A post from the sky

What appears below was typed while on the plane for my business trip. I didn’t get a chance to post it until now, and I don’t feel like messing around finding out how to post-date it, so I’m just posting it. Here you go:

Well, I get some free time to type up a little post, as I am now cruising several thousand feet above the Earth. I’m writing this on my short flight to Providence. I need to go up for a store opening. The owner of the store specifically asked for me, so I guess I’m a celebrity in the card-based laundry market. Hoozah.

While I was sitting on the airplane, which was in turn sitting on the runway – we boarded early, but Philadelphia International still managed a way to fuck it up – I thought about one of my favorite cartoons as a kid. It’s a cartoon in which the father is a B-17, or some other large aircraft. If I remember the cartoon correctly, the mother aircraft gives birth to a baby with jets. The father is at first ashamed of the kid, but then when he gets shot down the baby-jet comes to his rescue. In the end the father may end up with jets as well. The whole thing is kind of spotty. I can’t remember if the cartoon is a Warner Bros. cartoon (Looney Tunes). I believe it was by the same company that made Tom & Jerry (MGM?). Wow, do I ever need the internet now. I feel stripped of my superpowers. The evil Lord of pop culture stands before me, and though I raise my hands in defiance, my usual bolts of useless knowledge will not come to strike him down.
I promise that if I can find any more information on this, I’ll throw up a picture or a link or something. If anyone remembers it, leave a message after the beep (comments section).

Today I had to blow a wad in the CD section of my local house of worship (Best Buy). I couldn’t help it, there were just too many goodies to pass up. Thankfully, I had two reward zone certificates to lend a deer-discount to my overall purchase.
First up: Red Hot Chili Peppers. Ok, Their last two were CDs that everyone should own – especially Californication – and so there was no way I was gonna pass this 2-CD up. Especially after I saw all the reviews pointing out the fact that it kicks complete and utter ass, especially nailing the usual dreary double-disc feat. As of this writing, I’ve made it through the first half of the first CD, and I likes it. A lot. They basically took all the versions of themselves: the funk-soul brother punk rockers, the harmonizing inheritants of the ghosts of the Beach Boys, the introspective balladers that created such top 40 hits as “Scar Tissue” – and filled the disc with songs from each persona. The first single: “Dani California” was excellent, and if any of you haven’t heard it yet, you will. It will be over played – though in this case deservedly so. I’ll fill you in on the album once I’ve digested it in its entirely.
Or I’ll say: go get it, it rocks.
Speaking of songs that you may not have heard, but will… I also got the release from Gnarls Barkley. Gnarls is the name of a group formed by Cee-Lo and DangerMouse. The first single is a song called “Crazy” and some one, some where should be playing this non-stop. It is the official song of this summer. So I have spoken and so it is so. I only glossed over the album, but another absolute winner is “Smiley Faces”. It’s like they knew that I have a love for the 60s sound and some ass-kicker beats. They made this song for me. It completes me.
I also bought the latest (and sadly last) album from Grandaddy. I’ve heard good things about it, but at first listen I;m not so sure. I do know that Grandaddy was always a band that got better with repeated listening, so I’m not passing any judgement just yet. Lastly, I got the new Snow Patrol album. I haven’t played a single note of it yet. I did hear one of the song on Sirius, while I was borrowing a company car, and I was very disappointed. However, I loved the hell out of their last album, so I just couldn’t pass this one up. It was on sale, anyway.
I did not buy the newest one from Neil Young, though it sounds pretty good (You can actually stream the entire album. Go to www.tower.com, look up the album “Living With War” and there’s a link to play the thing.) Basically, it wasn’t on sale, and it wasn’t even cheap. I figured I had enough music to keep me busy for a while. Well, until next week when the Raconteurs come out. If you don’t know them: Jack White and Brendan Benson together. It’s gonna be stellar.
I’d love to put some touchy-feely crap here, but I needed to fill you all in on my latest consumerism. It’s sunny outside the plane window, anyway. You can’t really talk about your feelings in the sunshine, that’s for night time. Or rainy days.
I will tell you one thing, this laptop kicks ass. Over 4 hours left until drained. Well, gotta stow the electronics. Chat to you guys later.