Well, the link worked for a while. Not long enough, though.

Jenn,

Thanks...but uh...dont call me son.

Also, Dave was REALLY drunk the other night....you should have seen it...HILARIOUS....just kidding, but itd be funny. think about it.

Edited by author 09-13-2002 01:38 AM
Yes as Dave knows I am a lover of the 100 Bullets (sorry I did have to go out and get issue 38 on my own, it is Cole after all). It is gritty, sexy, complex, and demands your attention. It has false redemption, pure vengence, and no good guys only slightly less bad ones. They introduce characters for one story, that although they are never mentioned again, are always there in the back of your mind while reading the current issues. I've greatly enjoyed all but one story line and I think that the women in this series, both major players and minor side characters, are a fascinating bunch.

I also enjoy the Y the last man. I am interested to see how violence plays out in this story since it would almost entirely be done to women by other women. And I wouldn't rule out the miscarriage thing Dave, I think that pregnancy is going to play an important role in the story. If it continues to be written well miscarriage should be a part of some preganancies especially experimental ones.

As for Smith's Green Arrow stuff, which I think I read all of, I really liked the introduction of the "bad guy" who fights with a gun at the very end of his run with the series. I found him to be a truly frightening character. Now I have no history of Green Arrow and I've only read the issues that Smith wrote, but I do find it compelling, as Dave pointed out to me, to have Smith introduce a character with such a deep degree of evil, and then leave the story for another author to resolve.

~Jenn

Ack!

Pre-Pearl Jam album time... examining the titles... trying to figure out what they'll sound like... hoping against hope that maybe they'll, oh, I don't know... PRODUCE THIS ONE!!! At all!

I don't like the garage rock sound... I tend to think "Oh, that's nice, I can't wait for the album." The sample-track sound of Binaural was really off-putting to me. Not just in the quality (or lack thereof) of production, but even in the way the album was assembled... it sounds like shit that wouldn't fit into an album, so they just copied it all onto a disc. Ugh. I know there was some good on it... I just didn't care for it.

Just by the way, I still can't figure out why Blogger won't post to davidjmcgee.com. Until you come here, and hopefully I can coax you into taking a look at it, I've been posting elsewhere.

www.livejournal.com/users/davidjmcgee

Take a look there... I've actually been posting. As soon as I can, I'd love to move back over to the one I'm actually paying for. Check me out there for some stuff.

Hey, Jenni, Y- The Last Man 3 comes out tomorrow!!! :)

~Dave

Edited by author 09-17-2002 11:43 PM
I know, I agree about the production quality on "Binaural", as we have discussed before. I expect this one will be more produced than "Binaural", now that they have dropped Tchad Blake. The mixing will be done by Pearl Jam regular O'Brien, but the producer will be Adam Kasper. This suggests that the production might be fairly raw on this album: Kasper produced Soundgarden's "Down on the Upside", Cold's "Thirteen Ways to Bleed on Stage [sic]", and (notably) was assistant engineer on Nirvana's "In Utero" and PJ's "Vitalogy". All of these albums are fairly raw- and exciting-sounding, but (maybe excepting the spare Cold album) sonically quite full.

In anticipation of the single's release tomorrow I have been listening to the Bridge School Benefit performance of "I Am Mine" for much of the day on continuous loop (Dave - you have this?) What a great song. It contains some prize PJ lyrics:

I know that I was born and I know that I’ll die.
The in-between is mine. I am mine.

and

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

I decided I'd learn how to play it tonight. I thought, listening to the song, that the intro is played with a sliding D shape, like the beginning of Candlebox's "He Calls Home". Turns out I am almost right; it's a modified sliding D shape. I always fool around with sliding D chord. There is also what sounds like a hammered-on D to Dsus transition, although this is not notated in the tablature I found; this is also very Josh. Plus, in the acoustic Bridge School version, there is an emphasized strumming technique employed in and after the bridge. These three elements make the song sound kind of like one that, you know, I would write. Except, you know, better.

Dave, regarding your website: are you getting the emails I send you? I sent you one a few days ago that probably fixes your problem. If not, give me a call.

By the way, does anyone know anything in regards to Eddie and the Supersuckers? For a while after the Supersuckers changed their name to E&tSS, it was rumored that the "Eddie" in question was Mr. Vedder. I heard one of their singles, and it sure as Hell sounded like him. Does anyone know the scoop?

-BMH

Edited by author 09-18-2002 02:31 PM
I looked them up on AMG. It looks like the Eddie is "Eddie Spaghetti", AKA "Eddie Supersucker". Gotta love the AMG summation:

Though those under-appreciative of the Supersuckers' Satan, Wild West, booze, and heroin imagery may rely on the grunge moniker to pinpoint the group's sound, the Supersuckers are a true power-chord driven punk band, albeit with a penchant for heavy metal posturing.

Mike: have you mentioned your LiveJournal before? I don't remember you ever mentioning it. A year and a half worth of posts to read!

- Josh

Josh,

Thanks for the info. I'll look it up. I don't think that I've mentioned my LJ before, which may be a good thing, as quite a bit of it is in fairly poor taste. I'm not sure if all of my older entries are in there. I moved a lot of them over from http://whelp.diaryland.com. If you can access those, they're some of my best stuff. My latest Livejournal stuff is more of a report about my life than a comedy column, although it does have its moments.

Also, you shouldn't let any of the stuff that I've written about Chelsea color your perceptions of her. I tend to portray her on LJ in a fairly unflattering (but light-hearted) light.

-BMH

I just realized...

If I were to take the lyrics to any on a number of Tenacious D songs, and replace the phrase "K.G." with "McGee", I'd have a pretty nifty little song about us. For example (from Dio)...

Old Version:
You must give your cape and scepter to me!
And a smaller one for K.G.!

New Version:
You must give your cape and scepter to me!
And a smaller one for McGee!

See how it works? It's this sort of keen insight into the musical mind that makes me one of the recording industry's most beloved superstars.

-BMH

Josh-- listening to a radio interview with Pearl Jam (yeah, all of them!) on 92.3 WXRQ (which they call K-Rock, for some reason).

Don't worry, I taped it. :)

This is a running commentary...

Mike (I think it was Mike... maybe Stone) and Ed just said that this is their best album. Umm... good!

I Am Mine... I don't even know what to say... what an INCREDIBLE song! Just... downright... just... wow... in terms of album placement (like we tend to do) it sounds like "No Code"... but only if they recorded "No Code" after "Yield." If that makes sense. Which it does. :)

Throwing in here that Matt Cameron ROCKS.

Just played "Save You." OK... it rocks. I have to listen to it more because I had trouble understanding the lyrics, but musically it's excellent.

Have to go to rehearsal now... second half at a later date.

~Dave

Hey...

Two Pearl Jam related items.

1) I told you this already Josh, just posting it up for the rest of the mcgees.org posse. When you're discussing new Pearl Jam songs, and you say that they write songs that sound like yours, I would contend that you have cause and effect just slightly backward. :)

2) I've been humming a song for a while, I realised it sounded like Pearl Jam, I deduced that I didn't write it, so I started singing it just now. Turns out it was "Thin Air" from Binaural. Shit. Maybe I'll listen to Binaural today.

~Dave

In response to the mcgees.org question:

didie -- diaper

From All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren, 1946), "Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud." (p. 46)

JWI -

Thanks! I updated the post.

- Josh

Digging the guide to the apostrophe. Where the fuck did they learn that? Do they not read? Do they only read what other innorint peopl'e right?

Can we add in here that I'm in a really excellent college and still know people who write shit like "haveing" and "makeing."

What the hell?

~Dave

Aetna sent us a letter last week listing medications that our insurance plan was no longer going to fully cover. When I looked over the list I was amazed to see how many of the medications on that list are medications that my clients with Cerebral Palsy take on a daily basis.
Many of the medications are for spasticity or they are psychotropic medications, both of which allow people with some form of a disablity to function and have more rewarding lives.
Aside from incresing rates for people who need a medication to treat a disability, here is what really gets me: Now lets say a person with mild CP can no longer afford the Dantrium he/she take 3 times a day since the price has doubled. The person looses fine motor skills that result in the loss of employment. The person is now without employment and he/she decides to apply for Medical. Medical fully covers Dantrium, the person regains fine motor skills, and goes back to work. They get $2000 to their name, they loose all Medical coverage........
I think that the state should provide health care for its citizens. The idea that a state could do that without discouraging its citizens from returning to gainful employment and being contributing members to society, is a great one. The state provides care to keep its members healthy and fit for working, playing, and learning, and in return the members provide their state, cities, and communities with their services and a small financial contribution.
Seems like a good idea to me, but then I'm the one who choose the Onieda community over Mormonism as a more ideal life style in sociology class.

Jenn

Health care for everybody...do we really want more people living comfortably? I think not. After all, why should people live well? Sucks to them, I have a good job with health care, why don't they? So what if a sinking economy is forcing lay-offs, I say if they're not in a job by the next day then they don't want to work.

On a different note, I've finally created a demo. Josh and Jennifer know that (and probably nobody else) I've been practicing my DJ skills with aspirations of somebody annoying old people with my very loud music pumping from every car. What they don't know is that I finally created a demo that I'm pretty happy with (not completely...i got a bit goofy at the end...but hey...who cares?)
Anyway, if you want to listen to it you can pull it from ftp://68.8.10.66 with an anon login...it's a pretty big mp3.