Appreciation... New Art Brut Album

I love this band and this new album Art Brut vs Satan had me sold as soon I saw the song title "DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake"! What else does a guy need?



Life is especially hard
When no one trusts you with a credit card
I love the taste of cereal
I have it for almost every meal
Five people to a tea bag?
My life never really got that bad
Not while we still had...

DC comics and chocolate milkshake
Some things will always be great
DC comics and chocolate milkshake
Even though I'm 28
DC comics and chocolate milkshake
I guess I'm just developing late
DC comics and chocolate milkshake
I never got over that amazing taste

I've been accused of some things
I'm not sure what they've meant
Peter Pan syndrome, and arrested development
Now I've been working since I was 10
But the money's always gone by the weekend
Delivering post to serving beer
I've never had much of a career
So I made sure I was always near...

DC comics and chocolate milkshake
Some things will always be great
DC comics and chocolate milkshake
Even though I'm 28
DC comics and chocolate milkshake
I guess I'm just developing late
DC comics and chocolate milkshake
I never got over that amazing taste

I'm in love with a girl in my comic shop
She's a girl who likes comics;
She probably gets a lot

DC comics and chocolate milkshake
Some things will always be great
DC comics and chocolate milkshake
Even though I'm 28
DC comics and chocolate milkshake
I guess I'm just developing late
DC comics and chocolate milkshake
I never got over that amazing taste

(DC comics and chocolate milkshake)
Some things will always be great
Even though I'm 28
I guess I'm just developing late
I never got over that sweet, sweet taste

Now that's a song I understand!

Appreciation... New Camera Obscura album out today!

That's right, Camera Obscura's My Maudlin Career arrives in US record stores today! I gotta make the trip to Barnes and Noble if not today then soon! I love this new single so much!

Here's the video for "French Navy"

Appreciation... Of Montreal Live!

It is April 15th now... we are home and exhausted from the surreal experience that is Of Montreal live and soon sleep will come. Already video is up from some showgoer other than I, and while the sound quality is off the video does capture a bit of the theatre of the absurd antics of the evening!



This band is amazing live! Amazing! Their crazy tiger man guy is totally going to show up in my dreams though... I just know it! Now you can see him too!

Congratulations... TCM turns 15 years old!

Happy Birthday TCM! You continue to be the television channel my TV stays set on! As an avid devotee of classic films, I keep paying for cable each month just to support and enjoy this network! I buy a lot of classic movies but I I have found so many obscure pictures thanks to TCM, and I own a DVD recorder so there's that great advantage of being able to record a lot of this stuff! Thanks to programming each month like the Star of the Month, The Essentials, Silent Sundays, TCM Imports, Guest Programmer nights, and all the various spotlights on directors, stars, etc. there's just such a wealth of film info available if you love classic movies! So Happy Birthday TCM! Here's to all that's yet to come!

I also have to confess that I kind of really want to order a Robert Osborne Bobblehead...

...too cool!

Appreciation... Lady of a Certain Age live

Idle time spent on YouTube led me to this little gem -my favourite track from Neil Hannon's Divine Comedy album Victory for the Comic Muse.

Anticipation... New Maximo Park Album

Here's some good news! I just found out tonight that there's new music from Maximo Park on the horizon and here's the new single "The Kids Are Sick Again" to prove it! Video taken from the forthcoming album Quicken the Heart, available in stores on May 12th!

Anticipation... Upcoming Concert Calendar!

Since July of 2008 I have kind of slowing been getting back into the thrill of enjoying live music and getting out to see shows. I get frustrated that living in Central PA there's not a lot of cool stuff to do sometimes, but we are within driving distance of all kinds of big cities! Once upon a time, I took advantage of this a lot and roamed to Philly and Baltimore and NYC for shows, but as things go in life, I gave it up. I can't even think of a reason why... maybe just how things go with your attention span as you grow up, etc, etc. But I have really been enjoying going to shows again and seeing the bands I adore live and having someone to share my adoration for these bands has done the most to inspire this renaissance of activity in my life! And quite fortunately I have a number of cool events coming up I can report that I'll will be attending in the weeks ahead!

First up... April 14th @ Sonar in Baltimore, Lexi and I are seeing Of Montreal!



Next, we have tickets to see Franz Ferdinand with an opening act I am very excited about, Born Ruffians, on May 6th @ The Electric Factory!



Then for Lexi's birthday on May 16th, I have got us tickets to see The Shins in Philadelphia again @ The Electric Factory!



And the last show immediately on our horizon is the Camera Obscura show @ The Theatre of Living Arts in Philadelphia! They're touring in support of their new album that hits store on April 20th!



So that'll give me some stuff to blog about in the weeks ahead!

Good times, good times...