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20 September 2008
What are you watching or listening to tonight?→[More:]Unless you are going out to dance all night or something like that, which I know nothing about.
Just "A Prairie Home Companion" for me, while the family makes and eats chocolate chip cookies... If I get ambitious, I might try to watch a movie.
Watching a DVD from last season's Heroes. We never watched the show until a month ago and watched the whole first season since then. We're trying to get through the second season, which was short due to the strike, before the third season starts.
Already watched: Colbert & TDS from night
To listen to: countdown/hardball/slate gabfest podcasts
intermittent playack: Gnr - Oh My God (i know i know), blondie - "rip her to shreds", lenny kravitz - always on the run, joan jett - star star (rolling stones cover), etc etc
I don't knowwwwwwwwww yet. I kinda want to go see Mudhoney tonight but don't really feel like going out/paying $20 and I don't know if it's sold out or what. After Mudhoney my friend's female-fronted Black Flag cover band, the Sandwiches, are playing, and I'd kind of like to see them too, but again, I don't really feel like going out...
It must be said that it's been weeks since I went to any shows because of the aforementioned "don't really feel like going out" excuse. I don't want to be that person, it's just so hard to motivate myself sometimes even when I know I'll be glad I did.
I kinda want to go see Mudhoney tonight but don't really feel like going out/paying $20
Go. I saw them at the 40 Watt Club in the 90's, and they were brilliant. Sloppy garage psychedelia is a dying artform.
(When we saw them, my partner, who is about a decade older than me, said, "They remind me of bands we used to have to watch perform in their garage so we could buy weed from them.")
Are We Done Yet is playing in one room. My husband is flipping between American Gangster and Casino Royale in another. It's chaos. I'm waiting for the the kids' movie to be over (10 more minutes) so I can go to bed. I ate many homemade tacos, an ice cream sandwich (called a Fat Boy) and drank a beer. This meal made me very sleepy. Plus, I woke up at the crack and did some serious exercising today. I am such an old woman. I can't keep my eyes open.
Before dinner I was listening to The Jackson 5 and The Four Tops. That was much better listening.
"They remind me of bands we used to have to watch perform in their garage so we could buy weed from them."
I think Mudhoney are a no-go -- it looks like it sold out sometime this afternoon. But it's okay. I'm kind of indifferent to most reunions (although I'm not entirely sure this is a reunion per se). I might still go see the Sandwiches, though. My friend (who also sings in Aids Wolf) is a great performer and I'm pretty sure she's doing pushups and shit right now trying to channel Rollins.
I've been listening to Bavarian farmers doing Country Road in a Munich Bierkeller. And been drinking one liter Mäße Löwenbräu; ugh!
Lots of old&young guys in leather shorts (Lederhosen).
Pinky, I have this CD which has many of the Muppet Movie songs including Gonzo's heartbreaking "I'm Going to Go Back There Someday." Actually, "Rainbow Connection" and "It's Not Easy Being Green" choke me up pretty hard, too. I think that may be why we haven't played that album in a while. Oh Jim Henson, you were so deceptively maudlin.
But it doesn't have "I Hope That Something Better Comes Along" by Rolf the Dog. That's a serious oversight.
I have the 25th Anniversary cd collection linked above. Oh. And "Songs from the Street: 35 years of music from Sesame Street." No other movies, though.
Oooooooooo. Any other Muppet or Sesame Street originals you're able to throw on there is fine by me (I don't really need celeb covers, unless they're really outstanding).
I wish I had something really good to send you. Alas, all I've gotten recently is some stuff from The Two Man Gentleman Band (which you will enjoy, but it's nothing compared to the Muppets!!!)
I think I have an old Sesame St. album, I'll go look tonight. Also Electric Company.
I have The Muppet Movie but it looks like you already got that one. All vinyl!!!
I decided not to go out! I'll get blasted during Pop Montreal fest in two weeks anyway.
So I ended up watching a re-re-re-re-re-re-rerun of "There's Something About Mary", which is not my most thrilling evening, but wevs. Also watched the Bob Saget roast.
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