Kacee Bait

Ground Control to Major Tom!!!

The Future

Leonard Cohen on the future:



Harlan Elison on the future:

They want to hire, they meaning whoever is hiring, wish to hire 19-year-olds who think vampires are a brand new idea. They wish to make everybody your age think they are the age of those young women who pose contrapposto in the ads. They are the ones that have closed down every business, everything but McDonalds and BP and Verizon. They draw us all daily into a tighter knot. Everything has become so complex and there’s so little money that they now manage to bring us to the end times in America. I do not see any hope or joy or vigor. I love my country but there’s nothing I can do but hang on, and by hang on it’s get through tomorrow, and so I do.

Me on the future:

Well, at least they're hiring!

Mike Bait

Came across this while I was searching for something for the Sunday Matinee.

It's a parody sure, Bro. But let's face it: There's a pretty good reason why we haven't bothered to check in on any hip-hop since the early 90's. Sadly, this is the current state of the music:

Reggie Watts - "Fuck Shit Stack" from ben dickinson on Vimeo.

The Sunday Matinee/ Music for a Sunday

Sorry about the light posting today. I've been out to the museum with the girlfriend.

Anyways, thought I'd kill two birds with one stone with this bit of musical theater.

Blood On My Name from Whitestone Motion Pictures on Vimeo.

Music for a Sunday

The Girlfriend informs me that this is my theme song. I read the lyrics and...well, yeah. Except for the ham and egg salad sandwiches. Especially not on white bread.

Also, I'm strictly a non-mentholated cigarette sort of guy.

On a Lighter Note...

...here's some heavy metal.

Barbariön - My Rock from Dave Budge on Vimeo.

Programming Note

The Girlfriend is here and I couldn't be happier about it!

If she'll have it, I'm putting her largely in charge of the music section of this blog. She just knows more about it and I want her to have a spot to write.

And I think y'all will be luckier for it!

I've always really liked the music section of this blog but I just get too busy with the other things I'm working on so I think it will be nice to have someone with a bit more dedication to it. This doesn't mean that I won't be throwing something up about it every now and again but I would hope that you're all looking forward to (her name, not mine): Kacee's Music Korner.

Thursday Music for the Girlfriend

We were just talking about music an instant ago.

Last Post of the Day

Elliot Smith. Why the hell not?

This goes out to the always wonderful Girlfriend. Not because the song makes me think of her but because it's late and we're so very, very far apart.



The Guardian runs down the mysterious circumstances of his suicide (murder?), here.

Music for a Government Shut Down

Well, they might not be as cool as the bikers from "The Road Warrior" and their post-government apocalypse might be a bit...unusual...But I'll take what I can get.

Das Pop: The Game from Big Active on Vimeo.

Music for a Saturday

I hear the Beasties are putting out a new album. Jane's Addiction too...It's like the 90's all over again.

Music for a Very Late Sunday

Kacee Bait: Have some whiskey Honey! Makes ya FEEEEEEEEEL bettah!

Local boy made quasi-good, Reid Paley - The Anesthetist's Song

Music for a Late Saturday

Via noted dog lover, Radley Balko:

Late Night Video for the Girlfriend

Everything you ever wanted to know about the wah-wah.

Sit down. Relax. This is gonna take a bit.

Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks The World from Joey Tosi on Vimeo

Music For Midnight

Well, maybe a few minutes past. But it's pretty and it sets a nice, nocturnal sort of mood.

Chiemgau impressions from Mario Feil on Vimeo.

Music for a Thursday

Because I love the song and it cheers me up.

Even if it is about the world nearly getting destroyed...

Music for a Sick Day

The brilliant Johnny Dowd lays out how I felt this morning...

Early Saturday Morning Music for the Girlfriend

Eh...Just sitting here. Thinking about how very far away she is and how much I miss her.

Which is probably boring to everyone else. But here's a song!

Erykah Badu - Gone Baby, Don't be Long from beeple on Vimeo.

Thursday Music for the Girlfriend

It's beepy, it's boopy and it may give you a seizure.

The Sweetshop from Seismik on Vimeo.

Songs From A Couch

Hey, the Girlfriend:

I miss Nashville. Can we live there?

Radley Balko presents "Songs From My Couch" over at the Nashville Byline.


Tom House - "Suzanne" from Mark Crozier on Vimeo.


Nice bit about the Springwater here. I remember it fondly:

So do you have any good "only in Nashville" stories for me?

Let me see. Well about 25 years ago at Springwater we started something called the “Working Stiff Jamboree”. The only stipulation to play at the jamboree was that you couldn’t have a job in the music industry. You had to have a regular job. Terry Cantrell let us put them on long as we didn’t advertise. So that went on for a long time and got pretty big, just by word of mouth. It wasn't glamorous. There used to be holes in the roof, so when it would rain, the show could sometimes get rained out. The water in the room would be an inch or two thick. But it was a very democratic thing. A lot of the songwriter nights can get pretty political about who gets on stage. But for this, anyone could come up. You could be some left-wing Irish political band, a jazz band, German polka, whatever. We had them all.

You’d get some crazy people in the audience at those shows. Sometimes you’d find yourself having a dialogue with someone in the audience in the middle of the song. People would just start talking to you. I remember one guy, this character David Wall, he used to line up beer bottles on a table in the front row, and he’d blow across the tops of the bottles along with whatever song they were playing on stage.

In tune?

Yeah. In tune and everything. He was a weird and talented guy. Looked like Tom Waits. He moved to Nashville after he got out of prison. He had this homemade three-string guitar, and he actually wrote a few good songs for it. He’d just slide his finger up and down that one string. Really one of Nashville’s true characters. He lived here about 10 years. I think he's in California now.

But the best story from those shows I can remember, there was a couple on stage singing this really stilted, operatic version of “God Bless the Child”. The woman, I think she worked in public radio, she was a very nice lady, but I think she thought of herself as some sort of classical singer, which didn’t go over well. There was a guy in the audience--and he’s still around so I won’t mention his name--he got fed up. He was a hard-core music fan, used a lot of drugs, he's pretty well-known around town. Anyway, he gets fed up, so he walks up to the stage and he actually sets the sheet music on fire while they’re playing. The poor woman didn't know what to do. Her music was on fire. Of course, the place just went nuts.