Panic! It's What's For Dinner!

So awesome! It's starting! Egypt is killing their livestock! Mexico is shutting down! Our Vice-President is afraid to go on the subways! I've seen people in the streets with masks!

When do the mass suicides begin?
When do the riots start?
When do the fundamentalists start the "end of days" talk?

Oops, I guess they already have!

Pretty soon, companies are gonna start closing down to "protect" our employees through this hazard. Guarantee, it will be without pay; too!

Sit back, boys and girls; and embrace the madness!

Toonage:
Goo Goo Dolls - Don't Fear The Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult cover)
The Alarm - The Stand
Grateful Dead - Black Muddy River (last Jerry Show 97-9-95 Soldier Field)
Nirvana - The End (live Doors cover)



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Now playing: Fugazi - Lockdown
via FoxyTunes

Plenty Of Nothing

In the throes of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, the Dow jumped up over 900 points today. What's it all mean? I have no idea. I don't even look at my 401K since I can't touch it anyway until I'm too old to get any enjoyment out of it!
I am no economics expert, but here in NYC, the restaurants are emptier than Sarah Palin's soul and there seem to be less turista's too. A friend of mine in the service industry says that her bar was pretty barren this weekend.

There are definite signs of massive corporate lay-offs in the next few weeks (just in time for the holidays, Ebenezer).

I guess it was a really good time for me to stop drinking! Those $6 pints sure add up.

We're not recovering from this anytime soon, fellow travelers.



Toonage:
The Kinks - Get Back In Line
The Damned - Lovely Money
Led Zeppelin - Money (live 1980)
Grateful Dead - Money Money (studio outtake)
Nirvana - The Money Will Roll Right In




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Now playing: AC/DC - Money Talks
via FoxyTunes

How Many Local Dollars For A Local Anesthetic?

“Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.”
-- William S. Burroughs --

Bookage:
William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch - The Restored Text

Toonage:
Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues (Live at Folson Prison)
The Clash - Safe European Home (Live London Music Machine 1978)
Velvet Underground - Heroin (Demo)
Flamin' Groovies - Slow Death - (Rehearsal San Francisco 1971)
Nirvana - I Hate Myself And Want To Die



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Now playing: Grateful Dead - Death Don't Have No Mercy
via FoxyTunes

Gimmie Noise

Yeah I Know I Look Like Hell
Smokin' And Drinkin' I'm Feelin' Swell

Favorite Thing - The Replacements

(my buddy Jeff took this picture of the Replacements at Maxwells in 1986!)

Caterwaul Of Sound v 4.0 tonite. Can't fucking wait. The rock must be unleashed. It's hard to get our little gang of fuck-ups together, due to work/family/etc; so when we do, it's a beautiful thing. None of this stuff tonite, but we'll make up for it, I suspect.


(edit) - and we did- I got to play a longer and more psychotic version of Interstellar Overdrive than Syd Barrett ever did. And I played it on guitar... and I'm a bass player!

Here's some bands ripping the shit out of other band's classics.

Toonage:
Yo La Tengo - Favorite Thing (Replacements)
The Polyphonic Spree - Lithium (Nirvana)
Rancid - Cheat (The Clash)
Lunachicks - Noise Annoys / Promises (Buzzcocks)
Pennywise - Touch Of Grey (Grateful Dead)
Foo Fighters - Gas Chamber - (Angry Samoans)

Milk, Milk, Lemonade

This one comes by way of a cyber-sation I had with Sugar Mag. It started out with my aversion to cheeses that are not of cow origin. I do not want ANYTHING to do with goat cheese (or milk) or sheep cheese. That stuff is just too funky for the Nomad clan. Feta cheese is pretty popular, but keep it away from me. And, although I am a former vegeterian, I never got off on that soy cheese stuff either. I want my MOO milk products. I still won't eat a cow, but I got no problem imbibing their lactate! And you know, Keef Richards doesn't eat cheese at all! And if that dude puts everything else in his body, and won't eat cheese, maybe he's on to something!

So, then it got to talking about Human milk. Is there anything wrong with adults drinking human milk (or making ice cream or cheese from it)? After all, it's really healthy and the preferred beverage of choice for infants. So, what's the taboo on grown ups taking a swig?

I look at it as sort of cannibalism. I never had to nerve to partake when I had the opportunity in the past. Which is sort of ironic, when you think about all of the other bodily fluids that are generally exchanged between folks. And yet, here you have something that's good for you and people stay away!

Toonage:

Pink Floyd (w/ Syd Barrett)- Milky Way

Nirvana - Big Cheese

The Rutles - Cheese And Onions

Aerosmith w/ Jimmy Page - Milk Cow Blues

The Beatles - Sour Milk Sea

In The Pines, In The Pines

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me

Tell me where did you sleep last night

In the pines, in the pines

Where the sun don't ever shine

I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, where will you go

I'm going where the cold wind blows

In the pines, in the pines

Where the sun don't ever shine

I would shiver the whole night through

Her husband, was a hard working man

Just about a mile from here

His head was found in a driving wheel

But his body never was found

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me

Tell me where did you sleep last night

In the pines, in the pines

Where the sun don't ever shine

I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, where will you go

I'm going where the cold wind blows

In the pines, in the pines

Where the sun don't ever shine

I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me

Tell me where did you sleep last night

In the pines, in the pines

Where the sun don't ever shine

I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, where will you go

I'm going where the cold wind blows

In the pines, in the pines

Where the sun don't ever shine

I would shiver the whole night through

Toonage:

Leadbelly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

Grateful Dead - In The Pines

Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

A St. Pattys Gift For You

(Leper, Leprauchan... what's the difference?)

I don't give a Leprauchans green ass about St. Patty's day. I'm holed up in Corporate Hell. And besides, if you need an excuse to go get drunk once a year, you're a giant pussy. Fucking amateurs.

Here's some ugliness to nurse you through your hangovers. Enjoy watching the ceiling spin...

Toonage:
Nirvana - Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Hey Mom
Sonic Youth - Hallowed Be Thy Name
Crass - Sheep Farming In The Falklands
Husker Du - Drug Party

I Just Wanna Give You The Creeps

Creep- Selected definitions:
1- to move slowly with the body close to the ground, as a reptile or an insect, or a person on hands and knees.
2-to approach slowly, imperceptibly, or stealthily personal bias occasionally creeps into the account.
3- to advance or develop gradually so as to infringe on or supplant something else
4- a disturbingly eccentric or obnoxious person.
5-an intelligence or counterintelligence agent; spy.
6- the creeps, a sensation of horror, fear, disgust, etc., suggestive of the feeling induced by something crawling over the skin.
7-make one's flesh creep, to be frightening or repellent; cause one to experience uneasiness.

Now, that's a Punk Rock word!

There are an awful lot of really cool songs about creeps in them. So, what can a poor boy do, 'cept to compile a bunch of em and call it BLEEDIN' OUT'S CREEPY COLLECTION!

Toonage:

Bleedin' Out's Got the Creeps (click here for the whole kit and kaboodle)

starring:

Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown (w/ Creepy Crawl intro)
Brandi Carlile - Creep (Radiohead cover)
Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Nirvana - Negative Creep (acoustic)
Radiohead - Creep (live 11-27-03 Earl's Court)
Screeching Weasel - She's Giving Me The Creeps
The Creeps - Down At The Nightclub
Social Distortion - (I Just Wanna Give You) The Creeps
The Damned - Creep (You Can't Fool Me)
The Fall - C.R.E.E.P.
Hellacopters - The Creeps (Social Distortion cover)

The cold and Foo Fighter season

Was the best career move of Dave Grohl's life when Kurt Cobain fellated a shotgun? I'd vote yes.

Grohl went from being the drummer of a band that couldn't ever be considered a good long term bet to being the leader of the Foo Fighters, a band certainly capable of "classic rockdom".
The bearded one has been able to mesh the quiet to loud dynamic of Nirvana with arena rock and has been churning out radio friendly alt rawk for over a decade already. Hey, what's not to like? Power crowds, great hooks, powerhouse drumming? This shit's in my dna.

Considering that Grohl got his start in DC hardcore, it's been one long strange trip. But good for him. He's travelled in some cool circles; jamming with folks like Queen and Lemmy and he gets extra points for playing a Dead Kennedy's tune on Mtv.

And the missus digs the heck out of the Foo Fighters, so it's all good.

We'll see em tonight, as the Foo Fighters play the big room, the world's most famous arena, Madison Square Garden.

Toonage:
Foo Fighters - Danny Says (Ramones cover)
Foo Fighters - Everlong (Acoustic -Live on Howard Stern)
Foo Fighters - Tie Your Mother Down (Live w/ Brian May and Roger Taylor)
Foo Fighters - Gas Chamber (Angry Samoans cover)

The Five Days of Hate - Day 5

Open up your hate, and let it flow into me.

It's been a lovely week.


Toonage:

Richard Cheese - Down With The Sickness (Disturbed cover)
Adolescents - I Hate Children
Nirvana - I Hate Myself And Want To Die
Bob Mould - I Hate Alternative Rock

The Blimp Takes Flight Again!

With the news that the mighty Led Zeppelin will fly again (at least for one show), college funds and savings accounts are being liquidated to come up with funds to buy a ticket. Let's see, the starting price should be around $1000 for the nosebleeds!

I am hoping that once mssr's Page, Plant and Jones smell the money, they'll do a proper tour.

Here's some songs in tribute to the world's greatest rock n roll band.

Toonage:

Dread Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven

Sandie Shaw - Your Time Is Gonna Come

King Curtis - Whole Lotta Love

Prince - Whole Lotta Love

Nirvana - Heartbreaker

Jake Holmes - Dazed And Confused

Yardbirds w/ Jimmy Page - Dazed And Confused