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July 18, 2007
necessary upgrades
Be patient with this blog due to technical reasons - Webmistress Kiri upgraded the content management system because the weight of my crabby posts crashed the server yesterday. Yesterday's Mother-of-All-Rants was so great in it's angst that it burned out a router. I had removed the rant but then TJ asked politely to see it again and I can't say no to TJ.
I heard two nice songs during Saturday's Blowoff track list: a remix of Level 42's 'Something About You' (lyrics, video, iTunes) and a newer fun song called 'City' by lo-fi fnk (iTunes). Jeez, that Level 42 song was on the radio my freshman year of high school (1985 and the following summer). 'City' has very cute lyrics that remind you of why the younger folk enjoy living in a big city.
While we're flashing back, take a listen to 'Together In Electric Dreams' by Human League. Featured on the 1984 'Electric Dreams' soundtrack for the film of the same name, it's about forming digital relationships. The song still speaks volumes about making acquaintances online, which I probably do too much of. Edgar isn't always as fulfilling as the real thing.
Nellie's Sports Bar finally opened this week at 9th and U after a long wait, and I hear it was packed with very cute people on Monday after the Night Out with the Nationals, people quite unlike the grimy ruffians depicted on their homepage. I took this picture that's also shown on the homepage, which I like a lot. The muddy one was taken by SuperStar Brettie.
I am feeling much better this week - physically at least. I was running around with a lung/sinus infection for weeks, too absorbed with the move and setting up that I ignored it until it came to a head in NYC. It's amazing how you don't know how bad you felt until you're better. I gotta figure out a way to go camping somehow this summer. It's been too long.
Posted by jimbo at July 18, 2007 10:45 AM
Comments
"Electric Dreams" was actually a Philip Oakey + Giorgio Moroder dual bill, with no official Human League reference. Kinda like Boy George's "Crying Game". I think Moroder produced some HL, hence the same type of sound. Maybe those two HL chicks were on holiday in Greece or something.
Posted by: ivan at July 18, 2007 11:49 AM
I actually saw Level 42 in Concert at RFK Stadium in DC. They opened for Madonna if I'm not mistaken. It was a long time ago!
Posted by: TonkaManOR at July 18, 2007 12:06 PM
See, I've always thought that bars full of muddy ruffians are underappreciated.
Posted by: Ryan at July 18, 2007 12:27 PM
Speaking of songs, I even listened to Prince's new album. Sme songs should do well.
Posted by: First mom at July 18, 2007 12:45 PM
I don't think I could say no to TJ either.
Posted by: Zack at July 18, 2007 1:23 PM
I read yesterday's Mother-of-All-Rants...and now read, "I need an upgrade"...blogging metaphors for I need to get laid? -jk!
Posted by: O at July 18, 2007 3:42 PM
At the risk of being a Smarty-Pants Commenter®, Ivan is correct - while it's been thrown onto a few Human League compilations over the years, "Electric Dreams" is actually credited to Oakey/Moroder. They even did a whole LP together in three days.
THREE DAYS.
Posted by: johnny at July 18, 2007 8:13 PM
Ooohh! I love lo-fi-fnk. They're all kinds of adorable.
And Level 42--whoa, that takes me back.
Someday I'm gonna hit up Blowoff. Yeah, that's right, I'd travel coast-to-coast just to party w/ the likes of you.
Posted by: jeremy at July 19, 2007 4:50 AM
F#ckin' a on the camping. I was JUST talking to two friends about this yesterday. I swear I will not let two summers go by without getting my ass up a mountain and into a tent.
Posted by: Stephen J. Xanthos at July 19, 2007 4:28 PM
1. Wasn't Culture Club's "Love Is Love" also from Electric Dreams? 2. If it means seeing athletic types (like you sexy Renegades) as well as sports fans, I'm all for hanging out at Nellie's. 3. Much like my partner, you wouldn't be you, meaning interesting, without your dark side (J's told me about it). If you didn't give us a challenge, then we'd look for someone else who would. 3. I've heard Prince's "Future Baby Mama" and like it. He's reaching waaaayyyy back at this point, even employing the same electric percussion sounds used in the mid-'80s (kind of like "The Beautiful Ones"), but I dig the maturity of his lyrics and his voice. It's better than his last radio effort, "Black Sweat." 4. Blowoff was fun enough, I guess, but I'm not one for dancing and being shoved by men creating passageways through me, even if they are cute. Having a good time that night had a lot to do with the fetching men we were there with.
Posted by: Andrew at July 20, 2007 2:42 PM