[the distance from what was done to what was said]
[The Star Room Boys -- "Why Do Lonely Men And Women Want To Break Each Other's Hearts?"] 5MB, .mp3
[The Star Room Boys -- "New York City Isn't Going Anywhere"] 5MB, .mp3
[The Star Room Boys -- "Both Our Towns"] 3MB, .mp3
[The Star Room Boys -- "Whiskey And You"] 5MB, .mp3
I think I've posted the occasional Star Room Boys track before, but an Ask Metafilter thread yesterday prompted me to listen to both albums again and I'm reminded of what gems they are. True Georgia country, underscored by Johnny Neff's superb pedal steel playing and laid over by Dave Marr's sad, scorching voice. The band's now defunct but god damn the two albums they left behind are fantastic.
If you snag these and enjoy them, drop me a comment, okay? Okay.
(To my mind, the best pedal steel players working today:
Yesterday shep. and I went to see the Carolina baseball team play App State, sat in the first row of an otherwise empty section, and were ogled at length by the App third baseman after he'd failed to chase down a foul ball that went out of play. Then we were squinted at suspiciously from the third base coaches' box by the Carolina coach, in a very I-know-you're-sitting-over-there-ogling-my-players way. I can't lie, Coach Fox: we totally were. We can't help it. Your starting catcher is smokin', and he kept running back and forth from the dugout to the bullpen. WE ARE NOT MADE OF STONE, OKAY. In our defense, we were also keeping score, and I was taking photos. But mostly ogling.
I accomplished a ton of work before 9 am today, and now I have to wait for other people to return my emails before I can do anything else. I wish this meant that I could go home early, but alas, no.
I know what we should do today: you should recommend some blogs to me. I am always looking for new things to put in my Google reader, so recommend away. I like food blogs and music blogs and photography blogs -- either talking about photography or posting photos -- and sports blogs (college and pro basketball, college and pro baseball, college football) and random lolzy blogs. Help me not die of boredom while I'm stuck in waiting-for-emails-at-work limbo!
As for my contribution, here are some of my favorites:[Tastespotting] A food blog syndicator.
[Every Day Should Be Saturday] My very favorite irreverent college football blog.
[Unphotographable] Photos not taken.
[Largehearted Boy] The best syndicator of music and book content out there -- daily posts about free and legal recordings, book reviews, a post full of interesting links to music and book related interviews and articles, weekly posts about new releases. He's awesome.
OKAY NOW YOU GO.
[The Star Room Boys -- "New York City Isn't Going Anywhere"] 5MB, .mp3
[The Star Room Boys -- "Both Our Towns"] 3MB, .mp3
[The Star Room Boys -- "Whiskey And You"] 5MB, .mp3
I think I've posted the occasional Star Room Boys track before, but an Ask Metafilter thread yesterday prompted me to listen to both albums again and I'm reminded of what gems they are. True Georgia country, underscored by Johnny Neff's superb pedal steel playing and laid over by Dave Marr's sad, scorching voice. The band's now defunct but god damn the two albums they left behind are fantastic.
If you snag these and enjoy them, drop me a comment, okay? Okay.
(To my mind, the best pedal steel players working today:
- Matt Stoessel (Don Chambers & GOAT, South San Gabriel, The Ginger Envelope, approximately seventeen other bands in Athens, GA)
- Todd Beene (Glossary, Lucero)
- Johnny Neff (the Drive-By Truckers, ex- of the Star Room Boys)
- the guy who plays/played pedal steel with Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys circa 2003
- Robert Randolph (Robert Randolph & the Family Band)
Yesterday shep. and I went to see the Carolina baseball team play App State, sat in the first row of an otherwise empty section, and were ogled at length by the App third baseman after he'd failed to chase down a foul ball that went out of play. Then we were squinted at suspiciously from the third base coaches' box by the Carolina coach, in a very I-know-you're-sitting-over-there-ogling-my-players way. I can't lie, Coach Fox: we totally were. We can't help it. Your starting catcher is smokin', and he kept running back and forth from the dugout to the bullpen. WE ARE NOT MADE OF STONE, OKAY. In our defense, we were also keeping score, and I was taking photos. But mostly ogling.
I accomplished a ton of work before 9 am today, and now I have to wait for other people to return my emails before I can do anything else. I wish this meant that I could go home early, but alas, no.
I know what we should do today: you should recommend some blogs to me. I am always looking for new things to put in my Google reader, so recommend away. I like food blogs and music blogs and photography blogs -- either talking about photography or posting photos -- and sports blogs (college and pro basketball, college and pro baseball, college football) and random lolzy blogs. Help me not die of boredom while I'm stuck in waiting-for-emails-at-work limbo!
As for my contribution, here are some of my favorites:[Tastespotting] A food blog syndicator.
[Every Day Should Be Saturday] My very favorite irreverent college football blog.
[Unphotographable] Photos not taken.
[Largehearted Boy] The best syndicator of music and book content out there -- daily posts about free and legal recordings, book reviews, a post full of interesting links to music and book related interviews and articles, weekly posts about new releases. He's awesome.
OKAY NOW YOU GO.