Plugged In

broderic on February 25, 2010

During our snow-mageden, I put new strings on my Epiphone ES-335 and started playing some songs. Most likely it was the boredom, but it was also because of the Blue Hearts that I restrung her. I most definitely wanted to play “Owaranai Utai” and “Linda! Linda!” yet I really want to play the sweet, trembling tones of surf music again.

Now I’m looking at getting a new guitar. Pure Fender. A Jaguar. Crap. I’ll have to wait for the tax refund.

Anyway, I’ve spent part of the day researching the Jaguar. Yes. I want one. But don’t those G&L look great? My favorite guitarist, Jerry Cantrell, is a devotee. Plus, you can’t go wrong with a Leo Fender guitar telecaster. Mmm. My favorite style. I should string her up — the candy red Tele. She was my original surf guitar not really suited for it but still shimmery tone and all.

But to the point of this post. I went into a music shop. You’ve got to be an eddie van halen to go into one. There’s the music staff. They look at you and wonder if you’ve got the tone. Do you have what it takes to use the axe your about to buy? I sure don’t. I played the jaguar for a bit in the back behind the amps unplugged. I like the feel. The music shop vibe I don’t like so much. Too much pressure. Thank kami-sama for the internet.

The Wolfman

broderic on February 20, 2010

Following the myth of The Wolfman, I should wait until the next full moon to write up my review. Except that if I did, I would wake up and find that I don’t remember anything about it. A week later and the story is the same. I don’t remember anything about The Wolfman.

Of course, if you had seen it, you’ll think that the curse would be infinitely terrible. That the fiancée of your dead brother mauled by a supernatural creature would fall for you. That your issues with your dad would turn out to be really big issues.

3 of 5 stars.

The Blue Hearts “Owaranai Uta”

broderic on February 19, 2010

1st verse:
owaranai uta wo utao
kuso dare no sekai no tame
owaranai uta wo utao
subete no kuso tomo no tameni
owaranai uta wo utao
boku ya kimi ya karera no tame
owaranai uta wo utao
ashita ni wa waraeru you ni

tranlation:
lets sing an endless song
for all the shit in the world
lets sing an endless song
everything is for the shit and all the followers
lets sing an endless song
for me,you and them
lets sing an endless song
as if we “make fun” about tommorow “laughing”

Endless

broderic on February 18, 2010

You’ll hear it all week!

No idea who this is doing the cover, but I had to include it just for spits and jiggles. If you have more familiarity with j-rock or j-pop, let me know so I can torrent their albums…

Owaranai Uta

broderic on February 17, 2010

The ending credits to “Linda! Linda! Linda!” had this run immediately after the end of the movie, but not before the crawl.

This song rocks. You’ll hear this all week….

Link of the Day [2.17.10]

broderic on February 17, 2010

I haven’t seen a blog-a-thon n a while. They were all the rage a few years back. It’s when a bunch of bloggers decide to blog upon a subject for a few days. They write a blog post addressing the topic at hand, submit it to the blog-a-thon co-ordinator, and then read and comment upon all the links available. It stirs up a sense of community in the blog-o-sphere.

Today’s link is to a blog-a-thon about film preservation. Lot’s of interesting links to ponder about the loss of some of Hollywood’s past. It is also about treasuring and helping to preserve what little is out there.

http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com/2010/02/for-love-of-film-film-preservation.html

75 Wins

broderic on February 17, 2010

Pitchers and catchers report tomorrow for spring training. And also Adam Jones.

I’m excited and hopeful, but that’s how it is at the start of a new season. After last year’s dismal finish, this year has got to be better. Are the Orioles a .500 team? Doubtful. There offseason acquisitions only bolstered the team little. They have to win 19 or more games than last year to get to the mediocre .500, and I don’t think they could do it.

They’re pitchers have to do good. At least one of them has to be a 13 game winner, and they need three to be 10 game winners to make them semi-decent.

They need a homerun hitter or at least someone to hit 25+ homeruns. Luke Scott? If he’s still on the team by years end. Markakis or Jones? Maybe. Weiters? Hopefully.

They need to generate runs and to keep giving up the homeruns themselves. They also need to play decent games against the monsters of the east, NY and Boston. They play 18 games against each of them. If they can win 12 of 36, that would be amazing.

So, I predict that we’ll win 75 games this year. It is reasonable enough and we know we’re headed in the right direction. We’ll see how we stack up at the all star break.