Admirable Admiral

Rough Cut of my remix.

2010-05-26T03:43:00.000-07:00

um

2010-03-19T01:24:00.000-07:00

If you've never seen this live, then you've probably never seen me cream my panty......

I'm in love......

2010-02-23T14:16:00.000-08:00

with this song right now.

No noose is good news!

2010-02-18T14:05:00.000-08:00

I listen to these right now......

For those who love FarmVille!

2010-01-28T08:15:00.000-08:00

Been searching.....

2010-01-04T20:32:00.000-08:00

Found it.
Beckett only has it listed for $63.00 but after seeing her take a punch, her stock is gonna go way up!

I don't wear hats and I rarely know what I'm doing.

2010-01-02T17:12:00.000-08:00

So what was going to be a nice quite New Years Eve night in with the Huntington Family, turned into what I like to call.....a semi Royal Rumble.

I tried to document it with our camera but our camera is horrible. We could have really used Jake and his documenting skills. He was definitely missed.

The evening started out with one of our new favorite past times...watching and analyzing the Jersey Shore.

Poor Snookers, never stood a chance....

We decided to play a drinking game involving the Jersey Shore.

Rules:

1. If "The Situation" refers to himself as "The Situation"...take a drink.

2. If they refer to "Snooki" as anything other than "Snooki"...take a drink.

3. If any article of Ed Hardy clothing shows up on the screen...take a drink.

4. If a guy/girl removes their shirt while entering the house...take a drink.

5. If Ferf says, "Sausage and Peppaas"...take a drink.

6. If "Thick Ron" refers to himself as "Thick Ron"...everyone shoots heroine. (Luckily, this did not happen....yet)

And then things went a little nutty....

Having some trouble....

.....little help from a friend.

Fifteen Yard penalty for sure....

"PRETENDtious" Music Review

2009-12-23T00:38:00.000-08:00

Here is my list of……38? I don’t know. This is all I can remember, get off my back. These are my favorite songs o' the year. I’m sure I missed a few. Newer songs tend to nudge out the older songs but I think I did a pretty good job at setting aside new flames for the old when it was called for.

38. Port O’Brien: My Will Is Good

37. Fever Ray: When I Grow Up (D. Lissvik Remix)

When I Grow Up (D. Lissvik) - ...

36. Amazing Baby: Headdress

35. Temper trap: Sweet Disposition

Sweet Disposition - The Temper...

34. Metric: Help I’m Alive

I really wanted to like this album more than I did….but I do enjoy the song.

33. Wild Beasts: All The Kings Men

All The King's Men - Wild Beas...

32.Matt and Kim: Daylight

31. Built to Spill: Life’s a Dream

I really wanted to love this album more than I did as well. It did grow on me though.

30. the XX: Intro

29. Wings for the queen: Kings With No Lovers (Labour Remix)

Yeah, so what I’m bias….Wyeth did a great job and I love it.

28. Atlas Sound: Shelia

Shelia - Atlas Sound

27. Here We Go Magic: Tunnelvision

26.Dirty Projectors: Stillness in the Move

25. Surfer Blood: Swim

Swim - Surfer Blood

24. The Rural Alberta Advantage: Drain the Blood

Drain the Blood - The Rural Al...

23. New Villager: Rich Doors

22.Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes: Home

21. Decemberists: The Rake’s Song

20. Cymbals Eat Guitars: And the Hazy Sea

19. Phoenix: 1901

I really wanted to hate this album and everything that came with it, but….I can’t even get myself to change the channel when the car commercial comes on. Touché fo-eenicks, touché.

1901 - Phoenix

18. Yeasayer: Ambling Alps

Ambling Alp - Yeasayer

17. Dirty Projectors: Useful Chamber

16. Land Of Talk: May You Never

May You Never - Land Of Talk

15. Julian Plenti: Fun That We Had

14. Beirut/Realpeople: My Night with the Prostitute from Marseille

13. Grizzly Bear: While You Wait for the Others

Without Michael McDonald, it might be lower on the list….I didn’t have to choose.

12. Volcano Choir: Island, IS

11. the XX: Islands

10. Handsome Furs: Evangeline

9. Modest Mouse: Whale Song

8. Julian Plenti: Only if You Run

7. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes: 40 Day Dream

6. Grizzly Bear: Two Weeks

5. Handsome Furs: I’m Confused

I almost didn’t put this in the top 5 but after recalling how much I loved it when I first heard it…I had to.

4. Heartless Bastards: The Mountain

3. Sunset Rubdown: Idiot Heart

Sunset Rubdown also gets my nod for album of the year beating out Grizzly Bear.

2. Throw Me the Statue: Acestors

This one may have just snuck in there due to it somehow becoming the “theme song” to the best fieldtrip I’d ever been on.

1. Sunset Rubdown: You Go On Ahead (trumpet trumpet II)

Heart Shaped Pox

2009-12-02T22:42:00.000-08:00

I love when bands make videos where they don't take themselves so serious........serious.

more fun than a barrel of Monkeys...and the game that goes along with.

2009-11-24T23:07:00.000-08:00

More fun than a barrel of Monkeys...and the game that goes along with.

2009-11-24T23:06:00.001-08:00

I'm falling for the XX

2009-10-23T21:57:00.000-07:00

I love It, and I mean it this time. I'm not just saying that to get into it's pants.

2009-09-23T20:27:00.000-07:00

The Kid Wants To Give This To Mr. M. Rebennack

2009-06-16T21:25:00.000-07:00

I wish seequpod was still running...I don't like posting youtube'ses!

Song Of The Year Candidate... ?

2009-06-02T20:12:00.000-07:00

Quite possibly no?

Awkward!

2009-05-23T13:28:00.000-07:00

Creeps me out a bit.

Greatest Comedian Around?

2009-05-13T08:29:00.000-07:00

Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns

Holy Shiv, I just got Shanked!!!

2009-05-06T18:34:00.000-07:00

Pheeeeeeeeeeeeenomenal!

fort of july

2009-05-02T13:52:00.000-07:00

I will never not love this song.....

Music to spank someone's ass to.....You're welcome!

2009-04-30T22:42:00.000-07:00

Can't figure out which version I like better??????

Or..............

What the flunk!!!!

2009-04-29T20:55:00.000-07:00

SeeqPod's down again. I'm pissedid off!
Anyone want to help me do something meaningful with my life?

2009-04-06T23:02:00.000-07:00

Can't get this flip'n song outta my head!

Dilema

2009-03-15T22:49:00.000-07:00

So am I going to my 10 year reunion or not? I can't quite decide; are teachers gonna be there? I would like to tell Mr. Newberry, that it wasn't acceptable to relate the color of my hair to that of a dogs penis. Too be honest even now I think I would be too intimidated to even look him in the eye.

Yup!!!

2009-03-11T22:49:00.001-07:00

NSFW........

Handsome Furs "I'm Confused" from Sarah Marcus on Vimeo.

Similar To Magic Mountain?

2009-02-24T18:40:00.000-08:00

I've been digg'n these for a while but haven't been able to post em. I've had a lot of homework okay leave me alone! No seriously I'm very busy at this point in my life....honest dude! I'm very fragile right now!

Better days!

2009-02-13T19:25:00.000-08:00

Just remembering one of my faves!

2009-02-04T18:52:00.001-08:00

Don't do drugs....or do? I'm not sure. Be safe kids.

I don't get it...

2009-02-01T12:04:00.000-08:00

I don't understand the buzz about The Hold Steady. Is this an inside joke that I'm not smart enough to figure out? Honestly the first time I heard one of their songs I thought, "hey, the band from Empire Records made a new song." But I realized after that that was not Renee Zellweger, and this is not Coyote Shivers, and then I was bummed. Do judge for yourself.

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Nerd Herd

2009-01-30T19:58:00.001-08:00

Aaarrrrrrghhhhhhhh....Amber Tamblyn embarrassed me in front of her mother last weekend. That's a true story. Ask me about it.
Wings for the Queen does Menomena, "Wet and Rusting"

And....

2009-01-16T23:20:00.000-08:00

I lied, It's back up. Here's something for you.
losing sleep over waiting for this release.

Here's a cover

There's my Chippy

2009-01-16T23:18:00.000-08:00

Seeqpod is down so t he music that I've posted on here isn't going to be playing for a while.....damn hole!

Where's my Chippy?

2009-01-14T17:23:00.000-08:00

So I finally listened to Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion. I feel like for the last month or so I’ve been bombarded with blogs and reviews about this album that is being hailed as the album of the year, for this year. Dudes got off to like an 11 month head start compared to the rest of the competition. I wonder if critics will remember come December? Apparently they will. Everyone and their pretentious mothers are giving this album a thumbs-up. I’ve never been a huge fan of Animal Collective, but after reading Mark Richardson’s review on Pitchfork and seeing the 9.6 he issued it, I had to see what the fuss was about. It’s not that I dislike Animal Collective, I just have come to the conclusion that I’m not smart enough to get them. Honestly I’ve been trying to understand their sound since 2003, and I haven’t cracked it. Believe me I know I’m in the minority here. If there were a way for me to go back in time and have my 4th grade self (that was the last year I was smart) listen to them, and get it. I would totally do it. I feel like 200 years from now pregnant bitches will put headphones (or whatever they are using as headphones in 2209) on their belly’s and pipe in Animal Collective, to their developing fetuses. All in the hopes of cultivating a genius by stimulating brain activity.
I’ve listened to Merriweather Post Pavilion a couple times now and there are a few songs I really like. “My Girls” and “Summertime Clothes” are really neat tracks. The rest aren’t half bad either. I just can’t get around the “swamp sound” that lingers through all of their song. It’s that squishy, creepy, stewy sound that overpowers the lyrics, melody and rhythm. I’m sure however they create it, is pure genius and only 1/25 of the population could physically reproduce it, but I’m just not into it. It sort of hurts my brain in a way that I can’t quite explain. Call me a purist but I love hearing all the instruments being played, and with the “swamp sound” I can’t do it.

Like always, listen for yourself.

I do however give it 2 and a 1/2 “Whatevers”

Year End Review Mirror Image

2009-01-09T21:51:00.000-08:00

Ahoy Matee…
It’s been a few years since I blogged on a regular basis, and I’ve been meaning to get this site up and running for quite a while now. I figure now is as good as time as any, being the New Year and all. Believe me everything I write on this here thing is pure “personal opinion”. In no way am I an expert at anything. I think I know a lot about music, I probably don’t. I think I have all the right ideas about what makes a great film, I don’t. I also think I’m an expert analysis on sports, again I am not. But I do have an opinion and that’s worth my weight in gold… I thought my first post would be a look back at the year that was 2008.

Firstly:
I enrolled in a Jewish Gym and began playing basketball on a regular basis once again. After a few months of struggle I sorta got my legs back and can almost compete like I used to. I have yet to find a cure for common aging.

Secondness:
With persuasion from others I started writing and playing music again. I gathered up the gang (Laurie, Darius, Scott, Keith) and welcomed an old friend (Pherph/Ferf) into the fray. We began playing again and had a great first show at the Knitting Factory in May. Shortly after we lost Keith as our lead guitarist. We sulked for quite a while and then moved on…sorta. We picked up another old friend, Clark Russell to help with percussion and we recorded an EP/ demo “Oh Woolfy” in Silverlake in early Summer. In October we recorded again but this time in Fresno. We were in the midst of mixing the tracks when the audio engineer quit… “whoa is us”. This is the exact reason why I always end up quitting music. Again we pulled through and hopefully we will have something completed before Spring. I finally accomplished something that I had set out to do years and years ago. I performed at the infamous Starline in Fresno, CA. It’s such an exclusive venue (sarcasm) that for years, I had tried to get a show there with a number of bands and I was always denied. Then on December 27th Wings for the Queen took the stage and rocked the place….I think, for some reason I can’t quite remember the night too well.

Ourstage.com/wingsforthequeen

Thirdest:
I saw a couple of great shows this last year and a couple of duds as well. For the first time in 7 years I didn’t attend at least 1 day of the Coachella Music Festival. It has sort of become a tradition amongst me and a couple of friends. This year those friends didn’t seem too interested in the lineup and weren’t willing to travel for the sake of tradition. Honestly, I don’t blame them. The best show of the year for me was Wolf Parade at the Fonda. We saw them back to back nights. The first night was pretty darn good, not the best effort I’ve seen of them but well worth the cost. I was a bit apprehensive about seeing them the next night because; I didn’t feel like driving to Hollywood again, didn’t feel like paying $10 for a small Cranberry and vodka , and how different could the set/sound be? Well I was glad that I went. Those boys put on an amazing display of rocketry, and not the type you do at summer camp while you’re in 5th grade. They played a different set list and did different variations of the songs they performed the night before. Absolute enjoyment. Honorable mentions go to Built To Spill at the Troubadour performing Perfect From Now On, Tokyo Police Club at the Detroit Bar, and Handsome Furs at the Troubadour. Some of the duds were Bishop Allen at The Echo (no energy and didn’t play a song off Charm School), Cold War Kids at Fingerprints, and Zach Galifianakis at 4th and B (late and only caught the last 3 minutes of the show. Purely our fault and in no way should it be blamed on Mr. Galifianakis).

Fourthly:
Liked
Starting up the band
Sirius Satellite Radio
Jewish Gym Basketball
Lopez Twins
Flag Football
Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job
Real World Hollywood
Arclight Theater Hollywood

Dis Liked
Starting up the band
The Happening
24 Hour fitness Basketball
Trent Johnson
Bears Football
Nip/Tuck
Big Brother season 9

Any other Theater

Fivestly:

Hot Chip
One Pure Thought, Ready For The Floor
TV On The Radio
DLZ
Santogold
Lights Out (Not the Bud Light Version)
Cold War Kids
Relief, Dreams Old Men Dream, I’ve Seen Enough
Wolf Parade
Fine Young Cannibals
Kings Of Leon
Use Somebody
Deerhunter
Never Stops
Passion Pit
Sleepy Head, Better Things
Department Of Eagles
No One Does It Like You
Harlem
South Of France
Rae Spoon
Come On Forest Fire Burn The Disco Down
Land Of Talk
Some are Lakes
Tokyo Police Club
Juno

Girl Talk

Set It Off

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Lastlyness:
I read C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, for the first time and loved it. I definitely recommend it. I didn’t get around to reading Artie Lange’s, Too Fat To Fish, But it is on my to do list for 2009.

On A Side note, this dude was born! Future legend.
Anyway, tons more happened, too much for me to even remember. But enjoy some of this content and stay tuned….oh and, “ at ease soldier”!

Yup

2009-01-09T18:39:00.000-08:00

Try this on for size.

Coming Soon!

2009-01-09T18:21:00.001-08:00

Hold on to your boots.