iPod morning commute music: Green Day, American Idiot
This is a band I just knew nothing about, when my friend Brad gave me a copy of American Idiot. What an album! I can't remember being this taken with a punk album since The Clash's London Calling. I later saw them perform in the Live 8 concert, and was again really impressed. This is a damn near perfect album.
Yesterday the wife and I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Fun, but not as good as Sin City, which we saw a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, had to go into Osaka to see the film (free tickets good at only 1 theater, a gift from our newspaper), so 90 minutes in and 90 back. Depp was great, as usual, and Burton's visuals are always a treat (not to mention the squirrels). Got home to find I'd screwed up and missed a Democrats Abroad Japan-Kansai meeting; I got the date mixed up. The meetings are held in Osaka, and there was no way I was going to commute back in, so I watched the White Sox and Freddy Garcia dominate the Angels again. Freddy...being from Seattle, I can't help but wonder about THAT trade. We got a catcher who couldn't hit, Olivio I think the name was, and they got The Chief.
Finished watching No Direction Home. Superb documentary. What was really cool was how normal Dylan sounds in the interviews he gave for the film which also provided a lot of the voice over narration. In concert he seems somewhere between standoffish and shy, almost uncomfortable. The soundtrack that go with it (No Direction Home: Bootleg Tapes #7) is also good.
Picked up as well the new Neil Young, Prarie Wind. Good acoustic Neil.
Well, back to work.
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Hi Craig, glad you enjoyed Sin CIty. With you on Charlie, felt it lacking somewhat. As for Bobby the Z, really looking forward to seeing No Direction Home. Heard This Land is Your Land from the CD on the radio and Bobby was sounding very whimsical, not like the barnstorming Woody version. (Guthrie that is not the Toy Story dude - has he done a version?) but i digress. Nice blog and as far as Im concerned the Kinks were one of THE great singles bands. That run of theirs in the sixties was out of this world. Glad to hear that Dave has recovered too.
ian, thanks for joining in. Yeah, the Kinks were a great singles band, and so good in concert. I remember seeing them open for the Beach Boys in Seattle in the early '70s. Ray opened a bottle of Heinekin on stage, took a big swig, then balanced it on his head, where it remained for the duration of the song Demon Alcohol, swaying drunkenly about the stage all the while. When the song ended, he dramatically swooped it off his head and guzzled it down. What a showman!
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