iPod shuffle-age ...

I just have not been in a specific music/artist mood lately. To quelch my musical needs, I've been turning to iPod's shuffle feature lately. Just because I can, I thought I'd share the suffle-age.

(Beginning from #12 because that's where I'm at right now)

1. Dear Girl by The Steinways (feat. Hallie from The Unlovables) - "p.s. where the fuck's my sweatshirt?"
2. My My Metrocard by Le Tigre - I wish I liked Le Tigre half as much as I love Bikini Kill but I just don't ... "next stop: Atlantic Avenue"
   
3. Basket Case by Green Day from Bullet In a Bible (Live Album) - I love Green Day for not editing this album (which I know because they occasionally fuck up and you can hear it)
   
4. Even Angels Fall by Jessica Riddle from the 10 Things I Hate About You soundtrack - um ... love this song ... love the movie ... sad but true
5. Sick Boy by Social Distortion - I wish Mike Ness, in his old fat age, wouldn't hit on girls in the audience anymore ... it's getting kinda gross. sorry but it is. in other thoughts: this song. great. classic.
6. Help Save the Youth of America by Billy Bragg - I can only tolerate Billy Bragg's brit-rockness (I know it's wrong, I just can't help that post-the 60s and not including The Clash, I kind of hate British rock) because he's just so fuckin' talented and awesome.
7. Volvare - Dean Martin
8. I Wanna Live - The Ramones - dude! this is the 3rd Ramones song I've heard! I love them but I think Apple could improve their shuffle algorithm. To be fair, they have released A LOT of albums and we have all of them.
9. Anchor Grill by The Descendents - This album (Cool to be You) was such a phenomenal dissapointment. 'Merican was an awesome teaser EP and then ... the 'Merican songs were the only good songs on the actual album.
   
10. Educated Guess by Mxpx - awww ... it's my high school era fake-boyfriend ... haven't listened to this for years.
    
11. Teenage Labatomy by The Ramones - See!
12. Four-Eyed Girl by Rhett Miller - He's so freakin' cute especially when he does his butt-shake-dance on stage ...
13. O Holy Night by Mariah Carey - uh, skip. this is only semi-ok during Christmas.
14. Breathless by Wanda Jackson - if you get a chance to see her live, do it. she's ADORABLE!
15. A Man Can Cry by Freddie Fender
16. You Do It So Well by Name Taken - this is from my sister and I am reserving judgement ...
17. Billy Be Bad by George Jones - I don't actually know who this or where this came from but it ain't bad ... a little Hank 2 pop-country-ish ... ultimately, it's skipper ...
18. No, All! by The Descendents - Does this even count? It's 2 seconds long!
19. 30 Days by Run DMC - Skip! It's only very very very occasionally that I have any desire to listen to rap ... no disrespect to Run DMC though, he's the cream of the crop ...
20. Gonna be a Blackout Tonight by The Dropkick Murhpys

That's all for tonight kids!

i'm a stalker!

i admit it. i was, hands down, completely, childishly obsessed with Mike Herrera and MxPx in high school.

but i thought i had gotten over that.

and not just because i had gotten older and started feeling lamer about liking pop-punk bands like MxPx. the real downfall was when they all got married. yuri's marriage wasn't so disconcerting but once tom got hitched, we all knew mike would be a close third. and after that, after the everpassing moment, their songs just went down hill. without a broken heart, mike's lyrics lost their gusto. it all seemed a bit too formulaic and cheesy.

but things changed yesterday when i came across mike herrera's new solo, country myspace page. i mean, hello, is that not the most amazing thing you've ever heard?

for me, it is. i'm always looking for sense in my musical tastes (really in my tastes in general), which in our pop culture defined, identity-politicing society, always seemed so dichotomous.

the thing is - i love country. kasey chambers. johnny cash. hank williams. dixie chicks. it just does it for me. and i think it's awesome that mike is putting out a country record. and even more insanely awesome that he lists kasy chambers and neko case as influences.

the other upside of this was that i found mike's wife's myspace page. (it wasn't that hard considering she was his number 1 friend ... and, i'm pretty sure the song "sunny in dallas" is about her.) i also found out the kat von d is not longer married to oliver pecker ... since mike and his wife holli are friends with him and, not only is kat no longer his number 1 friend, but his relationship status is now single.

i am simultaneously in love and creeped out by myspace (and facebook and all the rest for that matter). i mean, do these bands know how easy it is find shit out about them? i once came upon brett and jay (from bad religion's) pages in which they exchange a series of comments that include each others email addresses. which, for a harmless stalker fan like me, is a freakin' gold mine ... but not everyone is as harmless as me ...

so if you ever need an interent stalking done you now know where to turn. :)