Just a couple of thoughts going through my mind right now. Had a productive, if boring, weekend. You know, one of those where you are really proud of yourself for getting the oil changed on your car right at the three month limit. Which still doesn’t explain why I’ll drive half an hour to get my oil changed on the off chance that the cute girl who used to work at the Jiffy Lube might still be there. (Along with playing a guitar, any girl who knows how to fix a car becomes infinitely more attractive). Anyway, other than working out and doing my grocery shopping this has been a pretty blasé weekend.
Have been listening to some interesting music this weekend. Spent much of yesterday blaring Steve Earle’s “The Revolution Starts Now”, which makes me want to pick up the ploughshare and take down the proletariat (a May Day reference to my socialist brethren out there). In some songs Steve is being overly political but he does a good job at it. I mean, if you pen a love song to Condoleeza Rice and make it interesting to listen to you have to consider it an accomplishment. He’s at his best when he is more obscure, like in the title track. It does make you want to go out and change the world.
Been listening to Keb’ Mo’ some more, thanks to the fact that I randomly listened to him last week in the car. I forgot how insanely talented the guy is, just doing some unbelievable acoustic blues that ends up being more uplifting than anything. Right now I’m listening to Josh Rouse’s Nashville, which I had heard one song from and a couple people talking about it. I am really impressed so far, this sounds like something that is going to stay in my CD player for a very long time. One of the things that I miss about getting rid of my five disc player is that I don’t have one disc staying in constant rotation for six months at a time anymore. It made it a lot easier to name my album of the year since it was probably still in the machine.
Things have been really quiet the past few weeks. I mean, the biggest news story right now is the “Runaway Bride”. I think we should now name every major news story after Julia Roberts movies. Just so we could reach the point where a news announcer is going, “Today in the ongoing Mystic Pizza controversy.” But I digress. This is an interesting news story, in that if she hadn’t called 911 there wouldn’t have been any crime at all. I mean, there is nothing illegal about flaking out and taking off from your life for a little while. Heck, I don’t even consider it flaking out, I’ve thought about doing it a number of times. You’ve got to go on walkabout at some point in your life. She just made a mistake in doing this during a really slow news week so that her going missing became this huge event when all she probably wanted to do was step away and think for a while. Can’t say I really blame her.
Not much else. Reading Douglas Coupland’s “Eleanor Rigby” and it looks like Douglas has found his writing style again. Which is good because he is one of my favorites (and did help to popularize the phrase Generation X) but he did write one of the worst novels of all time in “All Families Are Psychotic”. Combine that with “Polaroids From the Dead” and even fans like me started to wonder if he had lost it. But now he is back in the part novel, part philosophy, part social criticism style that he is best at. I’ll probably post some comments in a week or so but it is worth checking out.
The five random CDs for the week
1) Caitlin Cary “While You Weren’t Looking”
2) John Mayer “Any Given Thursday”
3) Bob Dylan “The Essential Bob Dylan”
4) Gear Daddies “Billy’s Live Bait”
5) Bettie Serveert “Dust Bunnies”
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