Stuck In Thee Garage #165: February 17, 2017

The 1970s may have been known as the Me Decade, but there's a whole lotta "me" going on these days. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about narcissism in hour 2.

The Otto-riffic playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Pile - Texas/A Hairshirt of Purpose
The Besnard Lakes - Laura Lee/The Besnard Lakes are the Divine Wind
Moon Duo - Creepin'/Occult Architecture, Vol. 1
The Well - Black Eyed Gods/Live on KUTX
Metallica - Moth Into Flame/Hardwired to Self-Destruct
Ty Segall - The Only One/Ty Segall
Carl Newman - Our Nero/Battle Hymns
Snowball II - Resident of the United States/Flashes of Quincy
Cloud Nothings - Enter Entirely/Life Without Sound
Haybaby - Stupid/Blood Harvest
The Hecks - Junior Showmanship/The Hecks
We Can All Be Sorry - For Now/Post-Trash, Volume 2
Japandroids - Midnight to Morning/Near to the Wild Heart of Life
Young Mammals - Rat in the Summer/Jaguar
Jacuzzi Boys - Gamma/Ping Pong

Hour 2: Narcissism
The English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom/I Just Can't Stop It
De La Soul - Me, Myself and I/3 Feet High and Rising
The Dirtbombs - Pretty Princess Day/We Have You Surrounded
The Who - I'm the Face/Odds & Sods
The Beatles - I Me Mine/Let It Be
Peter Gabriel - Big Time/So
Nirvana - Do You Love Me/Hard to Believe: A KISS Covers Compilation
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Flavor/Orange
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored/The Stone Roses
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust/The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Monster Magnet - Space Lord/Powertrip
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose/Badmotorfinger
Aztec Camera - Jump/All I Need is Everything
The Pretenders - Brass In Pocket/Pretenders
The Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?/Singles Going Steady

Completely Conspicuous 273: Hang On to Your Ego

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion about our narcissistic society. Listen to the episode below or download it directly (right click and "save as").


Show notes:
- Anybody can have a show or self-publish a book
- Everybody's a photojournalist now
- Online commenters are the worst
- Talk radio callers are moving online
- Onion AV Club comment sections can be great
- Matt: Arguing on the Internet makes everyone dumber
- So easy to hit "send"
- Begging for RTs from celebs on Twitter is pathetic
- The ridiculousness of Google Glass
- How much information do you really need?
- Can you watch a movie or TV show without checking your phone?
- Staying off social media to avoid spoilers
- The need to live tweet TV shows
- The moviegoing experience sucks
- Matt can go entire days without dealing with a live human
- Bonehead of the Week


Music:
Thee Oh Sees - Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster
Fidlar - Gimme Something
The Kills - Future Starts Slow
Drive Like Jehu - Caress

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

The Thee Oh Sees song is on the album Floating Coffin on Castle Face Records. Download the song for free at Epitonic.
The Fidlar song is on the band's self-titled album on Mom + Pop. Download the song for free at Epitonic.
The Kills song is on the album Blood Pressures on Domino Records. Download the song for free at Epitonic.
The Drive Like Jehu song is on the band's self-titled album on Cargo. Download the song for free at Epitonic.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Completely Conspicuous 272: I Me Mine

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion about our narcissistic society. Listen to the episode below or download it directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:
- Narcissism is on the rise
- Recent study looks at the Internet "narcissism epidemic"
- We are part of the problem
- We're more likely to take photos of injustice than actually help out
- Matt works from home, posts on Facebook to get social interaction
- Some people need to post status updates of their every move
- Gay marriage debate has been ubiquitous on social media
- Linked In endorsements: What's the point?
- Matt's creepy clown photo
- Creating a false impression through upbeat self-promotion
- Selfies are everywhere
- People will do anything to get on TV
- Reality TV has never been more popular
- MySpace was a mess
- Googling yourself is a common activity
- Matt's IMDB page
- To be continued
- Bonehead of the Week


Music:
JEFF the Brotherhood - Shredder
Le Butcherettes - Henry Don't Got Love
Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers
Ty Segall - You're the Doctor

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

The JEFF the Brotherhood song is on the album We Are the Champions on Infinity Cat Recordings/Warner Music. Download the song for free at Epitonic.
The Le Butcherettes song is on the album Sin Sin Sin on Rodriguez Lopez Productions. Download the song for free at Epitonic.
The Sleater-Kinney song is on the album The Woods on Sub Pop. Download the song for free at Epitonic.
The Ty Segall song is on the album Twins on Drag City. Download the song for free at Epitonic.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.