Swinging Singles Club MN

It's a rainy Sunday at the beginning of the month and I didn't sleep nearly enough, but I've got a shit ton of stuff that needs to happen sooner than later. Like packing up the house and clearing away as much of the detritus we've accumulated by living in the same place for the last seventeen years. I actually look forward to divesting us from so much stupid shit. It's the process of weeding out that seems daunting and overwhelming. It's that standing in the middle of the room and looking around at all of the stuff and not knowing where to start feeling. I think tonight is a clean out some drawers of junk and ruthlessly tossing a bunch of shit out that I haven't touched in the last five to ten years. If I haven't had a use for it in that time then it needs to fucking go. I also need to get the massive piles of recent purchase compact discs filed appropriately so that when it comes time to pack them up I won't have a massive jumble of discs and not be...

 So yeah,  April was a shitty month. Work has been extra stressful. We're always running short and business is picking up steadily so we're all covering what might be a big assignment for two or three people. People are quitting and everybody is too burnt to pick up extra shifts no matter how many bonuses they throw at them. I'm a .9 so picking up is too much on top of my regular hours and much shittier when I know I'd be walking into a shitshow. And then on top of all of that shit I had two different good, long standing and significant friends die within four days of one another. So yeah, April was a shitty month. And I could use some nice karmic balance to happen. Here's some OOP Low I Could Live in Hope (1994) Low . Easily Duluth, Minnesota's most beloved export to the world. The band that plays slowly and deliberately. I've only seen them once. It was at an outdoor event with then Senator Al Franken in a park less than a mile from where we were living. I...

 I'm going to do a little work after I hit post on this one Other's Parts (2007) Electric violin, Electric cello, a drummer and lovely female vocals.   Different? Yes. A little pretentious? Maybe a bit But it works. Certainly much more than the truly awful cover art would suggest.  Good lord, what were they thinking...? They're going to be a slightly harder sell as an unconventional band, but one can't help but wonder if better art direction could have helped sell the disc and gotten them on a nice artsy label and another album or two. But that's all speculation and hindsight. Decisions were made and so was history. The cellist used to play in the string quartet that had a regular Sunday Brunch gig at the rather infamous Cafe I worked at for couple of years back in the 90s. Nice dude. Something from this oddly enough played while I was making a pizza tonight (Caramelized onions & artichoke hearts with a simple homemade pizza sauce. Fucking delicious.) Own had ju...

  Here's a compilation because I can't make a decision about who I want to share with the dozens of you who venture into this way too specific little place among the infinite worlds of porn that is the internet.    ' Sota Pop (1996) A pretty decent overview of the state of state in the year of our Cthulu 1996 and one really terrible pun. I'd type out the various people involved but most people wouldn't have a clue who or what they are. Here's a link to the Discogs page instead. It's all pop in it's many and various flavors. Not everything is a gem, but there's plenty to like and some names that will appear here later as soon as I get around to them. But not a single name that I can imagine made any sort of splash outside the Twin Cities pond. Come for the obscurity, stay for the mystery.

  I've got a lot of stuff to clear out of the freezer in the next month. Somehow I'll manage to choke down a gallon of ice cream and other assorted freezer burnt bits and bobs of crap. (like the frozen takoyaki that I don't totally regret getting, but can't say as I recommend either) But as it is I should button up a couple more posts and start some cleaning and sorting in preparation of the upcoming big move. If I can throw an hour or two at it a few times a week or so it should be much more manageable. Chisel (2003) This is actually and weirdly enough a follow up to the previous post concerning 13 Hertz. Hi Fi seems to be where the drummer Kent Mortimer hung his shingle after 13 Hertz and along with a Dan Page and Andrew Honigman made the fifth band on Discogs to call themselves Hi Fi It's a weird amalgam of AOR/MOR, pop rock with odd touches and a bit of contemporary bar blues band and strings thrown in for good measure. Recorded by Ev Olcott of 12 Rods renown. O...

  After living in the same apartment for seventeen years we're going to have to move out because the landlord is retiring and selling the building. We have to move because the building becomes much more sellable if he can come in and spruce up our place which was already in need of a makeover when we moved in. And it needs one a lot more now. (But that's been working to both our advantage over this span since it helped keep our rent and his property taxes down) I'm not mad, but it is going to be a very grand pain in the ass. So the only logical thing for me to do is to queue up a shitload of posts so I can a) get ahead of myself so there's stuff in the pipeline while I'm otherwise occupied and b) to distract myself from the overwhelming task of packing up an entire seventeen year married household and getting it carted to another place. One aspect of going through my mother's estate has been the realization that if I were to suddenly croak I've got a ton of ...

  Same as the first.   Another night of ripping MN discs and queuing post about other ones. I need to get some other hobbies. Voicing the Circuit (2005) The bio posted about the subject of the previous couple of posts mentioned Model Down as one of His Mischief's band members previous bands. This one sounds just as sweaty and with that old school sonic tang of stale beer and weed that you've come to know and love. Another fine release on the Modern Radio Record Label . If you liked these past few posts go and show them some love and buy something so they can continue to be and be awesome.