What cards on your desk..what's on your iPOD and whatcha reading?

ChiefBenderForever · #1 03-23-2010, 12:50 PM

I don't have a desk, don't have an ipod, just been reading different chapters of Huckleberry Finn to my kids at night to get them to sleep. However I have seen the Dead seven times.

uffda51 · #2 03-23-2010, 03:21 PM

iPod-Jacqui Naylor, Eric Whitcare, Aaron Copland, Morten Lauridsen.
Reading - Robert Parker - Spenser novels.

On my desk - The Pach Bros. cabinet of Dudley Dean I won in the B&L auction. Dean was a pretty interesting guy. Harvard quarterback. One of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. A Lt. Colonel in the Air Force in WW II. A newspaper columnist. A career in mining and lumber.

rc4157 · #3 03-23-2010, 04:02 PM

On my desk: 2 Reds W571-1's, haven't placed them in an album yet and a Vander Meer auto/photo

Ipod: Just got an Ipod at Christmas, so far I have Beatles, Clapton, CS&N, Eagles, EL&P etc.... for my listening enjoyment.

Reading: Recently finished "World Without End" by Ken Follett

RC

drc · #4 03-23-2010, 04:35 PM

Two of my all time favorite hard core punk bands were Discharge (British) and Black Flag (American). When a member of the British band was asked why they picked Discharge as band's name, he said "Because it was obnoxious" .... When the leader of Black Flag was asked why they picked that name, he said it was because of the simultaneous associations with anarchy and bug spray ... There's a bit of beauty in those answers.

Another great hardcore band was named Minor Threat, and that name was just being being playful. They'd play their supersonic explosions of sound with the implicit or explicit knowledge, "Don't be unduly scared of us. We're just a Minor Threat." In fact one of their songs was "We're just a Minor Threat."

I'm sure the bands themselves see the ludicrousness and comedy in their names as well as anyone else.

E93 · #5 03-23-2010, 05:22 PM

I was always partial to L.A. punk bands. X is by far my favorite. Black Flag, The Germs, Social Distortion, etc. were all good. A bit up the road, the Dead Kennedys did not suck.
JimB

slidekellyslide · #6 03-23-2010, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by drc

Two of my all time favorite hard core punk bands were Discharge (British) and Black Flag (American). When a member of the British band was asked why they picked Discharge as band's name, he said "Because it was obnoxious" .... When the leader of Black Flag was asked why they picked that name, he said it was because of the simultaneous associations with anarchy and bug spray ... There's a bit of beauty in those answers.

Another great hardcore band was named Minor Threat, and that name was just being being playful. They'd play their supersonic explosions of sound with the implicit or explicit knowledge, "Don't be unduly scared of us. We're just a Minor Threat." In fact one of their songs was "We're just a Minor Threat."

I'm sure the bands themselves see the ludicrousness and comedy in their names as well as anyone else.

Minor Threat was a great DC punk band, but my favorite was Bad Brains