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Below is a list of my latest CD's. None of which are recent releases since most of these came from BMG Music Club. I hadn't been a member for a while, and now, I wonder why I ever stopped.

MASSIVE ATTACK - UNLEASHED Soundtrack
All over the place instruMENTAL movie soundtrack with two non-Massive Attack bonus tracks. One is RZA. I wouldn't be upset if RZA & Massive Attack do more film scores. They should get Craig Armstrong's help. He's worked with Massive in the past.
Funniest Song Title: "Right Way To Hold a Spoon"



COSTELLO, ELVIS - IL SONGO
The real Elvis' classical take on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Unfortunately, he's not playing to his strengths with an instrumental guitar-less album. (My favorate interprtation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is still an issue of the comic book "The Sandman.")
Funniest Song Title: "The Fairy and the Ass"

JOHNSON, ROBERT - The COMPLETE RECORDINGS Of...
I'd have sold my soul too to be able to make blues mvsic like this. I've learned from the exstensive liner notes that when Robert was a child, he lived in one house with his mom who was the mistress to another guy (not Robert's father) and the other guy's wife and lots of half- and step-siblings. That's bound to mess anybody up. That's way worse than being a child of a polygamist. Plus, his sixteen year old wife and baby died in child birth. That would give the happiest man the blues.
Funniest Song Title: "Milkcow's Calf Blues"

V/A - SOUNDS FROM THE VERVE HI-FI COMPILED BY THIEVERY CORPORATION
You gotta support local boys supporting 60's Latin, Indian, jazz, folk mvsic.
Funniest Song Title: Cal Tjader with Lalo Schifrin's "The Fakir"
Second Funniest Song Title: Cal Tjader's "Cuchy Frito Man" Mmmmm... Crunchy Fritos.

GIBBONS, BETH & RUSTIN MAN - OUT OF SEASON
Those of us waiting for Portishead's 3rd studio album aren't holding our breath, because we'd have passed out long ago. This, though, will hold me over a little while longer. Beth's haunting vocals are just as good on this as any of the Portishead discs.
Funniest Song Title: "Spider Monkey"



COXON, GRAHAM - HAPPINESS IN MAGAZINES
More blur than the two latest blur albums. Supposedly Graham's just waiting for Damon to invite him back into blur, & Damon's just waiting for Graham to ask. Which side will crack first? Who cares? Damon's Gorillaz are keeping him busy, and Graham's singing has gotten much better on this solo effort. He even kind of sounds like Damon on this.
Funniest Song Title: "Bittersweet Bundle Of Misery"
You can find some recent radio session tracks by Graham here:
http://www.redpenguin.net/blog/index.php
Graham Coxon - I Can't Look At Your Skin (XFM session 27-02-2006)
Graham Coxon - Standing On My Own Again (XFM session 27-02-2006)

MOS DEF - BLACK ON BOTH SIDE
Mos definitely worth while. You know the actor can rap, because even you've seen him a couple of times on the Dave Chappelle Show, but did you know he can sing? He can, and he does a lot on this album, his solo debut.
Funniest Song Title: "Ms. Fat Booty"
Here is a link to Mos Def's "Mathematics" from this album:
http://indoorfireworks.blogspot.com/
Mos Def - Mathematics

Sport:
The MLS team formerly known as the San Jose Clash and San Jose Quakes can now add Houston 1836 to its list of past monikers. The San Jose franchise moved to Houston and had fans vote on one of ten or so names. The winner was Houston 1836. Some European teams add the year to the name (For example: Hannover 96, Schalke 04, and 1860 Munich) and 1836 was supposed to be a referance to that as well as signifying the year in which Houston was founded. 1836 also happens to be the year which Texas defeated Mexico for its independence, and therefore deemed offensive to some of the Hispanics that the team needs to win over as fans. Anyhow, they changed the name to the Houston Dynamo after a team that lasted only three years and previously stole the name from a Russian club.

Record as the Dynamo: 0-0-0 but those numbers are bound to go up
Record as 1836: 0-0-0 and that's how they'll stay
Record as the Quakes: I dunno, but they did win one championship
Record as the Clash: I dunno, but they didn't rock the casbah

They should have left the name alone. They had it right the first time with the Clash.

Falling from grace
Plagarized from the news:
Gary Glitter - Rock n Roll part II (aka "the hockey song" if you ask Heidi)
British rocker Gary Glitter, 61, has been sentenced to serve three years in a Vietnamese prison following a conviction for mole sting two Vietnamese girls, ages 10 and 11. Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, reportedly will be deported to Great Britain after serving his sentence.

Former Minnesota Twin Kirby Puckett died. He was my favorate player growing up. A lot of bad stuff came out about him at the turn of the century, and it sounds like it was all true. Baseball hasn't been putting its best face forward lately with Puckett and Barry Bonds in the news.

Movie nobody saw:
Oh, why did nobody ask me whether or not it was a good idea to make a Calito's Way prequel including Puff Daddy? I could have saved them some money.
-pd