Gazoo's Thread of Self-Indulgence

[Gazoo]

Two other tenants and I met with someone at the Attorney General's office this morning to learn the process of converting a building for sale into a co-op arrangement.  It's a long process (12-14 months at least), which is a good thing, as it buys me time to get to know the other residents better and save up for the down payment.

But is your landlady gonna sell the place in the meantime?  Where would that leave you guys?

The landlady is apparently giving the tenants priority to match the highest bid, but more importantly, we're all rent controlled or stabilized, so no one can boot us without a big payoff until our leases are up (which in my case is next April).

[Gazoo]

So I spent some of today condensing old files -- shredding/trashing a lot of old financials, revisiting some old correspondence and memories -- and found  a Live 105 playlist from 1997 when I won one of their call-in contests.  Thought y'all might get a kick out of their chart (January?), for which I remember about 75% of the songs:

1 Cake - The Distance
2 311 - All Mixed Up
3 Sublime - What I Got
4 No Doubt - Don't Speak
5 Soundgarden - Blow Up the Outside World
6 Smashing Pumpkins - Thirty-Three
7 Space - Female of the Species
8 Beck - Devil's Haircut
9 Garbage - #1 Crush
10 Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn
11 Butthole Surfers - TV Star
12 Bush - Swallowed
13 Bush - Greedy Fly
14 Failure - Stuck on You
14 Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye (yes, they had two #14s)
15 Republica - Drop Dead Gorgeous
16 Poe - Hello
17 Eels - Novocaine for the Soul
18 Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
19 Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun
20 Prodigy - Breathe
21 Fountains of Wayne - Radiation Vibe
21 Presidents of the USA - Mach 5
22 Fiona Apple - Shadow Boxer
23 RHCP - Love Rollercoaster
24 Mazzy Star - Flowers in December
25 Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon
26 Suicide Machines - No Face
27 Better Than Ezra - Desperately Wanting
28 BT w/ Tori Amos - Blue Skies
29 REM - Bittersweet Me
30 Orbital - The Box
31 Lemonheads - If I Could Talk I'd Tell You
32 Morcheeba - Trigger Hippie
33 STP - Lady Picture Show
34 Kula Shaker - Tattva
35 Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
add Sublime - Santeria
add Weezer - The Good Life
add Screeching Weasel - Cool Kids

[princessofcairo]

So I spent some of today condensing old files -- shredding/trashing a lot of old financials, revisiting some old correspondence and memories -- and found  a Live 105 playlist from 1997 when I won one of their call-in contests.  Thought y'all might get a kick out of their chart (January?), for which I remember about 75% of the songs:

1 Cake - The Distance
2 311 - All Mixed Up
3 Sublime - What I Got
4 No Doubt - Don't Speak
5 Soundgarden - Blow Up the Outside World
6 Smashing Pumpkins - Thirty-Three
7 Space - Female of the Species
8 Beck - Devil's Haircut
9 Garbage - #1 Crush
10 Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn
11 Butthole Surfers - TV Star
12 Bush - Swallowed
13 Bush - Greedy Fly
14 Failure - Stuck on You
14 Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye (yes, they had two #14s)
15 Republica - Drop Dead Gorgeous
16 Poe - Hello
17 Eels - Novocaine for the Soul
18 Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
19 Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun
20 Prodigy - Breathe
21 Fountains of Wayne - Radiation Vibe
21 Presidents of the USA - Mach 5
22 Fiona Apple - Shadow Boxer
23 RHCP - Love Rollercoaster
24 Mazzy Star - Flowers in December
25 Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon
26 Suicide Machines - No Face
27 Better Than Ezra - Desperately Wanting
28 BT w/ Tori Amos - Blue Skies
29 REM - Bittersweet Me
30 Orbital - The Box
31 Lemonheads - If I Could Talk I'd Tell You
32 Morcheeba - Trigger Hippie
33 STP - Lady Picture Show
34 Kula Shaker - Tattva
35 Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
add Sublime - Santeria
add Weezer - The Good Life
add Screeching Weasel - Cool Kids

on titles alone, i'm at about 50% recognition. maybe if i heard the tunes. don't remember the bt with tori amos, for instance.

[Gazoo]

The Stylus Jukebox changed format at the start of the year to a rolling blog.  I haven't had much time to contribute this year but did write a few blurbs this week:

http://stylusmagazine.com/jukebox/

[Gazoo]

Thinking out loud about what I think could be a cool business idea:

Create tiny files, smaller than text files, that can be incorporated/embedded into the data of an MP3 file, so that, depending on a person's preferences, information would appear on the screen/iPod, either as a scrolling stock-ticker-type bar or as a pop-up delivered by an avatar, about the song playing: facts about it, quotes from it, trivia, jokes and commentary like we post on these boards.  I think it would be a fun subscription add-on for people who are geeky about their music or who want some amusement during their iPodded commutes.  Imagine Joe Sixchip launching the ListenToJoeMama app with his iTunes and seeing the likes of our ramblings pop up with every song.

But I wouldn't actually call it ListenToJoeMama.

Do you think there's a market for this?  (I have more specific ideas about this if anyone's curious.)  Or is it the hash?

but that doesn't mean it's not a good idea!   :lol:

VH1 is rolling out this very idea for phones:

http://gawker.com/news/short-attention-spans/-300619.php

[Gazoo]

A dear friend is getting married this weekend.  Alas, to a woman, and not to me.  But they're both wonderful people and the groom is also the cousin and close friend of my good friend Dave*, in many ways the center of my collegiate Freak circle.

So Dave* and I conspired to make a wedding mix for them.  He wanted to open with three wedding songs from the Mikado, and gave me rein to flesh out the rest.  I've long pondered my own ideal wedding mix; since I'm not the marrying kind, I won't get to use it on myself, so now seems as good a time as any.

Much more I wish I could have fit, will save for someday volume two.  And one or two are specific to the groom (particularly the Samples song, which holds personal relevance to him, so don't take that title the wrong way).  But this is more or less what I'd love for a wedding day to sound like, and I hope they enjoy it as well, and any of you are of welcome to copies if you like.  And foreshadowing: My next mix is going to be called "The Return of the Attack of the Name Game."  Will be Christmaskwanzukah presents when the time comes, unless sooner.

Songs for a Wedding Morning
1. The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze - D'Oyly Carte Opera Co.
2. Braid the Raven Hair, Weave the Supple Tresses - D'Oyly
3. Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day - D'Oyly
4. Forever Came Today - Supremes
5. With This Ring - Platters
6. Beatles - Good Day Sunshine
7. Baby It's Fact -  Hellogoodbye
8. Two Fine People - Cat Stevens
9. I Get the Sweetest Feeling - Jackie Wilson
10. The Air That I Breathe - Hollies
11. Count On Me - Jefferson Starship
12. I Believe You - Dorothy Moore
13. And Suddenly - Left Banke
14. Run to Me - Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs
15. As We Go Along - Monkees
16. Hounds of Love - Futureheads
17. Oh Love, We Finally Made It - Love Unlimited
18. I Hear a Symphony - Supremes
19. Sweetie - Josh Rouse
20. Here, There, and Everywhere - Beatles
21. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads
22. Nothing Lasts for Long - Samples
23. We've Only Just Begun - Carpenters
24. They're Either Too Young Or Too Old - Bette Davis

[mshray]

Songs for a Wedding Morning
1. The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze - D'Oyly Carte Opera Co.
2. Braid the Raven Hair, Weave the Supple Tresses - D'Oyly
3. Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day - D'Oyly
4. Forever Came Today - Supremes
5. With This Ring - Platters
6. Beatles - Good Day Sunshine
7. Baby It's Fact -  Hellogoodbye
8. Two Fine People - Cat Stevens
9. I Get the Sweetest Feeling - Jackie Wilson
10. The Air That I Breathe - Hollies
11. Count On Me - Jefferson Starship
12. I Believe You - Dorothy Moore
13. And Suddenly - Left Banke
14. Run to Me - Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs
15. As We Go Along - Monkees
16. Hounds of Love - Futureheads
17. Oh Love, We Finally Made It - Love Unlimited
18. I Hear a Symphony - Supremes
19. Sweetie - Josh Rouse
20. Here, There, and Everywhere - Beatles
21. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads
22. Nothing Lasts for Long - Samples
23. We've Only Just Begun - Carpenters
24. They're Either Too Young Or Too Old - Bette Davis

I love the fact that you included the TH song, but you best hope not too many people saw the movie 1408 two tracks later.   :wink:

[Gazoo]

21. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads
22. Nothing Lasts for Long - Samples
23. We've Only Just Begun - Carpenters
24. They're Either Too Young Or Too Old - Bette Davis

I love the fact that you included the TH song, but you best hope not too many people saw the movie 1408 two tracks later.   :wink:

I've never seen the movie myself, so I'm afraid I have no idea what you mean.

[RGMike]

21. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads
22. Nothing Lasts for Long - Samples
23. We've Only Just Begun - Carpenters
24. They're Either Too Young Or Too Old - Bette Davis

I love the fact that you included the TH song, but you best hope not too many people saw the movie 1408 two tracks later.   :wink:

I've never seen the movie myself, so I'm afraid I have no idea what you mean.

But I saw it. LOL!

"Nothing lasts For Long" -- shouldn't you save that for their divorce mixtape?

[mshray]

21. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads
22. Nothing Lasts for Long - Samples
23. We've Only Just Begun - Carpenters
24. They're Either Too Young Or Too Old - Bette Davis

I love the fact that you included the TH song, but you best hope not too many people saw the movie 1408 two tracks later.   :wink:

I've never seen the movie myself, so I'm afraid I have no idea what you mean.

John Cusack is a writer who specializes in haunted places, and comes to NY to stay in room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel, against the very intense urgings of Samuel L. Jackson, the hotel manager, who among other things tells him, "No one has lasted more than an hour."  Having checked in anyway he is sitting there on his bed dictating into a recorder, when the clock radio turns on by itself to the strains of the Carpenters, and then changes from displaying the time to displaying a 60:00 min/sec countdown.  Lots of scary shit happens & the song comes back a couple more times, the last of which (trying hard not to be a spoiler here) is  impactful.

btw, if anyone hasn't seen this yet, it's a good rental & we just got the netflix director's cut last weekend, but the ending is COMPLETELY different than the theatrical release.  I mean as different as it could be, and to my thinking better.

[RGMike]

if anyone hasn't seen this yet, it's a good rental & we just got the netflix director's cut last weekend, but the ending is COMPLETELY different than the theatrical release.  I mean as different as it could be, and to my thinking better.

I'm glad to hear that, the theatrical ending was the only thing that disappointed me about the film, otherwise very well-made and Cusack is wonderful.

[urth]

A dear friend is getting married this weekend.  Alas, to a woman, and not to me.  But they're both wonderful people and the groom is also the cousin and close friend of my good friend Dave*, in many ways the center of my collegiate Freak circle.

So Dave* and I conspired to make a wedding mix for them.  He wanted to open with three wedding songs from the Mikado, and gave me rein to flesh out the rest.  I've long pondered my own ideal wedding mix; since I'm not the marrying kind, I won't get to use it on myself, so now seems as good a time as any.

Much more I wish I could have fit, will save for someday volume two.  And one or two are specific to the groom (particularly the Samples song, which holds personal relevance to him, so don't take that title the wrong way).  But this is more or less what I'd love for a wedding day to sound like, and I hope they enjoy it as well, and any of you are of welcome to copies if you like.  And foreshadowing: My next mix is going to be called "The Return of the Attack of the Name Game."  Will be Christmaskwanzukah presents when the time comes, unless sooner.

Songs for a Wedding Morning
1. The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze - D'Oyly Carte Opera Co.
2. Braid the Raven Hair, Weave the Supple Tresses - D'Oyly
3. Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day - D'Oyly
4. Forever Came Today - Supremes
5. With This Ring - Platters
6. Beatles - Good Day Sunshine
7. Baby It's Fact -  Hellogoodbye
8. Two Fine People - Cat Stevens
9. I Get the Sweetest Feeling - Jackie Wilson
10. The Air That I Breathe - Hollies
11. Count On Me - Jefferson Starship
12. I Believe You - Dorothy Moore
13. And Suddenly - Left Banke
14. Run to Me - Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs
15. As We Go Along - Monkees
16. Hounds of Love - Futureheads
17. Oh Love, We Finally Made It - Love Unlimited
18. I Hear a Symphony - Supremes
19. Sweetie - Josh Rouse
20. Here, There, and Everywhere - Beatles
21. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads
22. Nothing Lasts for Long - Samples
23. We've Only Just Begun - Carpenters
24. They're Either Too Young Or Too Old - Bette Davis

Fabulous selection of songs. I hope they can pay enough attention to realize what a great compliment you've paid them (but maybe give them a copy so they can listen later and remember...)  Only song I might have added was an obvious choice--Beach Boys' Wouldn't It Be Nice.

But you never explained why the asterisk with Dave's name.

[Gazoo]

But you never explained why the asterisk with Dave's name.

Oh, private joke, sorry: In college, Dave*'s roommate was also named Dave, and the asterisk was added to conveniently distinguish.  The former still sometimes signs his letters and e-mails with an asterisk, keeping the joke going.  We Freaks are weird that way.

[mshray]

But you never explained why the asterisk with Dave's name.

He explained it many moons ago, he had a plurality of friends named Dave back then, so this one decided (or else the group decided) that he should be known as Dave* instead of any other variation.

ETA: oops, to late.

[urth]

But you never explained why the asterisk with Dave's name.

Oh, private joke, sorry: In college, Dave*'s roommate was also named Dave, and the asterisk was added to conveniently distinguish.  The former still sometimes signs his letters and e-mails with an asterisk, keeping the joke going.  We Freaks are weird that way.

Ah, OK. So I'm curious: in conversation was Dave* referred to as Dave-asterisk?

Reminds me of a college dorm friend named Eric, who became known as Eric the Bee, a reference to a Monty Python sketch about Eric the Half Bee. Our Eric certainly wasn't a half bee, so it followed that he must have been a whole bee, hence Eric the Bee.

Guess you had to be there.