A Bag of Poop

Last night, bethje and I went out to eat at Chili’s, using one of the gift certificates my dad had given us for Christmas. After that, we stopped by Wal-Mart, and then came back to Beth’s house, where we watched Deadly Friend. If you want to see a robot grab a guy’s crotch, that’s the movie for you! Then we saw a few episodes of Mr. Show, and I went to bed.

That Amazon order that I’ve talked about quite a bit in recent entries contained two CDs that I bought for myself. One was the new Fastbacks rarities collection, Truth, Corrosion and Sour Bisquits. I’ve only listened to it once all the way through so far (I’m working on the second listen now), but it seems to have some pretty good stuff. There’s a cover of the Pixies song “Allison” on there, and the liner notes have a quote from Kurt Bloch that “I thought the Pixies just kept getting better.” Maybe they should have had Kurt make an appearance in the Gouge documentary, to provide a balance for all the talking heads (no, not members of the band Talking Heads; that probably would have been cooler) insisting that the band went downhill after Doolittle. I also find it interesting that Lulu Gargiulo says (when talking about “Go All The Way”), “As always with covers, Kim and I are signing about girls. It just never seemed right to change the words.” I think I agree with her. It generally kind of rubs me the wrong way when someone changes all the gender references when they do a cover of a song originally sung by a member of the opposite sex. Even They Might Be Giants do this, in their version of “Maybe I Know” (and, for those of you who are fans of obscure Dial-A-Songs, also in their version of “Next Plane To London”). Apparently the Johns have no problem singing from the point of view of murderers, stalkers, grocery bags, and human heads, but draw the line at women. I know Neko Case doesn’t change gender references, though, and the Pixies didn’t either, when Kim Deal sang lead on “I’ve Been Waiting For You.”

The other CD I got was the Young Fresh Fellows tribute album, This One’s for the Fellows. It’s a good record, and I’m glad the makers of the album kept the YFF tradition of alternate titles on the spine. I now give you a song-by-song review, containing numerous references that prove I consulted the liner notes.

( The kids bring zucchinis and stay all day, and the truck drivers follow me home. )

I also took another one of those personality tests.

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Oh, and there’s finally a new Owlie! up, after a wait of a few years, so check that out.