i read mike myers is going to play keith moon in a film about the crazy dude. i just can’t picture mike myers showing up at a gig fucked up on horse tranquilizers and falling asleep hunched over his floor tom. what a weird casting choice! but not nearly as weird as elijah wood playing iggy pop but still really bizarre. (hahaha @ ‘your pretty face is going to Mordor’)

i took monday off for extended r&r time and ended up rearranging my room to make it more spacious in case i want to put the drum set in there. gonna continue this streak of getting shit done since i already followed up on this ‘i wanna drum’ talk. so by the end of the week, i hope to sell my other turntable that’s collecting dust and fix my grounding hum problem with the one that’s already set up. i have to fix it since i bought a jay reatard 12″ ep today that has songs that aren’t on cd. i’m going through a jay reatard phase today. total ramones influence but so well executed and so much more than that. his tracks are too good, especially “all over again”…i’m in love with the outro on that

he plays the drums, guitar, bass and sings on them and he’s only 26. he’s put out tons of stuff with the reatards since age 16! he’s like a memphis greg ashley. are they separated at birth? they seem like kindred spirits only one brother is a disciple of roky erickson and the other brother of joey ramone.

this might be something you’d appreciate more if you’re familiar with ramones’ history and their personalities (marky kinda inept and clueless, johnny right-wing uptight asshole) but i thought it was pretty amusing:

makes me want to watch End of the Century again. it’s one of the better rock documentaries i can think of and the bonus is hearing the bizarre Phil Spector stories when he produced that album. odd thing is i actually kinda liked johnny when i watched this. he is such an unbelievable dick that it’s laughable and kinda really amusing. what a character he is

anyway, if you like that song “Summertime” by George Gershwin, here are 30 versions of it for download in a zip file. You know, “…you’re daddy’s rich and you’re mama’s good looking…” Maybe you’re familiar with The Zombies version.

1. Al Green – Summertime (3:01)
2. Billy Stewart – Summertime (4:57)
3. Bobby Montez – Summertime (5:49)
4. Booker T. & the MG’s – Summertime (4:41)
5. Brenda & The Tabulations – summertime (3:44)
6. Carl H. CALL – Summertime (2:22)
7. Dave Baby Cortez – Summertime (1:59)
8. George Benson – Summertime (2:25)
9. Herb Alpert – Summertime (2:02)
10. JACK MCDUFF – SUMMERTIME (4:08)
11. Janis Joplin – Summertime (5:30)
12. John Coltrane – Summertime (11:35)
13. John Schroeder – Summertime (2:26)
14. Little Beaver – Summertime (3:00)
15. LLOYD CHARMERS – SUMMERTIME (2:20)
16. Martha High – Summertime (5:25)
17. Nick Drake – Summertime (1:35)
18. Ohio Players – Summertime (7:22)
19. Salena Jones – Summertime (2:35)
20. Sam Cooke – Summertime (Pt. 1) (2:23)
21. Sidney Bechet – Summertime (4:12)
22. THE ATOMIC CAFE – Summertime (2:34)
23. The Buckinghams – Summertime (3:57)
24. The Zombies – Summertime – Demo (2:29)
25. The Zombies – Summertime (2:17)
26. Tony Ronald – Summertime (2:30)
27. Trojan Box Set – Summertime (3:05)
28. Unnamed Artist – Summertime (2:36)
29. Walter Bishop Jr’s 4th Cycle – Summertime (5:48)
30. Yuya Uchida & the Flowers – Summertime (3:55)