odds and ends

I hate our MySpace page (www.myspace.com/ohnoandthetigerpit).  We've enlisted Frances as our latest person to help clean it up and make it look less like shit.  I did some minor work on it tonight and got rid of the gawd awful background picture and tightened up the spacing, but I still think the whole thing is an eyesore.  I want a cleaner look for it, even though we're a messy band.  

Speaking of bands (what a segue!), I keep listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival and I keep thinking that they're actually really great and don't get nearly enough credit for being a band that played straightforward rock n roll and even pulled off an authentic Americana sound without being from the Midwest or the South.  Quick bit of trivia: Where were they from? Don't check the Internet, you cheater.

Looks like we won't have a Kobe-LeBron NBA Finals after all.  Does anyone want a Magic-Nuggets Finals?  Shit, I'm combining blogs here.

The other thing I'm listening to is the King of rock n roll.  Skinny, young Elvis and the rest of the Sun Records lineup.  Jesus, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis all on the same label at the same time.   Yes, Jesus was on the Sun roster.  Had a great baritone voice and played a mean skiffle shuffle.

On the band front, yes, we actually still do stuff, sometimes stuff that's worth posting about.  Without giving away too much, it looks like we might bring back a couple of old songs for the show on June 6th at Cameo.  Look, I can't stress how good this show should be.  This is a good garage rock lineup and even if you don't like any other band, we play at 8, so that still leaves the rest of the night to do other things.  Yes, I'm giving the hard sell to like the 5 people that read this thing and would probably go to the show anyway.

boo-yah! New Oh No! short film

http://room5films.com/R5FOHNO.html

Watch a beautifully made video courtesy our friends at Room 5 Films (Greg and Ramsey).   They did a fantastic job with this.  

things i currently like and dislike

Things I like:

- Free WiFi in Philly's airport.  This should be a standard thing.  

- The ending harmonic bit of Bob Dylan's "You're a Big Girl Now."

- Johnny Cash's "Give My Love to Rose" and "Send a Picture of Mother."  They're the exact same song, but with different lyrics.  

- SMiLE bootlegs.  Yeah, Brian came out with the real thing a couple years back, but if he had finished this and released it 1967, our opinion of the Beach Boys, pop music and the Beatles would have changed.  As it is, even in its unfinished form, it's brilliant, and Brian turned a pretty good album out of it in 2004 and even Smiley Smile is a good album, but it's hard to listen to those two albums without thinking about what could have been.

- Rural Minnesota in the spring.  10,000 lakes and I think I saw a good 1/8th of that amount driving up and down the state.

- The NBA Playoffs - They're faaaaaaaaaaaantastic.

Things I no like:

- Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport.  Seriously, that two terminal business where you have to take the light rail to get between the two, it's just too much for me to handle in the early morning.  

- Early mornings.  I was up at 4:10 this morning.  Jesus.  Nothing good comes out of a 7:00a flight.

- Calexico.  Kinda boring.  I keep thinking I'll like them because it's supposed to be indie mariachi pop, but it's really just a big downer.  Most of the songs are slow and there's nothing really distinctive about the singer's voice.  I think it might be worse to have a completely non-distinctive voice than a bad one.  At least there's character in a bad voice.  For indie mariachi pop done right, I'll have to settle for Beirut's latest EP, March of the Zapotec.