For the Fratre Who Has Everything...

It's never too early to start shopping for the holidays, and if you go to this site, you can get this handsome, purple Pi Lam Afghan on sale for only $49.95. Act today!

What the fuck!?!

As if anyone on the LammieNet needed yet another diversion or reason to waste time...

I can only imagine what the LammieBlog will eventually produce.

If the Dish don't fit...

What the hell is OJ thinking? Stealing DirecTV? At its most expensive, it's $99/mo. Why would he STEAL SOMETHING SO relatively-CHEAP? The man's just a criminal, plain and simple.

OBFT Roster

Here's your current 2005 OBFT Player Roster (the original in 1994 at right):



Beck, Coby
Carles, John
Carter, Charlie
Doyle, TJ
Flantzer, Jeremy
Grant, John
Karn, Bill
Krug, Cliff
Laster, Stewart
Lester, Whitney
Marston, Chris
McWhinney, Chris
Morris, Ian
Old, Christopher
Paci, Michael
Pellicane, Dave
Rodell, Matt
Russell, Rob
Weaver, Bruce

possible additions:
Elmore, Alex
Gormley, Craig
Spurrier, Bryan
whoever else shows up

Submit your picks now for winners in the categories of Drinks Most, Sleeps Most, Wins Most at Poker, Watches TV Most, Wins Most Beach Games, Adds Most to Trip, and Detracts Most from Trip.

It's not the heat...

It's the humidity.

I used to be in the same radio hell that Mr. Goddard was in. I found myself wandering the dial, looking for something to hold my interest. I started out listening to NPR (WBUR) in the mornings and evenings. However, I stopped listening during one of their fund drives and changed over to listening to 96.9 FM TALK (not because of the fratty frequency) for some of their shows. However, they extended Jay Severin and removed the two Boston Herald gossip columnists -- I don't like listening to Jay and REALLY don't like listening to 5 hours of Jay, so I turned the radio off and started listening to my iPod.

My iPod. I have so much random music on the thing it's CRAZY. Off the top of my head:

The Clash
Apotheosis
Iron Maiden
Moby
Beethoven
Public Enemy
The Ramones
Sergio Mendes

...and the list goes on. Completely random crap that NEVER GETS PLAYED ON THE RADIO. Radio is either talk (left or right, no center) or and endless loop of the same crap over and over and over again.
However, there's a new game in town. 93.7 Mike-FM or something like that. They play music and only music. No DJs, just music and the occasional commercial. Good music, different music, bad music.

The last 5 songs played can be found here

As of this posting the last 5 were:
The Rolling Stones "Start Me Up"
Peter Gabriel "Shock The Monkey"
Donnie Iris "Ah! Leah!"
Toni Basil "Mickey"
Melissa Etheridge "Come to my Window"

Ok, probably not a list that's going to sell a lot of you. But you can't form an opinion with such a small sampling! (Goddard?)
Keep an eye on it, you won't be sorry.

l8r

Lammie-Whether

It's hot everywhere, brother. Florida hasn't cornered the market on muggy heat, they just did it before it was cool (like in the wintertime).

I was scanning the radio dial recently and just blurted out to nobody in particular how filled with shite the airwaves are of late. Really, truly, is it that hard to find a program director who can appreciate the merits of underplayed but overtalented acts? Really? Someone's radio forefathers decided once upon a time that Moz & Marr, Ian & Bernard, Frank & Kim, Robert Smith, Paul & the Stinsons, Dave Faulkner, the Johns, and Dean & Gene could all play worth a damn, and to hell with advertisers who couldn't tell. Can't it happen again? No?

Can't I lead off a set-list of eclecticism with the following 20-spot stretch?

Mike Ness & Bruce Springsteen, "Misery Loves Company"
Hindu Love Gods, "Battleship Chains"
The Waterboys, "Church Not Made With Hands"
Joe Strummer, "Get Down Moses"
Old 97's, "Four Leaf Clover"
R.E.M., "Moral Kiosk"
Golden Smog, "V"
Beastie Boys, "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun"
Drivin' N' Cryin', "Ain't It Strange"
Metallica, "Seek & Destroy"
The Ramones, "Judy Is a Punk"
Social Distortion, "Under My Thumb [Live]"
Moby, "Honey"
Brian Wilson, "Brian Wilson [Live]"
Ween, "Tried & True"
Fishbone, "Lyin' Ass Bitch"
Random Idiots, "House of the Martha Wood"
Violent Femmes, "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me"
Steel Pulse, "A Who Responsible?"

If we ran a promotion that you could win $1000 bucks if you heard any song we played on another local radio station in the last 6 months, would that finally draw listeners to something beyond the spoon-fed creamed carrots they're playing? Somebody out there buy a radio station and hire me as program director. I'll bring my own music.

lammie weather

the lammie weather in st petersburg florida is hot....as.....fuck. Who in their right mind would live in such a god-forsaken locale? me, apprently.

The lammie radio - I reckon I'll cross post this to musical musings - it seems that because it's really fucking hot in florida all of the cool college radio people go to school in other states and as a consequence the radio sucks. Sure, we've got WMNF, the third leg of the Pacifica/WBAI radical radio triad busting out Democracy Now and Alan Watts buddhism lectures in the mid-morning but I'm stuck with R&B as told by old white dudes all afternoon - who the fuck wants to hear rufus thomas over and over again? not me. The weekend on WMNF is no better - polka party on saturday? The Sunday Schmita (sp?) klezmer show? fuck. I like klezmer and polka but not every weekend. I also know there's a reason why these shows are on air and I'm all for it, it's just that I ahve nowhere else to go. One of the few bright spot on WMNF, music wise, is Friday nights from 7-9 when Steve "the Hitman" Williams and some guy named, strangely, the Original Get-Down Plunder, kick out the old school soul jams. I can't tweak the dial, always on the left, to 90.1 (grunge and bile, we got style, paul verkuil) WCWM in the 'burg, 90.5 WUOG to rock out to the latest coolest hipper than shit tunes in Athens GA, or even 88.1 WMBR @ M.I.T. in Cambridge where although they're a little more mature than typical college radio - they don't bring their drunk friends into the sound booth (or their friends are nice and quiet). The radio sucks so bad here, in terms of hearing *new* things, that I find myslef relying on internet radio - KEXP in Seattle (a little corporate but better than nothing) WFMU - East Orange NJ for the real deal college FM without the college and WFUV (Fordham - for my "adult" album rock jones). I also find myself digging around the ether-stacks on my own. Which brings me to my point.

We all miss shit. I missed Phish (whatever), Pavement (taken care of), and REM (still haven't found them), among others. I've spent the better part of my lunch time and post-lunch time digging around and figuring out what I've been missing. So far Dinosaur Jr (smack in the middle of a Pixies-magnitude reunion) is promising, Nuetral Milk Hotel is fucking rocking and M. Ward is coming around the bend and picking up speed.

Did I mention that it's fucking hot in florida? I also paid $8 for a goddamn miller lite last night while watching the hometown 9 eke out a W against Boston in the 10th, except that my pal just "had to" go home just after Schill closed out the ninth - fucking "pal". By the way, I was cheering for both teams because I'm a fucking nice guy.

Is this what you had in mind Paci?

Why?

I don't know. I am soliciting Mr. Whitney Lester to put the first post up explaining why the world needs another blog. My thoughts are that this will be a blog-aggregator for Lammie blogs. We'll see if it passes muster.