanswered, so many times you feel like Richard Kelly (the director) doesn't care, or just wants to get to his next grand idea that he won't pull off, but will try to make sense of.

NOTE: I haven't seen "There Will Be Blood" yet. Paramount Vantage, people want to see this movie, people need this movie, the critics in my town have seen it, so give it to us. Also, if you release a movie in a large theater people will go see it regardless (i.e. PS I Love You).

Other film awards:

Best Bob Dylan impression other than Cate Blanchett:
John C. Reilly as Dewey Cox

Worst Use of a Hamburger Phone:
"Juno"

Best Female Support for a Male Character in a film:
"Charlie Wilson's War"- The "Jailbait" girls
"The Diving Bell and The Butterfly"- The "Blink out a book" girls

Best use of music:
"No Country for Old Men"

Best Movie that was a Book that was turned into a Movie but felt like a book:
"Zodiac"

MUSIC: 2007

1. The Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
2. Band of Horses- Cease to Begin
3. The White Stripes- Icky Thump
4. Peter, Bjorn & John- Writer's Block
5. Spoon- GaGaGaGaGa
6. Against Me!- New Wave
7. Devandra Banhart- Smokey Rolls
8. Kanye West- Graduation


Ones that I thought would be great, but let me down:
Radiohead- "In rainbows"
The Hives "The Black and White Album"

One that I thought I would love, but can only listen to one song and like that one song, but can't listen to anymore:
Interpol- "Our Love To Admire"

Most listened to Songs:
Band of Horses- "Is There a Ghost"
50 Cent- "I Get Money"
Harry Belafonte- "Jump in the Line"
The Pipettes- "Your Kisses are Wasted on Me"
Dropkick Murphys- "I'm Shipping up to Boston"
Jens Lekman- "I Remember Every Kiss"/ "A Sweet Summers Night on Hammer Hill"