We've Got the Fünke
Cats played a close one against OSU last night. Heartbreaking. Extremely unsatisfying to have the ball with 10 seconds, down by 1, and not get a shot off. It's time to look forward to a Saturday night showdown with the Gophers. The plans are to tailgate prior to the game and then cheer like it's senior night from whistle to whistle. As a fan of Big 10 basketball, I promise to show good sportsmanship before, after, and during the game.
The Onion recently ran this feature, Random Rules, in which fringe celebrities free-associate about songs found on their Ipods. Here are choice snippets (gurs! excerpts previously unpublished).
Shania Twain, "Come On Over"
DC Berman: I love Shania. Shania Twain's singles on that Come On Over record influenced my own playing, as far as emphasis and stuff. She's not here in town very much; they stay up on this mountain in Switzerland. I just see [Twain and producer/husband "Mutt" Lange] on top of the world on this mountain, making this pretty great music. I like that song, "That Don't Impress Me Much." She kinda does these talking parts in the middle, and I think of it as, like, this place where music bumped up against Hollywood romantic comedies.
gurs!: Even for me, this is a little bit too cliché, and I would not have expected DC Berman to pretend that Shania has influenced his music. Could you really imagine DC sitting in his recliner at home, listening to the entire "Come on Over" album front to back? Also, everytime I hear the name Shania Twain now, I picture her biting into a tuna/chicken salad sandwich (I Heart Huckabees).
Belle And Sebastian, "It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career"
Isaac Brock: These guys have catchy songs. I just wish they weren't such a one-fuckin'-trick pony.
gurs!: I don't know what this mean exactly. You have to remember that Modest Mouse comes from thousands of different directions. In Brock's defense, I guess there are at least two tricks on his end. The one that didn't make money and then the one that did.
Guided By Voices, "Buzzards And Dreadful Crows"
David Cross (a.k.a. Tobias Fünke): [Bee Thousand] was the first Guided By Voices CD that I had. I got it, listened to it, and didn't really think about it or care about it either way. Then I had a gig in Irvine, and I was running late and grabbed a bunch of CDs and threw 'em in my car—that was one of 'em. I was playing it on the way back from the gig, and I was like, "Holy shit, this is amazing!" I had to look at the cover, like, "Who is this? This is great!" Then I became a huge fan. Same thing kinda happened with the first Pavement record. I bought some stuff for a drive down the PCH, from San Francisco back to L.A., and my little tradition when I was up there working… I would come back down and get really high and jacked-up on coffee and get a bunch of CDs. I bought that one and listened to it and was like, "This sucks! What the fuck is this?" I was angry. And then it came back around on my disc changer and I heard it that second time, and it was genius. Pure genius.
gurs!: Rawk. He just gets better and better.
The Onion recently ran this feature, Random Rules, in which fringe celebrities free-associate about songs found on their Ipods. Here are choice snippets (gurs! excerpts previously unpublished).
Shania Twain, "Come On Over"
DC Berman: I love Shania. Shania Twain's singles on that Come On Over record influenced my own playing, as far as emphasis and stuff. She's not here in town very much; they stay up on this mountain in Switzerland. I just see [Twain and producer/husband "Mutt" Lange] on top of the world on this mountain, making this pretty great music. I like that song, "That Don't Impress Me Much." She kinda does these talking parts in the middle, and I think of it as, like, this place where music bumped up against Hollywood romantic comedies.
gurs!: Even for me, this is a little bit too cliché, and I would not have expected DC Berman to pretend that Shania has influenced his music. Could you really imagine DC sitting in his recliner at home, listening to the entire "Come on Over" album front to back? Also, everytime I hear the name Shania Twain now, I picture her biting into a tuna/chicken salad sandwich (I Heart Huckabees).
Belle And Sebastian, "It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career"
Isaac Brock: These guys have catchy songs. I just wish they weren't such a one-fuckin'-trick pony.
gurs!: I don't know what this mean exactly. You have to remember that Modest Mouse comes from thousands of different directions. In Brock's defense, I guess there are at least two tricks on his end. The one that didn't make money and then the one that did.
Guided By Voices, "Buzzards And Dreadful Crows"
David Cross (a.k.a. Tobias Fünke): [Bee Thousand] was the first Guided By Voices CD that I had. I got it, listened to it, and didn't really think about it or care about it either way. Then I had a gig in Irvine, and I was running late and grabbed a bunch of CDs and threw 'em in my car—that was one of 'em. I was playing it on the way back from the gig, and I was like, "Holy shit, this is amazing!" I had to look at the cover, like, "Who is this? This is great!" Then I became a huge fan. Same thing kinda happened with the first Pavement record. I bought some stuff for a drive down the PCH, from San Francisco back to L.A., and my little tradition when I was up there working… I would come back down and get really high and jacked-up on coffee and get a bunch of CDs. I bought that one and listened to it and was like, "This sucks! What the fuck is this?" I was angry. And then it came back around on my disc changer and I heard it that second time, and it was genius. Pure genius.
gurs!: Rawk. He just gets better and better.
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