Well i've finished the first of what I hope to be many of my new secret 7 series. The idea is simple. I find a random 7" of my choosing, then do a cover version of that song. Then I make some sort of silly packaging of the two and people can buy it off my website. Most likely it will be in very limited quantity (ie 1) unless I can find more copies of that 7", but i'm getting ahead of myself.

So, the first secret 7 is of Lou Reed's perfect day. I think I really outdid myself with how terrible this is. I'm rather pleased overall. I will be updating my site soon with more but am very excited about the possibilities of this.
http://www.autumnonacid.com/perfectday.mp3

I'm very upset with my immune system...this is perhaps the 3rd cold I've gotten this summer.

I wonder if I were to buy one of those spam blocking programs, if i'd stop getting all these damn emails for viagra, penis enlargement, escorts...at least the spam to get you to join a porn site has naked women in it most times. I seriously get at least 50 a day. grrr

Soundtrack so far....
Pop Wwill Eat Itself: Dos Dedos Mis Amigos
Qwel: If it ain't been in a pawn shop, then it can't play the blues

I've decided that I need to be on lanky boys. I've had friends tell me that before, but i've just been putting it off for a long time. Perhaps if I can find a photographer later tonight.....

Ok, seriously why did I just bid on this lot of 16 stereolab 45s?

Things I bought today at work:

Magazine: Real Life (CD)
Erland Oye: Unrest (CD)

Magazine is really, really good...i'm going to play it on my radio show for all my fans to bask in its glory.

dd

So here's what I bought at the WLUW record fair on Saturday....

The Wire: April 2003 (Autechre)
The Wire: September 2002 (Boredoms)
The Wire: January 2003 (Asian Dub Foundation)

April March: voo doo doll/kooky (7”)
France Gall: Les Annees Folles (7”)
Chicago One-Stop: Staff Picks, Vol.1 (Aestuarium records 7” set)
Big Black: The Model/He’s a whore (7”)
Helios Creed: Nothing Wrong/The Sky (7”)
Grandaddy: Aisle Seat 37-D (7”)
Hasil Adkins: Haze’s House Party (7”)
Errase Errata/Gossip: sleetmule/the supreme indifference (7”)
Enon: Starcastic/Birdnest (7”)
Har Mar Supertar: Power Lunch (7”)

Beck: Versus Die Fantasischen Vier [Mixed business] (12”)
Microstoria: Init Ding (LP)
Luke Vibert and BJ Cole: Spring collection (12”)
Arling & Cameron: We love to rock (12”)
Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom (LP)
Spoon: Kill the moonlight: (LP)
Shel Silverstein: Boy Named Sue [and his other country songs] (LP)
Nick Straker Band: ST (LP)
Bambu: Jorge’s Theme/ I Don’t wanna lose it (12”)
Veruca Salt: American Thighs [w/etched 7” single] (LP)
The Flying Lizards: ST (LP)
Tones on Tail: The album pop (LP)
Tipton: Nilsson by Tipton (LP)

I seriously think slurpee technology has gotten way out of hand...the flavors are much too intense (mountain dew orange blast)...the cups are enormous (44oz!!) and the straws have morphed into sour warheads flavored straws....then of course there's the slurp and gulp...which I am still a bit baffled by.

I am currently drinking a 28oz frozen coke and mountain dew cherry mix. It's good.

Life is good...

Things I bought today at Hard Boiled

Jim O'Rourke: Happy Days [CD]

Bassholes: Blue Roots [CD]

Adult [7"]

NY Noise [LP] fantastic comp on Soul Jazz of late 70s early 80s noisy dance bands like ESG etc.

Dueling Banjos: [LP] pretty self explanatory

Flying Lizards [7"]

I went to go see Pirates of the Caribbean with Julie last night. Really good movie. Johnny Depp is a fairly fantastic actor, he seriously made the entire movie worth it.

While normally i'm a big fan of trailers/previews before a movie...I have to say that sitting through a million previews for Disney movies was a bit much. They seriously need to quit putting out shitty movies, or at the very least just put them on their stupid cable channel and leave the rest of us alone.

It's bad enough that they're all smug that a decent movie was based on a freakin ride at Disney world. What's next...tea cups the movie?

I'm eating Thai food at the moment (Rhama Thai from Roong Petch) and it's very tasty. Shortly i'm going to go to two art showings this evening. Aren't I just Mr. Fancy Pants?

5-6pm

Lonesome Organist: let me be your man: Collector of cactus echo bags
Simian: One Dimension: Chemistry is what we are
Doug Martsch: Woke up this morning (with my mind on jesus): Now you know
[16] Dame Darcy: Mercury Wine: Dame Darcy's greatest hits
[9] Grandaddy: Saddest vacant lot in all the world: Sumday
Azita: On the Road: Enantiodromia
Tijuana Hercules: Lucky Charm: When the moon comes up wild
Langley schools music project: Mandy: Innocence and despair
Erase Errata: Delivery: Other animals
Mecury Rev: Opus 40: Desserter's songs
Jim O'Rourke: Ghostship in a storm: Eureeka
Maserati: Keep it gold: language of cities
Zombies: I want her she wants me: Odyssey & Oracle
[N] Liars: You know I hate stupid phones: We no longer know we're here
[29] The gossip: No no no: The movement
[14] Pleasure Forever: Draws an 8: alter
[R] Polvo: enemy insects: Shapes

Ok seriously, i'm all for special editions, limited pressings, alternate tracks, fancy packages...etc.

I bought the special editions of both Kid A, and Amnesiac; they're pretty cool, if not troublesome to store.

However, the new special edition looks like complete crapola. The songs are great, but lyrics are pretty weak and packaging is utter poop. Therefore I am resisting my extreme consumerism and i'm buying the damn regular edition. Let the masses think they're cooler than me by buying the special one..so be it.

So far in the two days I have worked since the album came out, I have been asked a mere 5 times if we have the special edition, which of course we do not, because we all know 2nd hand tunes is always hip as can be.

-word to all my radiohead freakos-

So in response to my overwhelming dissapointment at not going to New York to see a bunch of fabulous bands, I of course went to Hard Boiled and bought some shit...

CD--
Hawnay Troof: "Who likes ta"
Matmos: Wide open spaces
Ex Models: Zoo Psychology
N.O.I.A.: Unreleased Classics

7"---
Enon: Evidence/Grain of Assault
Sonic Youth/Erase Errata
Peaches: Rock show
Miles Tilmann

LP--
New Pornographers: Electric Version
Antonio Carlos Jobim: Jobim
No Neck Blues Band: Re: Mr A Fan..
Nuriko Tujiko: I forgot

Wire--
Jun 2003
Dec 2002
Jun 2002
Oct 2001
Oct 2000
Dec 1997

Fun stuff....

Ok this is quite upsetting. Next weekend is the Field Day Music Festival in New York, and my ride just fell through. So, basically now I have to pay for a ridiculously expensive plane ticket, and then find some way to get from the airport to the show site. They suggest renting a car, but I highly doubt my credit is good enough to rent a car. If anyone has any quick suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated. I'm even considering hitch hiking. Somebody has to know some friends that I can meet in some random city to get a ride to the show with!!!

Help a brotha out!

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 [4-6pm]

[28] Azita: On the road: Enantiodromia
Scissor Girls: By process E-lmnatn: Here is the “is-not”
Debris: New Smooth Lunch: Static Disposal
Shins: Sphagnum Esplanade: I know your onion
Lake of Dracula: Lake of Dracula: Lake of Dracula
Bloodthirsty Lover: telepathic: Bloodthirsty lovers
Sonnets: movin on: demo
[N] The New Pornographers: The laws have changed: Elecrtic Version

Nick Drake: I was made to love magic: Time of no reply
Panoply academy legionnaires: do you (want to) grind?: No dead time
Doves: here it comes: lost souls
Devendra Banhart: Hey Miss Cane: Oh me oh my….
N.O.I.A: Stop thinking: Unreleased classics 78-82
The Weakerthans: Watermark: left and leaving
Tom ze: Defect 3: politicar: Com Defeito De Fabicacao
[14] Pelican: pulse: Untitled EP
Richard Buckner: Julia miller: the hill
[29] all girl summer fun band: down south, 10 hours, I-5: 2
[30] Party of helicopters: brutal enigma: please believe it

Seriously....go visit mcchris.com

"I bounty hunt for jabba hutt to finance my vette....." This shit is tight!!!

I've been listening to him all day long...

Overall this Easter weekend has been pretty depressing. I spent most of Thursday and Friday vomiting from both ends due to food poisoning, so that was the beginning....

In order to cheer myself up I went to Hard Boiled today and bought some records:

Yo La Tengo: Summer Sun
Dump: Women in Rock
Dump: Grown Ass Man
The Shins: I know your onion
Pure: Noonbugs
DACM: Showroom dummies (music by pita)
Massimo: Hello dirty

Lp
Jimmie Rodgers: self titled on roulette
U Allstars vol2 : Criminal
Magas: Friends forever
Miles Tilmann: limited edition (800) Purple marble vinyl on toytronic
Loess: imited edition (800) Orange marble vinyl on toytronic

Grand total: $146.68

I feel much better...

Wednesday, March 12, 2003 [4-6pm]

Monotrona: ah enemy: hawkeye and firebird
Basement Jaxx: SFM: Rooty
Wevie Stonder: Supertaps: Writing on other peoples heads
Ex-models: girlfriend is worse: other mathematics
XTC: Wake up: the big express
Hot snakes: XOX: Suicide Invoice
Wesley Willis: Rock & Roll McDonalds: Songs in the key of Z
Sweet: ACDC: Destination Boulevard

Brainiac: Sexual Frustration: Bonsai Superstar
The Arrivals: Pangea: Oil [R]
Iggy and the Stooges: Penetration: Raw Power
Enon: Old Dominion: High Society
Iron and Wine: Such Great Heights (postal service): SGH [single][N]

Lightning bolt: Dracula Mountain: Wonderful Rainbow [1]
Handsome boy modeling school: modeling just sucks: so..how’s your girl?
Beck: Lonesome tears: Sea Change
Mouse on Mars: Introduction [live]: Agit Itter It It [R]

Postal Service: sleeping in: Give up
Group X: Mario Twins
Delgados: All you need is hate: Hate [14]
Trans Am: Different Kind of love: TA
Badly Drawn Boy: something to talk about: About a boy sdtrk
Flaming Lips: the spark that bled: Soft Bulletin
Dump: Pop Life: That skinny motherfucker with the high voice
Cat Power: Free: You are Free [3]

In the guise of self promotion..I found a place that made me 1" buttons that say I "heart" Dustin Drase. Let me know if you want one. I only made 50..but it's not like I can't make more !

March 5, 2003 [4-6pm]

Joe Meek: march of the dribcots: I hear a new world
Kevin Ayers: Heartbreak hotel: June 1, 1964
---John France live in the studio
“No known unbeknownsts”
“La Contrine”
“Hell Naw”

Twang Bang: Look out: Kicking the toybox
John France: slyonda: Johmi Spafra
Loose Fur: Raccoonists: Loose Fur
Quasar Wut Wut: Pulling Yarns: demo
We the people: My brother the man: Psychedelic microdots
Harry Nillson: Daddy’s song: Aerial Ballet
Anti Pop Consortium: EKG: Arrrythmia
Simian: Skin: We are your friends
Dismemberment Plan: The City: Emergency & I
April March: Chick Habit: Chick Habit

---John France live in the studio
“Slide Jam”
“Mouth harpjam”

13th floor elevators: Monkey Island: the psychedelic sounds of
The faint: your retro career melted: Danse Macabre
Taylor Savvy: Good friends: Jealousy
The streets: has it come to this?: Original pirate material
Dr. Drase / John France / Brett: has it come to this?: no seriously has it?
Moods for moderns: Do ya: slacker ways
Supergrass: Rush hour soul: Life on other planets
Supersuckers w/amy nelson: The least I could do: Down to the promised land
XTC: Wake up: The big express
Captain Beefy: abba zabba: safe as milk