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A-motivated is the name of the game.
I *hate* VB6.
Someone please kill me (or give me another job)…
But on an uplifting note HelluvaBlog is back online…
And Mr. Horsepower has been kicking out some outstanding music reviews. Check out his Made/Remade series that’s showcasing some very interesting covers that have been made.
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This video was a match made in heaven for my Dork:Music category…
Apparently it is an unsolicited fan-created video made using AppleSoftII on a 1979 Apple-II. The band is called Grandaddy, and the album is called The Sophtware Slump. <grin> How dorky is that?
To be honest, the song (and the video for that matter) starts off pretty weak, but it quickly becomes a dork extravaganza.
As Rush put it: “This band sound(s) like they [ELO, the Beatles and Weezer] all got together and created music with one of their kids.”
Egg Radio is what you wish your local FM station was. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll listen to music you’d forgotten about….
Here’s a look at the last few songs they played:
Reel Big Fish-Shes Famous Now (7.0)
Farm-Groovy Train (6.4)
Smashing Pumpkins-Quiet (7.1)
Space Ghost-Never Trust A Monkey (5.5)
Tegan And Sara-Monday Monday Monday (5.9)
Who, The-My Generation (8.2)
Arcade Fire, The-Wake Up (5.9) I <3 this band
They Might Be Giants-Istanbul (8.8) w00t
Peter Murphy-A Strange Kind Of Love (7.5)
Notice the number beside the track name? The Egg is listener programmed! Don’t like a song? Give it crap rating and you won’t hear it as much!
Love the egg…
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I’m sure some of you have heard about the Rock Boat. For those of you that haven’t, it’s basically a cruise with 20 or so bands (like Sister Hazel, O.A.R., Cowboy Mouth, Gaelic Storm, etc).
Well, my favorite local band The Ugli Stick has made it to the second round in a contest being put on by Icehouse. The contest will award one of the unsigned bands a spot on the Rock Boat this September, and one of the fans that voted for them a FREE CRUISE!
So I’m going to encourage ALL of you to get out there and vote for The Ugli Stick by going to http://www.icehouse.com.
I’ve been listening to the other bands, and with the exception of Bain Mattox I’m not really seeing how any of the other bands are any different than the crap that they spin on the radio every damn day. So go vote, win yourself a free cruise.
BTW, You can vote 3x per day, and The Ugli Stick will be playing at the Barking Kudu in Birmingham this Saturday night…
Since Jason called me out on his site jasonviana.com about my “obscure” music tastes, I figured it was fine time for me to talk about it…
Yesterday I heard the latest single from The Mars Volta called “The Widow” on Z 100.5.
Many of my friends have heard me rant and rave about this band ever since I happened to catch them on the “Next X” on The X the first and only time they were ever played on that station 
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Anyway, if you get a chance, check them out, they are like nothing you’ve ever heard before. An intense Aural smack upside the head. Their new album Frances the Mute will be out 2005/03/05
Until then…