Gone and died years ago.
I don't watch MTV unless they have Spongebob on around midnight at
times. I guess it's a way to bring out Britney to parade around the
world and give her a worthless VMA. VH1 and MTV are no longer music
releted. Just a waste of reality crap that nobody gives two shits
about. It's not about the music anymore and it hasn't for the past ten
years. Without TMZ and Perez Hilton, Britney would be dancing on a pole
to make her living.
I'm thinking that Jessica Simpson might have a better luck with a
country career but you know she's still a vamp. While watching her on
GAC's Opry Live, her funpuppies were about ready for climb out of her
skimpy Daisy Duke shirt. I don't exactly feel sorry about her love
life, just wait till she's forty eight and in our situation but
technially she still going around thinking of herself as a sex symbol.
I'm sure her country album will do well but history will show that like
anything else, it won't stay on the charts very long. Just curio sales
and then poof. And on a side note I don't think Jewel is washed up, it
just the fact that cd sales are not as they once were.
Best Buy has now chopped down their CD aisle in half and added more
DVD spots. And Best Buy is getting piss poor in terms of having what
you want. They didn't have the new BB King album so I couldn't review
it.
What is it with city government when the mayor of Cedar Rapids falls
asleep during the meetings? Ain't y'all glad that you voted for this
new government which has fallen flat on its face with the Epic Surge of
2008. Ole Rip Van Halloren says that the garbage and debis from the
floods have been hauled away? Well I guess that she doesn't venture too
much into the Czech Village part of CR, or around my old neighborhood
on 16th ave. Or go into Time Check, or come down the hill on First
Avenue. Yup, it's hard to stay awake during any kind of meetings for
myself but when you're mayor and have to oversee the major event of a
lifetime and can't stay awake, then perhaps you better either drink more
Redbull or pop a Viviran. People who have lost their livelihood tend
to take a dim view of a napping official. But then again if anybody
votes for McCain and the Psycho Palin for President and VP will get to
see a real case of demetria and Alzheimer's in action. The more I hear
about Palin, the more I'm thinking she's a female Putin or Socialist.
The freedoms of our world is slipping away, between corruption,
hurricanes and floods...
Well another weekend wasted on The Cubs and their falling all over
themselves. The great Kerry Wood blew another save and the Reds came
back to win. Fucking Cubs had a chance to gain a game on the Brewers
who got smoked 10 to 1 but the Wild Wood return to walk two batters and
Ronny Cedeno ole'd a ball for the tying runs. It's easy to blame the
infielder for errors but there's no excuse and no defense for walks.
Ten years ago, Wood pitched the best game as he one hit and stuck out 18
Astros and that qualified him to stick around all these years. But you
never know what you're going to get when Wood pitches and once again
Wood was Wild, walking Reds here and there. Get it together Cubs before
you become the biggest choke job yet.
Record from the past.
Linn County-Fever Shot (Mercury)
I only mentioned these guys since they are from Cedar Rapids and
managed to score a recording contract with Mercury for one album and
Phillips for another and featured the late Steven Miller ..boards. The
Mercury albums are hard to come by and I did find a somewhat playable
album to hear this band. And I can see where the Truth and Janey got
their influence at, or for that matter most of the blues based bands
from this area. Iowa doesn't have very many bands that break into the
big time, most of which only scored independent labels with the rare
exception of Slipknot who has managed to live ten years on Roadrunner
Records, a major feet in itself.
Perhaps it's the mystic and legend of Linn County rather than the
recordings themselves for I found that Fever Shot to be somewhat a dated
piece of hippie blues and blooze to which they kinda remind me of Sir
Lord Baltimore and Blue Cheer with Miller shouting through the hippy
dippyness. Perhaps I didn't care when the record skipped on their
remake of Girl Can't Help It and most of side one didn't offer much,
although they did progressive on Suspended. Side two has their
signature song Fever Shot which is psycho blues and and a jazzy take on
Lonely Avenue and Miller adds two covers from both Sonny Boy
Williamsons, John Lee and Rice Miller. Impressive yes, but bascially the
album has dated very badly and shows it's 1969 roots. If I ever find
the Phillips album I'll take a listen to that too, I do have a single
from that album and it seems to be a bit more inspired. Fever Shot the
album on the other hand is legendary for the fact that hometown band
goes to Chicago and makes a major album and it is a cult classic. In
fact, play this alongside No Rest For The Wicked from Truth and Janey
and you'll get a inkling of how Cedar Rapids played the psycho blues.
Which may or may not be worth hearing if you're not into psycho blues
Grade C
Album tracks that did get played on Beakerstreet or the underground stations; Fever Shot, Lonely Street, Suspended.
On the subject of FEMA taking away the portapotties in the flood affected areas, Carl offers up this suggestion.
I suggest we organize a community effort to fund replacement
port-a-potties. We could call it Cedar Rapids Adopt-a-Pot, or CRAP.
Donors would receive port-a-pottie shaped buttons which say, "I gave a
CRAP". If you wanted to break it down, businesses could donate via
"Corp-CRAP" and residents could donate via "Cit-CRAP". Donation levels
would be One-Ply for a single pot, Two-Ply for two potties or Wet Wipe
for more than two potties. Group efforts would be Friends And Relatives
Together (FART).
