http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/ Barely coherent ramblings on whatever amuses me en Copyright 2012 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:25:03 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Zowie Wowie. What's your top 10? ]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/06/friday-random-top-10-223.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/06/friday-random-top-10-223.html Music Random Top 10 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:25:03 -0600 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/06/friday-random-top-10-222.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/06/friday-random-top-10-222.html Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:20:53 -0600 Graduation Parties. Graduation Ceremonies. Graduation party/celebration preparations. That's my weekend. How about a random top 10. 1. The New Timer -- Bruce Springsteen 2. Ate it Twice -- Robert Pollard 3. Sonic Reducer -- Dead Boys 4. Leah -- Roy Orbison 5. Every Little Thing She Does -- The Police 6. Boredom -- The Buzzcocks 7. Popular Creeps -- Chris Mars 8. Losin' It -- Soul Asylum 9. Rock and Roll -- Led Zeppelin 10. No. 13 Baby -- Pixies Bonus: heart of a Saturday Night -- Jonathan Richman Boredom has the greatest two-note guitar solo in rock and roll history. What's your top 10? http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/06/friday-random-top-10-221.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/06/friday-random-top-10-221.html Music Random Top 10 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:49:45 -0600 Have Mercy kicks absolute ass, from a 70 year old woman no less. What's your top 10?]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/05/friday-random-top-10-220.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/05/friday-random-top-10-220.html Music Random Top 10 Fri, 27 May 2011 08:41:21 -0600 So where where are you going to be to watch The Rapture. I've been blogging so infrenquently lately people won't know if I was taken or not, I guess you'll have to wait to see if I come back next week Here could be my final random top 10: 1. Teenage Riot -- Sonic Youth 2. Seven o'clock (demo) -- Elvis Costello 3. Blue Eyes -- The Wedding Present 4. Hold On Tight -- Electric Light Orchestra 5. As Above, So Below -- Klaxons 6. Sleepless Nights -- Gram Parson 7. I Go Stung -- Elvis Presley 8. You Need the Glory -- Minutemen 9. Have You Seen Her Face -- The Byrds 10. Why Go -- Pearl Jam Bonus -- Mr. Pleasant -- The Kinks Nice list. It was a good run, what's your top 10? http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/05/friday-random-top-10-219.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/05/friday-random-top-10-219.html Music Random Top 10 Fri, 20 May 2011 09:09:37 -0600 Crappy play, Mauer injured, lousy pitching, removed trees, higher prices, bad in-stadium music. Now Harmon dying. Can anything else go wrong with the Twins this year? Let's get to a top 10, maybe that will change the karma. 1. Idiot Wind -- Bob Dylan 2. Mommy -- The Suburbs 3. Girl Talk -- Elvis Costello 4. Blank Generation -- Richard Hell & the Voidoids 5. Postcard -- The Suburbs 6. Bridge Over Troubled Water -- Simon and Garfunkel 7. The Sprawl -- Sonic Youth 8. Love and Marriage -- Frank Sinatra 9. Liked It A Lot -- Charlie Pickett 10. Believe -- The Chemical Brothers Bonus: Comfortably Numb -- Luther Wright and the Wrongs Boy it would be easy to write a story with these song titles wouldn't it. What's your top 10? http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/05/friday-random-top-10-218.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/05/friday-random-top-10-218.html Music Random Top 10 Fri, 13 May 2011 13:00:42 -0600 Beautiful day. I'll be painting. Here's a random top 10: 1. I Put a Spell on You -- Creedance Clearwater Revival 2. Tell You Why Tomorrow -- Husker Du 3. Beast of Burden -- Rolling Stones 4. On The Wall -- Jesus and Mary Chain 5. Ziggy Stardust -- David Bowie 6. If This is Love, Can I get my Money Back -- Charlie Pickett 7. In a Little While -- U2 8. Whispering Pines -- The Band 9. The Enemy -- Guided By Voices 10. Redrum -- Tom Waits Bonus: Found a Job (live) -- Talking Heads Nice variety, sounds like good painting music. Whats on your top 10? http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/05/friday-random-top-10-217.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/05/friday-random-top-10-217.html Music Random Top 10 Fri, 06 May 2011 08:07:07 -0600 Iron Man Bike Ride this Sunday and I've hardly been out due to the weather. I'm going to be sore on Sunday night! Here's a top random top 10: 1. Marchers in Orange -- Guided By Voices 2. Flowers in the Dell -- Fred Eaglesmith 3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps -- The Beatles 4. Someone/Rock Stars on the Marie Celeste -- Mekons 5. Walkin' After Midnight -- Cowboy Junkies 6. Underneath Your Bed -- Jack Logan 7. Old Angel Midnight -- Jack Kerouac 8. We Live Again -- Beck 9. Help -- The Beatles 10. Sex Me -- Urban Guerrillas Bonus: Toolmaster of Brainerd -- Trip Shakespeare Whenever GBV comes up first on one of these lists I have a momentary thought that I would get 10 GBV songs, alas maybe next time. What's your top10? http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/04/friday-random-top-10-216.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/04/friday-random-top-10-216.html Music Random Top 10 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:26:11 -0600 Yesterday a 25 year old U of MN student was killed on her bike right outside my window. Unfortunately the authorities had the covered body out for an hour recreating the scene before she was put in an ambulance. So be careful out there. If you're on a bike wear a helmet and watch for cars! If you're driving, watch out for bikers, even if they are acting poorly. Bikes will lose against a car every time! 1. View from the afternoon -- Arctic Monkeys 2. Kris Kraft -- Pavement 3. Redemption Song -- Johnny Cash (w/Joe Strummer) 4. Dixie -- Bob Dylan 5. Call Occupants of Interplanetary Craft -- Babes in Toyland 6. Cry Baby Cry - The Beatles 7. Blood -- Pearl Jam 8. Hoodoo -- Billy Bragg & Wilco 9. I'll Fly Away -- Alison Krauss 10. Love My Way -- Psychedelic Furs Bonus: Don't Worry Baby -- Beach Boys What's your top 10? http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/04/friday-random-top-10-215.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/04/friday-random-top-10-215.html Music Random Top 10 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:07:04 -0600 Tomorrow is record store day and I will head over to Roadrunner Records to buy the new Feelies disc. Until then, a Random Top 10: 1. Start a War -- The National 2. Gates of Eden -- Bob Dylan 3. Love Thing -- Stillwater 4. In a Future Age -- Wilco 5. Dead in the Water -- Supersuckers 6. Wah-Wah -- George Harrison 7. In a Lonely Place -- The Smithereens 8. Help -- The Beatles 9. I Don't Believe You -- Bob Dylan 10. Three Little Birds - Bob Marley Bonus: Nice Dream -- Radiohead Wow, nice little vibe going with that list. Lots of older stuff. What's your top 10? http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/04/friday-random-top-10-214.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/04/friday-random-top-10-214.html Music Random Top 10 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:40:13 -0600 Please don't tell me the stink that has infected all of Minnesota's sports teams is now kissing the lips of the Minnesota Twins. They're all we have left!!!!! Here's a Random Top 10: 1. Unscathed -- Jack Logan 2. I Like Trains -- Fred Eaglesmith 3. Son of a Preacher Man -- Dusty Springfield 4. $100 Groom -- Paul Westerberg 5. Bongo Bop (Take A) -- Charlie Parker 6. Only in Dreams -- Weezer 7. Welcome to the Working Week -- Elvis Costello 8. Midnight Carnival -- Chris Mars 9. Personal Jesus -- Johnny Cash 10. Standing in the Doorway -- Soul Asylum Bonus: Easy To Be Hard -- Golden Smog Not the greatest list in the world, but solid. What's your Top 10? http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/04/friday-random-top-10-213.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/04/friday-random-top-10-213.html Music Random Top 10 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:22:32 -0600 After the lousy winter we had and the crappy sports teams we had to endure, has there ever been a place that was in need of baseball season than Minneapolis? Let's celebrate with a top 10: 1. Four Provinces -- The Walkmen 2. Mykonos -- Fleet Foxes 3. Over and Over Again -- Clap Your Hands and Say Yea 4. The Funeral -- Band of Horses 5. Peacebone -- Animal Collective 6. Two Weeks -- Grizzley Bear 7. Panda Panda Panda -- Deerhoof 8. Crash into Me -- Dave Matthews Band 9. Makes Me Wonder -- Maroon 5 10. Human -- The Killers Bonus: Don't Stop Believing -- Journey My God, what was that?!! Thankfully it's April Fools Day! What's your top 10? http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/04/friday-random-top-10-212.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/04/friday-random-top-10-212.html Music Random Top 10 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:30:02 -0600 The Sopranos. While not as good as The Wire, still a pretty good series. Seven seasons means a lot of episodes and I will definitely miss it. Next up for the exercise bike? The Shield. Now a random top 10 for my barely on life support NCAA bracket: 1. Queen of the World -- The Jayhawks 2. Crackity Jones -- Pixies 3. From a Whisper to a Scream -- Elvis Costello 4. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Part 1) -- Flaming Lips 5. Buzzards and Dreadful Crows -- Guided By Voices 6. Youth -- Beat Happening 7. Fly -- The Jam 8. Wild Thing -- X 9. Land of Canaan -- Indigo Girls 10. You Can't Always Get What You Want -- Rolling Stones Bonus: The Prisoner -- The Clash Btw, last weekend I played the 50,000th song on my I-pod. It was an R.E.M. song. What's your top 10?]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/03/friday-random-top-10-211.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/03/friday-random-top-10-211.html Music Random Top 10 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:52:49 -0600 If you see her say hello from the Masked and Anonymous Soundtrack. Which is a very cool album if you're into Dylan. What's your top 10?]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/03/friday-random-top-10-210.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/03/friday-random-top-10-210.html Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:18:03 -0600 Wow, some nasty images out of Japan. The United States has been very lucky an earthquake of that magnitude hasn't hit a populated area. How about a random top 10 as we watch destruction videos: 1. Little Bit o' Soul -- Music Explosion 2. Bawatiba -- Kid Rock 3. Whatever -- Husker Du 4. Beat on the Brat -- The Ramones 5. Scissors -- Guided By Voices 6. Star Eyes -- Charlie Parker 7. Down on the Corner -- Creedance Clearwater Revival 8. 'Cross the Breeze -- Sonic Youth 9. Charlene (live) -- Fred Eaglesmith 10. City with no Children -- Arcade Fire Bonus: Polly (live) -- Nirvana I was thinking of deleting that Kid Rock song from my I-pod just last week. Wonder if that's a sign that I should. What's your top 10? http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/03/friday-random-top-10-209.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/carls064/freealonzo/2011/03/friday-random-top-10-209.html Music Random Top 10 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:59:12 -0600