Current Music Obsessions

I am in love with the following albums:

Elvis Costello- Blood & Chocolate
The Jesus & Mary Chain- Psychocandy
The Rolling Stones- Their Satanic Majesties Request


Is anyone else watching the John Roberts confirmation hearings? Pretty good stuff.

Time Wasters!

Here's how I've been wasting time lately, in various mediums:

• Dave Navarro's blog. Mainly details his time spent on that awful INXS reality show.
  
• Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. I honestly can not believe I watch this crap, but it's like heroin.
  
• The Hype Machine is an aggregator of mp3 blogs. Get your download on.
  
• U-Roy, King Tubby, Scientist, etc. For some reason, I'm really into reggae right now.
  
• Reading the hilarious commentary on the Sex and the City forum on televisionwithoutpity
  

stupid webhost

My former webhost is an asshat, so the site that was formerly known as psycho-jello.com is now hosted here (temporarily) on blogspot. FYI.

Where is 'Spice World'?

Spin Magazine, a mag which perhaps hasn't had any relevance since the mid 1990s, put out its list of the top 100 albums of the last 20 years. While I am surprised that Spin faveraves of recent like the Killers are not in the top 10, it is not too surprising who is:

10. N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
9. PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
8. Prince - Sign O The Times
7. De La Soul - 3 Ft. High And Rising
6. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
5. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
4. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
2. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
1. Radiohead - OK Computer

the entire list


Interesting choices:
#45 Kanye West- The College Dropout (apparently better than Eric B & Rakim's 'Paid in Full', Jay-Z's 'Blueprint' and DJ Shadow's 'Entroducing')
#19 Hole- Live Through This (better in SPIN's world than a lot of quality albums, including the Pixies' 'Doolittle', Nirvana's 'In Utero', Jeff Buckley's 'Grace', and Biggie's 'Ready to Die').

Yeah, not an entirely interesting list after all. I'm glad Oasis is on there, however.

not dead

No I did not die. I've just been revelling in my social life lately. But now let me emerge from my alcoholic haze....


AMERICAblog has new t-shirts that say "My Senator went to Washington and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." Last week Senators apologized for not passing an anti-lynching law anytime during our nation's history. Well, all but 11 Senators, who refused to cosponsor a resolution to make a statement against lynching. Here are the Senators who refused:

Alexander (R-TN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Enzi (R-WY)
Gregg (R-NH)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lott (R-MS)
Shelby (R-AL)
Sununu (R-NH)
Thomas (R-WY)

By the way, the new Tucker Carlson MSNBC show 'The Situation' isn't too bad. Tucker and I are not complete foes anymore, and sometimes I find myself agreeing with him. Especially on the choice on continuing to wear the bow tie. Classy!