Without a Yard

Realizing that the top 5 is heavily skewed in favour of the latter half of the fest and the hyped up indie/pop acts, well, except the guilty pleasure Nada Surf reference (here’s a live version of weightless - Mp3, from the band’s February appearance on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic). oh well. seeing Daniel Lanois twice and back-to-back Billy Bragg and Mick Jones sets was pretty incredible in an old-fart/classic icons kinda way…finding it tough to synthesize all this info since my CAMERA CRAPPED OUT. sigh. bygones. hopefully the IT dudes can put that bad boy on some kinda life support and salvage some photos. anything.

ANYWAY, thinking about the box of hair reference from yesterday, which is really from late Sunday evening on the flight back. . Talking to this cool gal from mint records about their roster past & present and how, for a geeky girl growing up in Parry Sound, the last cub record was pure plastic bubblegum bliss. BoH came out in 1996, so this CD I’m spinning right now is twelve years old - ugh. We talked about how when you’re a teenager you have this unsustainable ability to absolutely, unconditionally LOVE a record. It’s visceral. Like Jordan Catalano levels of obsession that I don’t have the energy or attention to focus on any individual work of art anymore. I wonder if when i go nuts for a song or an album today if it’s even a fraction of the attention I heaped on BoH and other 16-17-year-old favs. Part of it is pure free time, I guess, but there’s something to be said for the raw reactions of the teen years & music. Truth be told - it’s not a mind-expanding or genre-busting record (check out Magic 8 Ball, still my fav track from BoH in this Mp3)

Hmm..ponderables. Would like to hear if you had any h.s. guilty pleasures, maybe we could do a seeqpod mixlist…

Peace
Meegs

p.s. Mp3 - I Taught Myself How to Grow Old - Ryan Adams, Live From Studio X, June 19, 2007