Hunter in the News

During an impromptu tour of one of the local farms, a reporter from the Holliston Reporter took a sweet shot of Hunter in the corn (scroll down).

Quote of the Day

On the way to crush the revolution
Wilderness and its burning bush
The enemy seeks our dissolution
All he needs is a little push
And we've all known hurt
And we're all gonna find it here in this dirt

Empire's got you by the balls
And war keeps drawing near
And it's pulling you
Pulling you back here

Deadmans Hand - The Church

Fireworks music

Is it just me or did the Boston Pops fireworks show not really involve the, you know, Boston Pops? All that country music was just weird (and horrifically bad).

Ah... tonight arrives...

This has been a pretty crappy week. Rain nonstop, I've already put in a 40 hour week, including a client call last night that lasted until 11:00 PM... but it's all good because The Church are in town (well... in some corporate club in Foxborough at least. Should I wear my Bills gear to the Patriots Place?).

As I touched upon the other day, MWP sez that "[our music] needs you to come to our party." I'm game, i'm prepped, and i'm so there. I only wish that someone else was on the same trip I was on so that I could share the experience...

I'll post a synopsis / review of the show as soon as I can. Until then, pick up Untitled #23.

Trance Frogs

Continuing on the theme of electronica animals from the other day, I note that The Orb's "Hamlet of Kings (Alternate Version)" track -- off of the expanded version of Cydonia (not their best album, BTW) -- sets up its initial groove off of a series of bullfrog croaks.

It's a neat concept, and one that nicely sets off the mellow groove that follows, but the track as a whole just never takes off, quite possiblly because by the end of the song the poor frogs have been abandoned in favor of keyboard washes and old skool electronic noodling.

However, I eagerly await the next frog groove with high hopes that we can get some sort of sun-beaten lazy summer pond groove going!

The Nip Culture

I just took my dog for a walk around the neighborhood and was struck again about a strange phenomena. Where Hilldale Road and Green Street meet, there aren’t any houses close by. In fact, there’s a stretch of Green Street where no houses line the road due to the slope of the hill. So what happens is that this stretch of road is littered with trash. The waste consists of the usual water and soda bottles and fast food debris, but the main ingredient is nips. Lots and lots of nips, typically vodka, and mainly Stoli Vodka. Hell, I picked up seven of them myself yesterday, and those were just the ones within grabbing distance of the road!

I’m assuming that this is where the “kids” drive by to dispose of their drinking containers so they don’t leave incriminating evidence in the cars when they get home, but my questions are:

- Why nips? Can’t they get a bottle and squirrel it away somewhere?
- Where are they getting them?

I did my share of underage drinking back in the day, but I can’t ever remember doing so via nips. Bizarre.

Like a Clarion

I'm getting excited about Thursday's Church show. Steve Kilbey's blog The Time Being is usually interesting reading, and today's posting is no exception:

...and the churches journey begins
trawling thru wrecked lives
and impossible futures
and broken hearted romeos
and dirty horny devils
and futuristic pasts
and timeless distances
and unspeakable things
things of great wonder
and irony and contempt
and loads of wide eyed fourth form naivete
and drugs and withdrawals and stoned reveries
and voyages into the unknown and just untold
and greek hits n myths and romans and west virginian women
and stupid junkies and crone-like infants
and all the rest of the mess
that i shook outta my pure bread brain...

The Boston Phoenix also had a preview of their show, but it was mainly a disappointing discussion with Marty Willson-Piper about why they're "not an 80s band". Boring. At least MWP made the discussion interesting, no small feat considering how often he's had to address this "issue":

You could call our music psychedelic, but I think it's more . . . moody. It needs you to come to our party. It's both jagged and dreamy — but at the same time, if you see us live, you're going to see a quite powerful rock band. We have moments of atmosphere and beauty, but lots of heavy moments and wailing solos.