Your katamari is as big as 139 grandmas.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
This past weekend was pretty eventful, it being Memorial Day weekend (why not just "Memorial Weekend" from here on out?) and Kim and my seventh anniversary. Seven years have gone by like nothing. Sometimes I think I'm still trying to convince her that I'm worth her time! ;) We didn't have much in the way of plans, but lets just say some things worked out in our favor and we were able to at least get away for one night. We took the kids to a hotel about an hour away in East Troy, WI, not because there's anything in East Troy, but because it's near the South Kettle Moraine forest where we like to go out walking. We got a one bedroom suite so that we could put the kids away for the night, and then yell at them for an hour to GO TO SLEEP. I shouldn't even say "them." IT'S ALL HIM. It always is! But he's so cute...We didn't wind up doing much hiking, really, but none of us really seemed too into it Sunday afternoon anyway, so we went and got dinner and went swimming in the "heated" indoor pool for about half an hour. Elise... my daughter is so big that she can stand in the shallow end, 3', with her head out of the water. Talk about time flying by. Monday morning we woke up and went to see the Mem. Day parade in Lake Geneva, WI. The parade was short and kinda funny, only cause I'm parade-spoiled, but it was nice. Afterward we went and walked out by the water with 1,000 other people out enjoying the warm weather. We wandered around for a while, throwing rocks into the water and whatnot. At one point I saw my friend adny ride by on his motorcycle. It's always funny to see people in faraway places, even if they're not that far away.
I'll backtrack a bit, here. This past week my boy learned how to ride the Radio Flyer tricycle we bought for elli when she was 2. She's too big for the trike this year, so I'd been talking about finding her a bike. I was pretty reluctant to go spend $60-70 on one, so while elli and I were out running errands Saturday we drove past every garage sale we saw signs for. There was one that had a little bike for $7, but it was too small for her. On the way home from the Library we happened upon another yard sale that had this little purple bike with "Sea Star" decals and training wheels in perfect condition. They wanted $25 and I had only $15, so we compromised. I ran home and grabbed $5 more and got Elise a big girl bike! She got right on it as soon as I took it out of the car and proceeded to fall down four times practicing riding in circles in the driveway. Graham trailed behind her on his hand-me-down three wheeler. Elise fell at least 4 times, but she always got up and got back on. I guess it's been a "my kids are getting so big!" weekend.
One of the errands we ran was going to Target to get who knows what... But while we were there I picked up We Love Katamari. If you've never played the Katamari Games... too bad I guess. They're so ridiculously fun. We really do love them, the Katamaris, yes. I didn't have Katamari Damacy, but I played it in New Orleans over Mardi Gras. I figured I've waited long enough and I still wanted to play it, so I might as well get it on the first day of a three day weekend. I'd read a review that the sequel was at least as good as the original, which you can't find in stores anymore, so I was just as happy to get this one. Turns out it has multiplayer mode -- co-op and vs. modes, even. Versus mode will be fun, but it's co-op mode that really interests me purely for the potential for exponential retardation. Apparently both people are pushing the same ball, but one controls the left joystick and one controls the right (No, not on the same controller!) so you'd have to be yelling back and forth "Go right! Straight, Straight! Left! One of them reverse flip things!!" Pure idiocy.
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Music Will Not Last mix
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
So I made another mix, in the same vein as the Hifi Mix that I did about a year ago. Just like with that one, this mix is one long mp3 and a .cue file zipped together. You can download the .zip file here, then either just listen to it straight out if you please, or open up the .cue file in your favorite CD burning software and burn yourself a CD. The .cue file adds breaks between tracks, so it's not one long track on the CD, which is the better way to listen to it if you ask me. That way you can skip back to listen again to how awesome the segue between this song and that last song was.
(And yes, I used the same cassette image. So.)
Animal Collective - Did You See the Words?
I like the first half of this album more than the second half... it's good, but it gets a bit more abstract and heady as it goes on which may be nice for late night, lights-down-low video game playing, or while writing complex functions in a new class file, but for "normal everyday use" I've been more into upbeat stuff generally lately. And so, track one of the mix is track one from the album Feels, one of Animal Collective's more energetic tracks.
Andrew Bird - Banking on a Myth
I just got into Andrew Bird recently. It struck me immediately how many other artists he sounds like: Jeff Buckley and Rufus Wainwright, neither of which I got into, but their voices all have this similarity to them, M. Ward mostly in a general feel sense, and even a bit of Badly Drawn Boy here and there. I've only heard his most recent album, Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs, but I have a feeling that I'm really going to like all of his stuff. His work. His Music. Whatever.
Jamie Lidell - Music Will Not Last
The jury is still out on Jamie Lidell for me. I heard him on All Songs Considered or some other NPR show (followed by a song that sounded like an Aaron Neville knock-off that turned out to be Aaron Neville) and waited in the driveway to find out who it was I'd heard. That he's on Warp records helped me gain a bit of confidence that he wouldn't be a complete cheeseball. He's a white guy doing this Motown revival sound that at best has this 70s R&B, Otis Redding sound that's captured really well. It's weird, it seems odd at first to think of guys doing stuff like this right now, but when you think about it, we grew up listening to our parents listening to The Big Chill Soundtrack and Motown's Greatest Hits. It's only natural that as we're getting older we're coming back to those things and emulating them. Sometimes listening to the album I felt like I was waiting for him to get a bit too... Lenny Kravitz [shiver], but I think Jamie Lidell manages to stay above that fringe and make something that sounds pretty authentic.
M. Ward - Outta My Head
This album, Transfiguration of Vincent isn't new, but I really, really like it. Adny and I were talking the other day about how much we like M. Ward, that he's one of the best artists to come around to us in a while. Kim and Mr. Chet really like it too. He's very sincere in his music, similar to Grandaddy in that sense, but it's got such a good-natured, down-home Appalachian blue grass sound to it that, in "indie rock" is really unique. My sister-in-law and I listened to this album driving back to my mom's house in Pearl River Mardi Gras night after all of the fun was over and it was time to wind down, and it was perfect at that moment.
Tapes n Tapes - Manitoba
Wasn't too sure what to think of this album at first. I got it at the same time as Band of Horses and I initially thought that this would be the better of the two. I came to realize that some of their lyrics tend to be a bit dumb, though, and they don't have a whole lot of depth... but you have to think of mixes as chronicles of what you're listening to at a given time. They're good places to store songs that you like from artists that you may not stick with for the long haul, but you don't want to lose these songs in the shuffle.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home on Ice
I think this mix starts to pick up with this song. CYHSY has been around for long enough now that we can talk about them without having to say their entire name. The name is at least two words too long, but questionable name and questionable intro-track on the album aside, they're definitely one of the best new(er) bands out. The vocals take a bit of getting used to, and the overt David Byrneness takes a little getting past, but this song is a highlight on an album that is quite a gem.
Band of Horses - The Great Salt Lake
I wasn't sure at first which to put first between this and CYHSY, but I'm glad I put them in the order that I did. I like Band of Horses a lot and putting them back to back just raises this track up, I think. It's exciting when it starts. If you pay attention at the end of the song, when I was trying to segue into Wolf Parade blending the two songs was just not working at all. The keys of the songs totally conflicted. So as the last note is being held and it fades out, it pitch bends up one step and mixes perfectly into the next song.
Wolf Parade - Shine a Light
I heard a song from Wolf Parade a long time ago, maybe two years ago, having found an mp3 of Dear Sons And Daughters Of Hungry Ghosts probably at least 6 months before the album came out. There were the obvious Arcade Fire comparisons, which I think may have been more apt for that song than the album as a whole. I was pretty eager to hear what the rest of the album would sound like and was pretty happy with it when it came out. There are two singers who alternate between the album (I don't know names...). This one, who sings Shine a Light, reminds me a bit of Kurt Cobain of all people. He's got this nice gritty sound in his voice.
The Knife - Na Na Na
My friend Ryan told me about The Knife, recommending I shuffle them in with Vitalic and Ratatat and work them in that way-- but I honestly just don't like them much. Their whole thing seems to be all about doing electronic music with varying weird effects on the vocals. The first track on the album just sounds like a re-hash of something Underworld did much better almost 10 years ago on the Pearl's Girl EP. I did make an exception for this song, though, because a) it's short and unobtrusive, and b) it reminds me of the soundtrack from Ghost in the Shell. "Listen, this effect makes me sound like a chorus of Japanese women."
Isolee - Schrapnell
This album as a whole was not as good as this individual part, but this song is a good part. If nothing else, it fits in quite well with the Ratatat and Vitalic songs that follow.
Ratatat - Seventeen Years
I had to convince myself to use this song and not track 3 from the album, Crips, which is a bit more restrained because, let's face it, this song is not an example of restraint. And yes, it is the song from the Hummer commercial. Someone has to write the songs in trippy car commercials! Seventeen Years is completely over-the-top electronic music (I wonder if they play/sample real instruments or if it's all synthesizers). But seriously, it's overt, but it's positive. There's nothing dark about this song. It's smart, it's fun, and if you really pay attention, they totally nail this R&B melody, but pull it off in this goofy white-people-with-a-sense of humor-and-rigid-timing way. If there's anything negative that I could say about this song it's that the kick drum could be a little less active in the closing minute of the song. I've never liked it much when the kick and snare hit at the same time, but that's pretty minute. The rest of the Ratatat is much more tame, much like the last part of this song, which is almost to it's detriment, but it helps if you always listen to this album as it's shuffled in with Vitalic.
Vitalic - U and I
My friend Ryan didn't get into Vitalic as immediately as I did. He called it "white electronic crunk." They're like if Ratatat never slowed down. The song My Friend Dario is a bit too far on the dumb side at first, but the rest of the album really is good... and it's smart. There is nothing that sounds out of place. After Boards of Canada came along years ago and killed electronic with Music Has the Right, an album that just couldn't be topped, it's good to hear some electronic artists that are picking things back up, seemingly by just going in a different direction.
Ladytron - White Light Generation
I don't think she's ever heard them, but Kim saw the name Ladytron on my ipod and thought it was awesome. I always thought it was a bit too obvious: "Sounds like a buncha girls who make electronic music." But that's pretty much what it is. Perhaps I'm the only one who's drawn this conclusion, but I think they sound like abbey after Armageddon. I didn't like their last (their first?) album at all, so I was really surprised at how good this one is. The music and vocals are all top notch.
Broadcast - Corporeal
I've been a fan of Broadcast for years -- long before I liked Stereolab, ironically -- but they always had this same flaw in their albums. They'd start off really strong, but as the album progressed it'd slow down and start to drag and 2/3 of the way through you'd have lost interest. At this point there are only two members left in the band and, while it's changed their sound pretty radically, I think it's all for the better. This album, "Tender Buttons," is good from start to end -- all except the album name.
Love Is All - Make Out Fall Out Make Up
I honestly don't know anyone that I could recommend this album to that would like it like I do, but I love it. There's obviously been this retro thing going on for a while (everything is always "retro," only the period that is being referenced changes). While a lot of bands were going the Talking Heads route, Interpol and Franz Ferdinand and this lot of bands came along doing this 80s post-punk thing, but with this newer cleaned up sound. Love Is All goes back to that same period, but it's like they jump right back into 1979. What I really like about this album is how much it reminds me of Three Imaginary Boys. The singer may sound like a giddy Siouxsie, but there are lots of Cure overtones in Love Is All, and what better way to appeal to me than to pull out the best parts of early stuff from The Cure and make it brash and fun?
Figurines - The Wonder
I don't really know much about the Figurines at this point. I was checking this album out and this song fit in well here. If they amount to anything more than that maybe I'll give them some retroactive praise later.
Franz Ferdinand - Outsiders
The second FF album was kind of a disappointment. I think they put it out too soon-- but maybe they had to do it quick because Interpol did. Whatever. This song in particular, though, stood out to me. It made me think that they were not only popular, but also had some actual musical talent. It still didn't make listen to the album for long.
Morrissey - Life is a Pigsty
To be honest, I think this song is a bit too long and dark for a mixed CD, but it was the song that I liked most from the new Morrissey album. The funny thing about the last two Morrissey albums is that it's not like they're THAT good... they're decent. But it's like he's become this elder of the underground/alternative/indie scene. His albums are praised at least in part simply because he is Morrissey and he is still relevant. At the same time, he wouldn't still be relevant if his albums weren't worth hearing. (Think Robert Smith. Perhaps he should do a solo album sooner than later.)
I even thought about chopping off the first few minutes of this song, but I figured that wouldn't be quite right. Regardless, once the acoustic guitar comes in and he starts singing the refrain, the track gets really good. It almost reminds me of a combination of something from Meat Is Murder and Vauxhall and I.
Tanakh - 5AM
I couldn't end such an upbeat mix on such a down-trodden song, so I found something from this other new album that I'm only so familiar with at this point, but I've liked what I've heard-- if for no other reason than the fact that he's got a Hammond Organ in one of the first songs of the album. I like this song in particular for that simple line that repeats through it. You expect the fourth note to come quicker than the previous three to fit into the 4/4 timing, but then it doesn't. It lingers into the next bar, and it's all the better for it. Try tapping out 1 2 3 4 and figure out where in that first beat the fourth note hits. It's not overly complicated, but I always find that I'm drawn to twists in timing. When you hear those first three notes you automatically know to expect the fourth one, but when it doesn't come where you expect it, it keeps you paying attention.
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The playoffs just got a little less interesting.
Monday, May 22, 2006
I went to play pool with my older brother, who is in visiting from Memphis for a few days. We grew up with a pool table in our den, but my brother has been playing pretty much continually since. I jokingly refer to him as a pool shark, but that implies that he's not upfront about being able to beat you, which he is. He got a roll of quarters, so we played ten games, one of which I won. (Though, technically I won two because he hit the 8 in off of my 3 ball.) I hung in pretty well, though. Better than I expected to.The fringe benefit to this was that we got the table right next to the TV that had the Spurs /Mavs game on. Stupid Mavs. When we left the house to go out it was halftime and the spurs had made up about half of an 18 point deficit (that word deficit is so NBA announcer). By the last few minutes of the game, the Spurs were only down by about 3 points. Ginobli tied it on a 3 with about a minute left, then took the lead with another 3 with 30 something seconds left. Of course, Dirk gets the ball, drives on Bowen and makes a shot with Ginobli getting called for a foul on a block attempt. He hit the free throw and it's tied with 21 seconds left, Spurs ball. Ginobli ran down the clock and drove, missed or got blocked or something, Duncan got the rebound, missed and was likely fouled with no call, and regulation was over tied at 104. If there's anything I hate, it's overtime. I want the team I'm rooting for to just win and it's over and yay! BUT NO. So we left. I didn't want to sit there and watch overtime, being all tense and let down. Not to say that the Spurs couldn't have won and I'd have been pleased... but I'm tired of overtimes.
There have been so many overtimes lately!
Dirk, perhaps we'd all like you a little more if you finally got a hair-cut. You too, Steve Nash. What is this, your cross-continental, international symbol of solidarity? "We're foreigners, we're MVP candidates, and we're sweaty and nappy! REPRESENT!!"
Kottke's post about the 05 playoffs the other day remarked at how exciting they've been. I think most bball fans would have to agree that it's been a particularly good post-season. The Lebron/Gilbert Arenas showdown; the Suns and Lakers going 7 games (what a let-down that Tim Thomas hit that 3 to send game 6 into OT); Memphis got swept; Milwaukee somehow didn't, but just barely; the Cavs barely missed eliminating the Pistons; Shaq is right back where he belongs-- in the Eastern Conference Finals; and round 2 of the playoffs finished off with three game 7's. Ironically, I don't think any of the teams I like are going to win any of the game 7's.
So yes, I'm a big basketball dork. But it's been exciting, especially with the Spurs coming back from 3-1 to force a game 7. Then they lost at home! Argh. It's weird, there's really no one on the Mavs that I don't like -- like, say, Denver, which is full of punks. But I have this general dislike for the Mavs overall. It's probably because they were a thorn in the side of the Kings a few years ago (although the Kings always seemed to best them), then they've gone on to be the thorn in the side of the Spurs for the last few years. The positive side of this is that I think the Mavericks have the best chance of anyone to beat the Pistons in the finals, assuming Shaq and Dwyane Wade can't get past them. Though really, who expected the Pistons to have such trouble with the Cavs? Perhaps a Heat vs. Mavericks match-up could be quite good.
I don't know. I was all for the Pistons beating the Lakers down 3 years ago, but at this point I'm ready to see them get squashed. Even though, ironically, I like all of them individually! I don't know, man... there's no team left that I want to win! Maybe I'll just stop watching now. Unlikely. It could be a pretty interesting series between the Mavs and Suns, though, if you think about it. It's gonna be ALL OFFENSE! 150 point games! Whee!
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Voters Re-elect Nagin as Mayor in New Orleans
Sunday, May 21, 2006
I'm kinda surprised that Nagin got re-elected, but I'm pleased by it. It makes me think that perhaps people are able to look past their prejudices. When I was in town for Mardi Gras, there seemed to be a good bit of anti-Nagin sentiment, but now that I think back, it was probably mostly a matter of the tourist shops selling Chocolate City t-shirts than any true representation of collective opinion.
Mayor Ray "Drew Gooden" Nagin of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
I honestly thought, though, that there was going to be some white-coup staged to "take back the city." At which point they raise the confederate flag, crying "THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN!" (The one person reading that that actually gets the joke is going to love it.) During and immediately following the hurricane, I was certain that the people of New Orleans were going to see Nagin as a local hero. Here were all of the bumbling idiots and complete lack of federal support, and then there's Mayor Nagin yelling at everyone in impromptu radio addresses about "getting off their asses and doing something!"
As a tangent, I keep seeing Anderson Cooper on magazines or something lately and everytime I see his little prematurely grey pea head I just get aggravated. I watched the live broadcast of him going off on Mary Landrieu in the middle of the aftermath, talking about all these press conferences, the officials doing nothing, like he was all of a sudden a crusader for all that was right and just in the deep south. CNN and MSNBC were an abomination, in my opinion. They were grossly sensationalizing the "story," bringing you every "angle" and showing footage of as many "looters will be shot" signs as they could find. They didn't accurately portray what was going on except where it fit into a cohesive little media unit that they could re-run until they got something else juicy. And then Anderson comes on yelling at Mary Landrieu, who you know was personally effected by this. We've all known the name Landrieu since we were kids, wondering if he was the guy who made Moon Pies. Since when did Anderson become a vigilante? Was it when he was in Mississippi asking people how they felt about losing all of their stuff on National TV? That must have been it.
Anyway.
After the "Chocolate City" quote from Nagin it was like he lost steam. He stopped making public comments, it seemed like, afraid, perhaps, that he'd put his foot back into his mouth for the media again. I personally thought that the chocolate city quote was funny. So he said, that God wanted New Orleans to be a black majority city again. So what. He was playing the race card. Thing is, you know all the white people just wanted him gone so it could be a "white city" again. Just don't say that when you're mic'd up.
So I don't know, after that it was kinda hard to tell if he was doing a good job or not. During the storm he was this straight talkin dude who just wanted to get things done. Action! Maybe people still remember that in him. I don't know, maybe it was just a race thing. Or a matter of political parties, for what that's worth. All the white democrats voted for Nagin; they didn't want to vote Mitch in specifically because of his family name and political affiliations.
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finished already
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Kim took the kids to her sister's house in Chicago yesterday so I had the day off. It was rainy and wet, so going for a walk in the woods wasn't an option, so I stayed home and painted. Yay! I painted the new banister in our upstairs bedroom that I've been "working on" for over a year now. We're getting new carpet this coming Friday, the day before my older brother comes to visit from Memphis. With carpet installed we'll FINALLY be able to start using the room again. Yay!But more than that, I started working on the new Kim piece. I drew it out on the canvas Thursday evening, so I was able to jump right into painting yesterday afternoon. First I blocked out the blanket with yellow ochre, then I did the couch with a mixture of white, yellow ochre and medium cadmium yellow. I don't remember the name of the dark red I got, but it was quite nice! I mixed the pink for the dress and wound up adding a bunch of orange and yellow to it to brighten it up a bit and get a bit more of a salmon color. By the time Kim and the kids got home all of the solid sections were done.
After the kids went to bed I started working on the lines, which are difficult! But I have to say that they came out much better than the lines of the green painting. I was up until 1:30am and got everything done except the face, only because I couldn't find my small brush. I searched forever this morning and finally found it and, miraculously, the paint I mixed last night hadn't solidified. I did all of the detail work in the eyelashes and the rest of the face and, voila! All done!
Give me feedback, if you will! You too, adny. Just cause I see you everyday don't mean you can't leave comments, sucka. What do yall think of the colors? And the composition?
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up next
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
I stopped at the Art supply store after work and picked up a canvas. It's a bit smaller than I wanted to buy, 30" X 40", but it was also half of my self-imposed spending limit which means I'll be going back to buy some acrylic paints.
I don't remember what it was, but something sparked the idea of these colors in my mind the other day -- reds, oranges and yellows -- and I thought perhaps that's what I needed, particularly that orange of the blanket thrown over the back of the couch. At first I was thinking of primary colors, but I wanted to stay away from them specifically to avoid Lichtenstein comparisons. But I realized that primaries weren't even what I wanted to go for. I wanted something with the feel of Charles Demuth's Figure 5 in Gold or Charles Bell's Captive Messenger:
Obviously I'm not pulling out the dark blues and blacks for the contrast that they've got, but hell, I'm already going further out than I originally intended by using 4 colors-- and they're not even colors that I have on hand! So much effort. I need to just find a large-scale printer, except then I never get hands-on which nullifies it as Art, right? Yeah, I don't really believe that.
What I want from the warm colors is a bit of pop! that I knew I wouldn't get if I did it in just red, as I had planned. Something else that I considered was the lack of detail this piece has compared to the last one, which will be negated a bit by the color. Hopefully my motivation will stay high and I can get this piece cranked out pretty quick. (That's right, this is Art, who cares about the process.)
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Reeebirrrrth
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Rebirth on Stage at Tipitina's in New Orleans (pic taken from their site)
So yeah, it's taken me a week and a half to get around to saying that I went to see Rebirth Brass Band in Madison, like, a week and a half ago. Madison is about an hour and a half from here, so that makes pretty much everything so far in this post a 3:2 ratio. I'd be willing to bet that Rebirth played for 3:2 as long as the opening band played, though it's not a slight against the opening band, which was made up entirely of white guys, which isn't quite right for a brass band, you know, but there was one guy who was at least 3:2 Hispanic. Ok, you can't be 1 1/2 times Hispanic.
They played a show in Chicago the week before at the Vic Theatre, the place that we saw Spoon play, which was a really nice place to see a show, for what it's worth. We had originally intended to see that show, but the show at the Vic was $25 and the show in Madison, which was on the UW-Madison campus (in the Union, no less), was cheap as free! It also worked out well because my friend Mr. Chet wound up being sick the weekend of the Chicago show. Price difference being what it was, it also came down to the difference of driving to Chicago or Madison. Chicago's not a whole lot further, not quite a 3:2 ratio, but the drive to Madison is definitely easier.
The other thing I was pretty curious about was the difference in the crowds that would've been there. At UWM it was pretty safe to assume that we were going to be hanging out with a bunch of upper-middle class white kids. In Chicago it's kinda hard to say who would've shown up. I mean, the Vic is in a pretty affluent part of town, far as I can tell, but I'd be willing to bet that Chicago has a significantly larger African-American community than Madison, WI. It'd have been nice to be able to see a show like Rebirth with a mixed crowd, a crowd that knew how to do the white-guy-dance chet always does.
Needless to say it was an awesome show. The opening band wound up being much better than we'd expected, they were really tight and fun, but they were nothing compared to Rebirth. This guy Thatcher came with us and he was trying to figure out if they had a bass guitarist on stage somewhere because he couldn't believe all that bass was coming from the Tuba. The percussion was phenomenal, such complex rhythms... it reminds me of all the things I want to learn how to do. Rebirth is not a tight band, they tend to have somewhat of a... I'm trying to find a better word than "sloppy," because that implies that it's unintended... but they have this easy, loose style that sounds so real and alive. Even their studio albums sound like live recordings, and perhaps they are.
I have no idea how long they'll be available, but there's an 8-song set of live tracks available for download at Rebirth's site. I'm listening to it right now and I'd say it's probably about 1 1/2 times as good as what you're listening to.
On a side note, Madison was FULL of scooters, at least on/around the campus. It makes sense, but it was still a little odd to pull up to every other street corner and see 15-20 scooters locked up around the bike racks. It made me want to go ride mine around town, just to go ride amongst like-minded people for a day.
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