Musically I’m all over the shop, my dears. In my 92 (almost 93!) years, I’ve seen and enjoyed the birth of almost every modern musical style that doesn’t involve catgut strings and dancing in a circle around a fire (and some that do). I’ll listen to just about anything, and if the musical experience can be enhanced with alcohol and/or drugs (and let’s face it, what isn’t?) then Grammy is a happy girl.
Today I’m excited about Radio Soulwax, a new and free website and Ipad/Iphone app from the gentlemen behind Soulwax, The Flying Dewaele Brothers and 2manydjs.
If you haven’t experienced them, their musical style is … um … somewhat like seven monkeys on a crack and acid bender being given access to a set of decks and a symphony orchestra.
Imagine that two mad Belgians locked dozens of hooks and lyrics and tunes from familiar songs in a small room with no food and a lot of vodka and left them to fight or fuck it out, so that they could come back in the morning and see what mutant musical offspring has sprung forth, and you’re getting close.
Anyway, Radio Soulwax (in either website or app form) will eventually play a full 24 hours of remix sets. The first one hour set, Introversity, is a mix of 420 song introductions, from almost every musical style imaginable, that is exhilarating, confusing and teasing, as tiny snippets of incredible songs fly past at an incredible pace, coupled with album cover animations which would make Terry Gilliam giggle like a loon. Fortunately, they do promise that most of the songs will return in the later mixes in a more substantial form, but even in this truncated form some of the odd conjunctions and inter-mixtures of song intros made me laugh out loud.
I have found the Flash on the website a bit buggy in Firefox so far today, so I have downloaded the first mix to the Ipad app and it’s a dream.
Radio Soulwax has the potential to keep me entertained for weeks.
Now, where did I put that coke?
By the way, did I mention it’s my birthday this weekend? I’m a Fourth of July baby. There may be fireworks.
[Image: A Musical Interlude in the Harem – Fabbio Fabbi (1861-1946)]
JPL
Sarah have a wonderful B-day and many, many, many more.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Ron Kovic?
JCT
Have a great one Sarah — maybe go easy on the uh, coke. I once admitted an older gentleman from a nursing home with a rather odd heart attack. I played a hunch and he popped (+) for cocaine.
He told me later they had a party *in the nursing home* with, you guessed it “hookers and blow”. True story.
Oh and for those of you who are Nancy SMASH fans – nice read on the Washington Monthly site re: her alma mater.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/julyaugust_2011/features/the_trinity_sisters030380.php#
burnspbesq
I’m sure there is no truth to the rumor that Sarah is heading to Towson, MD for the weekend, and plans to celebrate her birthday by having her way with all four teams (girls and boys!) in the Under Armour All-America lacrosse games.
Violet
Happy Birthday, Sarah!
Mike Kay (The Base)
Obama racking up nearly 500,000 individual online donations.
https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/o2012-june2011-deadline-nd?source=ImageHQB
I thought the base hated him.
Cat Lady
It’s the 40th anniversary of the release of What’s Going On. That’s a statement, not a question. Make me wanna holler..
stuckinred
George M Cohan (sort of)
“Cohan was born in 1878 in Providence, Rhode Island, to Irish Catholic parents. A baptismal certificate (which gave the wrong first name for his mother) indicated that he was born on July 3, but Cohan and his family always insisted that George had been “born on the Fourth of July!”[2] George’s parents were traveling vaudeville performers, and he joined them on stage while still an infant, first as a prop, learning to dance and sing soon after he could walk and talk.”
Maura Cavaleri
Happy Birthday, Sarah! You are a classy, vibrant lady and I enjoy reading your thoughts very much. Enjoy however way you please, you’ve earned it :)
Maura Cavaleri
love me some Marvin…. Thanks for the heads up.
Valdivia
Happy happy Ms Sarah Proud & Tall. Hope it’s real coke (the one produced mostly in my original-neck-of-the-woods) and not the Georgia concoction…
Anya
Happy birthday, Sarah P&T.
Mike Kay (The Base)
Bob Gates retires. Awarded Medal of Freedom.
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/00mx8HNagmeKh/610x.jpg
ThresherK
Sarah: Congrats from the suburban northeast.
Stuckinred: Legend has it that George M. Cohan wrote “Little Johnny Jones” before his eyes opened.
Nigeria: Take a shower, and a couple elbows to the head, and leave.
Korean referee: Just leave. Way to not let that game get out of control.
Dennis SGMM
Happy birthday! Thanks for bringing your surreal wit to BJ.
Cat Lady
Now that’s someone who knows where ALL the bodies are buried. If Obama’s got his good will, that’s huge.
Happy birthday SPT! Dance like there’s no one watching.
No one of Importance
Truly, you are a credit to today’s thriving nonagenarian hipster geek demographic.
Are you *really* 92, young lady? Because you sound no more than 75.
BO_Bill
I’ve recently been seeking to widen my personal musical horizons. This, the Stone Soul Picnic, is actually pretty good. I cannot imagine that the Baltimore permitting bastards have cancelled the event on this, the 13th year of this annual celebration. Over what, a ‘credible threat of violence’? This is why we pay the police.
Fascists.
Anya
Cuomo Will Seek to Lift Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing. Now, I am disillusioned. I thought he was a progressive hero who needs to primary Obama!!!
Alien-Radio
Soulwax’s Most of the Remixes… Is a permanent fixture in my record box, largely for the Assault with a million sirens apocalyptic rave monster that is their remix of Robbie Williams’ Lovelight, or the incredibly injokey remix of LCD soundsystem’s Daft punk is playing at my house. Accidents and Compliments from night versions is also a go to standard.
JPL
Anya been there, done that on earlier posts.
General Stuck
Jeebus, that’s old. Bet you smell like a bouquet of Ben Gay, and nine days without a shower.
And yes, I am a city without mercy.
JPL
BO_Bill I am definitely getting old, I thought you were talking about the 5th Dimension..
James
Sarah – if you enjoyed Introversity, also give this a shot – it’s Osymyso’s Intro-Inspection which does something similar in a short and sweet fashion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5xAugLdNuo
Anya
JPL @21 ~~ I was tired of reading about hack #2, so I did not read the post. But now that I’ve checked it, ya still remarkable.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@ General Stuck:
Are you flirting with me?
General Stuck
Not yet. But I might be in a few years, if you can manage to hold still at 92.
NeenerNeener
Happy upcoming birthday, Sarah. Long may you crab and fuss.
Mike Kay (The Base)
That’s from Ian Welsh, who hates obama and is FDL royalty. I’ve been saying the same thing for years, especially how bloggers get distracted by shinny objects (meanlingless populist speeches), but because I said it first, I’m a meanie.
I’ll have to look closely at Gillibrand’s and Schweitzer’s records before deciding who to support in 2016. But right now Cuomo makes Giuliani look like Eugene Debbs.
eemom
I knew a girl who was almost a lady
She had a way with the men in her life
Every inch of her blossomed in beauty
She was born on the Fourth of July….
hilts
Sarah, Happy Birthday.
OT
FUCK the NY Yankees
General Stuck
nice
JPL
Anya It appears that Cuomo is neither liberal or progressive. Good for him for marriage equality but that is about it. It appears his girlfriend nudged him on the marriage equality and maybe she’ll nudge him again about fracking. Oh, never mind, I know that if it doesn’t affect them personally, it’s not a big deal.
eemom
WAS. He used to spout his ultra-arrogant drivel over there, but IIRC he and Jane had some sort of falling out and now he’s on her million mile shit list.
Even cyberspace ain’t big enough for two inflated gas bags that size.
Cat Lady
Anya:
All of the Hack 30 should only ever be referred to by their number. If Pareene could do it over, Hack #2 would be Hack #1, and Hack #30 would be Hack #2. Hack #1 would be Hack #3, or there would be a tie for Hack #2, and everyone would move up to make room for McMegan.
eemom
@ General
I loves me some John Prine.
Valdivia
you know you’re falling prey to a terrible romantic-silly mood if you start crying during the waltz scene in Young Victoria. #wagesofhavinganinjuredback
hilts
@Mike Kay
Giuliani is far too big a dirtbag for Andrew Cuomo to ever make him look good by comparison.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2007-07-31/news/rudy-giuliani-s-five-big-lies-about-9-11
I’m not a fan of either guy.
JPL
Cat Lady, OMG (sorry Franziapundit) but that was hilarious. I came close to clicking to see who 30 is.. Let it be me lord…hhaahaha (sorry franziapundit)
stuckinred
eemom
if dreams were thunder and lightning was desire
this old house would have burnt down a long time ago
Sarah Proud and Tall
@ General Stuck:
Now there’s someone who knows how to flirt. You should take lessons from eemom.
stuckinred
and the ever popular:
A June bug flew from the warmth he once knew
And I wished for once I weren’t right
Well we used to laugh together,
we’d dance just to any old song.
You know she still laughs with me,
but she waits just a second too long.
General Stuck
LOL, eemom lessons for flirting? Maybe if I wanted a date with Attila the Hun
Sarah Proud and Tall
@ Cat Lady:
The only objections I had to that list was that it should be the Hack 40, so:
1. Megan McArdle could be included; and
2. David Fucking Brooks could take up the remaining 9 spots.
jwb
@SPT-43: Now, don’t go obsessing about Bobo like that—at least not without telling us the back story.
Anya
@ Cat Lady ~ I think my boyfriend Pareene erred in including the Faux News crowd and that lady no one ever heard of ( C. Cupp or whatever her name is). He should have focused on the oh-so -serious media pundits.
Cat Lady
SPT:
Well, Hack #4’s spot has recently been vacated, and after today the first 10 spots could all go to Hack #2 with no argument from anyone. Hack #1, if he weren’t such a hack, would understand that even he’d been outHacked – and that’s not easy. So, yes, there is definitely a need for an update because Hack #2 and Hack #30 are lapping the field, and there are new hacks ready to be slotted in. The Atlantic is under-represented.
General Stuck
eemom
and Sarah P and T
Am a little stuck, as it were, in asshole mode
So apologies my ladies for my un gentleman and crass behavior
burnspbesq
@ hilts:
Rudy was a kick-ass U.S. Attorney. I would take him over Preet Bharara right now, no questions asked and all is forgiven.
burnspbesq
The definitive version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhe3vb0z7mY
Baud
@Anya
You can always move to France.
France becomes first country to ban extraction of natural gas by fracking
Suffern ACE
@JPL-31-What he is is a typical New York Democrat of the blue-blooded persuasion. I used to try to warn people about New York dems, but there is this imaginary New York that people have in mind that is some sort of liberal playground that isn’t really there anymore. It’s great that people think its there, but if you find it holding a position of power anywhere that matters, I guess I’ve missed it.
eemom
??
What, have you become that which you despise?
General Stuck
Somewhat disappointing, but not unexpected. The DOj probe by John Durham will only look at two cases in depth where detainees died while being held in their custody. But no Cia people that conducted the enhanced interrogations will be charged, apparently, except for these two cases. Though the article is confusing saying that the DOJ will continue looking at cases where the torture went beyond DOJ approved limits, at that time.
And I agree with the ACLU
This is the question, though i can see what a poor case it would make for the DOJ to charge people they had previously given permission to do these torture techniques.
I don’t like this, and it doesn’t preclude some other avenue of airing our dirty laundry from the Bush years, but at some point, Obama is going to need to answer what he thinks about George Bush admitting he ordered KSM to be waterboarded 183 times. It is a fair question.
eemom
@ stuckinred 39
omg, I adore the version of that song on the album he released a few years back, after he recovered from cancer surgery.
Sam Stone, also too. I’m sure you appreciate that one.
The man is a genius of heartbreak.
General Stuck
Haven’t we all, just a little bit?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@ stuckinred 39; eemom 54
the duet with Bonnie is likewise outstanding
General Stuck
Too hot to blog and everything is so dry, it is a literal tinderbox around . There have been little fires popping up all around here, and the firefighters are hustling to put them out before they grow.
There was a notice on my apt door today with giant letters banning any kind of fireworks and certain prosecution for anyone setting them off on this weekend the 4th. That has never happened in ten years living .
There were a couple of the usual traveling fireworks selling outfits that at first were going to stay open. But a bunch of citizen protesters convinced them that was a bad idea. Please rain.
stuckinred
eemom
Souvenirs. John went to Proviso East, a town over from where I lived, and was a couple of years ahead of me. It’s interesting, as much as a ya’lternative he is. Chicago seeps in. Where else can you hear “Closed the light”?
stuckinred
a hip hop artist from Idaho
“In Spite of Ourselves” is full of great duets.
hilts
@Sarah Proud and Tall
@Cat Lady
The Hack 30 should be raised to the Hack 40 at a minimum.
I nominate Byron York, Glenn Reynolds, Ruth Marcus, Tony Blankley, Mary Matalin, Stephen Hayes, and Liz Cheney.
eemom
@ 56
no, actually not. Not at that level.
Suffern ACE
@Stuck-wheren’t you living in a tent in your living room to stay warm just last month?
eemom
@ stuckinred
huh. I always wondered where he was from.
Was he in teh Nam?
stuckinred
I couldn’t listen to “Hello in There” for 5 years after my dad died.
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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President Obama is about ready to put his ginormous boot up the ass of Mitch the Bitch McConnell and the entire Republican party in the debt ceiling negotiations. You just wait.
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shortstop
Am not in the habit of assuming that every publicly anti-gay Republican is a closet case, but I saw and heard Michele Bachmann’s husband on the teevee this evening, and a bigger old queen I have rarely encountered. I’ll wait while you all recover from the shock.
stuckinred
eemom
Nope, Germany.
Fish and Whistle:
I was in the army but I never dug a trench
I used to bust my knuckles on a monkey wrench
Then I’d go to town and drink and give the girls a pinch
But I don’t think they ever even noticed me.
eemom
@ stuckinred 65
I can certainly understand that.
It reminds me of my mother, and she’s still living.
You know that old trees just grown stronger
And old rivers grow wilder every day
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, hello in there……hello.
stuckinred
eemom
ugh. . .
sniff
night
General Stuck
WTF? at that level
What I meant with that remark is that you aren’t exactly someone I would seek to get the smooth talk necessary to flirt, or something like that. So you are saying now you don’t have a foul mouth half the time. Which btw, is something I have previously adored about you, but I sure as shit would not ask you for tips on flirting. I doubt I would ask myself either.
And besides, I already apologized being assholish, but by BJ standards and quite frankly your standards eemom, not very much assholish I refuse to kiss your as however, if that is what you are seeking. “at that level” LOL, that is precious coming from you, and why I adore you ,
General Stuck
That was six months ago when it was -10 below breaking all records here, near the Mexican border. And it snowed then, and we haven’t had any rain since. Very unusual weather.
eemom
Certainly not. I have a foul mouth much more than HALF the time. Duh.
Go hug the doggie and have a drink, you ornery old curmudgeon.
gocart mozart
Sarah, if you like music that sounds like:
perhaps you will also like “Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band.” I have a new blog post up with two of their songs as well as info. It can be found at this link: [Sorry for the shameless blogwhoring but what-the-hey]
http://gocart-mozart.blogspot.com/
hilts
@gocart mozart
Maybe Michele Bachmann can use a Captain Beefheart song for her campaign if Tom Petty prevents her from using American Girl.
General Stuck
Somebody needs to be the ornery old curmudgeon. Might as well be me, I guess. Charlie is walking on sunshine after another can of Primo Alpo. Sound asleep on his back like some meat sated lion on the Serengeti. :)
Steeplejack
@Cat Lady:
Excellent! Just what I needed to hear tonight.
Now must dig up my MP3 of “Trouble Man.”
Steeplejack
@burnspbesq:
Love that big blond guitar she is playing.
gocart mozart
I would suggest these Beefheart songs. (Actual song titles)
Big Eyed Beans From Venus
Blabber ‘n Smoke
My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains
Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish
[The last one I think perfectly encapsulates her governing philosophy]
Steeplejack
@General Stuck, @eemom:
Group hug!
Comrade Mary
Happy upcoming birthday, Sarah! So will there be blow on your birthday cake?
I’m also celebrating the fact that after a few sharp-spined books fell onto my right foot, it has been left dramatically bruised but not broken. It took just over 4 hours in emerg to get it confirmed, but hey, it’s Canada Day, the traditional moving day in Montreal and the traditional let-me-kill-myself-creatively day in the RoC.
Yutsano
Yes. Yes it is.