a yardstick for lunatics

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the latest in the new new wave will make you say "is this the new U2?"

in line with the killers, the stills, etc.  stuck in the player

What was your most memorable or favorite school field trip?

The "Eastern Trip" - the top 20 students in my High School class annually got to go "out East" to visit all the hoity toity schools like Princeton, Yale, MIT, Harvard, and Dartmouth.  We got to stay one night at each school - and what happens when high school kids stay with college kids?  everything you think and more.  we ganged up playing quarters with everclear on this dude named Steve Rittmueller.  he got dry-heaving sick all the next day.   one of the band geeks called home and spread the news on the rampant partying.  the week after that was spring break, but the monday after that, we all got called down the dean's office one by one and were given our sentences: another week off of school for suspension!   i remember all the uptight parents who were so worried this was going to go on their children's "permanent record", that mythical piece of paper that keeps white kids from getting into the college of their choice.

At any rate, I got a great taste of what college was like, and three weeks off to boot!  needless to say, that was the last year my high school sponsored the "Eastern Trip," which is a shame.  I feel honored to have sailed on that final voyage.

Yep, to show you how gentile I am, I had never ever heard of this incident until I saw this movie.  Never heard of Black September, or even knew what the Mossad were.

So even though many Jewish people probably think Spielberg didn't deliver on this film with a strong enough message, from an awareness perspective he succeeded.

This was the first of Haruki Murakami's works that I have read - i actually picked it up by chance at McCarron Airport in Las Vegas after a particularly depressing trip out there - so I was in the perfect frame of mind to read this.

So much so, that I was immediately hooked.  I still think this was a good place to start, and was an amazing read from start to finish.   I've wanted to go back and re-read it many times.

The first few listens of The Back Room, and I dismissed Editors as an Interpol copy, and put it down.  But as I've spent more time with it and a pair of decent headphones, it's evolved to a recording I just keep on repeat on all my listening devices.

In fact, I think they have much more in common with the Killers than Interpol, and The Back Room just grooves way more than either of the aforementioned bands.

Give this one five or six listens before you pass judgement.  Key in on "Blood", "Munich", and "The Factories".

I think that Stadium Arcadium is going to have to grow on me.  I can feel the ability for this effort to really grow on me, because with every listen it gets a little better, but as with most double albums, there is just a lot of music here.

A few initial thoughts, though.

John Frusciante has totally taken over the Peppers, as pretty much every song on this effort comes from the "Under the Bridge" lineage, which I like.  However, it seems he has taken over so much so, that Flea just sounds bored thoughout the whole album.  Just uninspired.

I'm hearing a totally new influence from Frusciante, the Peppers here, gone, here again guitarist...it was an influence that was there all along, but i somehow missed it:  Hendrix.

Man, is Stadium Arcadium Hendrix influenced.  In fact, on a few songs, I'm pretty sure the riffs and solos are cribbed almost verbatim from Purple Haze.

At any rate, I guess I'll post more on this one later when i have more thoughts.