And "Once a Week" follows its brother "Once a Day"...
Eh, what can I say, I'm lazy.
Found out Kara Edwards(voice actress of Videl and Goten on Dragonball Z) email address(not that difficult, as it was on her webpage) and wrote to her telling her I was building a Wikipedia page about her. She actually wrote back to me and was quite gracious. I actually then BUILT the thing instead of just talking about it. If you're interested, just go to Wikipedia and search "Kara Edwards" to see the results of three days of work.(mostly the coding, cause I was completely unused to Wiki's formatting)
Got Kingdom Hearts, but at the moment I'm trying to finally beat Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic 2.
At work, Tinkerbell is leaving and Caboose-gone-retarded may be on the way out as well, after he said something especially untoward.
Picked up and actually listened to all of my cd's(GG Allin's The Troubled Troubadour, "Wierd Al" Yankovic's Straight Outta Lynnwood and the new Evanescene, The Open Door. Now all I have to listen to is Josh Turner's Your Man and Lamb of God's Sacrament. Listened to the first track on Sacrament the other day, and if the rest of the record is HALF that good, it'll kick nine kinds of ass.
And since I'm bored, here's the review of The Troubled Troubadour I sent to a buddy of mine the other day. Now off for pizza and Cheerwine!
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Well, perhaps needless to say, the audio quality of the tracks is extremely poor. I know punks usually record on a shoestring budget, but GG's shoestring had been chewed by a dog and was missing that little plastic piece on the end. The first four songs are decent enough, nothing exceedingly special, but nothing as vulgar or misogynistic as some of his other stuff like "I Wanna Rape You" or "Cock On The Loose".
The fifth track is the most interesting. "Rowdy Beer Drinkin' Night", except for its similarly-low budget recording(thought to have been done in a bathroom) would fit right in with any of the old Hank Williams Jr. songs you remember from your grandfather's bar. The lyrics are country, the rythym and chords are country. Seeing as this is the same guy who put out albums such as "Eat My Fuc" and "Freaks, Faggots Drunks and Junkies", it comes as a bit of a curveball.
The recorded phone conversations lend credence to Brodian's(the producer) claim that "GG had his 'onstage' persona, but despite his faults, he was really a smart guy". Allin(who was in prision at the time, and unaware the conversations were being recorded) talks to Brodian about booking club dates, the release schedule for the original "Troubled Troubadour" vinyl EP, classic country music, and perhaps most telling, how he purposely changed his behavior from day to day so that the guards and other inmates would be apprehensive about him and leave him alone.(have to say, if I was in prison, that sounds like a good plan)
Additionally, there are two short spoken-word tracks that are done by GG fully "in character", as well as one-take cover of the Rolling Stones song "Dead Flowers". To put it mildy, this version is chaotic, and is the most "GG" sounding song on the album. Another song is a cover called "Up Against The Wall". On this song, which was actually produced and sounds good enough to be played on the radio, GG actually sings instead of snarling, growling, or his standard talk-singing. While not the best singer in the world, he wasn't bad, a low tenor that could actually carry a melody.
Found out Kara Edwards(voice actress of Videl and Goten on Dragonball Z) email address(not that difficult, as it was on her webpage) and wrote to her telling her I was building a Wikipedia page about her. She actually wrote back to me and was quite gracious. I actually then BUILT the thing instead of just talking about it. If you're interested, just go to Wikipedia and search "Kara Edwards" to see the results of three days of work.(mostly the coding, cause I was completely unused to Wiki's formatting)
Got Kingdom Hearts, but at the moment I'm trying to finally beat Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic 2.
At work, Tinkerbell is leaving and Caboose-gone-retarded may be on the way out as well, after he said something especially untoward.
Picked up and actually listened to all of my cd's(GG Allin's The Troubled Troubadour, "Wierd Al" Yankovic's Straight Outta Lynnwood and the new Evanescene, The Open Door. Now all I have to listen to is Josh Turner's Your Man and Lamb of God's Sacrament. Listened to the first track on Sacrament the other day, and if the rest of the record is HALF that good, it'll kick nine kinds of ass.
And since I'm bored, here's the review of The Troubled Troubadour I sent to a buddy of mine the other day. Now off for pizza and Cheerwine!
--
Well, perhaps needless to say, the audio quality of the tracks is extremely poor. I know punks usually record on a shoestring budget, but GG's shoestring had been chewed by a dog and was missing that little plastic piece on the end. The first four songs are decent enough, nothing exceedingly special, but nothing as vulgar or misogynistic as some of his other stuff like "I Wanna Rape You" or "Cock On The Loose".
The fifth track is the most interesting. "Rowdy Beer Drinkin' Night", except for its similarly-low budget recording(thought to have been done in a bathroom) would fit right in with any of the old Hank Williams Jr. songs you remember from your grandfather's bar. The lyrics are country, the rythym and chords are country. Seeing as this is the same guy who put out albums such as "Eat My Fuc" and "Freaks, Faggots Drunks and Junkies", it comes as a bit of a curveball.
The recorded phone conversations lend credence to Brodian's(the producer) claim that "GG had his 'onstage' persona, but despite his faults, he was really a smart guy". Allin(who was in prision at the time, and unaware the conversations were being recorded) talks to Brodian about booking club dates, the release schedule for the original "Troubled Troubadour" vinyl EP, classic country music, and perhaps most telling, how he purposely changed his behavior from day to day so that the guards and other inmates would be apprehensive about him and leave him alone.(have to say, if I was in prison, that sounds like a good plan)
Additionally, there are two short spoken-word tracks that are done by GG fully "in character", as well as one-take cover of the Rolling Stones song "Dead Flowers". To put it mildy, this version is chaotic, and is the most "GG" sounding song on the album. Another song is a cover called "Up Against The Wall". On this song, which was actually produced and sounds good enough to be played on the radio, GG actually sings instead of snarling, growling, or his standard talk-singing. While not the best singer in the world, he wasn't bad, a low tenor that could actually carry a melody.
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