Archive | June 2004

Guido’s CDs

Here’s MOST of my CDs not including movie soundtracks, blues albums, world music and some other misc. I don’t have typed in yet.

1. Ryan Adams – Gold

2. Ryan Adams – Demolition

3. Ryan Adams – Rock and Roll

4. Ryan Adams – Love is Hell, Part 1 [EP]

5. Alice in Chains – Dirt

6. Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

7. Alice in Chains – Unplugged

8. American Hi-Fi – The Art of Losing

9. Tori Amos – Boys For Pele

10. Tori Amos – To Venus and Back

11. Fiona Apple – Fiona Apple

12. Fiona Apple – When the Pawn…

13. Apples in Stereo – The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone

14. Louis Armstrong – All-Time Greatest Hits

15. At The Drive-In – Relationship of Command

16. Badfinger – The Very Best Of

17. Badly Drawn Boy – Have You Fed The Fish

18. Arykah Badu – Baduizm

19. Baka Beyond – The Meeting Pool

20. Bestie Boys – Ill Communication

21. The Beatles – The White Album

22. The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour

23. Beck – Odelay

24. Ben Folds Five – Whatever and Ever Amen

25. Belle and Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister

26. Beulah – The Coast is Never Clear

27. Beulah – When Your Heartstrings Break

28. Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Midnight Radio

29. Bjork – Post

30. Blur – Leisure

31. Blur – Modern Life is Rubbish

32. Blur – Parklife

33. Blur – The Great Escape

34. Blur – Blur

35. Blur – 13

36. Blur – The Best Of

37. Blur – Think Tank

38. The Bogmen – Life Begins At 40 Million

39. The Bogmen – Closed Caption Radio

40. David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World

41. David Bowie – Hunky Dory

42. Tracy Bonham – The Burdens of Being Upright

43. The Breeders – Last Splash

44. Bright Eyes – Lifted

45. Jeff Buckley – Grace

46. Jeff Buckley – Sketches For My Sweetheat The Drunk

47. Bush – 16 Stone

48. David Burne – Uh-Oh

49. Cake – Fashion Nuget

50. Jerry Cantrell – Boggy Depot

51. Charlatans UK – Charlatans UK

52. Charlatans UK – Between 10th and 11th

53. Cibo Matto – Viva La Woman

54. Cibo Matto – Stereotype A

55. Coldplay – Parachutes

56. Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head

57. Paula Cole – This Fire

58. Collective Soul – Collective Soul

59. Concrete Blonde – Bloodletting

60. The Connells – Ring

61. The Connells – Weird Food and Devistation

62. The Connells – Still Life

63. Mark Copely – Limited Lifetime Guarantee

64. Cornershop – When I Was Born For The Seventh Time

65. The Cooper Temple Clause – Kick Up The Fire And Let The Flames Break Loose

66. Nikka Costa – Everybody Got Their Something

67. Counting Crows – August And Everything After

68. Counting Crows – Recovering The Satellites

69. The Cranberries – No Need To Argue

70. The Cranberries – To The Faithful Departed

71. Crash Test Dummies – God Shuffled His Feet

72. Sheryl Crow – Tuesday Night Music Club

73. Sheryl Crow – Sheryl Crow

74. Sheryl Crow – The Globe Sessions

75. Crowded House – Crowded House

76. Crowded House – Woodface

77. The Cure – Disintegration

78. D’Angelo – Voodoo

79. Dandy Warhols – The Dandy Warhols Come Down

80. Dandy Warhols – 13 Tales From Urban Bohemia

81. Dandy Warhols – Welcome To The Monkey House

82. Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism

83. Death Cab For Cutie – Photo Album?

84. Deep Forest – Deep Forest

85. Deep Forest – Boheme

86. Del Amitri – Some Other Sucker’s Parade

87. Del Amitri – Twisted

88. Devo – Greatest Hits

89. Dido – No Angel

90. Dishwala – Pet Your Friends

91. The Donnas – The Donnas

92. The Donnas – Spend The Night

93. Durran Durran – Decade

94. Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks

95. Bob Dylan – Love and Theft

96. Eels – Beautiful Freak

97. Evanessence – Fallen

98. Eve 6 – Eve 6

99. Everclear – Sparkle and Fade

100. Everclear – So Much for the Afterglow

101. Faith No More – Angel Dust

102. Fastball – Make Your Mama Proud

103. Fastball – All The Pain Money Can Buy

104. Filter – Title Of Record

105. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

106. Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters

107. Fountains of Wayne – Utopia Parkway

108. Fountains of Wayne – Welcome Interstate Managers

109. Frans Ferdinand – Frans Ferdinand

110. Frente! – Marvin The Album

111. Nelly Furtado – Whoa, Nelly

112. Garbage – Garbage

113. Garbage – Version 2.0

114. Gomez – Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline

115. Gomez – Liquid Skin

116. Gomez – Bring It On

117. Goodness – Goodness

118. Goodness – Anthem

119. Gorillaz – Gorillaz

120. Grandaddy – Sumday

121. Guided By Voices – mix

122. Guster – Keep It Together

123. Guster – Goldfly

124. Guster – Lost And Gone Forever

125. Handsome Devil – Love And Kisses From The Underground

126. Hall & Oats – Greatest Hits

127. Ben Harper – Live From Mars

128. Ben Harper – Welcome To The Cruel World

129. Ben Harper – Fight For Your Mind

130. Ben Harper – Burn To Shine

131. Ben Harper – The Will To Live

132. P.J. Harvey – Rid Of Me

133. P.J. Harvey – To Bring You My Love

134. P.J. Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

135. The Juliana Hatfield Three – Become What You Are

136. Helmet – Meantime

137. Jimi Hendrix – The Ultimate Experience

138. Kristin Hersh – Hips And Makers

139. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

140. Hootie and the Blowfish – Cracked Rear View

141. Hot Hot Heat – Make Up The Breakdown

142. Idlewild – 100 Broken Windows

143. James Iha – Let It Come Down

144. Ivy – Long Distance

145. Mick Jagger – Goddess in the Doorway

146. James – Laid

147. James – Whiplash

148. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Stoned and Dethroned

149. Jet – Get Born

150. Jethro Tull – Original Master

151. Jewel – Pieces Of You

152. Norah Jones – Come Away With Me

153. The Judybats – Down In The Shacks Where The Satellite Dishes Grow

154. The Judybats – Full-Empty

155. Kelis – Kaleidoscope

156. King’s X – Gretchen Goes To Nebraska

157. King’s X – Faith Hope Love

158. King’s X – Ear Candy

159. Chantal Kreviazuk – Under These Rocks and Stones

160. Kula Shaker – K

161. Led Zeppelin – II

162. Led Zeppelin – IV

163. Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy

164. Ben Lee – Breathing Tornados

165. Lemonheads – Lovey

166. Lemonheads – It’s A Shame About Ray

167. Lemonheads – Car Button Cloth

168. Sean Lennon – Into The Sun

169. Letters to Cleo – Aurora Gory Alice

170. Lit – A Place in the Sun

171. Live – Mental Jewelry

172. Live – Throwing Copper

173. Live – Secret Samadhi

174. L.P. – Suburban Sprawl and Alcohol

175. Luscious Jackson – Natural Ingredients

176. Luscious Jackson – Electric Honey

177. Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

178. Ray Lynch – No Blue Thing

179. Ray Lynch – Deep Breakfast

180. Stephen Malkmus – Stephan Malkmus

181. Marcy Playground – Shapeshifter

182. Maroon 5 – Songs About Jane

183. Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See

184. Mazzy Star – She Hangs Brightly

185. Loreena McKennitt – The Mask and Mirror

186. Sarah McLachlan – Solace

187. Sarah McLachlan – Into The Fire

188. Sarah McLachlan – Vox

189. Sarah McLachlan – Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

190. Sarah McLachlan – Surfacing

191. Meat Puppets – Too High To Die

192. Men At Work – The Best Of

193. The M.I.B.s – Arrive!

194. Milla – The Devine Comedy

195. Midnight Oil – Earth and Sun and Moon

196. Moby – Play

197. Modest Mouse – Good News For People Who Like Bad News

198. Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill

199. Muse – Showbiz

200. Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – God Fodder

201. Nickel Creek – Nickel Creek

202. Nickel Creek – This Side

203. Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine

204. No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom

205. Oasis – Definitely Maybe

206. Oasis – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?

207. Oasis – Be Here Now

208. Go – Go

209. Our Lady Peace – Happiness Is Not A Fish You Can Catch

210. Our Lady Peace – Clumsy

211. Ours – Precious

212. Ours – Distorted Lullabies

213. Beth Orton – Central Reservation

214. Beth Orton – Daybreaker

215. Christopher O’Riley – Plays Radiohead

216. Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted

217. Pavement – Terror Twilight

218. Pearl Jam – Ten

219. Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam

220. Pearl Jam – Vitalogy

221. Michael Penn – Resigned

222. A Perfect Circle – Mer De Noms

223. Liz Phair – Whip-Smart

224. Liz Phair – Juvenalia

225. Liz Phair – Whitechocolatespaceegg

226. Liz Phair – Liz Phair

227. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon

228. Pink Floyd – A Saucer Full of Secrets

229. Pink Floyd – Works

230. Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother

231. Pink Floyd – Animals

232. Pink Floyd – The Wall

233. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

234. Pink Floyd – The Division Bell

235. Pink Floyd – Momentary Lapse of Reason

236. Pink Floyd – A Collection of Great Dance Songs

237. Pink Floyd – Meddle

238. Pink Floyd – Echoes

239. Pixies – Bossanova

240. Placebo – Sleeping With Ghosts

241. Poe – Haunted

242. Poor Old Lu – The Waiting Room

243. Portishead – Portishead

244. Portishead – Dummy

245. Powderfinger – Odyssey No. 5

246. Cat Power – Free

247. The Presidents of the United States of America – The Presidents of the United States of America

248. Primus – Sailing The Seas of Cheese

249. Q-Tip – Amplified

250. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf

251. Radiohead – Pablo Honey

252. Radiohead – The Bends

253. Radiohead – Amnesiac

254. Radiohead – OK Computer

255. Radiohead – Kid A

256. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief

257. Rasputina – Thanks for the Ether

258. Reef – Glow

259. R.E.M. – Life’s Rich Pageant

260. R.E.M. – Eponymous

261. R.E.M. – Automatic for the People

262. R.E.M. – Up

263. R.E.M. – Out of Time

264. R.E.M. – Monster

265. R.E.M. – New Adventures in Hi-Fi

266. Remy Zero – Villa Elaine

267. Remy Zero – The Golden Hum

268. Damien Rice – O

269. Marty Robbins – The Best Of

270. The Rolling Stones – Some Girls

271. The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers

272. Rooney – Rooney

273. Rush – Chronicles

274. Rush – Counterparts

275. Rush – Roll the Bones

276. Otis Rush – Ain’t Enough Comin’ In

277. Sausage – Riddles Are Abound Tonight

278. Say-So – Laugh, Cry, Pray

279. Seal – Seal

280. Semisonic – Pleasure

281. Semisonic – The Great Divide

282. Semisonic – All About Chemistry

283. Ron Sexsmith – Cobblestone Runway

284. The Shins – Oh Inverted World

285. The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow

286. Shivaree – I Ought To Give You…

287. Smiths – Best… One

288. Sponge – Rotting Pinata

289. Sponge – Wax Ecstatic

290. Spoon – Kill The Moonlight

291. Soul Coughing – Ruby Vroom

292. Soul Coughing – El Oso

293. Soundgarden – Superunknown

294. Soundgarden – Down on the Upside

295. Squirrel Nut Zippers – Hot

296. Starsailor – Love Is Here

297. Starsailor – Silence Is Easy

298. Sting – 10 Summoner’s Tales

299. Joss Stone – The Soul Sessions

300. The Stone Roses – Second Coming

301. Stone Temple Pilots – Stone Temple Pilots

302. Stroke 9 – Nasty Little Thoughts

303. The Strokes – Is This It?

304. The Strokes – Room On Fire

305. Sugar – Copper Blue

306. Sugar – File Under: Easy Listening

307. The Sundays – Static and Silence

308. Superdrag – Head Trip in Every Key

309. Supergrass – I Should Coco

310. Supergrass – Supergrass

311. Supergrass – Life On Other Planets

312. Supergrass – In It For The Money

313. Talking Heads – Sand in the Vaseline

314. Tenacious D – Tenacious D

315. They Might Be Giants – They Might Be Giants

316. They Might Be Giants – Apollo 18

317. They Might Be Giants – Lincoln

318. They Might Be Giants – Flood

319. They Might Be Giants – John Henry

320. They Might Be Giants – Factory Showroom

321. They Might Be Giants – Mink Car

322. Throwing Muses – University

323. Toadies – Rubberneck

324. Tonic – Lemon Parade

325. Tool – Undertow

326. Tool – Aenima

327. Tool – Lateralus

328. Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players – Vol. 1

329. Track Star – Lion Destroy The Whole World

330. Travis – The Man Who

331. Travis – 12 Memories

332. Trip Shakespeare – Lulu

333. UB40 – Labour of Love II

334. U2 – The Joshua Tree

335. U2 – Achtung Baby

336. Val Gardena – River of Stone

337. Suzanne Vega – Solitude Standing

338. Suzanne Vega – Nine Objects of Desire

339. Veruca Salt – American Thighs

340. Verve – A Storm in Heaven

341. The Verve Pipe – Underneath

342. Violent Femmes – Add It Up

343. Louden Wainwright III – Career Moves

344. Louden Wainwright III – Little Ship

345. Rufus Wainwright – Rufus Wainwright

346. Rufus Wainwright – Poses

347. Rufus Wainwright – Want One

348. Ween – Chocolate and Cheese

349. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells

350. The White Stripes – Elephant

351. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

352. Hank Williams – Best Of

353. Stevie Wonder – Song Review

354. Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue

355. Yes – Best Of

356. Pete Yorn – musicforthemorningafter

Night’s doings

LISTENING TO: Turin Brakes “Ether Song,” Death Cab For Cutie “Transatlanticism,” Starsailor “Slience Is Easy” and some other stuff I can’t remember.

COMIC SERVICE: I picked up my comic book subscription after not going for a month and a half. After weeding some things out, the bill came to a mind-numbing $150. Gak! Despite that bill, I highly recommend Comic Service, 1000 E. Stanford Ave., Springfield, Ill. –> 217-753-0109 –> Tell Jim that Guido sent you.

DINNER: D’arcy’s Pint: Delux Ponyshoe (that’s hamburger, onions, bacon bits) & Black Velvet (the drink, not the cake)

BOWLING: 96 (ick) & 130 (eh, better)

How’s Impotent Potentate for a band name? Maybe somethingelse Potentate. Any ideas?

Sill-y pictures

I guess I got Jess thinking about the stuff on her window sill. She posted pics HERE. So I join the fun with this one from my work window that isn’t an outside window, but it’s the best I got.

Jess: I’m not sure who the figure on the left is, so that might change things, but just looking at it I had a whole story of a giant rampaging mutant broccoli.

Guido: The soldier to the left knows the giant rampaging broccoli is just scared and doesn’t really mean any harm, so he wants to protect the broccoli … they have a special unspoken bond.

Jess: Well, that’s nice.

Jess: Giant broccoli probably don’t have many options when it comes to friends.

Guido: Yes, they probably take what they can get.

Guido: Do you think the broccoli has a name?

Jess: Most definitely.

Jess: Maybe Clyde.

You can feel the sap

Added “Under the Tuscan Sun” to my movie list — watched it tonight. It was terribly sappy. One of the most sappy I’ve seen in a while.

OK turnout for Ultimate. We had 6’s for a while. Some of the regulars, I’m guessing, were wooed away by some local bands playing.

Gotham City, Ill.

Lower Wacker Drive in Chicago is going to be used as some of Gotham City in the upcoming film “Batman Begins.” BATMAN BEGINS OFFICIAL SITE

Piqued interest

I thought the paper was chock-full of interesting news today. Headlines:

–> Cass (County) jury finds Butlers guilty (local aggravated criminal sexual abuse trial)

–> Iraq: Nation sovereign once more: U.S. turns over power 2 days early

–> Residents can browse used items on Internet (JACKSONVILLE FREECYCLE)

–> Northern Illinois earthquake felt in Jacksonville

–> Supreme Court outlaws interrogation tactic that undermines Miranda warning

–> Supreme Court: U.S. cannot hold terror suspects in legal limbo

And anothter S.C.O.T.U.S. story from the radio:

–> In a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that a 1998 federal law enacted to shield minors from porn is likely unconstitutional. The high court says a lower court was right to block the law from taking effect, pending a trial, because it unnecessarily restricts legitimate speech.

Tiger

I’m anxious to see fuzzycouch.com in the new Safari RSS in Tiger. The new browser will detect rss and atom feeds allowing search for timely news items to be pretty instantaneous.

The visual scripting for automating repetetive tasks for non-programmers looks really awesome. You can build with “Automater” a script that says “on this webpage, grab all of the images, import them into iphoto as a new album named “My pictures” then export them to iDVD, add these transitions and create a screensaver. All with a simple graphical interface.

The other realy cool app is the new iChat. It will allow 10 people audio chatting over the net, or up to 3 others video conferenceing. And the interface is really slick.

The full keynote is on Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) website. VIDEO HERE

Pho Shizzle



I love the name of this Vietnamese place. I’m not sure where it is exactly, but I found the pic a while back. The bummer of this is that “Pho” is pronouced “fa,” I think.

Julie and I went to “Saved!” after Ultimate today. Good stuff. I’m adding in to THE LIST

There’s a new beta of Firefox … 0.9 I believe. Get it at MOZILLA.ORG



Anyone else really, really want a Gmail.com address? I have a couple invites. Shoot me a message to: utinni [at] gmail [dot] com.

LCHS retirees



I forgot to mention back when I first saw it — I think it was a few weeks ago — but there was a mention in “The Courier” about a few of our high school teachers who retired this year: Mitzie Welsh (biology), Rita Vaught (English) and Steve Sauer (history). Also, I just noticed that Jim Vipond is now the chemistry teacher … I wish I had him for chemistry.

Movie refusal?

From the “Grace about town” column in the 6-24-2004 “Illinois Times.”

“This year, we went to see The Day after Tomorrow. Amy was adamant about going to see it. I’m not sure why.

“This flick caused quite a furor in town because apparently the Kerasotes theater monopoly refused to show the movie if it played at the drive-in on the night the film opened all over the country.

“First, bravo to the Route 66 for showing it. Second, is a monopoly ever a good thing? And is anybody planning on doing anything to remedy this situation? Doesn’t it seem atrocious that Kerasotes wouldn’t show a movie just because it plays at the drive-in? Usually the drive-in movies have already opened at the Kerasotes theaters. Isn’t this discrimination against patrons of drive-in theaters? Don’t we deserve to see a movie outdoors on its release date?

“It’s not as if the people who prefer sitting in air conditioning are going to suddenly decide to take all their business to the drive-in. It’s not as if there are a dozen drive-ins in town, all owned by the same people.

“All I’m saying is, if I want to enjoy a fresh new movie while sitting outside in the precious warm summer air, please let me, Mr. Kerasotes.”

Grace Smith,

I was wondering how you came to the conclusion that Kerasotes “refused to show” the movie “The Day After Tomorrow” while it was playing at the drive-in? My impression has been that competing theater chains within the same area bid for the exclusive rights to show movies. Therefore, if The Route 66 Drive-in won the bidding for “The Day After Tomorrow,” then the Kerasotes chain can’t show that movie. Did the theaters tell you something different?

Also, “is a monopoly ever a good thing?” you ask? Potentially. If Kerasotes didn’t have any other theaters or theater chains to bid against to get the most desirable movies, they could pass on some of the savings in the form of cheaper tickets … though I have my doubts that it would actually play out that way.

Cordially,

Guido

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