I Love Tuesdays

Here are the purchases for the week....

Trey Anastasio - Shine

Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Self Promotion

Here's my review of Holopaw's new album Quit +/or Fight for Glide Magzine .....

Quit +/or Fight Review

#24!!!

Anyone that knows me can attest to the fact that I'm not the biggest pro football fan. Yes I do follow it and watch the games and do fantasy football, but truthfully I don't get pissed off if the Giants lose - I just don't. So now that baseball is over I'm just biding my time till the college hoops season starts. Well last week ESPN/USA Today posted their first pre-season poll and I was ecstatic to see my GW Colonials ranked at #24 . I figured we'd be somewhere near the Top 25 to start the season considering we're returning four of five starters from a team that won the A10 tournament and made the NCAA's for the first time since '99.

This team has talent and experience - two dangerous things when you talk about college basketball. Plus we've also got one of the most exciting players in all of college basketball with Pops Mensah-Bonsu . If you haven't seen this kid play he may be one of the best finishers out there, and seems from the reports from the Chicago camp he's developed more of a post game. This is going to be an exciting season.

More on the Colonials as the season gets closer.

Play It Leo

Going to see Mike Gordon & Leo Kottke tomorrow night at Irving Plaza. Saw them a few years back at Bowery and it was a pretty enjoyable show. Very mellow and the audience was pretty respectful of the fact that it was just two guys playing quiet music. You kind of know what you're getting yourself into with a show like this, but that's not a bad thing. I'd rather give Cactus my money then Trey. I'm taking a stand and not caving in to see him at Roseland when he's here in a week or so. I've heard the new album and have to say it was quite underwhelming. Wish he would stop trying to be Dave Matthews - anyways enough about him.

I Love Tuesdays....Wednesday Edition

Didn't buy anything in the stores yesterday, but had order this.....

Jerry Garcia - Garcia Plays Dylan

which came in the mail today. Good stuff can't wait to give it a spin.

Cream of the Crop

Going to see Cream tonight at the Garden - can't wait. From all reports I heard last night was great. Hopefully with one night under their belts they'll be a bit more comfortable and rock the house. Should be a great time. I've avoided seeing Clapton over the past decade or so, he seemed to have become a greatest hits touring package for awhile with some blues tours sprinkled about. This should really be something special and different though - at least that's what I'm hoping for. I think everyone in attendence at these shows are hoping that we can once again start spray painting 'Clapton is God'.

I Love Tuesdays...Burned Edition

Well there was really nothing worth purchasing this week, but a friend hooked me up with some music last night. Here's what I got.....

Tortoise - It's All Around You
Seu Jorge - Cru
Orchestra Baobab - Specialists In All Styles
Garaj Mahal - Blueberry Cave
The Perceptionists - Black Dialouge


Going to see My Morning Jacket tonight at Webster Hall - can't wait, should be a great show.

I Love Tuesdays

Here are the cd purchases for the week.....

Dios (Malo) - Dios (Malo)
Danger Doom - The Mouse And The Mask

Going Back To Cali

So it all comes down to tonight a Game 1 rematch of Moose vs. Colon. Hopefully the Yanks can repeated what they did a little less then a week ago in Cali and send us to the ALCS. Yanks need to get their bats to wake up a bit, they managed to only get four hits the entire game and two that barely left the infield last night. Come on guys we were second in the league in home runs, lets get some balls to leave the yard tonight. Both Chacon and Lackey pitched brilliantly last night, but I think that the Angels have been stretching Sheilds and Escobar a bit thin over the course of this series. Moose needs to give us a solid five to six innings and then I believe we'll see some combination of Randy Johnson, Aaron Small, Tom Gordon and Mo to close it out.

On another note why is it that every time that A-Rod comes up to bat everyone's chanting 'MVP', but no one does that when Mo comes into the game?? Yes A-Rod's numbers are quit impressive - he's had a hell of a year, but if I had a vote for AL MVP it would definitely go to Mariano Rivera - at the very least give this guy the CY Young Award.

Let's get some solid pitching and an early lead tonight - I want to be watching baseball for a few more weeks this October.

Go Yanks!!!!

Rain, Rain, Go Away

It's been pouring all day here in NYC and thus the Yankees/Angels game has been postponed until tomorrow night at 8:15.

Yanks have got to have a break out game tomorrow or the season is over. This team hasn't come all this way to roll over and die in the Division Series. They're going to need Shawn Chacon to come up big and give them a solid starting pitching performance. There is no reason that a team that 21st in the league in home runs should have so many off of Yankee pitching already. I'll be at the game tomorrow night and hopefully I won't be taking the 4 train back feeling disappointed. If this series goes the distance The Unit will likely be coming out of the pen - hopefully to atone for his disastrous start last night where it looked like he was pitching batting practice.

I Love Tuesdays....Thursday Edition

So here are the cd purchases for the week.....

My Morning Jacket - Z
The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine


Seeing Stellastarr* tonight at Irving Plaza. Full review tomorrow (hopefully), plus thoughts on the Yanks/Angels series.

Thank You Cleveland

Eight in a row, nine in ten years it doesn't get old hat to keep winning the American League East - and it feels even better to do it in Boston. Yes the Yanks had a bit of help today from the Cleveland Indians who lost and coupled with the Yanks win guaranteed them the title, but I'll take it. I'd rather know we have the AL East today then sweat it out tomorrow. We might have also benefited from good 'ol Mother Nature as well when earlier in the week the Sox had to play a double header which pushed back Curt Schilling's start to Sunday - but hey won't complain about that either. I won't get into a lengthy dissertation about the season. Let's just say those of us who have been following this team closely all year feel a great sense of satisfaction today. Let's get one more tomorrow and hope Cleveland can do us another favor by winning tomorrow which would result in a one game playoff on Monday versus Boston.

I Love Tuesdays

Why Tuesdays - well because it's new release day for cds. Here's a rundown of the purchases for the week.....

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Jacksonville City Nights
Neil Young- Prairie Wind
Blackalicious - The Craft
The Band - A Musical History

Triple Threat

So potentially the Yankees could have the AL MVP, CY Young and Rookie of the Year all of the same team - A-Rod, Marino & Robinson Cano. Not sure if a team has ever had all three award winners on the same team - I'll have to look into that. I can see the arguments for David Ortiz getting the award, but the guy doesn't play the field and A-Rod is a potential Gold Glovers this season. If he doesn't come up with that great play on Wednesday night the game would have been tied 2-2. I just can't see giving it to someone who only plays half the game. As for Mo he's probably having his best season ever as a closer and he's had some amazing seasons. If it comes down to Sunday night in Boston for the AL East and Mo's has to close it out in the 9th for the save how could you not give the guy the award?? (Though I'm hoping that we can somehow wrap it up beforehand) And I've already posted about Cano - this kid can hit.



I'll be at the game tonight, so hopefully they'll keep their streak going. It's my last regular season game of the year, so would love to see a win.

View From The Top

Well as it stands the Yanks are a 1/2 game up on the Sox with a little over a week to go in the regular season. It's the first time we've been in first since July 18th and I have to say it feels really good. I don't want to get overconfident yet there is still a lot of baseball to play and the Indians are still on fire.

Randy Johnson deliver another vintage start. His last two starts at home he's given up a total of 4 hits and 1 run - not too shabby. Hopefully Moose can keep the line moving tonight and give us a solid performance. He's on an 80 pitch limit, but if he's got his control working he might be able to get us to the 6th 0r 7th.

It's finally nice to see that we almost have too many starters now, when at a point in the season they were making moves just to find starters. Looks like Aaron Small may be the odd man out at this point and headed to the bullpen with a 9-0 record, but that's certainly not a bad thing. Yanks pen has looked shaky of late and if Small and Leiter (who has pitched great out of the pen recently) can be their middle inning guys I like our chances down the stretch.

Let's go Yanks!!!!!

CMJ Music Marathon

Well CMJ started last night here in NYC, if you can't make it here for the shows this will do as a summary from my friend over at My Blog is Poop....

My Blog Is Poop - CMJ Awards

Enjoy

So I'm Not Good At This

Ok so I'm not good at updating this thing. Sounded like a good idea at the time, but clearly I've done a bad job at writing anything new for the last month or so. So it's now September and I'm hoping that I'll feel a bit more motivated to actually update this. Anyway it's week one for the NFL and we're in the final stretch run for baseball, hopefully that'll inspire me to do some more writing.

Recently downloaded a live show from The Redwalls. If you don't know about this band let me sum them up in a nutshell - The Beatles. Well let me bit a bit more specific early Beatles.

They've got the great tight harmonies and do sound eerily like the boys from Liverpool, but hey can't fault a band for that. Would you rather them sound like Limp Bizkit??? They're new album is called DeNova and you can find the download here - The RedWalls - moe.down 9/03/2005 And FYI they do a killer version of Ophelia by The Band too.

Let Them Play

I've been pretty anti Sports Guy since the Red Sox beat the Yankees in the ALCS, but have to say I loved his latest post. In his ongoing effort to rank the best sports movies ever, and in honor of the release of the remake of The Bad News Bears, he does a great job reviewing two of my favorite movies the original Bad News Bears and it's unrated follow up The Bad News Bears: Breaking Training. (Hopefully someone out there got the reference in the title of the post)

Check it out here..... The Sports Guy's Top Sports Movies Good stuff, enjoy.

Pack It Up Pack In Let Me Begin

Ok so this is going to start out as another Yankees post as I'm watching the game right now. It's pretty amazing to see Jason Giambi catching fire right now. He really hasn't had a great career as a Yankee and he was hitting under .200 a couple of months ago. He looked so lost at the plate that even if the ball was on a tee I don't think he could have hit it - then all of a sudden something clicked. I'll give all the credit to Don Mattingly, but the truth of the matter is that is still find it hard to root for him after the whole steroid debacle and his mystery apology.


So I've been listening to The Hold Steady for the last couple of days and I've been trying to figure out if I like these guys or not. I've definitely been enjoying the cd, but not sure if I'm sold on them or not. They seem to remind me of the boy band LFO in a weird way, essentially based on the fact of they seem to be trying to throw a bunch of random references at us. Is it really that original to spurt a lot of pop culture references like beat poetry over some rock music? Sure it's relatively catchy and interesting, but is it out of the pure fact of clever word play and mentioning things like Tuscon Raiders and Five Alive? It's like 'Hi we're I Love The 8Os: The Band'. But hey it's the summer and aren't you supposed to be listening to slightly cheesy pop music? I'll hold off judgment maybe till the winter and see if I'm listening to it then.

Just going to keep it simple for the inaugural post and talk about the recent success of the New York Yankees. For a team that looked pretty much dead in the water about a month or so ago it's pretty amazing that this team is only 1/2 game out of first place. The Yanks only had two starting pitchers going into their weekend series against the BoSox. TWO STARTERS!!!!! And they somehow managed to take three out of four. Yes they did sign former Yankee Al Leiter, who pitched better then expected on Sunday night. But TWO STARTERS and they took three out of four against the first place Sox. Over the last month this team has finally showed they have some fight in them and have battled back when down. Should be a great rest of the summer of Yankee fans.


One more Yankee note. How good is Robinson Cano?? Watching the game tonight against Texas they threw out a stat saying that he's hitting something like .380 on the road. Insane. Just give him the Rookie of the Year Award right now he deserves it. Gotta love this kid.