Spring and Summer MegaPlaylist

Much to The Peach's chagrin, yesterday was the autumnal equinox, the first day of fall for those not up on their astronomy. The days of summer bar-be-ques, shorts, and suntan lotion will soon be just a memory, or for some people, the only thing keeping them going through the wintry nights. But for me, memories keep better when they have a soundtrack. So I decided to make a list some of the best songs I heard from the albums I got this past spring/summer. I didn't include every album I got, because some were standup comedy and might have broken the flow (like Patton Oswalt, whom I love), some of them had multiple album entries on the list (like They Might Be Giants), and some of them weren't very good albums (like, god help me, Bjork). I would have made it in a playlist form but I'm not that technically proficient, so you just get a list. Some of the albums are over thirty years old, some of them came out in the past six months. Many were downloaded from eMusic, but some were actual purchases of physical albums. The only thing that connects them are the fact that I obtained them from December 21 to September 21.

I've also decided that if there's any interest I could make an album of these songs available to the people who amass a certain number of Geek Points, say, ten or twelve. Or if you REALLY want one but don't think you could ever get enough points, we could always come up with another solution that's geek-related. Sure, you could always download them and make a playlist or something, but you'd miss out on the personally designed and shoddily constructed album covers! And you wouldn't want to deny yourselves that, would you?

The Doc’s Music: The Spring/Summer Singles Collection
A Weekend In The City (Bloc Party) - Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
Atlantis (k-os) - Fly Paper
Gang Of Losers (The Dears) - Ticket To Immortality
Greetings From Michigan (Sufjan Stevens) - For The Widows In Paradise; For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti
Orphans (Tom Waits) - Bottom Of The World
69 Love Songs (The Magnetic Fields) - Papa Was A Rodeo
Operation: DOOMsday! (MF Doom) - Rhymes Like Dimes Featuring Cucumber Slice
The Life Pursuit (Belle & Sebastian) - Sukie In The Graveyard
Ys (Joanna Newsom) - Emily
Streethawk (Destroyer) - Virgin With A Memory
Shake The Sheets (Ted Leo + Pharmacists) - Heart Problems
At War With The Mystics (The Flaming Lips) - It Overtakes Me
Eye To The Telescope (KT Tunstall) - Black Horse And The Cherry Tree
Scissor Sisters (Scissor Sisters) - Comfortably Numb
All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt (NoMeansNo) - The Hawk Kills The Punk
Resurrection (Common) - I Used To Love H.E.R
Neon Bible (Arcade Fire) - My Body Is A Cage
Little Minds (Count Zero) - Sail Your Ship By
Memory Almost Full (Paul McCartney) - Dance Tonight
Grinderman (Grinderman) - Honey Bee (Let's Fly To Mars)
Traveling Wilburys (Traveling Wilburys) - Handle With Care
Essential John Denver - Thank God I'm a Country Boy
Donuts (Jay Dee) - Lightworks
Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone - The Ecstasy of Gold (From The God, the Bad and the Ugly)
In Our Bedroom After The War (Stars) - Personal
The Spine (They Might Be Giants) - Wearing A Raincoat
Team Boo (Mates of State) - Gotta Get A Problem
Thrills (Ellen Allien) - Cloudy City
Maggot Brain (Funkadelic) - Super Stupid (not the best song from the album - that would be the title track - but works much better as a single)
Kala (M.I.A.) - 20 Dollar
New Maps of Hell (Bad Religion) - Murder
Ratatat (Ratatat) - Germany to Germany


The order is not 100% set in stone, I may have to play around with it a little. But that's a sample from my musical smorgasbord so far this year. Comments and questions are welcome. And since I haven't made any semi-obscure references in a while, I'll end off with this. A few of us geeks went to Happy Harbor Comics on Friday to play in a HeroClix tournament, something that will likely be repeated over the next few weeks (as long as we bring scented candles or something, because there was the very ripe smell of unwashed nerd wafting around). The store owner, Jay and I, came up with a theme song for Aquaman, who's figure was the participation prize at the tournament. Sung to the theme of Spider-Man, it went like this:

Aquaman, Aquaman / Does whatever an aqua can
See him sit / In a glass
Watch his fish / As they pass
Hey there / There goes the Aquaman

For two geek points, write me a second verse to this song. (And for an extra two, you can throw on a bridge.) My favourite verse will get one additional geek point. It's the competition anyone can win!

Ridiculous Nerd Quotes

On Friday, I made the 3/4 block long trek to the HeroClix night at my buddy NinjaStolz's (yes, there are two ninjas in The Doc's life, that I'm aware of at least) with a couple of other guys. The four of us sat on the floor with NinjaStolz's lovely ladyfriend intermittently on the sofa and waged war with comic book miniatures. I always have such a good time playing over there, both for the games and for the ridiculous conversation / dialogue we come up with. After about 10 minutes of our "witty banter", I decided I needed to write down some of the golden nuggets for future reference. What follows is a selection of the transcript. (What follows is for the geek-at-heart only.)

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Hal Jordan: Take that, Sinestro! (Shoots Abin Sur.) Abin! What have I done? (Zap.) What have I done again?
Abin Sur: Why did you do that?
Hal: I thought you were Sinestro, okay?
Abin Sur: So you're saying we all look alike to you?
Captain Marvel: It's the Purple Man!
Abin Sur: DAMMIT!

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OMAC: Designate Arthur Curry, threat level theta.
Aquaman: THETA!?!

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SDC Agent: I've got three days 'til retirement!
Abin Sur: In Abin Sur's experience on Earth, you should never say "I've got three days 'til retirement." Also: "Thank God the orphans were okay."

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Black Adam: Give my regards to your sister! (Punch.)
Captain Marvel: You've got the wrong guy!

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(During the battle against The Spectre.)
Ganthet: Thanos, you are my best friend.
Thanos: Thanos has no friends! Except you Ganthet.
Mike: That's something to make the Green Lantern Corps and the entire Marvel Universe VERY worried.
Ganthet: What? We have a dinner party every month!
Thanos: I bring Lady Death.
Ganthet: I bring The Phantom Stranger.
Thanos: It's very nice.
Ganthet: We have tapas.
Thanos: I brought a casserole.

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Rhino: (Brandishing a bookcase.) I got me a shelf full of these paper dvds! (After missing L-Ron with the bookshelf.) Rhino hates Omni-Bot.

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She Hulk: The only office work you'll be doing is through a straw!


To be fair, the last game ran a little long, and we were a little punch-drunk. But it was pretty funny to us. My stomach hurt when I left.