Stuck In Thee Garage #228: June 22, 2018

We live in a loud world. There's noise coming at us in all directions all the time. It can be difficult to get away from it. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about loudness in hour 2. They're not all loud, though.

This playlist is not a toomah:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Jo Passed - Glass/Their Prime
King Tuff - Neverending Sunshine/The Other
Hot Snakes - Psychoactive/Jericho Sirens
Kristin Hersh - Breathe In/Possible Dust Clouds
Neko Case - Bad Luck/Hell-On
Beach House - Girl of the Year/7
Shopping - Overtime/The Official Body
Franz Ferdinand - Feel the Love Go/Always Ascending
Camp Cope - UFO Lighter/How to Socialise & Make Friends
Screaming Females - Soft Domination/All at Once
Dream Wife - Right Now/Dream Wife
Shame - The Lick/Songs of Praise
Lifted Bells - Wheel of Fortunates/Minor Tantrums
Eels - Today is the Day/The Deconstruction
Pugwash - What Are You Like/Silverlake
MGMT - TSLAMP/Little Dark Age

Hour 2: Loudness
Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise/Hot Sauce Committee Part 2
Eric B. & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul/Paid in Full
Public Enemy - Louder Than a Bomb/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Living Colour - Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing/Biscuits
Art Brut - Pump Up the Volume/It's a Bit Complicated
Frank Black and Teenage Fanclub - The Man Who Was Too Loud/The John Peel Session EP
Stephen Malkmus - Loud Cloud Crowd/Face the Truth
T. Rex - Bang a Gong (Get It On)/Electric Warrior
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams/Kick Out the Jams
AC/DC - Rock n' Roll Ain't Noise Pollution/Back in Black
Motorhead - The Chase is Better Than the Catch/Ace of Spades
Queens of the Stone Age - In My Head/Lullabies to Paralyze
The I Don't Cares - Love Out Loud/Wild Stab
Pylon - Volume/Pylon Live
Pointed Sticks - Part of the Noise/Part of the Noise
Piebald - All You Need is Drums to Start a Dance Party/If It Weren't for Venetian Blinds, It Would Be Curtains for Us All

Completely Conspicuous 490: Social Disease

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion as we discuss social media dependency. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- Check out Matt's book Echo and the Sea
- The political climate is disturbingly fascinating
- O, Canada?
- It used to be easy to fall out of political favor
- Howard Dean's scream
- The lack of competition
- No alternative party
- Navigating social media to victory
- Coming up with an escape plan
- Watch out for gators
- Connected to social media all day but don't look at it all the time
- Your info is constantly being collected by FB, Google, Amazon, etc.
- Wandering through the social media graveyard
- FB Messenger was banning people based on supposedly private conversations
- Matt's adventures with drunken late-night purchases like the Ab Zapper
- Buying swords on QVC
- The desperate need for social media likes
- Matt: No withdrawal symptoms when disconnected from the internet
- Consequences for social media faux pas can come quickly

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Completely Conspicuous 489: Social Distortion

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion as we discuss social media dependency. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- Check out Matt's book Echo and the Sea
- Back from a little hiatus
- People who use their phones at the urinal
- Matt: Detached from social media while in Canada
- We're online all day for work
- Jay: The kids love the Instagram
- Twitter can be a cesspool
- Let Me Google That For You
- When Star Wars nerds get ugly
- Twitter can often be a license to be a jerk
- People can be "rock stupid"
- The compulsion to tweet
- Arguing with family members on social media
- The mute function on FB is helpful
- Matt: Writer Twitter drives me nuts
- Don't click on the comments!
- Anime geeks solving their arguments in a civil manner
- To be continued

Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review!

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Stuck In Thee Garage #227: June 8, 2018

Everyone's got habits they'd like to drop, but let's face it, bad habits can be kind of fun. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about bad habits in hour 2. They may not be good for you, but they definitely kick some ass.

This playlist may be habit-forming:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Protomartyr feat. Kelley Deal - Wheel of Fortune/Consolation EP
The Breeders - MetaGoth/All Nerve
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Shiggy/Sparkle Hard
Soft Science - Undone/Maps
Soccer Mommy - Cool/Clean
Courtney Barnett - Need a Little Time/Tell Me What You Really Mean
Albert Hammond Jr. - Tea for Two/Francis Trouble
Parquet Courts - Almost Had to Start a Fight - In and Out of Patience/Wide Awake!
Sloan - All of the Voices/12
Speedy Ortiz - Moving In/Twerp Verse
Hop Along - What the Writer Meant/Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Wye Oak - The Instrument/The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs
Nostalgist - Present Tense/Disaffection
Preoccupations - Espionage/New Material
Modern Time Machines - Hot Wheels/MTM

Hour 2: Bad habits
Thin Lizzy - Bad Habits/Thunder and Lightning
The Pursuit of Happiness - Cigarette Dangles/The Downward Road
Greg Dulli - Cigarettes/Amber Headlights
O Positive - With You/Only Breathing
Husker Du - Whatcha Drinkin'/New Day Rising
Jawbreaker Reunion - Beer and Loathing/Lutheran Sisterhood Gun Club
Against Me! - Drinking With the Jocks/Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Jeff Rosenstock - Beers Again Alone/We Cool?
The Capitol Years - Let Them Drink/Let Them Drink
Drive-By Truckers - The Fourth Night of My Drinking/The Big To-Do
The Raveonettes - D.R.U.G.S./In and Out of Control
The Monks - Drugs in My Pocket/Bad Habits
Wilco - Handshake Drugs/A Ghost is Born
Talking Heads - Drugs/Fear of Music
A Giant Dog - Sex & Drugs/Pile
Soundgarden - Big Dumb Sex/Louder Than Love
The Buzzcocks - Just Lust/Singles Going Steady

Stuck In Thee Garage #226: June 1, 2018

Let's face it, you're going to win some and lose some. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about losers in hour 2. But that doesn't mean they're not great songs. They'll get you all puffed up with excitement:

This is the playlist of George:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
La Luz - Don't Leave Me on the Earth/Floating Features
Cut Worms - Cash for Gold/Hollow Ground
American Wrestlers - Ignoramus/Single
Poptone - Ball of Confusion/Poptone
Cary Brothers - Crush/Bruises
Mazzy Star - Quiet, the Winter Harbor/Still
Courtney Barnett - Crippling Self-Doubt and a General Lack of Confidence/Tell Me How You Really Feel
Albert Hammond Jr. - Muted Beatings/Francis Trouble
Parquet Courts - Violence/Wide Awake!
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Bike Lane/Sparkle Hard
Blackwater Holylight - Sunrise/Blackwater Holylight
Slow Riot - Burn in the City/Single
Billy & Dolly - Want It/Five Suns
Lola Tried - Steam/Lola Tried
Jo Passed - MDM/Their Prime
Frankie Cosmos - Jesse/Vessel

Hour 2: Losers
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - Born to Lose/L.A.M.F. - the lost '77 tapes
fIREHOSE - Losers, Boozers and Heroes/Flyin' the Flannel
Beck - Loser/Mellow Gold
The Dambuilders - Teenage Loser Anthem/Ruby Red
The Dears - You and I Are a Gang of Losers/Gang of Losers
Sunset Rubdown - Child-Heart Losers/Random Spirit Lover
Against Me! - Don't Lose Touch/Searching for a Former Clarity
Varsity Drag - Mind Like a Sieve/7" Split with Chestnut Rd.
Dinosaur Jr. - Lose/You're Living All Over Me
Ex Hex - Don't Wanna Lose/Rips
The Clash - Lost in the Supermarket/London Calling
The Buzzcocks - Something's Gone Wrong Again/Singles Going Steady
Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum/Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Smashing Pumpkins - Zero/Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Grinderman - No Pussy Blues/Grinderman
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - F***in' Up/Ragged Glory