( 12:03 AM )
The iPod Confessional
I think it might be easier to celebrate Christmas every other year. That way you might actually get it right for a change while avoiding that feeling of “if I hear another freaking Christmas song I’m gonna fucking puke.” Actually, my Christmas this year was great.
My real point this late-December evening is that I feel bad for not contributing to the recent 2 Walls iPod list. You see, I have a stunning confession-- I may be last musichead on the planet who doesn’t own an iPod. Please don’t pity me; I don’t own one by choice.
It’s just that dammit-- I think music should cascade from good speakers--not through tiny white earphones-- and I can’t stand listening to music through a computer either. At home, “vibrating air” is always emitted through a stereo, and in the car the factory-installed Nissan tape deck works just nicely.
Sure I make and play CD’s—cripes, I do own a Mac Mini and I can record anything through a stand-alone Philips CD recorder, but nothing beats sitting in the lair at home, swirling a drink, and enjoying gloriously magnified sound from vinyl records, cassettes, or CD’s of course--as god intended.
Anyway, the iPod list. Well my wife and I just threw a Christmas party last weekend and I figured, what the hell, I’d list the tracks from a disc I put together. Just pretend it’s a seamless iPod playlist and that you’re walking through the cold, crowded streets of NYC while good-looking people pass you by with flirtatious flickers in their eyes.
I was in an old-Rolling Stones mood having just received an amazing sounding bootleg of the Stones live in Brussels & London from 1973. I wanted to keep things rocking but upbeat and dancy.
We listened to tons of stuff over the course of the evening, but I remember this disc playing all the way through--
“Gimme Shelter” Rolling Stones live 1973 (outstanding bootleg— killer quality & song)
“Miss Frisco (Queen of the Disco)” Johnny Guitar Watson (’05 reissue--total bass jam)
“Soul Pride/Licking Stick” James Brown and the JB’s live 1968 (well hello, the JB’s!)
“Rockin’ Daddy Howlin’ Wolf & Eric Clapton (a slight calmdowner, but very cool)
“I Can’t Get Next To You” Al Green (a lip-biting, slip-shoe slider)
“Caveman Boogie” Lesette Wilson (obscure jazz funk)
“Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll” Vaughan Mason (obscure roller-disco finger-snapper)
“Pomodom” Yonderboi (cool chick chorus, shuffle bassline, and nifty vibrophone)
“Wildflowers” Connie Price (fantastic funk instrumentalists that look like Allman Bros.)
“Just Like a Baby” Sly Stone (a forgotten sleeper; spacey funk-soul nugget)
“You’re Blowing My Mind” Happy Chichester (a heavy soulful demo; Foley on bass!)
“Chi-City/Real People” Common (great album-- too much n-word, but simply awesome)
“Monkey Man” Rolling Stones (off vinyl—juiced—it’s just got a nasty-ass groove)
“Do Do Do Do Do” Rolling Stones live 1973 (extended jam version—excellent)
“On and On” Nikka Costa (Lenny Kravitz on drums; a dirty crotch screamer)
“Doowutchyalike” Digital Underground (right-on stinky old school rap)
“Corozon” Titan (big dance, sorta salsa-flavored; nice ender)
Song of the Day:
“I Want to Ta-Ta You Baby” Johnny “Guitar” Watson 1976
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( 11:10 PM )
The following handwritten letter was discovered on the frozen steps of McKinley Hall:
Dear Lisa,
On this annual marking of seasonal celebration time, I’m dying to decorate the holiday tree, plug in the fiesta menorah, and sing non-threatening sea chanteys to deaf kids who can’t hear. I also want a pink iPod. You know it’s hard to stay PC when my short people tolerance class is filled with fucking midgets. Hey do you suppose farts from outer space smell bad? What about jars of dead frogs from El Salvador?
Have a jovial new calendar beginning next month,
Kristin
Song of the Day:
“Run Rudolph Run” Reverend Horton Heat 2005
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