So I started listening to some French radio on iTunes and found some good songs.  There are some great sounds on the channel and here are some others that I heard this morning that sounded really good.

Alicia Keys - Like you’ll never see me again
Rufus Wainwright  - Hallelujah
Dido – Here with me
Lenny Kravitz – Stillness of Heart
Fergie – All that I got
Eamon – Fuck it!
Elsa Lunghini –Oser
Scissor Sisters – Laura
Leona Lewis – Better in time
Jason Mraz – I'm yours

If you actual read this post and are in the St. Louis area you need to check out 89.1 FM.  I am surprised by how many people do not even know this radio station.  It's a must.

Here is the song I have been working on with a buddy of mine. I played bass and guitar, he played keyboards.  I mixed the drums with the $25 pc drummer.  It's nothing miraculous but it was fun as hell to do.

 Check it out.  It's 15Mb. 

 Originally posted on 2007-08-02 14:52

This past Friday Lorraine and I went to Blueberry Hill and watched a couple of cool bands in the Duck Room.  It was a lot of fun and we really enjoyed the bands.  I suggest you check them out if you are looking for some cool music.  I really liked the Go Van Gogh show, they just put on a really good show.  La Push have some really good songs but the show was not as good for me.  They took to long in between songs.  However, I think their music was a little more uplifting.

La Push

Go Van Gogh

Incurables.

I heard this artists on a local radio station that I listen to.  It's 89.1 The Wood, from Lindenwood University.  It doesn't have commercials and isn't yet streaming.  Weird, I know.

• Daniel Powter - Free Loop
• Regina Spekter - (I don't remember the title, but she played at Lollapalooza '07)
• Jimmy Eat World - The Middle (Acoustic)
• Tegan & Sara - Back in Your Head
• Grace Potter - Ah, Mary
• Two Loons for Tea - Money
• Snow Patrol - Shut Your Eyes
• REM - #9 Dream
• Matchbox 20 - How Far We've Come
• Ret Hot Chili Peppers - We Believe
• Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah
• The Kin - Blue on Blue
• David Gray - Tell me something
• Fionn Regan - Be Good or Be Gone

Want to talk about a great time.  No?  How about a phenomenal time?  That's more like it.  I have no idea where to start.  I tell ya, Chicago downtown was like an absolute dream.  Coming from St. Louis, Chicago is a mecca.  I loved it.  In fact I am going back this Decemeber to holiday.  That doesn't sound to pompous does it?  We are going to go for a few days and hang out.  Maybe this time I will get to see the Sears tower from the SkyBox? 

I went to Nordstrom Racks, Radio Shack (funny but cool story), Miller's pub, Damen stop on the blue line, Flash Taco, Sears Roebuck, Club Quarters, the set of Batman 2007 (Sears tower area), Library, Art Institute of Chicago, Grant's Park, some other park just out side of it. 

Anyway the trip was fantastic and I am still riding the wave of enthusiasm for it.  It is definitely a town to visit, but I don't think I could live there with a family near the downtown.  Do families even live that close?

Oh yeah, shout out to the taxi cab driver who gave us a free ride to Sears Roebuck so we could buy new luggage. 

Lupe's dedication welcomes any new comer to his music cordially with a melody that really needs no introduction.  The horns and drums mix into an epic street sound that captures the deft listener immediately.  Autobiographical?  You might think so.  He definitely understands the nuances of a young skaters life.  How many kids get a skate board at six years of age?  Not many.  This tale however is going to carry you through this journey with the eyes of either an innocent child learning to engage the world or an adult reminiscing about the days of their youth.  The child, so young and uncoordinated, is certain to take falls in his new endeavors.  We know many children surrender their initial desires to failure.  In some though their passion fuels their desire to not be defeated.  As an adult we would sometimes see this as stubbornness, but Lupe would reveal that this strength is a necessity in the world yet to come soon to this soon be man.  At the end of this first verse the listener must be curious to the plight of this young man.  Where does the rhythm of Kick, Push, Coast touch me?  In the heart of my youth who remembers spending days kicking, pushing and hoping it was enough to coast down the block avoiding any pitfalls that may come to me or that I may roll upon.  The coast is more like the wind in a sail and less of the effort exerted by his feet.  Don't be fooled by his melodic caricature of the grinder as a misfit or a rebel.  The terms remind me of the days when everyone felt like a miss-fit and only wanted someplace to Be.  And so ends Act 1.  Just as you begin to get comfortable with this kid you identify with his merriment and pleasure of boarding as he discovers the sedition of love from a far.  An independent young daughter coming of age and knowing that her independence is as important to her as it is to him.  While you image the two riding together in the days untold there must be some definite growth in their relationship.  For the girl finally takes him to a lot, presumably outside her apartment, and is driven away.  You have to wonder, was it that they weren't welcome to skate or they weren't welcome to make/hang out as boyfriend and girlfriend.  Ultimately you have to ask if he did them a favor.  Until Act 3 you just keep kicking and pushing.  Maybe just maybe, coast.