Green Monkey Mix – Power Pop Track Listing!
Well, everyone except one person has submitted their track listing for the Power Pop GMMP Mix, so I am going to go ahead and finalize it.
01. Surrender – Cheap Trick [splotchy]
02. Twist Top – The Clean [splotchy]
03. Substitute – The Who [splotchy]
04. In A Big Country – Big Country [splotchy]
05. Life on the Line – The Raincoats [splotchy]
06. Go All The Way – The Raspberries [splotchy]
07. Boys Don’t Lie – Shoes [splotchy]
08. The Electric Version – The New Pornographers [splotchy]
09. Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand [bubs]
10. Dreaming – Blondie [bubs]
11. Cruel To Be Kind – Nick Lowe [bubs]
12. Crawling to the USA – Elvis Costello [bubs]
13. Girls Talk – Dave Edmunds [bubs]
14. Everybody’s Happy Nowadays – The Buzzcocks [bubs]
15. Ever Fallen in Love – The Buzzcocks [bubs]
16. Basket Case – Green Day [bubs]
17. Ca Plane Pour Moi – Plastic Bertrand [domboy]
18. The Don – The View [domboy]
19. Crazy Taxi – Andy Hui [domboy]
20. Mr Brightside – The Killers [domboy]
21. Get Over You – The Undertones [domboy]
22. Baby Talk – Generation X / Billy Idol [domboy]
23. Go Square Go! – Glasvegas [domboy]
24. We’re All Going To Die – Malcolm Middleton [domboy]
25. Everybody’s Girl – Rick Springfield [allenl]
26. I Wanna Be With You – The Raspberries [allenl]
27. My Life Still Sucks (in a Bad Way) – The Andersons [allenl]
28. I Knew The Bride – Dave Edmunds [allenl]
29. Starry Eyes – The Records [allenl]
30. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend – The Rubinoos [allenl]
31. Where Have You Been All My Life? – Fotomaker [allenl]
32. Your Daddy Don’t Know – Toronto [allenl]
33. Town Called Malice – The Jam [tenaciouss]
34. Do Anything You Wanna Do – Eddie and the Hot Rods [tenaciouss]
35. Better Things – The Kinks [tenaciouss]
36. Cynical Girl – Marshall Crenshaw [tenaciouss]
37. Suddenly Cool – The Methadones [tenaciouss]
38. Terror Bends – My Teenage Stride [tenaciouss]
39. Rubella – Smoking Popes [tenaciouss]
40. You Made Me Like It – 1990s [tenaciouss]
41. Friday on My Mind – Easybeats [lulu]
42. I’ve Been Waiting – Matthew Sweet [lulu]
43. There She Goes – The Las [lulu]
44. Heart – Rockpile [lulu]
45. Less Than Zero – Elvis Costello [lulu]
46. Jailbreak – Thin Lizzy [lulu]
47. Girl of My Dreams – Bram Tchaikovsky [lulu]
48. Going Down to Liverpool – The Bangles [lulu]
49. The Box Tops – The Letter
50. Big Star – Don’t Lie to Me [beth]
51. Big Star – September Gurls [beth]
52. R.E.M. – Jesus Christ [beth]
53. Alex Chilton – Thing for You [beth]
54. The Replacements – Alex Chilton [beth]
55. In the Street – Cheap Trick [beth]
56. What’s Going Ahn – The Posies [beth]
Every participant has one or more songs that I am unfamiliar with, so this will be a righteous injection of power pop for me. I hope it will be the same for you, too.
There are also plenty songs that I know and are very happy to see included (hello, “Ca Plane Pour Moi”)!
I’m pretty confident each person is going to have to provide at least some of their selections to me — just have ’em ready to go, if’n you don’t mind.
UPDATE:
Not wishing to risk angering the mix tape gods, Beth has been added to the mix. Hey, she’s a big star in the world of mix tapes, and I am happy to have her participation!
Comix Week Approaches
To all parties who expressed interest in participating in my comix week, I’ll get my ideas to you by October 10th.
You are under no obligation to do the idea I give you, nor are you under any obligation to participate.
If anyone else wants to jump on board that hasn’t already expressed a desire to join the project, it’s still not too late.
Hopefully I can get at least a few people interested, and together we can create some special pieces of artful goodness to brighten the world.
AND ISN’T THAT WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT, PEOPLE?
Since time might be tight for everyone, I’m going to bump comix week a month into the future, to the first week of December.
Go Comix Week!
More Options To Concluding Your Correspondence
More examples for you to use in concluding letters/emails/etc.
01. With A Hint Of Sasparilla,
02. May Monkeys Not Infest Your Home,
03. Most Of This Was Sincere,
04. Busty,
05. Lou Reed’s Hair,
06. Don’t Even Fucking Think About It,
07. Atlanta, Georgia,
08. I Am Now A Practitioner Of Sufism,
09. Rainbows To Your Bastard Children,
10. Buh-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bye,
Love,
Splotchy
Unconnected Tuesdays
Galaxy
Pants
The Rumors Are True
I bought a combo lock today.
Richard Ashcroft Is A Dick
The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony
May I Borrow Your Gorilla Costume?
So, MizSplotchy already has her costume picked out for this coming Halloween.
She’ll be going for a 1950’s housewifey vibe, her costume to be topped off by this little mound of heaven.
After some soul searching, I came up with a perfect companion costume to hers — the robot monster from Robot Monster!
My problem is that gorilla costumes are pretty damned expensive. I can’t afford to spend a couple hundred bucks on a gorilla body, folks. I can’t afford to rent a gorilla costume for seventy bucks, either.
I look to you, blogosphere, for any assistance in my pursuit of 1950’s schlock! Let me borrow your gorilla costume, okay? I promise not to sweat in it too much.
Instead Of Having A Nervous, Depressed Post About The Economy, I Am Instead Going To List A Series Of Rhyming Words
01. drats (the economy is tanking)
02. (how is the ongoing financial meltdown affecting) Minnesota Fats
03. (will the collapse of the US financial system somehow spur an uptick in the sale of) spats
04. (an alternative to sleeping on cardboard is using discarded exercise) mats
05. (what is the nutritional value of) rats
06. (for that matter, what is the nutritional value of) cats
07. (I’m a dummy, could someone please just explain to me all these depressing) stats
08. (in addition to economic turmoil, I don’t like) gnats
09. bats (are okay, though, and good for the economy)
10. (a warning to rich people, during these troubled times, refrain from wearing your customary silk) cravats
Get Smeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah
Hmm. When was the last time I… Holy crap! I haven’t seen a movie at the LaGrange since late June!
I need to stoke the schmuck fires! What were my choices?
Swing Vote – This is the one where Kevin Costner is a porn star with an enormous penis, right?
Step Brothers – If its “funny” trailer fills me with sadness, I can’t imagine what an entire movie’s worth of this hijinx would do to me.
The Mummy: Tomb of Dragon Emperor – Nah, I am not feeling it.
Get Smart — Okay!
As I was making my way to the theater, I realized I was a little tired. That’s not a good state to be in to see a cheap movie. One must be fully alert, ready to navigate the shitty narratives of a second-run cinema.
I was welcomed back to the LaGrange into the largest and curviest of theaters, number one. As I sat there in the dim houselights, squinting at the latest Chicago Reader, I realized I was the only one there. A few minutes later I turned my head to see an employee close the theater door. For some unknown reason, I flashed them an “okay” sign.
I got a few trailers as a treat before the movie. One was for the Rainn Wilson vehicle The Rocker, which looked improbably horrible, and loaded with cheap physical gags that are supposed to be funny but never are. Look, he slipped! Look, he slipped again!
I also got the trailer for the newish X-Files movie, which if the trailer is any indication, consists solely of comedian Billy Connolly talking in an agitated, high-pitched voice and compulsively pawing at a snowy, frozen-over lake. GOOD TIMES!
Anyways, as I’m watching the trailers, a few more people straggle in, disrupting my private moviewatching experience. It’s not like I was picking my toes or was stripped down to my underwear, but I *had* gotten a little comfortable. Two girls sat down in the same row as me, just across the aisle.
Get Smart begins, and the girls immediately start chuckling. Now I realize I am really tired, and probably more susceptible to being annoyed by small things. Still, if there’s the barest hint of a joke, the girls start laughing. While these girls might be wonderful to have in a test market audience, it only took a few more “jokes” and “gags” for your friendly asshole curmudgeon to stand and move several rows forward.
There, that’s better. Now I can enjoy this unfunny comedy untroubled by the laughter of happy people.
Phew, I know I was tired and not in top moviewatching form, but this movie was stinky. I had watched the Get Smart TV show in reruns, and didn’t have any memories of it. Could it be that this movie was a hacky, unfunny remake of a show that itself was hacky and unfunny? The answer is “Probably yes!”
Anne Hathaway was cute, Alan Arkin was tolerable as the chief, and… that’s all I can say about it. I can’t give it anymore praise. There was an actor who was the equivalent of Richard Kiel’s Jaws character from the James Bond films (they even used him in a scene that was a ripoff of the airplane jump opener from Moonraker), there was Terence Stamp wasted, there was blah blah blah. BLAH.
As each gag and joke limped into view, I thought to myself, I should just walk out and go home. But I stuck it out, because I am a professional, even for shitty comedies.
Oh, shitty comedies. Why do you fill me with such despair?