Mountain Man

Autumn is right around the corner.  Time for sweaters, jeans, fireplaces, pumpkins and Octoberfest beer.  I've recently discovered a wonderful band called Mountain Man, which could turn out to be my soundtrack for the fall.  Mountain Man are Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Amelia Randall Meath, based out of Bennington, Vt.  They remind me of the music from "O'Brother Where Art Thou?" and I describe it as hauntingly beautiful.  Take a listen of a few tracks from their debut album "Made the Harbour" and decide for yourself.  Do yourself a favor and pour a Shipyard Pumpkinhead to get into the spirit. "Made the Harbour" available on the iTunes now.

Mountain Man - Animal


Mountain Man - Loon Song

Cee-Lo Green says "F-CK YOU!"

Check out the new track from Cee-Lo Greens upcoming album "The Ladykiller". Brilliant.

It's all fun and games until someone loses a sausage.

It's that time a year again, when men in their mid thirties get to act like they are twenty-one again for a few days out in the woods for the annual "Sausage Retreat".  Starting next Thursday in upstate New York twelve of us will converge on the camp of my friend John, free of wives and children for four days; eating meat, drinking beer, playing golf and horseshoes for the coveted "Sausage Cup".  As current holder of the "Sausage Cup" with my friend Mike,  I can tell you, there is no better feeling than to raise the cup and guzzle some cold ones from it. 

This will be a tournament of some of the greatest and worlds best beer drinkers, golfers and athlete's from New England....yeah OK, its actually a collection of twelve of the most out of shape, beer belly hanging, liver marinating dudes you'll ever set eyes upon.  Needless to say its bound to be a great time and a miserable ride home on Sunday.

I've come up with a play list of some of my favorite drinking songs for sausage retreat and I share them with you now.  "Songs to Sausage By".

Tony Toupee

AWESOME.

The Keys and the Dads.

 As many of my friends know, I've been a huge fan of the Black Keys since The Big Come Up. When people were getting into the White Stripes, I was getting into the Black Keys instead.  I discovered them on a whim one day and haven't looked back since.  I've seen them live a few times and the live experience is a blast, especially when you're fueled by nine to ten budweisers.  They have gotten quite a bit popular over the past few years and I'm quite happy for them.  Just don't let me catch any teenie boppers at their shows.

I got a link via Twitter yesterday in regards to this story on WKSU where  Pat and Dans' fathers discuss their sons success.  Its a great listen and great story.

Side note: I thought this was a picture of Pat and Dan in costume.

Here's also an old video to enjoy.

The Black Keys -Thickfreaknes - Live Conan O Brian
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Look out below!!!

Here is my son on the left doing what he loves most...pouring sand on my friend's sons head.  Ah good times.  Needless to say when my friends son took a bath the bottom of the tub looked liked the Outer Banks.  Giddy up kids!

Lewis and his shirt

A couple weeks ago on Sirius XMU I came across Owen Pallett "Lewis Takes Off His Shirt" from his album Heartland. It blew me away. Owen Pallett is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist from Toronto. He was formerly known as Final Fantasy (yes after the video game series). The song blew me away...especially the end. Why? Well if you see my last post you'll know why. I swear he's a dead ringer for Christopher Cross in the vocal department. Well at least at the end of the song. I'm yet to check out the album in it's entirety yet but I plan on doing so soon, its on my list. Enjoy.

Its not far down to paradise.

When I was a kid there was no one cooler when it came to musical tastes then my dad, he introduced me to the Beach Boys and Boston at a young age and they went on to become two of my favorite bands. When I was a bit older he started buying records religiously to play on his new turntable. He'd come home with some albums that I strictly loved because of the album covers. One I remember in particular was Christopher Cross' debut album. The one with the pink flamingo on it. The one with "Sailing" on it.

I remember when "Sailing" would come on in the car and I would voice my displeasure to my father or mother about it. Secretly I loved that song and I still do. I remember listening to the radio with my parents and acting like I hated every damn minute of Captain and Tenille, George Benson, England Dan & John Ford Coley and the legendary Gino Vannelli but really I loved every minute of those songs . All I need is my captains hat, white slacks and huarache sandals and I'm good to go. So without further ado I present to you my "songs your parents played in the car and you secretly loved" playlist:

Godamn dance moves

Tell me, how does one acquire moves like Ron Ron? The city of Worcester would love me if I had moves like this.

Arcade Fire - Modern Man

So I've never been a fan of Arcade Fire ever. I always found them annoying and just really not my bag. I picked up "Suburbs" this week and again was not really digging it. I did however really like one song "Modern Man". What do you think?

Ronnie and OMD

Ronniemeister goes well with OMD "Talking Loud and Clear"