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Gender: Male
Status: In a Relationship
Age: 25
Sign: Pisces

City: Muscle Shoals
State: Alabama
Country: US
Signup Date: 10/3/2003

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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 

Current mood:  blustery
Category: Sports

1.  What is your best friends name?
Trevor Headley Evans-Young III

2.  What color underwear/boxers wearing now?
Mostly black, but there's sort of a blue/purple diamond pattern going on.

3.  What are you listening to right now?
Magical Mystery Tour by the Beatles

4.  Whats your favorite number?
Infinity.

5.  What was the last thing you ate?
An icecream sandwich.  Followed by another ice cream sandwich.

6.  If you were a crayon what color would you be?
Magenta.  I like the sound of that word.  Magenta.

7.  How is the weather right now?
Oppressively hot.


8.  Who was the last person you talked 2 on the phone?
My grandmother - Christine Gaisser.  She's awesome.

9.  The first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
The same thing I notice about people of the same sex - just the general vibe I get from the person.  Whether they seem benevolent, trustworthy, interesting, intelligent, and generally worth my time.  To me it's the personality that determines whether a girl is sexy or not.  Generally, eye-humping comes later (although not MUCH later).

10.  Do you have a significant other?
Significant other what?  (No)

11. Favorite TV show?
I don't really watch TV.  Uhm... I guess I like Jools Holland.

12.  Siblings?
No.  Aren't you glad there aren't others?

13.  Height?
6'2"

14.  Hair color?
Uhm.  Blond-ISH?

15.  Eye Color?
Green

16.  Do you wear contacts?
Nein.

17.  Favorite Holiday?
Holidays seem kind of forced and arbitrary to me.  I like celebrating, but having to confine it to certain pre-determined days is frustrating.  Life should be a celebration, whereas celebration does not involve greeting card companies or fighting in toy stores.  I like giving and receiving gifts, but Christmas is usually a pretty sorry time of year.

18.  Month?
of Sundays

19.  Have you ever cried for no reason?
Perpetually.

20.  What was the last movie you watched?
Just had a double feature at Jon Carr's.  We watched A Simple Plan and Shotgun Stories.  I came home and tried to watch Jesus Christ Superstar, but that lasted about five minutes.

21.  Favorite Day of the Year?
The one I'm living in right now.

22.  Are you too shy to ask someone out?
As a general rule, yes.  However, I'm trying to learn to be more assertive in these areas.  I'm pretty social awkward though.

23.  Can you do a headstand (not using the wall)?
No.

24.  Hugs or Kisses?
Both.  In excess.

25.  Chocolate or Vanilla?
Waffle cone explosion, or whatever the hell that stuff is called

26.  Do you want your friends to respond to this?
Not necessarily, but I might read it anyway.

27.  Who is most likely to respond?
Statistically, probably Nicole or Kirk.

28.  Who is least likely to respond?
Probably some band from Nebraska whose friend request I accidentally accepted last week.

29.  What books are you reading?
I'm still lollygagging through the Sound & the Fury, but I'm about to start Confederacy of Dunces.

30.  Piercings?
No.  I hate punctures, needles, that type of thing.

31.  Favorite movies?
Eraserhead, the Holy Mountain, Brazil, the Seventh Seal, Interiors, Singing in the Rain, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Vertigo, tons of others.

32.  Favorite football Team?
FUUUUUUUCK SPORTS.

33.  what were u doing before this?
Answering question number 32.

34.  Butter, Plain or Salted popcorn?
Butter, salt, garlic, curry, cumin, red pepper, chili powder, cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg (go EASY on the last three).  In correct proportions, this is good on almost anything.

37.  Dogs or cats?
5 cats and a dog.  Overkill.

38.  Favorite flower?
"Flower Punk"

39.  Been caught doing something you weren't supposed to do?
Define "supposed." 

40.  Do you have a best friend of the opposite sex?
Not for long.

41.  Have you ever loved someone?
In some capacity, although I now understand love in a completely different way and don't think my past "loves" were very healthy relationships.  Hopefully, this knowledge will aid me.

42.  Who would you like to see right now?
I'm enjoying my privacy at the moment.  Although there's probably a couple of people I'd compromise it for.

43.  Are you still friends with people from kindergarten?
Elizabeth Thornton.

44.  Have you ever fired a gun?
Yeah, though usually not very enthusiastically.

45.  Do you like to travel by plane?
Yeah.  I always buy a music magazine in the airport and read it on the plane while drinking a V8.

46.  Right-handed or Left-handed?
Right!

47.  How many pillows do you sleep with?
Two.  I usually spoon one.

48.  Are you missing someone?
I don't think so.  Head count!!!

49.  Do you have a Tattoo?
No.  I think I'd look even dorkier with tattoos.

50.  Anybody on myspace that you'd go on a date with?
I'm sure there's at least a couple, but I'm not going to specify any.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 

Current mood:  curious
Category: Travel and Places

We played a couple of weird shows in Lake Charles that Steph Rambin's dude Dusty set up.  The first one at 710 went pretty well relative to the ones that have succeeded it... however there was a metal band playing in the adjoining room and at times their volume interfered with our   The cook really liked us and hooked us up with some badass food the next night.  I had some snapper, calamari, gumbo, and the best spinach I've ever had in my life.  Then we played this place called Dakota's with Dusty's band and there was almost no response.  However they had one of those downloading jukeboxes and put Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" on it and felt slightly vindicated, although no one really seemed to look up from their beer.  Apparently DOWN is some sort of Pantera spin-off group.  Who knew?

Our first show in Austin we got a terrible response from a bunch of old timers at this blues jam kind of dive.  A couple of people there were really nice, but we got a lukewarm response and a little heckling.  We got free red beans and rice though.  Which was good.  This dude Clayton who set us up out here showed us around all the clubs and pointed us to a couple of places that might be a little better suited to our ... uhm... medium.  We slept in the van in a Wal-Mart parking lot.  The van started acting up so we took it in to a shop (where, of course, the van acted fine).  Last night we set up to play on the roof of an empty booty club while it was snowing.  We got our sound check and THEN they decided it would be okay if we moved inside.  Once we started our set, all 3 customers left.  We're staying with this cool family though - Don n Elaine n Caitlin n Anna.  Don has an Emmy.  Friends of Tyler's.  Cool people.  THEY came to see us play to an empty house.  We're leaving Austin tomorrow and I'm getting a major jones to get some record shopping in before we leave.  Pizza's almost done.  See ya.

CG

Currently listening:
In a Silent Way
By Miles Davis
Release date: 20 August, 2002
Friday, January 18, 2008 

Current mood:  crunk
Category: Travel and Places

We've been on tour for a week.  I was sick when we left but even still, the first few days were pretty mellow.  We played at Roosters in Auburn with Rise Up, but I started feeling bad and went to sleep so I missed the Roof Rabbits and Firewood.  Whatever.  Then we just crashed at Nadine's place for a couple of days.  It was a nice relaxing little vacation from Florence.  I mainly sat around playing guitar and writing lyrics.

From there it was off to Mobile.  We played this little bar called the Blind Mule.  They had all kinds of cool art on the wall.  Tyler bought this painting of this hot trailer park chick with a camo hat, tube top, combat boots, and daisy dukes (she had a BEER GUT!).  Some chick had made some sort of sculpture or relief or something of this giant vagina.  It was huge.  Like the size of my entire torso.  We played sloppy.  So what.  We saw Crystal at the show and crashed with Tia and her dude Keith.  They were really awesome hosts.  Tia cooked this breakfast casserole that was a delightful alternative to the tuna and off brand nutri-grain bars we eat in the van.  I acquired a classical guitar.  YAY! 

We went back to the bar the next day to thank the owners, and we ran into this total oddball named Bart T. Dumont.  He and his lady-friend sipped wine and engaged us in lengthy dialogue about everything from art and the Coast Guard.  Bart's a total literary character.  Far easier to imagine as a figment of F. Scott Fitzgerald's imagination than an actual living entity.  He took us to some bar to see the "real Mobile."  It was... uhm... entertaining for a moment.  Then I got depressed for a moment and we used that as a good excuse to leave.  We got lost on the way back to Tia's which resulted in much hilarity.

I'm in New Orleans right now.  Last night we played at this club called the Tarantula Arms.  We played a short set to about 10 people.  Most of them were in the other band.  They were pretty fun - old school punk covers with spastic female vocalist.  Tyler acquired a bike somehow.  We're still trying to figure out how we're going to attach it to the van.  In a couple of hours we're gonna head over to Lake Charles.  We're gonna stay with Stephanie Rambin and her dude Dusty, who set us up with a couple of shows.  I haven't seen Stephanie in a while.  Looking forward to rocking Chuckwater's face off.  Unh.  Catch up with you kids later.

Love nuggets,

Cody C. Gaisser

Currently listening:
Abattoir Blues / Lyre of Orpheus
By Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Release date: 26 October, 2004
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 

Current mood:  quixotic

Chuck me a flaming life preserver of perspective.  Tell me something I haven't heard a thousand times a day through my blue tooth brain implant.  Drop a load of steaming cosmic epiphany on my neurotic pseudo-existentialist/romantic/nihilist/humanist/agnostic/visigoth postherior.  Talk about the meaning of life, art, the human mind, sanity, the universe, reality, politics, sociology, whatever you've got.  Talk to me about SOMETHING real.  Something more real than reality.  If you want a phone number to call, send me a message.  I may or may not give it to you.

Currently listening:
Starsailor
By Tim Buckley
Release date: 05 November, 1991
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 
The Longships are looking to expand our sonic palette beyond the guitar/bass/drums power-trio format.  If you play an instrument - ANY INSTRUMENT - and are serious and committed about creating sonic art that is unrestricted by contrived genre boundaries and false tonal dogma, please send a message to me, the Longships, or give me a call at 256-394-3683.  If no one answers your call, leave a message.

Thank you.
Cody C. Gaisser
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 

This isn't so much a journal as a newsletter from Codyland.  Most people who actually hang out with me know this stuff already, but some of you don't.  So let's see...  Since the last time I left a blog......

1)  my wife left me and moved to Missouri (and she took my cats)

2)  i nearly had a nervous breakdown over it, and quit my job (but i'm okay now, this has been a couple of months ago)

3)  work  has been completed on the new upcoming Redmouth album (www.myspace.com/redmouthband), produced by yours truly

4)  i have re-developed my old sleeping disorder (but i'm working on it)

5)  i have begun production on the new Howlin' Chris record

6)  i have acquired (from Howlin' Chris) a four-track recorder and have been recording home demos of my myriad of depressing songs about my wife leaving me

7)  but i'm okay now

Currently listening:
Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer
By Of Montreal
Release date: 23 January, 2007
Friday, July 07, 2006 

The Beatles - Revolver
The Band - The Band
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

XTC - Drums & Wires
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Armed Forces
The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
Son Volt - Trace

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

Neil Young - On the Beach

The Cocteau Twins - Treasure

The Byrds - The Notorious Byrds Brothers

The Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace of Sin

Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

Blur - Parklife

Elliott Smith - XO

Neil Young - Tonight's the Night

T. Rex - the Slider

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

Eno - Another Green World

Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

Elliott Smith - Either/Or

Supergrass - I Should Coco

John Cale - Paris 1919

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs

Talking Heads - Remain in Light

The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love

The Who - Tommy

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy

REM - Murmur

The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady

The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

XTC - English Settlement

David Bowie - The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars

Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne

Nirvana - In Utero

Captain Beef heart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica

Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted

Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star

The Who - Who's Next

The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

The Smiths - The Smiths

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?

The Replacements - Let it Be

Elvis Costello & the Attractions - This Years Model

XTC - The Black Sea

The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray

Jack Bruce - Songs For A Tailor

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes

Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (III)

Wilco - Summerteeth

Love - Forever Changes

Roy Wood - Boulders

The Arcade Fire - Funeral

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains

Supergrass - In It For the Money

Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town

The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister

Whiskeytown - Faithless Street

Paul McCartney - Ram

The Small Faces - Ogdens Nut Gone Flake

Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of Bewilderbeast

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

David Bowie - Low

The Jayhawks - Sound of Lies

Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Get Happy!

Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak

Urge Overkill - Exit the Dragon

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

REM - Reckoning

Fugazi - the Argument

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Cheap Trick - Budokan: the Complete Concert

Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado

Fleetwood Mac - Rumors

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Nico - the Marble Index

Uncle Tupelo - March 16-20, 1993

Big Star - Radio City

Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

Beck - Mutations

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Scott Walker - Tilt

The Happy Mondays - Pills N Thrills And Bellyaches

Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets

The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street

The Kinks - Something Else by the Kinks

Wilco - Being There

The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man

The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

Oasis - What's the Story (Morning Glory)?

The Strokes - Is This It?

Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen

Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville

The Flaming Lips - the Soft Bulletin

The Posies - Frosting on the Beater

Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith

Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music: Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop

Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight

T. Rex - Electric Warrior

Urge Overkill - Saturation

Elliott Smith - Figure 8

The Move - Shazam

Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow

Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac

The White Stripes - Elephant

Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque

Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick (1977)

The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic

Television - Marquee Moon

Beck - Sea Change

Frank Zappa - We're Only In It For the Money

The Beatles - Help!

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent, and the E-Street Shuffle

The Cure - Disintegration

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

David Bowie - Station to Station

Bob Dylan - Self-Portrait

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic

The Kinks - are the Village Green Preservation Society

Beck - Odelay

The Rolling Stones - Aftermath

Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home

Led Zeppelin - III

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

Dwight Twilley Band - Sincerely

Radiohead - OK Computer

Cornelius - Fantasma

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

Led Zeppelin - IV (ZOSO)

The Jay hawks - Hollywood Town Hall

The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico

Counting Crows - This Desert Life

Gram Parsons - GP

Tom Petty - Wildflowers

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

The Wallflowers - Breach

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'

Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever

Radiohead - the Bends

Manic Street Preachers - Stay Beautiful EP

Whiskeytown - Pneumonia

Roger McGuinn - Cardiff Rose

Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection

The Verve - Urban Hymns

Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

The Cars - the Cars

Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Asbury Park, New Jersey

Hum - Downward is Heavenward

Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go

Slade - Slayed?

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

Todd Rundgren - Todd

The Who - Quadrophenia

Supergrass - Road to Rouen

Morrissey - Bona Drag

Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding

Neil Young - Harvest

Dave Edmunds - Get It

Public Image Limited - Second Edition (Metal Box)

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

The Stooges - Raw Power

Laura Nyro - Eli & the Thirteenth Confession

Kate Bush - the Hounds of Love

Mott the Hoople - Mott

Jeff Buckley - Grace

Big Star - #1 Record

Husker Du - Zen Arcade
The Replacements - Tim

Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun

Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air

Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs and Stories

Leonard Cohen - Songs from a Room

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking

Philip Glass - Glassworks

Nick Drake - Bryter Layter

Chris Bell - I Am the Cosmos

Tori Amos - Boys For Pele

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

Gentle Giant - Free Hand

Wizzard - Wizzard Brew

Sonic Youth - Dirty

John Cale - Vintage Violence

Golden Smog - Weird Tales

Vic Chesnutt - About to Choke

The Faces - A Nod is as Good as a Wink... to a Blind Horse

Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible

Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die

Cream - Disraeli Gears

Elton John - Madman Across the Water

REM - Automatic For the People

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Let's Active - Cypress

The Libertines - Up the Bracket

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon

Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese

John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band

Yes - Fragile

Elliott Smith - From a Basement on a Hill

Urge Overkill - Stull EP

Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac

Neu! - Neu!

Kings X - Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous

The Turtles - The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands

Devo - Freedom of Choice

Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen

The Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse

The Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South

The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight

Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles

Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites

Beck - Midnite Vultures

Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps

Fugazi - In On the Kill Taker

The Scruffs - Wanna Meet the Scruffs?

Royal Trux - Accelerator

Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum

The Zombies - The Zombies

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

REM - Monster

Sleater-Kinney - One Beat

Todd Rundgren - Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren

Deep Purple - Made in Japan

Sleater-Kinney - Hot Rock

At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command

XTC - Mummer

MC5 - Kick Out the Jams

The Beatles - Beatles For Sale

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu

Jeff Buckley - Songs for My Sweetheart the Drunk

Son Volt - Wide Swing Tremolo

The Dukes of the Stratosphear - Chips From the Chocolate Fireball

The Stooges - Fun House

XTC - Skylarking

Uncle Tupelo - No Depression

The Happy Mondays - Pills N Thrills N Bellyaches

Phil Ochs - Pleasures of the Harbor

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

The Stone Roses - Turns Into Stone

The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro

The Byrds - Ballad of Easy Rider

The Pixies - Surfer Rosa

Paul Westerberg - Eventually

Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads

Lee Hazelwood - Cowboy in Sweden

Jay Farrar - Sebastopol

Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation

Bjork - Medulla

Elton John - Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Talking Heads - Fear of Music

The Flaming Lips - Zaireeka

Thin Lizzy - Black Rose

The Faces - Ooh La La

Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle

Yes - The Yes Album

The Tokens - Intercourse

The Byrds - Untitled

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy and the Poorboys

Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles

Kings X - Tape Head

Talking Heads - 77

The Smiths - Strangeways, Here we Come

The Allman Brothers - Eat A Peach

T. Rex - Futuristic Dragon

Iggy Pop - Lust for Life

The Band - Music From Big Pink

Roy Wood - Mustard

AC/DC - High Voltage

Uncle Tupelo - Still Feel Gone

The Shoes - Black Vinyl Shoes

Radiohead - Kid A

Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free

Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry

Jeff Beck Group - Truth

PM Dawn - Of the Heart, Of the Soul, and Of the Cross: The Utopian Experience

The Soft Machine - Volume 1

The Pixies - Doolittle

Cornelius - Point

Lush - Split

10cc - The Original Soundtrack

Rush - Moving Pictures

The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic

Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Phish - The Story of the Ghost

Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing

The Beatles - Let It Be

Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk

Husker Du - New Day Rising

The Nazz - Nazz Nazz

Elvis Costello & the Attractions - My Aim is True

Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (I)

Let's Active - Afoot

Neil Young - Neil Young

REM - Fables of the Reconstruction

The Byrds - Fifth Dimension

Quasi - ...featuring "Birds"

Led Zeppelin - II

The Monkees - Headquarters

Kings X - Dogman

Gomez - Liquid Skin

Paul Westerberg - 14 Songs

Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Kings X - Ear Candy

David Bowie - Diamond Dogs

The Strokes - Room on Fire

Tool - Aenima

The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

T. Rex - Dandy in the Underworld

Fairport Convention - Fairport Convention

Agent Orange - Living In Darkness

Adrian Belew - Inner Revolution

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands

The Beatles - With the Beatles

The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!

David Bowie - Scary Monsters

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Honey's Dead

Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues

Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine

REM - Green

The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta

Gomez - Bring It On

The Police - Ghost in the Machine

Steely Dan - Katy Lied

The Police - Outlandos D'Amour

The James Gang - Rides Again

Crosby, Stills, & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash

The Lemonheads - Car Button Cloth

Paul McCartney - Band of the Run

Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy

XTC - The Big Express

The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow

Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left

The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Imperial Bedroom

The Verve Pipe - Villains

Counting Crows - August and Everything After

The Velvet Underground - Loaded

Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Trust

The Waterboys - A Pagan Place

Residents - Third Reich N Roll

Supergrass - Supergrass

U2 - War

The Lemonheads - Come on Feel the Lemonheads

David Bowie - Man of Words/Man of Music/Space Oddity

Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes

Alex Chilton - Like Flies on Sherbert

Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright

Travis - the Man Who

Tricky - Maxinquaye

Aretha Franklin - Live at the Fillmore West

U2 - The Joshua Tree

The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth

Modern English - After the Snow

Midnight Oil - Diesel & Dust

Derek & the Dominoes - Layla and other assorted love songs

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

Quasi - The Sword of God

The Wallflowers - The Wallflowers

Brendan Benson - the Alternative to Love
Hum - You'd Prefer An Astronaut

Son Volt - Straightaways

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Southern Accents

Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend

Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll

The White Stripes - The White Stripes

The Folk Implosion - Take A Look Inside...

Montrose - Montrose

Marion - This World and Body

Meat Puppets - Too Hig h to Die

Elton John - Honky Chateau

The Police - Synchronicity

The Church - Magician Among the Spirits

PM Dawn - The Bliss Album (Vibrations of Love and Anger and the Ponderance of Life and Existence)
Cheap Trick - In Color... and in Black and White

Chris Mars - Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

The Small Faces - There Are But Four Small Faces

Morrissey - Your Arsenal

AC/DC - Back in Black

Stone Temple Pilots - Purple

Artful Dodger - Honor Among Thieves

Collective Soul - Collective Soul

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

James Iha - Let It Come Down

The Sweet - Desolation Boulevard

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

MC5 - Back in the USA

Superdrag - Superdrag Plays Regretfully Yours

Wire - Pink Flag

Roxy Music - Avalon

T. Rex - Tanx

Pavement - Terror Twilight

Wilco - AM

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick

Cream - Fresh Cream

The Riffs - Underground Kicks

Television - Adventure

The Posies - Dear 23

Kate Bush - the Sensual World

The Police - Regatta de Blanc

Ultravox - Vienna

Lou Reed & John Cale - Songs for Drella

Brinsley Schwarz - Despite It All

The Briefs - Off the Charts

Manic Street Preachers - Gold Against the Soul

Kings X - King's X

The Replacements - Hootenanny

Lou Reed - Transformer

Goo Goo Dolls - A Boy Named Goo

Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan

The Posies - Amazing Disgrace

Blur - Blur

The Stone Roses - Second Coming

Ryan Adams - Demolition

Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine

PM Dawn - Jesus Wept

Michelle Shocked - Kind Hearted Woman
Klaatu - Klaatu

Elastica - Elastica

Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!

Santana - Abraxas

***out of order****

Iron Maiden - Soundhouse Tapes

Shriekback - Jam Science

Townes Van Zant - Live at the Old Quarter

Nikki Sudden

Scott Walker - Scott 2

Scott Walker - Scott 4

Scott Walker - Climate of the Hunter

The Cardigans - First Band on the Moon

Ron Wood - I've Got My Own Record to Make

Murray Attaway - In Thrall

The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker

Donovan - Sunshine Superman

The Posies - Failure

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

Elliott Smith - Roman Candle

B.R.M.C. - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Heatmiser - Heatmiser

Morrissey - Viva Hate

The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory

Pete Townshend - Empty Glass

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

Black Sabbath - Vol. 4

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy

David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World

Todd Rundgren - The Hermit of Mink Hollow

Neil Young - Trans

REM - Life's Rich Pageant

REM - Document

The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed

The Moody Blues - A Question of Balance

PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love

Vic Chesnutt - Is the Actor Happy

Kula Shaker - Peasants, Pigs, and Astronauts

Spacehog - Resident Alien

The London Suede - Dog Man Star

The Boo Radleys - C'Mon Kids

Wondermints - Bali

Beth Orton - Central Reservation

Sponge - Wax Ecstatic

Mott the Hoople - The Hoople
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Prince - Sign O the Times

Prince - Around the World in a Day

Prince - 1999

Prince - Purple Rain
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate

John Lennon - Imagine
The Band - Stage Fright
Ravi Shankar - Three Ragas
Adrian Belew - the Lone Rhino
Adrian Belew - Twang Bar King

The Soft Machine - Volume 2
The Verve - A Northern Soul

Royal Trux - Thank You

Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden

The Nazz - Nazz

The Nazz - Nazz III

The Who - The Who Sell Out

Golden Smog - Down By the Old Mainstream

My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning

Jucifer - Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip

The Longpigs - The Sun is Often Out

The Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails

The Breeders - Last Splash

The Foo Fighters

The Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Television - Adventure

U2 - Achtung Baby

Ian Hunter - Ian Hunter

Humble Pie - Rock On

Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie

Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set Trash & No Star

Epic Soundtracks - Change My Life

Epic Soundtracks - Everything is Temporary

Imperial Drag - Imperial Drag

Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah

Tom Waits - Small Change

Pulp - This is Hardcore

Matthew Sweet - Altered Beast

The Smithereens - 11

Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists

The Magnetic Fields - The Charm of the Highway Strip

Neil Young - Zuma

Bruce Springsteen - The River

Aerosmith - Rocks

The Wooden tops - Giant

Argent - All Together Now

The Pretty Things - Parachute

The Pretenders - The Pretenders
The Pretenders - II

Tommy James & the Shondells - Cellophane Symphony

The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl

Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny & Mutation

David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name

Dr. John, the Night Tripper - Sun, Moon, & Herbs

Deep Purple - Machine Head

The Raspberries - the Raspberries

Pelican - Australasia

Pussy Galore - Dial M for Motherfucker

Swell Maps - Jane From Occupied Europe

Mountain Goats - the Sunset Tree

Antony & the Johnsons

Residents - Meet the Residents

Residents - the Warner Brothers album

Residents - Duck Stab

 

 

 

 

Ian Hunter - You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic

The Cure - Seventeen Seconds

The Cure - Faith

The Cure - The Head on the Door

The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

The Cure - Wish

Semisonic - The Great Divide

Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles

Supergrass - Life On Other Planets

Little Feat - Little Feat

Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes

Little Feat - Dixie Chicken

Little Feat - Feats Don't Fail Me Now

Alice Cooper - Easy Action

Alice Cooper - Love It To Death

Alice Cooper - Killer

Alice Cooper - School's Out

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
Genesis - Trespass

Genesis - Nursery Cryme

Genesis - Foxtrot

Genesis - Selling England by the Pound

Aerosmith -Aerosmith
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
The Allman Brothers - The Allman Brothers

Blue Oyster Cult - Blue Oyster Cult
Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
The Cars - Candy O
The Cars - Shake it Up
David Crosby & Graham Nash - Wind of the Water

Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are

Deep Purple - Fireball

Eddie & the Hot Rods - Teenage Depression
Electric Light Orchestra - Electric Light Orchestra/No Answer
Electric Light Orchestra - II

Electric Light Orchestra - Face the Music
Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record

Electric Light Orchestra - On the Third Day
Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On
Free - Free at Last
Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters

Janis Joplin - Pearl
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping

Mahogany Rush - IV

Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - Live
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Uprising
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Rastaman Vibration

Nektar - A Tab in the Ocean
Mountain - Climbing!
Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride

New Riders of the Purple Sage - New Riders of the Purple Sage

Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl

Queen - A Day at the Races

Queen - A Night at the Opera

Queen - II

Sly & the Family Stone - Greatest Hits
The Smithereens - Especially for You

Dave Edmunds - Get It
Graham Parker - Howling Wind
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Pete Townshend - Empty Glass

Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane - Empty Glass

Uriah Heep - the Magician's Nephew
ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud

Rush - 2112

The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You

The Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue

The Rolling Stones - Black and Blue

Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind

Stevie Wonder - Talking Book

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

Stevie Wonder - Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants

Yes - Close to the Edge

Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
Pink Floyd - Meddle

Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds

Pink Floyd - Animals

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

Pink Floyd - Ummagumma

Genesis - Trick of the Tail
Genesis - Wind and Wuthering

Black Sabbath - Sabotage

Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell

Jethro Tull - Stand Up

Jethro Tull - Benefit

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

Jethro Tull - A Passion Play

Jethro Tull - With Kitchen Prose, Gutter Rhymes, and Divers Songs from the Wood

Kings X - Out of the Silent Planet

Kings X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska

Kings X - Faith, Hope, Love

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos - Under the Pink

Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel

Todd Rundgren - Initiation
Todd Rundgren - Faithful

The Who - A Quick One (Happy Jack)

The Byrds - Byrdsmaniax

Neil Young - American Stars N Bars

Neil Young - Comes A Time

Neil Young - Re-Ac-Tor

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
Elton John - Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player

Joe Walsh - Barnstorm

Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get

Joe Walsh - So What

Joe Walsh - ...But Seriously Folks

War - The World is a Ghetto

Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way?

Remy Zero - Remy Zero

The Cranberries - No Need to Argue

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - A Hard Road

Faith No More - The Real Thing

The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

The Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot

Garbage - Version 2.0

Sebadoh - Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock

Mike Ness - Under the Influences

Hub - Hub

Curve - Cuckoo

Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - The Final Studio Recordings

Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining

Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash

Soundgarden - Louder Than Love

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Soundgarden - Down on the Upside

Marianne Faithfull - Kissin Time

The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

Bare, Jr. - Boo-Tay

Phish - Junta

Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming

Dave Matthews Band - Live at Red Rocks

Dave Matthews Band - Before these Crowded Streets

The Church - Sometime Anywhere

Ty Tabor - Moonflower Lane

Pete Droge - Necktie Second

Bjork - Debut

Bjork - Post

Cracker - Kerosene Hat

Hootie & the Blowfish - Fairweather Johnson

 

 

 

 

Sunday, April 30, 2006 

So open mic has been going relatively well.  Not to say it's gone without a hitch.  Hitches there have been.  But the overall effect has been positive.  We still need to keep new people coming in.  We don't this to be a typical boring open mic where the same exact acts play every week without variation.  Although we'd love to have some good quality regular acts...  Sean and Redmouth, this means you.  For those who don't know I'm going to whore it for a second...  It goes on at Old Town Tavern on Montgomery in downtown Sheffield (where Scooter's used to be).  It starts at 9 pm every Tuesday night.

Other than that I've been keeping plenty busy.  I had a show last weekend in Huntsville at Judge Crater's Tavern with Thomas Function.  It went pretty smoothly.  Thomas Function were incredible.  Those kids are brilliant!

Of course I've been spending a lot of time at work, and aside from that I've got this obnoxious insurance issue I've been trying to work out where the emergency room gave me a drug test neither I nor my company requested, so my company's insurance won't pay it.  And I don't think I should have to pay the $270 dollars I've been billed for it since I could have told them I wasn't on any drugs or medication (actually I did tell them and they tested me anyway). 

Last night I laid down some tracks for the new Redmouth album.  It's gonna be nice.  "Meathook Baby" will be a triple uranium smash hit.  The rhythm guitar is total buzzsaw fuzztone wonderland (thank you Big Muff), and the lead guitar is a big flatulent Telecaster tuned down to drop-A (making it pretty much as low as the bass, but grittier).   

Tyler and I have spent a lot of time talking about our society and the duality of the traps we set for ourselves.  We live in homogenized suburban neighborhoods which present us with a facade of uniformity and equality.  Yet inside our homes, we are isolated from the outside world and develop bizarre multi-facited personal lives that we hide from the rest of the world.  We try our best to keep up with the Joneses, yet all the while muttering under our breath about how the world is going to hell in a hand basket.  Even though all of us (conservative, liberal, white, black, hispanic, native american, christian, muslim, jewish, shinto, hindu, bahai, male, female, gay, straight, etc, etc, etc) see injustices and wrongdoing all around us, we never confront what's going on outside our front porch.  And if ever we're forced into a confrontation or to stand up for what we believe, we degenerate into ignorant closed-minded sniping and name-calling.  We're comfortable and we're lazy and we don't want to do anything to change the world around us.  Which I see as a great problem.

You see things are MEANT to be shaken up.  Humans are blessed with extremely complex brains and a vast range of emotions.  We were not given these gifts so that we could tuck them away under the bed and forget about them.  Start thinking!  Start feeling!  Start making other people think and feel whether they want to or not!  Enrage them!  Provoke them!  Completely baffle them!  It doesn't matter, just prove to the world and to yourself that you don't have to be just like everyone wants you!  We are given voices and minds and hearts and souls so that we can express, create, destroy, imagine, invent, perform, love, touch, talk, scream, and FEEL!  For goodness sakes people!  Open up and look at the world!  Feel the great joys and sorrows that are around you!  Question your own beliefs and the beliefs of those who disagree with you!  Consider why you are right.  Consider why you are wrong.  Find time to share your emotions and innermost thoughts with your fellow man.  Find time to love someone and change your world for the better before your life is done. 

Defy the rules of logic.  Create art with no boundaries.

By the way, I love my wife Christine.  She's so hot.  Bla bla bla bla bla.

Currently listening:
Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren
By Todd Rundgren
Release date: 23 February, 1999
Wednesday, April 12, 2006 

Open mic went well.  Sean "Redass" Gebhardt did an Eric "Redmouth" Gebhardt tribute set, which included a hilarious lengthy diatribe about sexuality (of the homo- variety).  Eric also did a solo blues set as well as a sort of acoustic Throwaways set with Jonathan Mitchell.  The audience was treated to the impromptu power-metal stylings of Metal Gebhardt Explosion (featuring Sean Smack, Metal Justin, and Bryan Davis).  Tyler Young gave us a nice dollop of surrealism with his dadaist folk songs (also featuring a moving recitation by the inimitable Byron Wilkes and some sound effects manipulation by yours truly).  Zach Stanfield and Caleb Darnell each did standup routines...  Zach's bit involved Caleb wearing a twinkie suit and crying.....  I have no idea.  Josh Cooper did some good solo stuff.  That kid's a great singer...  And of course, I did 2 short sets... including a couple of old Longships songs and a few songs making their live debut.  All in all, everything was amazing... or at least hilarious.  Nothing boring.  Which is all that matters as far as I'm concerned.

So there you go.  It was amazing.  We're gonna keep doing it every week.  Tuesday night at 9 pm.  Old Town Tavern on Montgomery in Downtown Sheffield.  Be there.  Participate.  Stop talking about your local scene and put a little something into it.  Sure it's open mic, and you don't get paid.  But if you care about that more than the opportunity to perform in a fun, diverse, and entertaining environment with gobs of talented people , you don't need to be creating art anyway.  Unless it's that weird corporate art... like those kangaroos on all the bag cereal.

Peace, love, and crawfish,

Cody C. Gaisser

 

P.S. - COOL BLUE & LIL OATIE 4 LYFE!

Currently listening:
Laughing Stock
By Talk Talk
Release date: 19 November, 1991
Monday, April 10, 2006 
I will be hosting open mics at Old Town Tavern, downtown Sheffield, on Tuesday nights from here on out.  You must come, and you must contribute!  This area needs your assistance!