Funk Babblings

I'm among the last people who still haven't seen that movie everybody's talking about (we'll finally go tonight), so instead I'll say a little about my reactions to the OLD movie I finally saw a couple weekends ago....

( Quadrophenia )

Oh, if you watch the movie, watch the first minute or so of it again after it ends, or else you'll totally misunderstand the ending. Though I think that ending is somewhat diminished by the fact that Sting's character is going to be really pissed....

I know, most of what I post here seems to be about cool music I've discovered, or am about to go see, or that others should go see. And these days most of it came to me via podcasts. So here's some more....

A band called Mutiny was recently played on The $250 Million Radio Show podcast. They call their music "folk punk for punk folk," while I'd call it "Celtish fiddle-punk." Really cool.


Also, I keep meaning to mention a couple podcasts that reach back to the past...

Old Wave Radio plays "new 80s music" - music that sounds like 80s music, but is current and generally from unsigned bands. It's become a favorite of mine. Of course Manda and the Marbles were on an early show.
The Dorktones.com Podcast, hosted by a Dutch retro-60s band, plays a mix of obscure 60s music and modern music that sounds like 60s music, and it's pretty much impossible to tell the difference.

A couple weeks ago I discovered a hidden cache of Macintosh Powerbooks sitting unused at work, and managed to take possession of one of them. I figured these are good machines and it shouldn't be too hard to bring them up to date for use in our current environment (a mix of MacOS X, Linux, and Windows).

I was wrong.

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Saturday evening we returned from Pennsic, and I'm almost caught up with life again.

( The Evil Vortex of Youngstown )
( Overcoming Culture Shock )
( A Detour East )
( Where's the ark? )
( Aftermath )

It seems that in high school in the early 60s, John Kerry played bass in a rock band, The Electras, and they released a 13-song record (making 500 copies). Now that record has been dug up and released on CD.
http://kerryrocks.com/
http://www.TheElectrasRockandRollBand.com/

There are a couple of mp3s available for sampling bits and pieces of the album. Sounds to me like fairly typical uninspiring surf-inspired early 60s music, but rather amusing and interesting nonetheless.