 SomaCow 159: Jackass Junction
from SomaCow
April 25, 2008
SomaCow Media, Inc. is proud to present SomaCow, brought to you in this hour by the Desert Inn Motel, Bar and Cafe. A veritable oasis of trucker diner food, nestled snugly in the vas deferens of Dear Old Florida. I highly recommend a visit, if you are ever halfway to Miami and suddenly want pie. In this hour, we discussed some select artists in the music industry, a fatty eatventure with me, and ANOTHER fatty eatventure with me! Sometimes, I wonder if the name of this show shouldn t be Let s All Listen to a Fat Guy Hurt His Belt. We opened up the hour discussing SynDown, a favorite side project of mine that I shelved due to lack of time and resources. Don t cry for me, girl in a gasmask wearing dayglo fishnets, because I still enjoy what I do, and will probably pick the project back up once there is time. But in the meantime, I still listen to music, whenever I can. I try not to limit my horizons, and thankfully, working with SomaCow Media affords me an introduction to bands like SOJH, The Guggenheim Grotto, Dirty Wormz, and countless other great acts. We went into a lively discussion about indie artists that are doing it right, like Radiohead and Dolly Parton? You betchore sweet ass, Dolly Parton! Sadly, one of my favorite indie artists released a new AHEM Project, namely Trent Reznor and the digital downloadfest known as Ghosts. Look. I don t want to get into an argument with you. I liked Trent since the second I heard two notes and a lyric from the man. I have followed him from PHM at the Edge, to Broken, to Downward Spiral, along Lost Highway, buried in the DVD for Natural Born Killers, around the back end of The Crow, all over The Fragile, left and right, and everywhere else the man has popped up. The sad fact is that Ghosts is a pantload. A dripping, steamy pantload. I wouldn t play this music for a Haunted House queue. I have listened to it thrice, and it is a giant better run to the bathroom or you are going to stain your shoes PANTLOAD. His last album was a pantload, too. There is no connectivity, no FEATURE, of the album to attach to. It is like staring at a white canvas displayed at the MoMA, and wondering what you are missing. You are missing nothing, and should spend your hard earned money elsewhere. Cathartic though it may have been for Trent, I would humbly ask that he return my money, and take back his moody chamber (pot) music. Mickey says Dolly Parton is better than Trent, and I agree. When I wasn t snorking listlessly to Ghosts, I spent some time in Southern Florida this week, and visited yet again the hole known as Yeehaw Junction. Fascinating back story to this place, if you want to learn more, you can read the Wiki article. I merely would like to comment on the fact that, for a moment, you can almost experience what life was like in the 50s, except without all the segregated drinking fountains and people dying of lockjaw and stuff. You should go, and tell Senora behind the counterina El Geoffy de vaca del soma says Ji . It warmed my heart to see good people getting by doing hard work, but I am no fool. The crush of the burger joints, the lack of civilization (fire up google earth and look around Yeehaw Junction sometime), and the fact that only one other dude and I were the patrons there during lunch leads me to believe that this place is probably hurting a bit, successwise. Sure, they are an official historic battlefield site, but so is J s chair. Anyway, I am not sure what I am saying, other than the fact that everything changes, and that is good, sometimes, but more often, it is not. We also spent some time discussing Rita s, which really is damned good. Thanks again to Chrispy for the heads up. Every time I feel the silent sharp stab of an icepick being forced into my brain, I think of you now! Mickey also had some great service, as he became an 18th century fancy lad and went traipsing about to locate purveyors and proprietors worthy to fix him a cupper tea and repair his fancy watchy watch watch, wot, wot. We decided we will create a section of the site dedicated to businesses that give good service and actually WANT customers. Try and have that up by the next show, and first off we ll have The Olde Cup and Saucer and Mickey s Supposed Watch Shoppe! (aka Professional Jewelry Services 2484 W. Hwy 434 Suite 108 Longwood, FL 32779 407-788-7121 Ask for Armando tell him SomaCow sent you.) Also - don t forget to check out Cookin with Coolio , if you want to kill some time. It ain t Ken Burns, but it ain t bad. J s Penis has a ring. Figure that one out. 4:30 - I don t like Indians. But what we do like are our bands: Stephen Lynch - Little Tiny Moustache Stephen Lynch - Vanilla Ice Cream Straight Outta Junior High - Boner
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