Wander Logic

days go by

alejhernandez@gmail.com (Alejandra) — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 06:14:00 +0000

ive been busy
and will to continue to be...
i probably wont make another proper entry until i get back from chicago
but

Jon Brion is back

and that dears album leaked a couple days after that last lament
neato but a little underwhelming, only because i overanticipated

babe you bring my smile on like no other

alejhernandez@gmail.com (Alejandra) — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:06:00 +0000

blogger must have something against me. crashing my firefox going down for maintenance when i finally come to post
i totally understand

Went out for Nikka Costa at Largo last night. I put it that way because the most notable thing about it is probably that I left the house, I realized how much i fucking need live music to survive. It was a fucking shot in the arm like nothing else could have been. Id gladly give up the cigarettes if someone promised to feed this addiction with some regularity. I hadnt been to a proper concert since midway through last September. Seriously tragic.
Nikka was awesome too, but I still would rather be going on Friday for Daaaahveeeeeeed Garza and Colin Hay. Shes about five months pregnant and still the funkiest bitch around. You could tell she was holding enough soul for two. She pulled out some covers (though if you're a fan of hers you know she does the same damn set for every "tour") A couple old ones that I'd never heard live from her a tune off the Color Purple ost , "Miss Celie's Blues" and Nina Simone's "I'm Gonna Leave You". Also a couple others that shes just thrown in for this run of shows, John Lennon's "Jealous Guy" and The White Stripes "Denial Twist". They were alright. Id been told they were coming and kind of expected more. I guess I can't fault the pregnant lady.

Speaking of Jack White...Paste magazine featured a list of their 100 greatest living songwriters in this months issue. It was decent (not great) for the first fifty. It got pretty ridiculous from there on. White was 59, i dont count him among the ridiculousness, hes pretty kickass (but 59?). They threw in a lot of trendy picks in the latter half, clearly pandering to their readership. Even considering something like this is kind of absurd, but they gotta fill pages i guess.I dont think I've ever posted anything from Nikka here and im too lazy to check so here goes.

Butterfly Rocket (1996)

Get Off of my Sunshine
Come Clean
Grab Hold

Everybody Got Their Something (2001)

Some Kind Of Beautiful
Hope It Felt Good

Can'tNeverDidNothin' (2005)

Funkier Than A Mosquitos Tweeter
On &On <---- you must have sex with this song on. MUST! at least once

gimme some mo...
When My Man Cries
Miss Celie's Blues
I'm Gonna Leave You

After seeing every one of Nikkas shows that was within driving distance for a few months I went on something of a hiatus. Not so much by choice. I actually stopped listening to her completely. Im a sensitive little twit. I went out for a smoke before the show started and ran into her guitarist, Josh Lopez. We talked mostly about his difficulty in picking up ass but also about my long absence

JLo: Hey we haven't see you in a while!
me: yeah i missed you guys i havent been able to come
JLo: You havent been able to come? what do you have a baby or something
me: NO! just stuff...

stuff was there last night. I was under the impression she wouldnt be. i was under the impression the only reason i was invited to attend was that she wouldnt be. oh well
heres to not so pleasant surprises.
at least i didnt throw up this time

Nikka will be at Largo again next Tuesday. and then a couple dates supporting Van Hunt, whose album is getting much better reviews than i expected. I thought maybe id missed something the first few listens so i gave it another shot.
I hadnt.

I'm going to have to post some garza and hay so you all understand why im so sad about missing them. Theyre in residency, taking over Jon Brion's usual friday nights while hes off being a genius.
I've just caught up on the last couple months Bishop Allen EPs. ive been somewhat dissapointed so far this year. heres my favorite track from them just for kicks, off of charm school
Things are what you make of them

and for laughs
i redid this sober. it may actually be a little better though im still pretty congested. the composer and i are quibbling over the vocal melody right now (also my ill-advised ornamentation but hes right about that). i prefer my way damn it. i did completely fuck the bridge though
Walls

and lolz of all lolz heres my nina simone cover. i think i dislike it more and more each time i play it. i also fuck it up worse each time i play it. i actually made up that wonderfully fucked chord sequence on my own. its the first time ive covered a song i couldnt find a tab for not much of an accomplishment considering
Be My Husband

im going to throw my guitar out the window
the world will be a better place for it
wars will end tears will cease to fall

who would want to be such an asshole?

alejhernandez@gmail.com (Alejandra) — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:10:00 +0000

not issac brock

ive just begun and already i digress

here're the dears. theirs is an album that im anticipating as much, maybe moreso, as any that remains to be released this year. a leak today would be so fucking perfect. but with my luck lately we wont behearing this til its actually *GASP* available for purchase.
with my mood any description would fail miserably, so...

End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story (2000)

Heartless Romantic
There is No Such Thing as Love

Orchestral Pop Noir Romantique (2004)

Heathrow or Deathrow
No Return

Protest (2004)

Heaven Have Mercy On Us
No Hope Before Destruction

No Cities Left (2004)

Lost In The Plot
Never Destroy Us

and their Black Sessions...
Session no.226 Recorded live at studio105 February 21, 2005,Paris,France

EDIT***************************
i'm an idiot. the only reason i decided to post the dears today was to share thesong i ripped from their myspace
Fear Made the World Go Round
it fantastic and is why im so stoked for the album, to be titled Gang of Losers.

what can i say. im distracted
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this shit is fucking ridiculous. im not sure its possible to be more irresponsible and immature.
of course i was on the fence before it actually involved me. because i am indeed, an asshole.

ive never been as angry with anyone
ever

outside of myself anyway

this might be what a heart attack feels like

alejhernandez@gmail.com (Alejandra) — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 03:18:00 +0000

I began uploading the Garza last night but then went back to sleep for a really long time.
anyway

Dav�d Garza is one of the most underrated "singer-songwriters" of the last ten or so years. Quotes are neccesary because dude fucking rocks but has a way with words that demands acknowledgment. "rocker-songwriter" maybe? I found him when he had his first major label shot in 1998, releasing This Euphoria on Atlantic and getting just enough MTV2 love to enter the conscience of music lovers but not quite enough to enter their music collections. That album was one of the best of my high school years, no matter how few people have actually ever heard it. He turned things up a notch on the 2001 follow-up Overdub, but still failed to move many units.
So he's back to being ridiculously well-respected by his peers while his talents languish in the discount bin. Fiona Apple has brought him along on her last few tours and someone picked one of his tracks in their top five for Rolling Stone. I forget who and which, i think it was someone from pearl jam and the song foul jasmine .

anyway

check him out...

Eyes Wide Open (1991)
Now You Can Open Your Eyes
Lockjaw

Blind Hips In Motion (1995)
Basillica
Sigh by Sigh

Four Track Manifesto (1998)
The Perfect Tear
Too Much

This Euphoria (1998)
Lost
Baptiste

Kingdom Come And Go (1999)
Compassion
We On Fire

Overdub (2001)
Keep On Crying
Alone

Underdub (2001)
bloodsuckers
Soul Custody

Alarm (2002)
Cholo
Foul Jasmine

hes got a ton more shit than this floating around but some of it is hard to track down. its why i didnt bother with coverart

he went on KCRW to promote Overdub...
Morning Becomes Eclectic 08/19/2001

my chest hurts. all tightened up and shit
i need to get out of here. sooner than later. a year is not soon enough

i think i can finish this one song now. the one i was furthest along with before i kind of put it away when i decided i didnt want to be upset about these things anymore. but fuck that i feel so much more justified in my sentiments after this conversation today. and its coming so much easier (relative to it not coming at all) than when i was questioning whether or not i was right to be so angry

look at that. im even too sensitive to write songs LOLZ!
i care too much. thats what it is.
but fuck that

i cant do this alone
and i definitely am now

couple things of note....

alejhernandez@gmail.com (Alejandra) — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 07:27:00 +0000

I neglected to mention a couple things

1. I've got to thank Carter over at ufck for the MMJ Letterman capture.

2. I was informed a few hours after making Wednesday's entry that the actual reason for Jon Brion not making his usual Friday night appearances at Largo is nowhere near as sunny as he being in the studio as i'd assumed. Id made that assumption based on hearing months ago thatd hed be off to Abbey Road to record his next solo album but it seems he has been suffering from some pretty severe tendonitis in his right wrist.

we can only hope he recovers as fully as possible, and soon

according to the myspace page dedicated to tracking his progress, JB is making good use of his time off. As if there was any doubt...

Jeremy Piven has a nice ass

alejhernandez@gmail.com (Alejandra) — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:22:00 +0000

Last night the Entourage boys made the late night rounds to promote the new season which starts Sunday. Ari, Drama and Turtle were on Letterman, Conan and Carson respectively. Kevin Dillon was fantastic. The calf fondling would have made my evening if My Morning Jacket's performance with the Boston Pops on Letterman hadnt already done so.
SO even though Id planned on some Dahveeed Garza, hes been bumped by MMJ, much like Piven from Letterman all those years ago, according to that interview. Hopefully he doesnt take it personally and drink too much sake.

I think I've told my MMJ story but im not sure, and again, too lazy to check. They opened for Ben Kweller the three times i saw him in 2002 and were fantastic. The timing was perfect as i was just moving from my "everything but country phase" into my "wow country is actually some of my favorite shit. MUSIC IS AWESOME!" phase, spurred on by my discovery of Ryan Adams et al...
These cats are making much more authentic country music than any of the jackbags you'll see on CMT, though moving nearer just straight rock with each release. Toby Keith aint got shit on Jim James.
It was fantastic to see them in suits and shit looking all polished, well aside from the hair. I remember in '02 James wore the same damn jeans the entire tour. Keepin it real...

My Morning Jacket w/ the Boston Pops - Gideon - Late Show w/ David Letterman 6/8/06

The Tennesee Fire (1999)

Heartbreakin Man
Butch Cassidy

At Dawn (2001)

Lowdown
Just Because I Do
Phone Went West

It Still Moves (2003)

I Will Sing You Songs
Just One Thing

Z (2005)

Gideon
Lay Low

I just finished reading Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, finally. Not that it was a long read but that I've intended to read it for ages and only just picked it up last weekend. It was fantastic. Even if you didnt enjoy the movie (which would flabbergast me), I'd reccomend it. I was in tears throughout the last few chapters. I was nearly there anyhow for reasons unrelated but Rob's revelations at the end there killed me. I relate entirely too much.
thats always been my trouble

that and the fact that i never do anything right.

Two situations, mostly incomparable except for the similairty in outcome, that i handled nearly opposite each other, and i got them both wrong anyway. and im not even quite sure the fuck i did wrong this time but it must have been something i guess because my phone never rings anymore.

and there go the waterworks again. i think im going to throw up

i dunno. its hilarious because in less than forty-eight hours i went from talking about how i feel so good now and like i might actually be stable for once to spending an entire day in bed soaking my pillow.
I deal far too often in extremes

kind of like how im trying to evaluate things and all ive come up with are these two lists. one with everything ive done wrong in my entire life and one with everything, no matter how insignificant, ive done right

one of these needs multiple pages
and one of thses lists is empty save for an underlined title

im going back to bed now.

hey....fuck you

alejhernandez@gmail.com (Alejandra) — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:51:00 +0000

I prepared (uploaded the shit i mean) this entry about three weeks ago. I'd just watched the Grey's finale in which a couple of utterly fantastic tunes were played (as though this were something out of the ordinary for GA). Things have kept me from completing the addition. The first two attempts it was fucking firefox crashing. It seems it only ever does that when I'm doing this. Wtf mates?

I experienced my first true case of downloaders remorse when i spied for the first time, a copy of Amos Lees album for sale. It was at starbucks. I was picking up my usual SoyVentiiIcedChaieasyontheice on the way to somewhere other than class and it was sitting in the little album display on the counter. Id been enjoying it for months prior but had never once seen the cover, or dude's face. Something in Amos's eyes makes his voice all the sweeter. The barista was hot. I told him all about this epiphany I was having and, I think, convinced him to tuck a copy of the album beneath his apron. Because this is a fantastic record but, also because I would have thought him hotter with a bulge beneath his apron.
Since that day Ive made a point of seeking out artwork for every album i have. thank you tag and rename
Lee is a philly born soul/jazz man who is ridiculously underappreciated. Hes on fuckign Blue Note for chrissakes kids! I suppose that could provide an excuse for the many who write him off as a male norah jones rip off. Personally, I adore him.
This record is perfect for a(many) melancholy night(s) spent sipping whiskey alone. I tried sipping whiskey straight this weekend. It didnt go so well. mixed or shot is the way to go

Amos Lee - Amos Lee

Arms of a Women
Colors

Snow Patrol are responsible for some of the better music that is getting top 40 radio play now a days. at least thats what im told. I dont listen to much radio.
These guys have mastered the catchy as hell pop/rock track. Their 4th album, Eyes Open, is not quite on par with their breakout smash Final Straw, but its no let down either. The Scottish quartet have more or less picked up where they left off and delivered six fantastic tracks of anthemic riffy sing along etc etc rock. The only problem is it gets a little boring in the second half. yeah. It would probably contend for my release of the year so far (or top 10 anyway) if it were scaled back to an EP. But it seems it was in fact their intention to "make this go on forever".
ah well. its still an excellent album. DOWNLOADERS UNITE

Snow Patrol - Eyes Open

You're All I Have
Chasing Cars

I was on a huge mraz kick the week i intended to post this. I was just thinking about how i first realized i really enjoyed singing whilst wailing along to this cd. im not sure whether to thank the guy or leave him drunken angry frustrated voicemails
i left off the love is real cover on purpose
i dont like it

Jason Mraz - On Love, In Sadness..the EminorEpinF

You Make Me High
On Love, In Sadness
Dead End
Galaxy
The Darkest Space

the reasons for the frustration are two fold
i dont particularly enjoy the fact that i enjoy singing. it is, in fact, incredibly maddening
and also, the shit J's doing now pales in comparison to this. it is, in fact, shit

to illustrate (or auralate? heh) the exasperation in regards to the former...
heres a little ditty my new best friend Cole wrote for me
i received it (via messageboard pm lolz!)and fifteen minutes later recorded it drunk i havent really had a chance to redo it because ive been sick, and drunk. The sickness has actually gotten worse each day this week to the point where now i cant even try to sing, my throats so sore. It started out as just a wooziness SOB!
Walls

The other reason i've not bothered to update this piece is that ive been overly occupied with planning my future the last three weeks. i dont really remember what brought it on, but I've come to the conclusion that i did actually know exactly(well generally) what i want to do when i grow up when i was seventeen. and so ive spent days and days asking some people to tell me this idea i have, for once, isnt some whacked out pipe dream. apparently its the opinion of a lot of people who oughta know that i tend to sell myself short
weeeeeee
maybe i shouldnt say exactly what ive got in the works seeing as the only person ive mentioned any part of it to is one i only decided i was actively talking to again this past weekend, but its all going to be a hell of a good time
I figure, should things not work out, ill have a BA and can just off and take a CSET exam or three
holla at some contigency planning

should i subtract the apathy from the title? too early to say

Since I cant sing I decided to proposition some drum lessons from the seven-year-old terror next door. I spent a couple hours today trying to get my appendages to work independently, in rhythm. Complete and utter failure. But fuck it was a good time. baddumdudmdudmdudmpidhpidhpidhdpiddsssssssssh
onomatopoeia!
Kids got some wicked hair. its a 12 on the 1-10 scale of rock
and his names Liam
MAD FER IT

i think its a good sign

alejhernandez@gmail.com (Alejandra) — Sun, 14 May 2006 00:53:00 +0000

ok. so im an idiot. i just opened my vent and suddenly my room is habitable
HURR!
generally my post titles are more or less nosensical, at least as much so as the post themselves
id like to let you all know this title has nothing at all to do with this post but is in reference to something i just realized has happened
and its funny and pretty awesome
but also fucking filthy so im not sharing any details
unless...you know...
naw

wow i stepped away again
someone turned off the ac and now its hot as fuck again
but im dtunk again so who really gives a fuck

some new radiohead
news this week is that Thom will have an un-solo release coming out in July on XL
Ftom W.A.S.T.E.

-
this is just a note to say that something has been kicking around in the background that i have not told you about.
its called The Eraser.
nigel produced & arranged it .
i wrote and played it.
the elements have been kicking round now for a few years and needed to be finished & i have been itching to do something like this for ages.
it was fun and quick to do.
inevitably it is more beats & electronics.
but its songs.
stanley did the cover.
yes its a record!
no its not a radiohead record.
as you know the band are now touring and writing new stuff and getting to a good space so i want no crap about me being a traitor or whatever splitting up blah blah...
this was all done with their blessing. and i don't wanna hear that word solo. doesnt sound right.
ok then thats that.

i think its out in july and im pretty certain XL are going to put it out.

love thom

www.theeraser.co.uk -

other news, im not sure from where or its reliability, is that one of the songs RH have been playing, Cymbal Rush, is from this effort
my head spins

Nude
House of Cards
Four Minute Warning
Work It Out
Spooks
Bangers N Mash
open pick
Arpeggi
15 Step
bodysnatchers
Cymbal Rush

these are available in tons of places but i grabbed them from here
radiohead feed
theyve also got link sto youtube videos of each

speaking of youtube
id upped videos of elliott yamins performances from this week and then had them pulled
i should start priting these DMCA notices and pasting them up on my wall
i got more steals than millie mays hayes
cept he didnt get caught stealing and then hang the gloves
anyway. i told some people id post them here and forgot

Trouble
If I Can Dream

i considered re-encoding them to better quality since i wouldnt have the restraints of youtube to deal with
but then didnt

this song is perfect
for this feeling
Madrigals

I need to go take a nap
or cry some into my pillow

i was going to post some of what i recorded but theyre all so very bad
never stopped me before eh

today and tomorrow, music saves

alejhernandez@gmail.com (Alejandra) — Sat, 13 May 2006 21:05:00 +0000

Black Keys singer/guitarist Dan Auberach has been quoted as saying that the music of Junior Kimbrough changed his life. Its evident in everything the keys have done but as if to drive the point home, they've released the Chulahoma EP, a collection of six Kimbrough covers.
Its rockin
ep of the year thus far.
I was starting to type a lot but i just deleted it all because it didnt make sense

the gist is... I really like the black keys and it may turn out that they've changed my life

OMGWTFBBQ!
i may as well go grab a beer if im not going to be coherant anyway

Chulahoma EP (2006)

Keep Your Hands Off Her
Meet Me In The City

Rubber Factory (2004)

10 AM Automatic
Girl is on My Mind

Thickfreankess (2003)

Set You Free
Have Love Will Travel

The Big Come Up (2002)

Busted
Yearnin

its way too fuckinghot in here
im taking abreak but ive got a lot more

ferromagnet nostalgic

alejhernandez@gmail.com (Alejandra) — Thu, 11 May 2006 17:39:00 +0000

had another problem with dreamhost. this one not at all my fault. I figured out how to fix it myself and my only real complaint is that they failed to respond to my support request in the six hours before i remembered to withdraw the ticket.
fyi... if you use dreamhost and ever get a "bad_httpd_conf" error, in the user cp goto manage domains -> edit, then change settings without altering anything
takes a second but forces the apache config to regnerate and clears up whatever issue there was

when there was a DMCA issue i had responses in minutes, so im not neccesarily unhappy with their customer service. but... i've heard tons of horror stories so hopefully this kind of thing doesnt become common

The other night i was reminiscing over some of the shitty music i used to listen to. I brought up Jodeci, someone else mentioned Ralph Tresvant, and then i remembered Johnny Gill. These were the artists who recorded some of the first albums I ever owned, all on cassette tape.
awesome shit, cassette tapes. I used to just record hours of radio and then re-record the songs i liked
because i was cheap and stole music even then

it was the early nineties
this is what was blasting through my walkman
and how awesome were those things! changed the world, they did

Johnny Gill - S/T (1990)

My favorite New Edition alumnus. I wish i was born ten years earlier and had lost my virignity to this album, rather than the oh so romantic ambient noise of a bowling alley parking lot.
he did not pick up the spare
by the sound of it, Johnny would have
Rub You the Right Way
My My My

Salt N Pepa - Blacks Magic (1990)

I was seven years old and this had one of those new fangled parental advisory icons on it. The guy at Wherehouse didnt seem to notice either of these facts. My parents didnt seem to notice either.
My brother did contsantly make fun of me for saying "pepper" like the little white girl i was.
Lets Talk About Sex

Amg Grant - Heart in Motion (1991)

did i mention i was a little white girl? Baby, Baby was one of my favorite songs for a couple years.
this was during Grant's "pop" period. shes back to christian music now, im back to not listening to her.
Baby Baby is still a great song
Baby Baby
Every Heartbeat

Color Me Badd - C.M.B. (1991)

I remember staying up late to catch these guys on Arsenio and swoon. Cheesy boy bands go way back, see. I use I Wanna Sex You Up on mixtapes of a particular kind to this day
I Adore Mi Amore
I Wanna Sex You Up

Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam (1989)

I have a second cousin who lived with us while she attended UCI. She used to put this on and have me dance for her friends. There was no coaxing or cajoling needed. I fucking love to shake my ass and always have.
Pump Up the Jam

Hi-Five - S/T (1992)

There was a slew of these kinds of acts in the early nineties. Its always the same. Someone has some success, in this case New Edition and Boyz II Men, and every label rushes to scoop up anyone similar and emulate. So we got Bel Biv Devoe, ABC, an endless list of soloists, and these guys. I played this tape endlessly until i lent it to my cousin during a long drive to Texas and never got it back. That bastard.
I Can't Wait Another Minute
I Like The Way

Mint Condition - Meant to be Mint (1991)

File Mint Condition under that same catagory. Though their sound was actually more similar to Jodeci, a little more New Jack i guess.
Don't tell her, but i used to sing this to my little sister all the time. Babies are the only ones who dont tell me to shut up.
You're Breaking My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes)

thats about it. ive uploaded more but im tired of typing and theres a mic in my face i need to turn on already.

Jurrasic 5 has a new album coming out on my birthday. last year all i had to look forward to was Mr. A-Z
this year is already shaping up to be a bit more exciting.
they're streaming 3 tracks on their myspace. heres one of them

Work It Out Feat. Dave Matthews

I like it. looks like they're seeking a little more radio play with this one

heres a little more ryan in case the last couple posts werent enough

In My Time of Need
the answer to all these questions is no

you know whats awesome? crying so long and hard your chest and shoulders ache
also melodrama

now to the microphone with this

playboy mansion, whorehouses, strip clubs

alejhernandez@gmail.com (Alejandra) — Tue, 09 May 2006 10:02:00 +0000

"This item will be released on May 15, 2006. You may order it now and we will dispatch it to you when we receive it from our supplier."
I fucking LOVE amazonuk. they use such dinstiguished language. the pretentious bastards
if there anything i hate its pretention. Im nearly as fucke dup as they come. I know it. I have some qualms but i dont really hide it.

so anyway i was looking for some stuff on fujiya and miyagi and quit after looking at the amazon.ulk site because ive had some beers and dont reallt careenough
fuck pretention. this isnt what i want to be doing with this space and ive said so and ill say so over and over and over

heres some tracks
its really great shit. ive never really been one for the electronica/techno but this is awesome. i started my love of music in the rap/r&b/...urban genre there was nowhere to go but up
this has awesome beats and great lyrics and wowo its almost like that but soooo much sexier

seriously
fuck to these
you wont regret it

Transparent Things (2006)

Collarbone
Photocopier

its ok to post Gnarls Barkley now right? did that date pass yet? fuck if i know
Gone Daddy Gone
Smiley Faces

Fuck Crazy
maybe the fifth best track on the album
historic and shit
but not great

so i think i might use this site for what i actually intended sooner rather than later
there will stil be mp3s
just none anyone wants to listen to
fuck pretention

guitar chicago guitar chicago
my hands are the scale and left is winning but that mya just be the left lashing out after a c ouple years of abuse and eventual difiguremnet
MY FINGERS ARE FLAT
LOLZ!
haha i hate beer but i love drunk!@

one beer and a kiss

alejhernandez@gmail.com (Alejandra) — Sat, 06 May 2006 11:07:00 +0000

or twelve beers and nothing
forgive me if i ramble
ive had too much alcohol and too many compliments this evening
i dont do flattery well
and icant sing for shit anyone who thinks otherwise is one of two things
so fuck the typing here are some of my favorite ryan adams songs from his studio releases

Heartbreaker (2000)

Damn Sam (I Love a Women that Rains)
Come Pick Me Up

Gold (2001)

La Cienga Just Smiled
Sylvia Plath

Demolition (2002)

Dear Chicago
Jesus (Don't Touch My Baby

Rock N Roll (2003)

Luminol
Anybody Wanna Take Me Home

Halloween promo (2004)

Halloween
Funeral Marching

Moroccan Role EP (2004)

Ah, Life
Don't Even Know Her Name

Love is Hell (2003/04 sorta fuck lost highway and shit )

Love is Hell
The Shadowlands
My Blue Manhattan
I See Monsters

Cold Roses (2005)

Magnolia Mountain
Beautiful Sorta
Let It Ride
Life is Beautiful

its not morning...

Jacksonville City Nights (2005)

A Kiss Before I Go
Dear John

29 (2005)

The Sadness
Elizabeth, You Were Born To Play The Part

im done
most everybody has formed an opinion on adams at this point. hes really one of the more divisive artists around right now.
but if youve never checked him out its about time you did

ive got a headache
im going back to sleep

so far past sad, I'm crazy and scary

alejhernandez@gmail.com (Alejandra) — Fri, 05 May 2006 05:03:00 +0000

that wasnt nearly as hard the second time around. i guess i actually kinda learned stuff the first time.
next time. prieee. i promise.

Ryan Adams is a bitch and I fucking love him.

heres a few of his rants from this week, in response to a review of his performance in seattle last week.
they make me really happy im going to lollapalooza, i guess.

as posted on ryanadams.org. the worst fan site in the history of such
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Author: WHATEVER ITS RYAN 4/30/2006 8:36:38 AM

I FUCKING HAVE NEVER PRETENDED BE ANYTHING BUT MYSELF.....ABYSMAL....FUCK YOU. YOU WRITE DONT GET SENTIMENTAL..YOU FUCKING BE YOUR...SELF ON STQAGE AND NOT SOME ROCK STAR FUCLL OF SHIT ASSFACE.
FUCK THE NORTHWEST.
IM NOT TOURING THE STATES AFTER LOLAPALOOZA.
I DONT NEED THE ABUSE.AND I MAKE PLENTY OF HEADWAY WITH PEOPLE RAISED WITH MORE CULTURE THAN T.V. AND SUBMITTTED FAN EMAILS SAYING FOOD POISONING IS BETTER THAN A GIG WHEN I PLAY FOR YOU FOR TWO FUCKING HOURS.
HOW DARE YOU.....
WANNA SEE ME PLAY.
COME TO SOMEPLACE IN EUROPE.
FUCK THE HATERS.
FUCK THE SEATLLE PRESS YOU ASSHOLES. FUCK YOU LYING RETARD WITH YOUR NO ONE FOR ASKED FOR AN ENCORE.
LYING FUCKING ASSHOLE.
................
YOU KNOW WHAT I DONT HAVE TO DO THIS HERE ANYMORE.
JAMIE CULLUM ITS ALL YOURS.
MAY YOUR FUCKING ROCK PERSONALITIES BE AS BORING AS YOUR FUCKING MUNDANE OFFICE LIVES,
KISS MY ASS.
GLAD TO GET HOME TO NYC TO SEE HOW TOLERANT OF PEOPLE BEING DIFFERENT AND SPECIAL AND THEMSELVES AND WERID AND INTERESTING THE COUNTRY IS.
FUCK IT.
CYA
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Author: WHATEVER ITS RYAN 4/30/2006 8:38:52 AM

SEATTLE TIMES DONT BE SUPRISED TO GET A C.D. OF THE SHOW WITH A FULL SET LIST AND THE STAGE TIMES AND SONG LIST. ITS WAS OVER- CURFEW BOTH NIGHTS AND I PLAYED LONGER THAN I WAS SUPPOSEED TO DUE TO THE DEMANDS OF AN EXCITED AUDIENCE.
SO MUCH FOR CREDABILITY.
GET A LIFE/ JOB A PAGE SIX YOU FUCK HEADS
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Author: WHATEVER ITS RYAN 4/30/2006 8:58:19 AM

IT DOESN'T SELL THE PAPER UNLESS YOU PAINT ME AS A DRUNK, AS A FUCKING IDIOT.
I WILL NEVER PLAY THERE AGAIN.
ERNEST HEMMINGWAY - DRINKER
WILLIAM FAULKER - DRINKER
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD - DRINKER
DOROTHY PARKER - DRINKER
MILES DAVIS- DRUG USER
THE ROLLING STONES- SELF EXPLANATORY
JAMES BLUNT- SOAP USER
KELLY CLARKSON - .COM
RYAN ADAMS- WORKAHOLIC DRINKER DRUG USER LIFE LIVER FUCKING HAPPY FUCKING SAD FUCKING REAL AND FUCKING TIRED OF YOU TALENTLESS HACKS WITH A LAPTOP "REWRITING" HISTORY. ALSO, CORTIZONE AND HEATEING CREAM WRIST USER.
SEATTLE TIMES WRITERS- 50 BUCKS AN ARTICLE. GOT A "DUDE" WHO HAD EMAIL TO WRITE IT FOR HIM.
PORTLAND TIMES- UM... NOBODY READS THE PORTLAND TIMES, THEY'RE BUSY ENJOYING PORTLAND.
FRANCIS FARMER- HAVE AT IT.

ONE LAST THING.....YOU HATEFUL PEOPLE WHO QARE LOOKING FOR PERFECTION AND FUCKING STERILIZED ART, YOU DONT DESERVE ME.
JAMES THINKS YOURE BEAUTIFUL. GO SEE HIS CLEAN ASS.
ANYONE INTERESTED IN WHAT THE SHOWS WERE ACTUALLY LIKE FEEL FREE TO LISTEN TO THE LIVE STREAM ON YR. COMPUTER.
GOODBYE.
I GUESS ILL SEE YOU IN CHICAGO WHERE THIS SHIR STARTED.
I HAVE A GREAT NEW SONG JUST FOR THAT SHOW.
ITS THE CHORD OF A FOR THE EXACT TIME MY CONTRACT DEMANDS.

-......a couple days, and downers no doubt, later-

Author: WHATEVER ITS RYAN 5/3/2006 9:33:40 PM

OK. [So maybe I lost my head there for a second.] I always have the best intentions when it comes to playing music and I suppose I get lost sometimes along the way. The last thing I want to do is cheat anybody out of anything. I am just trying to connect on some sort of level that means as much to me as it does you. And while you're paying, I'm playing and we both have to, ya know, "deal" . I think sometimes I want to make everybody feel like they are at home in the venue and not to panic or freak out and let things take shape because I AM freaking out a little. I have a bit of stage fright but I promise you this I have not and did not take to the stage drunk on the european or the U.S. tour. It's impossible. I can't function playing guitar drunk. My wrist won't work that way. I learned that lesson. This is TRUE. I have A (one) glass of wine on my way into the wings and two or three thousand cigarettes before. I wait until my hands stop shaking and I dive in. Sometimes you guys are a tough lot to charm but I so want to communicate this strange thing I have in writing and playing this music that I'm willing to forego being terrified enough to get out there and see what I am capable of. It's all I know. I have been alone trying this since I was 15 and I am no different now than I was then. At least in the way I see myself not trying to do anything but be funny, be real, be anything but boring. I know I lose some of the audience in the slapschitck parts but whatever. There are plenty of canned food artists out there for them. I want to be in the moment and I want to take chances and I want to see if I can find that magic moment even I didn't know was possible. That leads to some pretty embarasssing dead ends. But once in awhile, goddamn if I can't feel my own heart beat for a second and some of that pain goes away and I am just in the zone. In the place I was the first time I felt comfortable in my own skin, playing and singing and sharing something that was gone as soon as the music stopped.
So these risks, these shows, or rather, tours without the same set list every night esp. the solo ones, they really push the envelope but I dont feel like Ill grow or youll get anything but sterile crap unless I try and take it further. And listen, I am. I am trying my ass off.
So If I disappointed some of you, I am so sorry. That lets me down too. And if I took a few songs further out, maybe put a few smiles on a few faces or made somebody move along to the story, then I am glad. The rabbit doesnt always come out of the hat unfortunately but one day when we are far from grandmas backyard and theres not a bedsheet for a curtain and I actually get my own cape, maybe it will ALWAYS be magic.
Until then, Im just human, and I have my faults. Im a bit nervous at solo shows and I am getting alittle better as I go. Maybe I talk a bit too much when Im nervous but its nerves not drinks that makes me want to feel like there isnjt any reason to be scared. And as far as the green goes, well, ask Bill Hicks about that one. Thats just self respect.
I am humbled by your loyalty and hurt when you feel let down but I have nothing but respect for those that have taken the ride with me.
I regret my freakout. I fully intend to take my website back and own it privately and stream shows when I can and print set lists so people can check in and see whats happening out there on the road.
I will say this.
There were some out of hand things said about those shows in certain publications that were outright lies. The setlists and UNION CURFEWS prevent me from playing any later than they allow without house lights coming up in theaters. But you get to sit down and be cozy and nobody wants to stand for an hour and a half at a solo show with some sad weird bastard moaning about this and whinging about that in c minor. I will print the set lists , the time I hit stage, and the time I left stage for each of the last four shows for everyone to see for themselves. Prehaps I will print the unclaimed comp tickets from two of the shows where I got flamed and yet they could not mention one song or album of which I played a song from.
Either way I am taking accountability for my part of this exchange, this live solo show setting.
It would be nice to see local journalists do the same and not do articles on what my hair looks like or who choose to fuck which is none of their buisness. The lack of writing about the music at my shows matches the time it takes me to start a fucking song it seems. lose lose if you ask me. dont ask them. they dont got to like anything for a living. i dont blame them reaqlly. i confound myself on a daily basis. you should see some of the shit i manage the put into my eggs. not even omlettes. just mashed eggs.
With all due respect, I appreciate everyone who took their chances, took their seats, and came along for the ride.
Im trying but Im not always good and never advertise anything but my flaws./ Im just looking for the beauty in them and in all this I guess.
Thank You for Participating and I hope to look back one day and be nothing but proud, proud and on top of a martini cloud watching the fireworks.
Yours Truly,
Ryan.
love u guys and hope the salad days of summer cqarry you someplace pretty and safe on a blueberry breeze.
stay sweet.
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hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

but at the same time the shit makes me really sad. while its beyond presumptious of adams to include himself in a list like the one he did, it is true that all too often the best artists are fucking nuts and beyond self destructive.
sad

the story of how i came to be a fan of his is far more interesting than others ive told.

near the end of the summer of 2002 i went to see a Ben Kweller show at the Roxy here in Los Angeles. I happened to have an extra ticket because i had bought two and then been given two by ATO, but only found one other person to go after finding out I'd have four. The show was sold out because BK is all sorts of awesome. As i was turning away from the ticket window i noticed a father and his young son standing at the curb looking sad. Turns out they'd seen Ben on Leno or something the night before and had come out hoping thered be tickets available. I gave them my extra and wished them luck in finding one more. An hour or so later I was sitting on the edge of the stage waiting for the show to start when the guy comes toward me with a big smile on his face saying theyd found someone looking to sell just one ticket! He thanked me profusely and then asked me to wait just one second, he wanted to give me something. I told him over and over a drink would be fine (I was 19 and couldnt buy my own, or so i thought) but he insisted on running out to his car. He came back with three burned cds. His son protested. Dad told him to shut up, they could burn another copy of each.
I thanked him and glanced at what hed handed me. I only recognized one name. They were copies of Ryan Adams - Gold, Beulah - The Coast is Never Clear, and Chris Isaak - Greatest Hits.
If i could see that guy now id give him a giant bear hug. When I have kids I imagine things being quite similar.
Besides Ryan and Beulah, I also "discovered" My Morning Jacket that night. They opened and were amazing.
At the after party I ordered drinks at a bar for the first time and bumped into Kirsten Dunst while dancing
That was an awesome night.
So anyway... I listened to Gold the next day and loved it. Not immediately. I recognized New York, New York from its video being played incessently, but it took some growing. Then i listened to Heartbreaker, and I was done. This giant whiny bastard tool bag had won me over.

heres hoping he dosent kill himself via drug overdose anytime soon

Bedhead vol.1
Bedhead Vol.2
Bedhead Vol.3 Live Rock n Roll
Bedhead Vol.4 After the Fall
Bedhead Vol.5 What Will Happen Next?
more ryan on the morrow
i looked and wasnt able to find a tracklisting of all these in one place anywhere, so i think ill throw something together tonight.

by the way...Kweller is fresh out of the studio and should have a new one out before the year is
I hope its more like Sha Sha than it is like On My Way
BK BABY!

@!#%$%&%^$%#$@#$%

alejhernandez@gmail.com (Alejandra) — Fri, 05 May 2006 00:20:00 +0000

i broke it and i dont have time to fix it right now
i didnt save the template and its gone
fuck me
i have no idea what happened either i came to post the ryan adams shit real quick and everything was gone
well not everything
but everything id done to the template

fuck it it sucked anyway
maybe now ill make it pretty
well not now
but sometime

ryan adams later
right now my head is going to explode

all time low

alejhernandez@gmail.com (Alejandra) — Thu, 04 May 2006 05:53:00 +0000

it seems we've returned to more normal levels of pageload activity
ah well

id forgotten about imaad

Imaad Wasif - Imaad Wasif (2006)

Spark
Out in the Black

Thievery Corporation is releasing a compilation of 18 remixes theyve done in a couple weeks
its hot. some of these tracks are sexy as hell
defintely worth checking out if you're at all into their bit

Thievery Corporation - Versions (2006)

Wax Poetic Feat Norah Jones - Angels
Bebel Gilberto - Cada Beijo

other notables include cuts from Ben Folds, Nouvelle Vague, Astrud Gilberto, Sister Nancy, and The Doors.
Playing this record while the innocent little high school boys walked home past my window was a serious mistake.
wow thats flithy
ididnt mean it

i havent got much tonight im tired and moody. i was going to say not in the mood but moody is more appropriate.
i almost forgot. something else that got lost in the shuffle...

I Knew John Lennon

a very interesting BBC docu featuring family and close friends of my hero, John Lennon.

speaking of Brits

im fucking near tears over not seeing radiohead this tour
if you have any chance to go fucking do it. you've already missed the W.A.S.T.E. sale but it hits tm soon
dont miss it.

loads of whiny bastard tool bag tomorrow
no, i dont mean me