Silversun Pickups - The Royal We

Silversun Pickups in St. Louis last Saturday... Performing "The Royal We"...
That's a Lebowski reference...

Killing the Music

Another day, another Digital Millennium Copyright Act violation. It's hard to keep up a music blog when I can't share music. What's worse is, most of the violations are related to old, dead links, that you can't even download music from. Not to mention, drafts of posts not made public. Scary.

Music is what I love and what I want to share. So I guess if I can't to it the way I want to do it... I'll have to revamp. I won't kill the blog, I need to have an outlet. There will still be music, but it'll be a little different. So for right now... enjoy these pictures of flying dogs...

Reasons to cancel a concert in St. Louis...

Kings of Leon. August 23:

Bird shit. No.

Silversun Pickups. August 24th.

Lightning.

Acceptable.

All done...

Current River Trip

Here's a collection of videos I shot while on a float trip to Current River in Southern Missouri for my buddy's bachelor party.

Running of the Bulls?

Check this out... The Running of the Bulls, and the guy holding the blue cup on the right, I was in the Air Force with him down in Louisiana. This is a picture from the New Orleans Times Picayune. I've wanted to attend the running of the bulls for a few years now. Needless to say I was a little jealous. Until I read the caption...

"Runners assemble at the corner of Conti and Burgundy streets for the running of the bulls Saturday, July 10, 2010. The San Fermin in New Orleans Festival kicked off Saturday in the French Quarter with the Running of the Bulls. The run pays homage to the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain, with the bulls represented by members of the Big Easy Roller Girls and other regional skating groups pursuing the runners with plastic bats."

Spanky spanky.

Looks way more laid back in NOLA (above) than it does in Pamplona (below)...

I still want to go. Despite the face I'm not in tip-top physical condition.

Just need to watch my ass.

AV Club Undercover

The Onion might be funny and clever, but they're also music lovers. Head over to the AV Club's site for an introduction to their Undercover series, in which 25 bands will cover 25 songs in The AV Club office in Chicago.  Here are a few selections...

Fruit Bats cover Hall & Oates

Ted Leo And The Pharmacists cover Tears For Fears

Maritime covers Depeche Mode

Rise Against covers Nirvana

Nuclear Explosions on Earth, 1945-1998

This animation depicts every nuclear explosion on Earth from 1945 to 1998. September 23, 1992 was the last time United States conducted a nuclear test. Right after that I went into the military. so, you're welcome.

The only nuclear explosions not depicted on this map are a 2006 test by North Korea that likely was a dud, a 2009 test by North Korea, the one that sank Atlantis in 9600 BC.

Link: 2053.

$5.98 EP Originals

Metallica's 1987 album "The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited" consisted of 6 cover songs (from 5 bands), and was the first recording the band made with Jason Newsted on bass. So apparently the EP has been out of print for several years and is considered to be a collector's item. I guess I should hang on to mine then... All five tracks were later included on the 1998 compilation, Garage Inc. Garage Inc. Anyway, here are the originals:

Helpless by Diamond Head, 1980

The Small Hours by Holocaust, 1992

The Wait by Killing Joke, 1980

Crash Course in Brain Surgery by Budgie, 1971

Last Caress by The Misfits, 1980

Green Hell by The Misfits, 1983