Tuesday May 17, 2005
I have been vaguely aware of this whole ‘musical baton’ tomfoolery that has been going around and now that I have been passed the proverbial baton by both Jeff ‘Jam Master’ Croft and Shaun ’.com/poser’ Inman, I am now much obliged to participate.
Total volume of music on my computer: circa 2GB. Is that not a lot? I guess I’m still fairly “old school,” preferring the spin of a CD to the bitrate of MP3s.
The last CD I bought was: Weezer, Make Believe
Song playing right now: None, but it would definitely be This Is Such A Pity by Weezer.
Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:
- Anything by Juliana Hatfield.
- Hell Yes, Beck. It’s just funky fresh.
- Right Between the Eyes, Garbage. Squealing guitars, murderous drum pattern, pounding bass.
- Combat Baby, Metric
- Mr. Brightside, The Killers
Five People to Whom I am Passing the Baton:
- Jeffrey Zeldman
- Jeremy Koempel
- Cameron Moll
- Addison Hall
- George W. Bush (seriously)
Update: I’ve successfully sent my invitation to President Bush. I can feel the Secret Service watching me already. I mean no harm, fellas! Honest!
Andrew Kaufmann » 1509 days ago #
Some good choices—What a Pity is definitely the best song of Weezer’s new album (and dare I say it has the best guitar solo in a Weezer song to date?) and Mr. Brightside and the Killers are as catchy as modern stuff gets.
Abel Rios » 1509 days ago #
Hell Yes to Hell Yes! :D
eyezberg » 1509 days ago #
Hi,
nice blog here, but you may want to check the css for the article headers ; look at them on IE, scroll down slowly & back up, the letters overlap.
Good songs.
Chris J. Davis » 1508 days ago #
I get no love from you people!
I passed the baton to you and Greg over at airbag, and nothing!
pffffft!
Good selections by the way, Love the Weezer, although I was really hoping for another self-titled album, maybe pinnk, so I could have the blue, green and pink Weezer album.
Oh well.
Jared Christensen » 1508 days ago #
eyezberg – Thanks for the tip. I just opened IE and saw nothing amiss, though.
Chris – Really? I didn’t get your email invitation… it was out getting engraved, I gather. ;)
Chris J. Davis » 1508 days ago #
Jared: what you don’t check my site… like every day!?
Man, what a let down.
We really need to institute generic site pingbacks and trackbacks so you can know when I talk about you, but don’t mention a specific post!
JunaD » 1507 days ago #
You don’t know me. But I find this whole baton thing interesting. Finally someone with music I actually listen to. Weezer and the Killers. Rock on man.
Ryan Heneise » 1507 days ago #
Howdy…
I love a good bit of tomfoolery as much as anyone.
Thought you might want to know… your link to Shaun Inman is pointing to Jeff Croft. FYI.
Graham Bancroft » 1507 days ago #
No word from Mr Bush then?
Jared Christensen » 1506 days ago #
I am honestly trying to pass President Bush the baton, but the White House email contact form is experiencing problems. I’ll bet he’s got some Skynyrd in that iPod, though.
Abel Rios » 1506 days ago #
No love here either. Didn’t send out the e-mail though. Big doh! :)
eyezberg » 1506 days ago #
*Discussion moved to email - ed.*
Where is that song thing coming from? Hasn’t reached France yet it seems..
cheers, Joe
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