April 28, 2006

Friday Random Eleven

Alyda - YO LA TENGO
Nevermind - DROP THE FEAR
The Lovers' Rights - THE ROSEBUDS
Listen - DEAD HEART BLOOM
The Everthere - ELBOW
This Hand - SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
The Dogs of B.A. - MIRAH
Ever Rotating Sky - DAVID THOMAS BROUGHTON
Borrowed Wings - JIM WHITE
The Ghost of Who We Were - THE GREENCARDS
What You Gave Away - THE ONE AM RADIO


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April 27, 2006

The Great San Diego BOOM Mystery - an Update

To update this blog post, yesterday's paper has a more scientific story about the BOOM. Scripps scientists call it a sound wave created about 120 miles off the coast of San Diego, in a military warning area where no civilian flights are allowed:

"According to data analyzed by the scientists, the wave was felt on San Nicolas Island, northwest of San Clemente Island, at 8:40 a.m. It hit Solana Beach at 8:46 a.m., the western edge of the Cleveland National Forest at 8:47.30 and the eastern side of the Salton Sea at 8:53 a.m. From there, it appears to have dissipated.

Elizabeth Cochran, the lead researcher on the project, said the wave moved at 320 meters per second, roughly the speed that sound travels through the air. Its velocity was too slow to be that of an earthquake, she said."


Makes sense.

Union Trib story

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April 24, 2006

Monday Night Random Eleven

November - AZURE RAY
Rubber & Soul - ANE BRUN
United. The Way You Were. - DIANE CLUCK
Off With Yr Hat - THANKSGIVING
Los Pajaros Del Rio - VETIVER
Tents Along The Water - THE SKYGREEN LEOPARDS
Silent Movies - T.W. WALSH
Streets Of Your Town - THE GO-BETWEEENS
Rosebush Inside (Morees Bickham) - SEAN HAYES
I Love That Man - DEVENDRA BANHART
Hail - HAMELL ON TRIAL

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April 21, 2006

Friday Random Eleven, on Saturday

Hey, I got busy. But busy or not, I always have music in the background. So here's what I picked out of the crowd this week.

In Between Love - TOM WAITS
Leslie Anne Levine (Live) - COLIN MELOY
Ballad Of Bitter Honey - EEF BARZELAY
Let Me Bleed - PAJO
Going For The Gold - BRIGHT EYES
The Seed of Truth - THE VISION OF A DYING WORLD
Think Small - TALL DWARFS
Pan-Ther - THE IMPOSSIBLE SHAPES
Cross Your Eyes - THE KINGSBURY MANX
The Morning Paper - SMOG
Feather - PAGE FRANCE

(and no, the post will not continue if you click here where it says to continue)

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April 17, 2006

Monday Night Random Eleven

The question you may be asking is
"Will Don ever post anything but lists of music?",
to which I might reply
"Why are you and I discussing me in the third person?"
in an effort to redirect the conversation.

Yes, you see, Operation Random Eleven as a strategem is supposed to drive me to consistency in posting, first, then to easy regularity and ultimately to voluminosity. At which point I will probably stun and sadden my vast blog audience by announcing a hasty departure, since posting blogs on a daily basis will destroy my career and leave my marriage a smoldering hulk of excuses and denial.

But I digress.

"These go to eleven":

Cronulla Breakdown - PERNICE BROTHERS
No More Ghosts - METAL HEARTS
Details of Attraction - CONSONANT
Half A Person - THE SMITHS
Haze of Love - CAKE
Pittsburgh Brain - MIXEL PIXEL
Pretty Little Cemetery - RON SEXSMITH
Red Right Ankle - THE DECEMBERISTS
The Way - BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY
Truck Stop Cassettes - PORTATASTIC
The Delicate Conversation - SPEAKERS



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April 14, 2006

Friday Random Eleven

Yeah, I know, in a couple of my previous posts I said "mine goes to eleven".

Not too original really, since there exist any number and style of top-ten lists pushed to eleven. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a "Trilogy" of five books. If you think about it, triplets are not only 3 individuals, but also 3 sets of twins. But enough dancing around the topic.

Yes of course my comment was an homage to Spinal Tap, what with this being a list of artists and songs. But yes I do also know that the proper quote is "These go to eleven". Syntax required that I change it a bit. Now, after rolling it through my brain for a while -(see how I spend my days?)- I've decided to screw syntax, and go with the phrase that is probably destined to become the most popular culturally referential bit of moviedom, at least from the 1980's.

None of the songs individually go beyond maximum volume. But they do go over the edge in respect to their "favoriteness". And the quote is right. See, I'm obviously here to play ball.

So.

"These go to eleven."

Sunday Drive - THE EARLY NOVEMBER
It Froze Me - THE MOUNTAIN GOATS
(Tumble) In The Wind (Version 1) - LUKE TEMPLE
No Lullabies - KILL CHEERLEADER
False Alarm track 2 - KT TUNSTALL
Birds & Sun & Clay - AUGUST BORN
Sno Cat - KRISTIN HERSH
Walk Of Shame - WINECHUGGERS
I Could Be Nothing - GREAT LAKES SWIMMERS
Seventeen - MEREDITH BRAGG AND THE TERMINALS
Blundering Blood - NEDELLE


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April 10, 2006

Monday Night Random Eleven

"But mine goes to Eleven"



Western Isles - THE BATS
Swept Away - PHISH
Sleeping Diagonally - THE SIX PARTS SEVEN (w/SAM BEAM)
When I'm Gone - KIND OF LIKE SPITTING
Overkill (Acoustic) - COLIN HAY
Hey Miss Cane - DEVENDRA BANHART
How Many Lights Do You See - BRIGHT EYES
I Felt Your Shape - THE MICROPHONES
Now We Know - JEFF HANSON
Bird Song - MARISSA NADLER
A Picnic Few Want To Attend - HALF-HANDED CLOUD

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April 09, 2006

earthquaku

windows applauding
walls drumming stomp and shimmy
coffee shivers hot

Last week I thought a short earthquake had run through my house. I was wrong, although someone called me from about 15 miles south of my place to see if I felt it.

Somebody said something about the Marines doing something. That explains everything.

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April 07, 2006

Friday Random Eleven

Somnambulist - XTC
Lay Ye Doon Love - OLD BLIND DOGS
On The Porch - THE FORMAT
If I Were A Carpenter - ROBERT PLANT
Et Tu, Kitte? - THE KINGSBURY MANX
Scissor Paper Rock - FINGERS CROSSED
Ballad Of Paul And Sheila - MASON JENNINGS
Maybe You Can Owe Me - ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI
Far Too Deeply - ANDY GUTHRIE
Girl And The Ghost - K.T. TUNSTALL
I Will Follow You Into The Dark - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE


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April 04, 2006

Earthquake Number 952, or the Marines?

Well, I don't know how many earthquakes I've ever felt, because I grew up here and the phenomenon is constant. It just is. So, "952" is symbolic, if not precise.

Earthquake here just 3 minutes ago shook all the walls of the office, and the windows were making themselves heard too.

Back to work.

UPDATE - No Earthquake. Apparently the Marines were "doing something". What the?

Shortly after my whole place shook, I got a call from somebody 20 miles south of me asking if I felt the earthquake. So, what the heck are the Marines doing, shaking all the buildings in a 20 mile radius? Bowling?

UPDATE 2 - The Union Tribune online say's it's a mystery.

UPDATE 3 - The Union Tribune yesterday (April 23) had an article about the mysterious boom day here a couple of weeks ago and explains that similar booms followed in other cities around the U.S. I attribute the "series" to that classic human phenomena where we notice events in clusters. For a whole summer, for instance, we'll hear about some staggering rash of shark attacks but later find that the statistics are the same as any other year.

Either that or I go with the UFO theory. :-)


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