Tiny references

[Taterbug]

anyone watching the new series The Blacklist?
cool music

http://www.nbc.com/the-blacklist

Ahhh yes,  I really enjoyed the show and then they busted out " State of the Art".   

[Jeff Murray]

anyone watching the new series The Blacklist?
cool music

http://www.nbc.com/the-blacklist

Watched it on NBC.com tonight... it was a nice surprise outside of the storyline... I am hoping this is gonna be a good show, they at least have a good taste in music!

[ellisintransit]

http://www.avclub.com/article/dan-wilson-semisonic-adele-and-sincerity-taylor-sw-203435

Always been a Semisonic fan so I try to keep up with what Dan Wilson is into, and lately that's been as a co-writer and producer for several big name artists.  In this AV Club interview posted 4/18, they asked about other artists he's enjoyed working with.

"I did some collaborating with Jim James last year and that was amazing. He's one of those artist's artists because he does things because he's in pursuit artistically."

I always love reading that kind of stuff.  As a fan I know this to be true, but it's always nice to get the validation of other respected artists in that respect.

[ellisintransit]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/wayne-coyne-fires-back-at-pathological-liar-kliph-scurlock-20140509#ixzz31Et9WiMi

Well, I came for the FLips drama, and got a nice treat in the very last sentence.  I hadn't heard about this yet.

Wayne Coyne-
"I don't even like talking about our ex-drummer, because it just uses up this space that we could be talking bout this cool shit we're doing with Sean Lennon and My Morning Jacket and Miley, and I don't want any of that tainted."

[EverythingChanges]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/wayne-coyne-fires-back-at-pathological-liar-kliph-scurlock-20140509#ixzz31Et9WiMi

Well, I came for the FLips drama, and got a nice treat in the very last sentence.  I hadn't heard about this yet.

Wayne Coyne-
"I don't even like talking about our ex-drummer, because it just uses up this space that we could be talking bout this cool shit we're doing with Sean Lennon and My Morning Jacket and Miley, and I don't want any of that tainted."

What are they doing with Jacket?

[johnnYYac]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/wayne-coyne-fires-back-at-pathological-liar-kliph-scurlock-20140509#ixzz31Et9WiMi

Well, I came for the FLips drama, and got a nice treat in the very last sentence.  I hadn't heard about this yet.

Wayne Coyne-
"I don't even like talking about our ex-drummer, because it just uses up this space that we could be talking bout this cool shit we're doing with Sean Lennon and My Morning Jacket and Miley, and I don't want any of that tainted."

What are they doing with Jacket?

Perhaps a reference to One Big Holiday in Mexico?

[Murph]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/wayne-coyne-fires-back-at-pathological-liar-kliph-scurlock-20140509#ixzz31Et9WiMi

Well, I came for the FLips drama, and got a nice treat in the very last sentence.  I hadn't heard about this yet.

Wayne Coyne-
"I don't even like talking about our ex-drummer, because it just uses up this space that we could be talking bout this cool shit we're doing with Sean Lennon and My Morning Jacket and Miley, and I don't want any of that tainted."

What are they doing with Jacket?

Perhaps a reference to One Big Holiday in Mexico?

I really hope thats all it is. I dont wanna see Jim sucked into all that Wayne Coyne nonsense

[ellisintransit]

"Perhaps a reference to One Big Holiday in Mexico?"

That makes perfect sense. 

[ffghtrs]

I would say that the future of Rock n' Roll rests in the capable hands of Jim James and Jeff Tweedy equally.  I'm excited about the future of music. 

[ffghtrs]

haha

[johnnYYac]

Came upon a documentary on Showtime, Sellebrity, while channel surfing tonight. I only mention this because they used MMJ's Lowdown in the segment.

[CC]

Brent Best Explains These 42 Slobberbone Covers

"The Dark/Picture of You" by My Morning Jacket at the Sons of Hermann Hall on May 31, 2002, and at Dan's Silverleaf on June 22, 2002: "I didn't know anyone who knew them then. I didn't know about them till I did an in-store in Holland. I got paid in records. I said, 'What's that playing?' and it was their first record. I brought it back with them, and years later they got big. You're welcome."

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2012/02/for_your_weekend_listening_ple_84.php

[ellisintransit]

http://www.stereogum.com/1785330/33-musicians-discuss-their-favorite-radiohead-songs/franchises/radiohead-week/

Really loving this Radiohead week at Stereogum, and today they asked a gaggle of musicians what their favorite Radiohead song is.  Of course 'ol Jimmy James went down a weird road:

Jim James (My Morning Jacket)
"Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" (From 2007's In Rainbows)

I was playing and you came to see me. I went back in the day to some cheap dim brick-neon picnic dressing room to find and you had brought this surprise healer in long black veiled dress...this woman to heal me or something healing like that cuz I really needed it you always knew...I was with love and I ask the healer woman if its cool if she stay...at first healer was unsure but then she says okay — she stays. So the healer began to work me good and she looked deep into me from behind a veil and said "One foot in this world and one in the other. It's ok — you can move on. You can move on to the next chapter in your life. Okay?" Which felt so good to hear. Then all of a sudden the room was paused/motionless except for me. I was standing on a white plastic picnic chair letting out this crazy wail almost orgasmic but also a lot of sadness and steam like a primal screaming banshee vent I howled out puking neon UV rays rivaling those of most modern suns... As I finished wailing the scene abruptly spliced and you and love and a few other unidentifiable people in the room were still frozen but the healer was now standing by an open doorway with her arm gesturing for me to walk towards her thru the doorway and out into the light beautiful night time starry sky full moonlight. Now she has two faces: one still looking at me, inviting me to come over, and one looking out the door into the future and they were permanently slow turning like forever blurred back and forth. I consider this to be a good sign and as I walk towards her and out the open door into the new moonlight so grateful I wish you were here to hear it I cant hear it without thinking of you. Thank you for thinking of me. To be fair, I definitely have this experience every time I listen to "Weird Fishes."

[MusiKel Mama]

Why doesn't he just like write essays all the time?
He writes like a blend of Murakami and Kerouac...it's like so bohemian and neo-futurist...like he is just breathing paint thoughts. Thanks for posting this. I really love it.

[ellisintransit]

Me too!  And it did remind me of some of your prose/posts here, which I enjoy as well.

[MusiKel Mama]

Gee whiz, that's just about the kindest compliment you could give me, pal. Thank you so much!

I think my favorite literary device is the absense of articles...by taking out 'the' and 'a', it seems to make the expression more infinite...Kerouac did it all the time...like he would pluralize "Maria" to talk about the saintliness of women in Mexico...the Marias...or would just say something like "Mogdigliani Surrealist woman" in the middle of some word soup...and you're just reading l along like the thoughts are being born inside your own head and BAM! It hits you...and you read some stuccato sentence that just blows the whole page open...

Shit like that makes you redesign the interior of your mind.

Thank you again. Brought tears to my eyes.

[Tutofqueens]

I'm kind of a music blog nerd so I follow some of my favorite writers on Twitter. Ian Cohen's a writer for pitchfork and occasionally Grantland. He's an MMJ fan but is usually pretty objective. Which makes this exchange VERY exciting!

[ellisintransit]

^ Thanks I'm always looking for more music in my twitter feed. Following him now.

[joey_rogo]

speaking of grantland.................

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/songs-of-the-week-southern-rock-for-the-finally-thawing-spring/

[vwxg14a]

I saw a documentary on Showtime last night about a Florida man who was imprisoned for 30+ years and escaped 7 times.  As I was falling asleep at the end, I woke up to a remix version of Outta My System, which was truly the correct song for the movie. 

The movie is called The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest.  I highly recommend it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2766004/