words from jack white

Don’t know if anybody else read the interview on pitchfork with jack white. But its well worthy of a skim through at the least. Jack white is one of the few musicians who really has his shit together, and his morals on music are perfecto. Musicians read up, you’ll learn some stuff…

“Pitchfork: Do you think that bands who take months and months– or years and years in the case of Axl Rose– have just lost the plot?

White: I think there’s too much opportunity. In general, opportunity tends to kill creativity. I think people don’t realize that. A painter goes into an art supplies store and sees all these different colours and supplies and thinks, “Oh, goody! This is going to make me a better painter.” Of course it’s not. It’s just going to make it harder to decide what not to use and what not to do. That’s what happens with a group of 20-year-old kids who walk into a studio with ProTools and a computer and they can record 400 tracks if they want to. Maybe now with the state of the music industry they’ll start spending less on albums and people will go back to reality. They should put up a plaque in every studio that says, “The Beatles recorded Revolver and Sgt. Pepper on four tracks.” That’ll clear everyone’s head.  “

Pitchfork: Finally, what’s this about you playing Elvis in a film?

White: Well, John C. Reilly called me up and asked if I would do it. They were filming in a couple of days. I said, “Okay, but what year is it supposed to be?” He said 1957, so that was okay. I thought it was just going to be for cable or something, but he said, “Oh no, this is one of the biggest films this company is going to put out this year.” He sent the script over and it was really funny. It was from the guys who did the The 40 Year Old Virgin and Anchorman. It’s a parody of musical biopics and John C. Reilly plays this made-up character who goes through these different periods and at one point he plays on a bill with Elvis Presley. And that’s me.

If theres two things i enjoy, Elvis and jack white, why not put them together?

my appetite for blogging this week has been a little suppresse, and i appologize, i’ll be  hungry again soon!

xo

this blog isn’t about diana ross

i dont even like her. anyway… didn’t get a chance to write last night, but as you may have figured out it was the 1 year anniversary of our three friends... I will leave it at that.

Yesterday was also my 5 month anniversary with jenny.

Two days ago i purchased the highly anticipated (by me) white stripes album, and it was pleasing to my ears. rag and bone will become a part of our vocabulary. which will mean ‘getting free shit’.

And while i was picking up the white stripes album, i noticed that the polyphonic spree cd came out the same day and i didn’t even know it, boy was i excited, it is also pleasing to the ears. go pick up both of them if you havn’t already.

next tuesday is ryan adams:easy tiger.

summer concert update:

• pickathon (avett brothers!!!, langhorne slim!!!, catham county line, jason webely, wood brothers, ian thomas, horse feather, two man gentlemen band, rev. peytons big damn band… plus many more)
• warped tour (bad religion!!!, pennywise!!!, coheed and cambria,flogging molly!!!,circa survive, pepper, starting line…more)
• Avett brothers!!!
• devendra banhar!!!
• modest mouse (tickets on the 23rd)
• ryan adams !!!(tickets on the 22nd)

it’s oh so familiar

If you look on amazons top selling cds, you’ll see:

1. Traveling wilburys
2. Paul McCartney
3. Amy Winehouse…
4. John Lennon tribute (not impressed with a majority of the line up (few exceptions), but  avril lavinge, black eyed peas and green day (along with a whole list of shitty artists) singing some of my favorite lennon songs is kind of a disgrace to his music and meaning, but at least some of these artists (U2, greenday…) are actually spreading the message of peace that lennon was devoting his life to, and even donating money to the cause, using their brainwashing skills for the better. Because we all know that if bono says ‘hey, lets all give money to help with aids’ half the population of the WORLD will give money (bono is the worlds jesus unfortunatly)…but like i said, at least he uses his power for the better.)

Anyway… did you notice a similarity with 3 of the top artists???

well with george harrison being the founder of the traveling wilburys, that makes 3 beatles in the top 4. forever live the beatles, cause we all know they are even more powerful when dead.

Saw knocked up tonight, it was worth seeing i suppose. Buuuut pirates was like being a little boy again, i was super excited and immediately wanted to play sword fighting with my friends on the trampoline.

xo

about time

I can’t even remember how many months, or years ago it was that the polyphonic spree announced their new cd. Well just this week they released their first video from the cd. and it’s the same old spree that we are used to. enjoy the happy.

Today in psychology class, two people shared songs for the class. Songs that inspired them, and meant a lot to them. and so i got to listen to Carrie Underwood, and Mariah Carrie for 10 minutes first thing in the morning while they sat and cried to their fucking stupid songs that i hate. God damn it, you better believe it was equivalent of torture.

xo

Lunch suprise.

Today i used my sears mastercard for the first time. I bought some clothing materials at sears and i used my associate discount.. This marks the first dent in my credit history, i think. But i bought both white shirts and undergarments and i noticed that they come in resealable bags. Just incase you want to wear them, then put them back in the bag, and then either put them in your dresser, OR even better, wear them, put them in the bag, fold them up perfectly and take them back without warshin’ them. I’m gonna do it probably just in spite of this resealable bag idea…Who is the guy who is like “thank fucking god that somebody got the smarts to make these underpants in a resealable bag” and i would also like to meet the guy who uses the resealable bags as lunch bags, or bags to keep freeze his ground beef.

    Imagine you’re in 6th grade, and your mother ALWAYS makes you a lunch before school. Well one day your mother is out of town and so your father has to make your lunches. Well stereotypically, your father doesn’t know where the fuck anything is in the kitch’. So he makes you a sandwich with heel of the loaf of bread and then a regular piece of bread, the last few crumbs of tortilla chips, pours you some milk in a plastic 16oz(or whatever size they are) pepsi bottle and 4 packets of fruit snacks. “well shit, i dont have no sandwich bags to put this stuff in” dad says to himself, ” then he thinks “well i can just put everything inside the lunch box with no bags” like a trail mix of lunch foods. well that is probably a bad idea he concludes, and he searches around the house for something, and looks in his room, ” hey, my new underpants that i got come in resealable bags, i can just use these” and so he does. You get to school and open up your lunch box, kind of a mixture of emotions, excited to see what kind of stuff your father could concoct for lunch and nervous that he might have fucked up or gave you a can of o’douls non-alcoholic beer… you look inside and everybody is looking at you and see that your lunch box is full of underwear bags with food inside. You are so embarrassed that the blood rushes to your head and your face turns red, then you relax and then the blood flows back to your penis and your even more embarrassed when everyone sees your boner.

xo

cry baby

Hahahha, fuck you paris. get raped in prison

anyway, lets talk about something thats not being talked about by everyone in the world and on every news station in the world…

Well i know at least one of you has heard the new white stripes (thanks lastfm). Anyway, in a normal circumstance i would have DLed that as soon as i could of because of overwhelming excitement and tension, but theres those bands who you’ve been so grateful for that you cant bring yourself to “deceive”. But from what i have heard legally ( icky thump, effect & cause, rag and bone) What a badass cd. Mike M. showed me rag and bone last night and it was the best thing i’ve heard since ‘instinct blues’.

For all you modest mouse fans who didn’t get a chance to see them at the ballroom when they played two shows in a row that sold out faster than peanut butter at a store full of lonely dog owners, well they will be playing in troutdale(portland) in august i believe… but tickets go on sale on the 23rd. i suppose if you want the time of the sale, you can ask me, but it’s confidential, i kind of really want to get tickets for this showing.

Some new stuff i’ve got:

• Curtis Eller cd 
• The Inkwell Rhythm Makers cd
• Just recently watched The Danielson Movie

xo

most annoying list:

1. Car … I dont know what it is about this junker, but i get so angry when one is following behind me
2. musical artis… she bothers me, i dont think she is an honest artists at all
   
3. food … i’m never satisfied after a meal here
4. store …the scent the employees the prices and music add up to one sucky store
5. television show… it’s not funny
6. celebrity… she’s not talented
7. animal…i cant handle these…
   
8. clothing style…perfect picture of everything i hate… camo…sweat pant capri’ s and short jackets
9. shoe…hate these things especially pink or blue ones
   
10. group of people.. anyone who would wear one of these

Here’s my idea… everybody take the same list and share with the blog community what you think is annoying and post it on your blog, we all have different opinions. and dont take too much time preparing a list, i just did all this stuff off of instinct and first thoughts.
xo

this is the “make sam happy” blog

Touching on Sam SAbonnnerz latest blog: I find myself doing daily rounds of the S.Oregon blogs, only to find the same thing that was there for 20 days in the past. My predictions:

 

• People stopped living, and have nothing to write about
• People started living and don’t have time to waste writing blogs
• People have found www.bangbus.com
  

But as a strong representative of this blog community, i would like to see a turn around with you ‘rare-updaters’. I understand everybody has shit to do, but that time you spend masturbating could be used to write about how you are thinking about masturbating, and then maybe another update with the suspenseful results of your masturbation thoughts: how, to what, how long… (i’m getting so many more hits now that i said masturbation and bangbus)

 

Sam was suprised i didn’t write a blog about the arcade fire show we went to a couple weeks ago, so i thought i would touch on that as well: We’ll i happened to get 4 tickets to the arcade fire show, which sold out at an expectingly fast rate. It was at the arlene schnitzer hall in Portland, so we had assigned seating. I gave my two extra tickets to sam and mike malone, and so they accompanied me and girlfriend jenny. Anyway, i don’t want to talk too long about this, so the openers electralane was not in my style, and arcade fire was a great show, couldn’t have asked for more. Plus an extra little treat, during intermission, jenny and I were walking around outside the theater and happened to see our friend and top 5 favorite song writer, colin meloy waiting in line at the bar like a normal person. And i know your first question: ” did you go up to him ?” I didn’t because i didn’t have anything to say to him at the time, i enjoy his music, but i dont know him as a real person, maybe he’s an asshole, and that could destroy my thoughts on him.But the irony comes in when i go down to the next floor, and we stop and i say ” we should go walk by colin again” and jenny says ” yeah, well he’s right behind you” and i didn’t bother looking, cause i was thinking ” yeah good joke jenny, havn’t seen this being pulled on cartoons for my whole life” but i turn around seconds later, and there he was…

 

Future plans and future blog topics to be written on:

 

• Pickathon 2007 experience
• warp tour experience
• Banjo skills
• tascam 8-track recorder
• plenty of masturbation stories
• the ultimate comic blog:work in progress by sam and eric

xo

 

went to da beauty shop today…

And i asked for the Ewan Mcgregor look;

oh , you’re out of that one… then just give me the Shaggy from Scooby Doo look:

oh , you’re out of that one… then just give me the  ‘my dad 20 years ago’ look

xo

not a big deal

Everything i wished for in a band. My favorite instument used to it’s full potential: the banjo, A stand up bass, and an acoustic guitar…. Not much is better than the Avett brothers. I’ve got my tickets to see them twice this summer. If you dont know me that well, then you wont know that i’m obsessive over them.

xo