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Drive-By Truckers 4/21/12 The Tabernacle; Atlanta setlist

Here’s the setlist we heard Saturday night. DBT played for over two and a half hours. It was great. I probably lost some hearing, but it was worth it.

  • The Buford Stick
  • Where the Devil Don’t Stay
  • The Southern Thing
  • Gravity’s Gone
  • Sinkhole
  • Uncle Frank
  • Buttholeville (interlude of State Trooper)
  • 72 (This Highway’s Mean)
  • My Sweet Annette
  • Women Without Whiskey
  • The Living Bubba
  • Cartoon Gold
  • Box of Spiders
  • Three Dimes Down
  • Puttin People on the Moon

Encore

  • The Weight w/Megafaun
  • Get Downtown
  • Let There Be Rock
  • Zip City
  • Hell No I Ain’t Happy
  • Shut Up and Get on the Plane
  • Angels and Fuselage
Apr 23, 20121 note
#music #Drive-By Truckers #me #my life
Drive-By Truckers wishlist---update

So, here’s my wishlist again. The songs they played are crossed off. Almost everything that was on my initial list that I cut was played. Every song was freakin’ amazing. It was a hell of a show.

  1. 18 Wheels of Love
  2. Space City
  3. The Living Bubba
  4. Birthday Boy
  5. Let There Be Rock
  6. Uncle Frank
  7. Zip City
  8. The Southern Thing
  9. Tornadoes
  10. Three Dimes Down
  11. Life in the Factory
Apr 23, 20122 notes
#music #Drive-By Truckers #me #my life
Apr 22, 20123 notes
#music #Drive-By Truckers #me #my life #patterson hood
Drive-By Truckers wishlist

So, tomorrow night I am finally getting to see my favorite band The Drive-By Truckersin concert. I’ve been waiting 7 years for this. I’ve been listening to all the DBT albums on repeat since I bought my tickets last month. That’s ten albums and nearly 200 songs so, obviously, they won’t be playing anywhere near everything. I was trying to think of the songs I would most want to hear them play. Some of my favorites were Jason Isbell songs. Since he’s no longer with the band, those are out (but I did get to hear some of those songs at the Isbell concert I went to in March). Ditto Shonna Tucker songs. That leaves Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley songs (the band’s line-up has changed many times but it will still be DBT as long as these two guys are part of it). So, here’s the list of songs I most want to hear performed live. But there’s no DBT song I hate so it’ll all be good, and it’s sure to be a hell of a show. I tried to make this a top ten list. When I first started listing songs, I had 20. I narrowed it down to these. It’s heavy on the Cooley, but those are usually my favorite on every album.

  1. 18 Wheels of Love
  2. Space City
  3. The Living Bubba
  4. Birthday Boy
  5. Let There Be Rock
  6. Uncle Frank
  7. Zip City
  8. The Southern Thing
  9. Tornadoes
  10. Three Dimes Down
  11. Life in the Factory
Apr 20, 20122 notes
#music #me #my life #Drive-By Truckers
Apr 20, 20122 notes
#music #Drive-By Truckers #me #my life #atlanta #tabernacle
Apr 18, 201216 notes
#boiled peanuts #me #my life #food
Freaks and Geeks Fridays →

Freaks and Geeks Fridays: an ongoing tribute to my favorite television show of all time.

Week 18: The Walkthrough.

The best thing I read on the internet this week was the AV Club’s five-part walkthrough Freaks and Geeks with creator Paul Feig (which brings up a point I like to make, Judd Apatow was theproducer ofF&G, not the creator. While his influence was integral to the show, Paul Feig was the creator and primary showrunner. With the success ofBridesmaids, more reporters seem to be remembering this, but after Apatow took off several years back, writers always seemed to forget about Feig and makeF&GApatow’s sole creation /end rant and run-on sentence).

Also, I know I haven’t done aFreaks and GeeksFridaysince August, but I call it anongoingtribute, not a weekly tribute.

In other words, I dropped the ball.

Apr 13, 20124 notes
#tv #freaks and geeks #freaks and geeks fridays
Simian Idiot: Big Boss of the Day - Thomas Kinkade → simianidiot.tumblr.com

simianidiot:

God bless Thomas Kinkade, one of the great prolific artists of our day. May he rest in peace.

I have written before about masterpiece factory Thomas Kinkade, but I spelled his name wrong in the post so I had a hard time finding it. Never again will I fail to put the “kink” in “Kinkade”.

Thomas…

Apr 12, 20123 notes
#art? #thomas kinkade
Apr 8, 20122 notes
#easter #cadbury #cadbury creme egg #cadbury bunny
Apr 8, 201216 notes
#easter #peeps #candy #washington post #downton abbey #tv
Apr 7, 201210 notes
#geek #star trek #william shatner #movies #tv #ghostbusters
Play
Apr 6, 20122 notes
#tv #mad men #conan #zou bisou bisou #van damme
Can't stop listening... → npr.org

I first became aware of The Alabama Shakes a while back when they were opening for Drive-By Truckers. Their first album drops Tuesday, but you can listen to the whole thing on NPR right now. This band is about to be huge. I have a crush on Brittany Howard’s voice.

Apr 5, 20121 note
#music #alabama shakes
12 sets of sci-fi-themed eggs that'll make your Easter a geeky one | Blastr → blastr.com

The Battlestar Galactica set is my favorite.

Apr 5, 20125 notes
#tv #battlestar galactica #doctor who #geek #easter #eggs #easter eggs #superheroes #superman #wonder woman #harry potter #movies #books #lord of the rings
Apr 5, 201255 notes
#braves #atlanta braves #sports #the south #baseball #chipper jones
“Despite losing all three primaries yesterday, Rick Santorum still refusing to drop out of the race. Yeah. All though it shouldn’t be a surprise that the guy with seven kids isn’t that good at pulling out.” —Conan O’Brien
Apr 5, 2012116 notes
#tv #conan #team coco #rick santorum #politics
Apr 5, 201240 notes
#baseball #braves #atlanta braves #atlanta #georgia #the south #me #sports
Apr 4, 20122 notes
#music #drive-by truckers #wes freed
Play
Apr 3, 20124 notes
#drive by truckers #birthday boy #music #mike cooley

This week is Spring Break.

Over Thanksgiving Break, my “enter” key quit working.

That was six months ago.

You may have noticed that I have had no paragraph breaks in any posts since then.

Except for a few posts I did from my Kindle.

While visiting a friend for the past two days, I finally made it to an Apple store and got my computer fixed.

So check out these beautiful paragraph breaks.

I can quit writing some stuff I’ve been working on out by hand and go back to typing like a human being.

I

am

very

happy

to

have

my

enter

key

back.

Apr 3, 20124 notes
#my life
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