Stuck In Thee Garage #475: May 12, 2023

Look, not everyone's a go-getter. You're going to have your coffee achievers and you're going to have the other end of the spectrum: the lazy, if you will. Everybody's has a little laziness in them, but some definitely have more than others. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about laziness in hour 2. It really ties the room together.

This playlist is decidedly not nihilistic:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Country Westerns - Knucklen'/Forgive the City

Model/Actriz - Slate/Dogsbody

Washer - Grift on Repeat/Improved Means to Deteriorated Ends

The Hold Steady - Flyover Halftime/The Price of Progress

Gord Downie & Bob Rock - In the Field/Lustre Parfait

Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World/This Stupid World

Eyelids - The Snowfire Band/A Colossal Waste of Light

Generationals - Dirt Diamond/Heatherhead

The New Pornographers - Firework in the Falling Snow/Continue as a Guest

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Gideon Gray/Heaven's Off

Los Campesinos! - Little Mouth/Single

Cornershop - Disco's Main Squeeze/Disco's Main Squeeze

Blues Lawyer - I Won't/All in Good Time

Shame - Yankees/Food For Worms

Quasi - Last Long Laugh/Breaking the Balls of History

Fucked Up - Falling Right Under/One Day

Hour 2: Lazy

The Saints - (I'm) Stranded/(I'm) Stranded

Black Flag - TV Party/Damaged

Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant/Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols

Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell - Lazy Sunday/SNL

Walter Lure & the Waldos - Lazy Day/Wacka Lacka Boom Bop a Loom Bam Boo

The Ramones - I Don't Wanna Be Learned/I Don't Wanna Be Tamed /Ramones

Grave Flowers Bongo Band - Lazy River/Strength of Spring

Beck - Lazy Flies/Mutations

Franz Ferdinand - Lazy Boy/Always Ascending

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye/Carnavas

Ben Folds Five - Battle of Who Could Care Less/Whatever and Ever Amen

Parquet Courts - Before the Water Gets Too High/Wide Awake!

Eels - Novocaine for the Soul/Beautiful Freak

The Dambuilders - Lazy Eye/Ruby Red

The Murder City Devils - Idle Hands/In Name and Blood

The Gutter Twins - Idle Hands/Saturnalia

Hey man, is that Stuck In Thee Garage? Well, TURN IT UP, MAN.

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Many apologies for the lack of activity in this space this week. I have had stuff to write but no time in which to write it. And now we're off to Maine until tomorrow. So I will leave you with this fine new song from the great Henry Clay People. Rock on, rockers and I'll post a review tomorrow of night 2 of the Boston Accents Farewell shindig at Great Scott, which I attended Tuesday.

Simply Unacceptable

Hola. Another week has come and gone and I haven't done much with the blog, and I apologize for that. Life has been super-busy lately; I'm so fried after getting out of work that there's not much brainpower left for much blog creativity.

I have a lot of ideas, just little time or inclination to carry them out. Thankfully, I've been able to keep the podcast rolling each week with new episodes, and I've got the next five or so mapped out. So I'm not totally out of it.

Anyhoo, it's getting late and I'm going to catch some shuteye, but rest assured more is coming. Hoping to crank out a couple of posts this weekend, even. Seriously!

Rock:

Stranger Things Have Happened

Hola. It has been a long week. Deb's been using the computer a lot to work on a PowerPoint presentation and by the time she's finished, I've been too lazy to post anything. So here we are on Friday night.

I recovered from the marathon fairly quickly. Watching me hobble right after the race, you'd have thought it would take me a month to get back to normal, but I was only really sore for a day or so. I ran 5 on Wednesday and today and will probably get out for about an hour tomorrow if it doesn't rain too much. I even entertained the idea of playing hockey last night, but there was an open house at Hannah's school, so I wisely opted for that instead. I was going to do a 5-mile race in Gloucester tonight, but the forecast called for downpours, so I went running at lunch.

Heads or tails, friendo:

• Man, that cyclone in Myanmar (aka Burma) took an incredible toll: The UN is estimating that casualties will hit 100,000, although the government there says the death toll is only 22,000. Of course, those idiots were refusing humanitarian aid until just a few hours ago.
• The Boston Bruins season ended a few weeks ago, but apparently before they were done for the year, they created an interesting sponsorship opportunity. They pimped out one of their Zambonis with a gigantic Gillette Fusion razor on the back. I didn't hear about that when it happened, but good for them for getting creative.
• The hair metal version of Woodstock is happening for five days in July at Rocklahoma: the fest features Bret Michaels, Extreme, Triumph, Dokken, LA Guns, Living Colour (not really sure what they're doing here, because they certainly transcended and outlived the hair metal scene--guess they don't have much else going on these days), Cinderella, Tesla, and Briggy's favorite band, E'Nuff Z'Nuff. There's gonna be a lot of folks in black leather frying in the sun that week.
• Ever take a course in a subject you really liked, only to have a professor who ruined it for you? Imagine if the professor then threatened to sue you for voicing your disagreement with her theories. That happened recently at Dartmouth, where a nutjob English prof claimed her students were so unreceptive to her theories that it constituted a hostile working environment. She left the college and may not actually sue, but damn, talk about being thin-skinned.
• I've been a Mike Myers fan for about 20 years, since I first saw him on SNL. We share a common birthplace (Scarborough, Ont.) as well an affinity for a certain crappy hockey team. But apparently, if I watch his new movie The Love Guru, or even if I don't watch it but don't do anything to stop its being released, I will go to hell. Or so say some outraged Hindu protesters, who put together a convenient table detailing the punishment in store for folks who watch it. Of course, the punishment may just be the watching: it looks like it could be really dumb.
• Speaking of the Leafs, they fired coach Paul Maurice this week. Not a shocker after they missed the playoffs for the third straight season. The hunt for a new GM continues as well. My hopes are low as always with this poorly run club. I'm just a glutton for punishment, I guess.