Nip Watch Ctd.

As I noted here, there's a lot of discarded nips at a deserted section of my street. Today I picked up six nips (all Stoli Vodka), a plastic hip flask, and two energy drink cans.

On the positive side, all of this rain has sprouted an amazing amount of fungus everywhere. Indian Pipe - one of my favorite fungi - is everywhere!

Things that make me happy

The high-pitched guitar line in Sonic Youth's Walkin Blue. Rocking and beautiful at the same time.

Everything we see is clear!

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!