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October 16, 2005
hotpockets in flight
i'm here to tell you there is nothing worse than spending countless hours cobbling together a cd mix - and the song that you so desperately want as the centerpiece of the disc cannot be found anywhere - at least not at a reasonable price...sure you can find it in a bin at your local tower records store for $18.99 but i'm here to tell you that i have never in my life paid that much money for an entire cd - in fact, the fact that they sell cd's for $18.99 causes me to secretly encourage musical piracy and selective shoplifting -
i'm not saying that i've ever done either, but i can't say that i wouldn't condone it if the situation demanded it...this wasn't such a situation so i decided to leave it alone and rebuild my cd mix without its center piece - i should probably mention that this was no ordinary cd mix - this was a double disc extravaganza whose sole aim was to plug holes in any respectable person's music collection and might just be the very thing that staves off the dreaded aviary pandemic that currently threatens the global population as we currently know it -
and since i've brought it up i will also confess that i live in constant fear that the killer bees will arrive at the same time as the aviary pandemic causing mass panic - and it's not the stinging or the buzzing that's such a problem - really it's all of the excess honey, because as we all know honey just has a tendency to get into everything and just create one giant sticky mess - anyone looking for empirical proof of this need look no further than the film entitled "honey" starring one jessica alba - i'm afraid that her career might never get unstuck...
and now i've realized after all of my carrying on that i have forgotten to name the song that was the source of my angst - it was of course the rolling stones tune "dead flowers"...but it wasn't the rolling stones version i was interested in - in fact i'll go ahead and confess that i just don't care for the rolling stones version of that song all that much...and i think by making that confession i have just made myself appear unalterably cool for i have shaken off the uncomfortable mantle of popluar culture by mocking on of its most beloved bands - a band that should be shot in public for unleashing the song "i'm so hot for you" on an unsuspecting public -
in thruth i was looking for the townes van zandt version of "dead flowers" as heard during the waning moments of that cinematic masterpiece known as the big lebowski - it was the big lebowski soundtrack that was $18.99 at tower records - the same soundtrack that was not available on i-tunes...and the townes van zandt version on i-tunes was a pretty pathetic live version off of a greatest hits record - and can i just say i hate it when artists do that? chances are, if someone is buying a greatest hits record they are looking for the original versions of songs not smarmy half-assed interpretations recorded years after the fact -
long story short, i was under the gun to get the compilation completed and into the mail so i went with the live i-tunes version which actually worked out okay because it is much shorter than the album version so i was in fact able to include "the final countdown" in all of its ebullient splendor - so with both discs completed i dropped them in the mail on saturday morning...of course later that afternoon i found the townes van zandt album "roadsongs" at the great escape - the very album that contains the song "dead flowers" as featured in the big lebowski and it was 20% off the used price to boot - i couldn't believe my unluck especially considering the great escape is directly across the street from the uptown mix stage where i shared a handshake (drug) with one jeff tweedy changing both of our lives forever - i should also mention that i am indirectly responsible for his kids being featured in that quaker oats commercial...i'm not sure exactly how or why i am able to take credit for it but i'm working on it as we speak.
while i'm figuring that out i'm also trying to figure out how i could have been wrong about notre dame/usc - my instincts are just never wrong...i haven't been that crushed by a football game since ohio state won their sham national championship against the miami hurricanes....but i'm not here to talk about football, i'm here to confess that my latest church crush is altogether too attractive for me to be able to justify loving her for another minute and so i've decided it's just best to end things now before i do something stupid like trying to introduce myself - besides, chances are she's infected with the bird flu and i'd have to tearfully get over her before too long anyway...the dude abides
| By young_christopher | 11:43 PM