Music I'm Listening to

Akron/Family- Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free. There new album is a funky throwback kinda sound with some serious 70's undertones which let's face it we all need and love! The songs " Everyone is Guilty" and "MBF" deliver some serious face-melting guitar riffs which rattle the chest a bit and push these songs to the badass category. While "River" and "Set 'Em Free pt 1" are slowed down and imbued with more of a folksy and feel good vibe. The music transitions well and I think the band makes it work rather well. My favorite song so far has to be "River". Perfect song that could interrogated in many different ways by the individual listener. Overall good album and worth a good listen. I recommend.

Eels- Fresh Blood. Seventh album by these fellas.......First of all the Eels have had some killer albums in the past with some way out cool songs. "Novocaine for the Soul" and "My Beloved Monster"(These can be found on the album Beautiful Freak) are still to this day just plain RAD and have a steady rotation in the ole playlists. In Hombre Lobo the definitive song has got to be "Fresh Blood" WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO......you'll get it when you listen to the song! Another song which I think is actually a love/longing song is "That Look you Gave that Guy". Spooky and talks to you. "In my Dreams" deserves a spot on everyones iPod and should be listened to while walking through the city people watching...or hell driving to work! Overall worth checking out on iTunes and downloading what you want.

Dan Auerbach- Keep it Hid. Dan is the Black Keys...and the Black Keys are Dan....Nuff said.

But in his solo album Dan came correct and mixes a folksy funkadelic ear candy full of soul that makes it hard not to snap the fingers to! "Heartbroken, in Disrepair" is a musical version of a tell-all book about a lost love or something to that effect. "When the Night Comes" is just hauntingly gorgeous....there's nothing more to say listen to it. Dan keeps his raw emotions and experiences in the album which gives this album a life and soul. Overall classy and heartfelt album that will need to be played with a good red wine and some beautiful company.

Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, the Commuter. Good Music!! this album fills a niche in my secret liberal life. All I want to do with this music is jump on the bike throw the earbuds in hit the Hawthorne bridge for some breakfast on the bridge action! Then pedal all through the city enjoying life and dodging cars. "Yours Truly, the Commuter" is not only the namesake of the album by a gorgeous lazy song which is so easy to jam along with and love. Jason's voice and unorthodox singing and storytelling is just plain cool and inviting. He has a way of making the listener feel comfortable and chill. Overall i feel this album will be epic in the brisk, crisp windy Fall season. Get it now while supplies last!!

Enjoy it all...and love music!

Obese

Dear friends,

I am currently back in NC and i have one thing to say......there are alot of unhealthy people here.

Fake Empire

Having been a modern day Spartan for quite sometime for our Empire that we call America I weep. I weep because we live in a fake empire that before our accepting and willing eyes has destroyed everything we've touched and made the world hate and despise the U.S. across the world. Who do we blame?? .... How can we fix this??.... Look at our current situation in the world. Our generation has its Vietnam and its Korean War ..or forgotten war as it's called. Years have been wasted along with young American lives needlessly ended for what? The Empire's coffers need to be filled. War is profitable.. Dead Americans are profitable...corporations live solely on the money made by young men and women's blood and gore. They live in there palaces and direct our government on what they need to do for profit. Meanwhile the Glenn Becks and the Limbaugh's of the world spew fear and hate and false rhetoric down the throats of mainstream "lets not think about ugly things" America...Why do they do this? To keep you stupid and blind to the fact that Rome will burn people.

There are more of me out there ready to take the blade to our "SPQR" tattoo and cut away its meaning and fight for our country. Fight for the control of our country once more. Caesar was killed by his own people. The Empire will fall and its people will be the ones who bring it down. I love America...I love it so much we are such a great and wonderful country. But who gave our government the right to dictate and police the rest of the world?! America needs to lead by example not by there military might. I feel so angry at our representatives for not representing "US". I've fought for you ..I've killed for you .... My friends have died for you....are we not in need of mercy and your respect?!....we are apart of a brotherhood of rough men ready to do rough things in need of our country....all this while you sleep peacefully in your beds.....but slowly dear friends ..slowly we are becoming sick of it all and will become your enemies. Rome is burning my friends and I hope your on the right side when the first torch is thrown.

Marinara Sauce

I found a packet of marinara sauce under my couch today. How long have you been there my little condiment friend...?

We as humans need to feel apart of something.... a community... or someones life. We need to feel "love" and a sense of purpose. We all seek a astral and spiritual connection to a sweet and beautiful love that we cannot live without. We are all in our own way a hopeless romantic. We all search and search for what is real and profound and tangible. And we all ...all of us want to be found, cared for, used, depended on, .........Loved.

All of us want to be found just like that marinara sauce and used to spice up and make delicious someones "midnight cheese sticks". How scared and hopeless our condiment friend must have been to be ruthlessly shoved aside and begrudgingly pushed under the dark and friendless world under the couch. I wonder my new friend if you felt worthless and unwanted? Did you despair? Chew the tender flesh on the inside of your cheek with irrational worry about your future? Did you depressingly read your expiration date and feel as if your too old now for anyone to open you up and enjoy all that you could provide? Did you finally hold out hope that maybe just maybe this day would come and you would be found and finally...finally be seen and welcomed and loved?

Today I found a packet of marinara sauce under my couch.......