Atomic Tweed Playlist for Today (Wed 02-27-08)

'Atomic Tweed' Wednesday 2/27/2008 6:00:00 AM-8:00:00 AM DJ: Staff

(Song Name Artist Album Label)

Funky Squaredance 1 Phoenix United ----

Happiness Is A Warm Gun 2 Breeders Live Stuff ----

I See Secrets 3 The Delgados Everybody Come Down Ep Chemikal Underground

Pink Moon 4 Nick Drake Pink Moon ----

I've Seen It All (bjork Cover) 5(new) Bonnie 'prince' Billy Ask Forgiveness Sunday Services

Comme D'habitude 6 Claude Francois Hommages ----

Walk On The Wild Side 7 Lou Reed Transformer -----

Debaser 8 The Pixies Doolittle ----

Sunday Smile 9(new) Beirut The Flying Club Cup Ba Da Bing

Ladies Of Cambridge 10(new) Vampire Weekend Mansard Roof Single Xl Recordings

Mansard Roof 11(new) Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend Xl Recordings

Beatiful Rebel 12(new) Jeremy Jay A Place Where We Could Go K Records

The Grey Is Like A Dream 13(local)(new) Sam Metro Demos Greencarpetpop.com

It Tastes Like Poison 14(new) The Wave Pictures Catching Light ----

Frantic 15 The Lovely Feathers Kitsune Maison Vol 3 Kitsune Records

Loop Duplicate My Heart 16 Suburban Kids With Biblical Names #3 Labrador Records

I Saw Her At The Anti-war Demonstration 17 Jens Lekman Oh You're So Silent Jens Secretly Canadian

Springtime In New York 18 Jonathan Richman Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers ----

2000 Man 19 Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request Elektra

Kafka (bag Raiders What Y'all Kno' Boiut Seven Remix) 20 The Valentinos Kitsune Maison Vol 3 Kitsune Records

Woman (mstrkrft Remix) 21 Wolfmother Kitsune Maison Vol 2 Kitsune Records

Your Picture 22 Camera Obscura Underachievers Please Try Harder ----

Suzanne 23(requested) Leonard Cohen Songs Of Leonard Cohen ----

Wait... this is a Leap Year, isn't it?

In case you were wondering...

The answer is "Yes."

This is a leap year.

And to commemorate this once in a lifetime (the 4-year lifetime of an average fence lizard, that is) Orlando's Performance Artist Extraordinaire and amateur philatelist, Brian Feldman, is doing "A 24-Hour Performance Art Piece Partially Inspired By Roy Shifrin's Sculpture "The Leaper"



Here's all you need to know:

Who: Brian Feldman Projects / Brian Feldman

What: "Leap Year Day"

When: Friday, February 29, 2008 from 12:00am to 11:59pm

Where: Orlando City Hall at City Commons Plaza -- 400 South Orange
Avenue, Orlando, FL 32802-4990 (at the corner of Orange Avenue and
South Street) http://www.cityoforlando.net/locate.htm

How Much: Free Admission

Who's Gonna Play Obama on SNL?

So the last time SNL was on the air, Obama dropped by and played himself. But as SNL gets ready to come back on the air this saturday, they still haven't decided on who's to play Obama--at least according to today's the article on the nytimes about SNL returning. However, that's a really interesting question... Kennan Thompson, hilarious as he is, seems a little overweight for the role, yet he seems to be the only black and male cast member.

Maybe they'll convince Obama to drop by the show when he's president and play himself on occasion. Speaking directly to the American people like a modern-day equivalent of FDR's "Fireside Chats"...?

either that, or they'll have to resort to making Fred Armisen come out in black-face. *Shudders*

New Dance Track

hello,

I've just posted a new track that you can dance to.

In case you were wondering the samples are from:

Ella Fitzgerald's "Why Can't You Behave" (from The Cole Porter Songbook)

&

Trans-X's "Vivre Sur Video (Living On Video)" (from... I don't know the album, I just downloaded it.)

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it and it inspires you to shake it.


(click on Ella to visit my MySpace page)

love,
om@r del@ro$a

"nom de la rose" is not working for me

okay, so after thinking it over, "nom de la rose" is really a terrible pseudonym.

especially when i don't really need a pseudonym. i just want to kinda curb web search results for my name, since i'm not exactly prince or bob dylan (yes, "dylan" is not his real name). anyway, i'm back to being my real name, albeit with some L337 modifications (y'know, for curbing)

if anyone has any better ideas for curbing search results for my music profile, please let me know.

-om@r del@aro$a

Atomic Tweed - 2-13-08 Playlist

Atomic Tweed' Wednesday 2/13/2008 6:00:00 AM-8:00:00 AM DJ Omar:

(Song Name Artist Album Label)

Done With You 1 Whitest Boy Alive Dreams ----
Reno Dakota 2 The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs Volume 1 ---
In The Garage 3 Weezer Weezer - Blue Album Geffen
Only Shallow 4 My Bloody Valentine Loveless ---
Dude, We're Finally Landing 5(new) Rivers Cuomo Alone: The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo Geffen
High On A Mountain Top 6 Loretta Lynn Van Lear Rose ---
We'll Meet Again 7 Johnny Cash The Man Comes Around ---
He Was A Friend Of Mine 8 The Byrds Turn! Turn! Turn! ---
Satisfied Mind 9 The Byrds Turn! Turn! Turn! ---
We'll Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning 10 Gram Parsons G.p./grevious Angel ---
Mr Tambourine Man 11(requested) Bob Dylan Bringin' It All Back Home ---
The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll 12(new) Mason Jennings I'm Not There Soundtrack Sony Music
Man On The Street 13(local)(new) Mumpsy Pop Comp #2: Florida's About To Pop Green Carpet Pop
St-st-stutter 14(local)(new) Hello Green Fields Pop Comp#2: Florida's About To Pop Greencarpetpop.com
Urban Spaceman (cover) 15(local)(new) Honeydew Satellite Pop Comp#2: Florida's About To Pop Greencarpetpop.com
Never 16(local)(new) Saint Sweetheart Pop Comp#2: Florida's About To Pop Greencarpetpop.com
I Don't Want To Get Over You 17 The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs Volume 1 ---
I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You 18 Jens Lekman Night Falls Over Kortedala Secretly Canadian
Take No Heroes 19 The Tough Alliance The New School Yours Sincerely
Quarters In The Machine 20(local) Magnet Club Venii Ep Myspace.com/themagnetclub
Mercy, Mercy Me 21 Marvin Gaye What's Going On Motown
Springtime In New York 22 Jonathan Richman Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers ---
Wada No Tod 23 Lata Mangeshkar Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Soundtrack ---
Neon Knights 24 Mstrkrft The Looks ---
Shake A Fist 25(new) Hot Chip Made In The Dark Astralwerks
Ready For The Floor 26 Hot Chip Made In The Dark Astralwerks
Ballad Of A Thin Man 27(new) Stephen Malkmus And The Million Dollar Bashers I'm Not There Columbia
So Paranoid 28(new) The Warlocks Heavy Deavy Skull Lovers Tee Pee

nom de la rose

(i just posted this as a myspace bulletin, but i will repost here for those of you who don't have myspace but are familiar with my music--all one or two of you.)

hello,

many of you may know me by my name "omar d!@#$!$$" (which is still my name and will continue to be). however, i just got a new job (see also my previous post) from which i kind of have to keep my music and my music myspace on the DL. so rather than delete this myspace and quit making music forever (the former could be annoying, but the later is an unthinkable predicament for me, actually) I'm just going to hide it a little by using this alias, stage-name, project name, nom de plume, or "pseudonym" intead of my actual name.

i know this comes off as very pretentious, but i think it's considerably less pretentious than going the Prince route and using a symbol. it's also less pretentious than changing my working name to something that sounds like the name of a band when i'm the only member (ala Destroyer).

therefore, i've chosen to go as:

nom de la rose

why, you ask?

because...

1. it's actually sounds very similar to my real name (phonetically) so it isn't much of a stretch

2. because it's a little pretentious, but not too much (and let's be honest here, even though i don't want to be totally pretentious, i am pretty self-indulgent as musicians go)

3. it's kind of a reference to something old (i.e. the french title of the book "The Name of The Rose" by Umberto Eco)*

anyway, i hope this clarifies the change and that no one is confused by all this.

please remember that from now on, omar d@^#!%)#s myspace and his music will exist as:

nom de la rose

@

http://www.myspace.com/nomdelarose

thank you, everybody. and stay classy, cyberspace.

-nom de la rose (or the artist formerly known as and still [sometimes] known as omar d!*##$)@@)


*Though I've never read this book, I will someday. I hear it's quite good.

I'm a teacher.

Well, I've done it. I've found a new job: I'm now a 7th grade Language Arts & ESOL teacher. I started yesterday (officially), but my first day in the actual classroom will be Tuesday. For now I'm just meeting the staff and learning the actual "job" parts of being a teacher. It's interesting because, when I was in middle school (an embarrassingly short time ago, August 1996 until June 1999) i never imagined teachers had real lives. Like it seemed that when school was out they just kinda went to sleep at their desks and would wake up again the next day to teach. But yesterday, as I met some of the teachers, they all seemed to do normal things when they're not teaching. The Math teacher on the team in which I'll be teaching, for instance, owns a guitar and said she's been trying to learn to play. And the 8th grade Language Arts teacher, the chair of the language arts department, told me she got her Bachelor's in Sociology. I also got to meet this lady that most students probably don't ever get to meet, who has a secret classroom in the media center that only teachers get to visit. This lady teaches the teachers. She's like the teacher teacher. And oddly enough, she went to my same high school (Edgewater High). Although I graduated in 2003 and she graduated in 1983. And apparently, she too remembers this old lady, who has worked at the front desk of the front office back in 1983 and even to this day, according the Edgewater High website's staff listing named Ms. Pressley, Although it's hard to forget her if you went to Edgewater, since her deep, smokey voice that's been deep fried in a southern accent came through the intercom a few times each day making announcements or calling teachers or students to the front office.

Well I guess this means that I'm officially one of the "grown ups."

New Look for Green Carpet Pop

So I've finally gotten around to fixing up the Green Carpet Pop website a bit. It's still not totally done, but it's certainly looking a bit better. Check it out.



(hint: ...by clicking on the image)

Incoherence Day: Why Lou Dobbs doesn't know how to make linguistic and semantic sense

Okay. So if you watch CNN 24-7 like I do (and I know you do) you've probably seen the commercial for Lou Dobbs' show where he goes, "Doesn't anybody deserve a government that works?". Hell. If you only watch CNN for 23-6 or 15-5 or even 1-1, you've probably seen the commercial because it's on like every 2 seconds on every commercial break. However, if you've seen this commercial and haven't been confused well you probably should be. Because wtf does "Doesn't anybody deserve a government that works?" actually mean? Let's discuss that highly ill-advised sentence in detail:

The "Doesn't anybody..." part seems to set up the sentence phrase for some kind of rhetorical question regarding the verb that follows. It could be a sentence like "Doesn't anybody eat ice cream anymore?" or "Doesn't anybody dance these days?" or "Doesn't anybody watch my show anymore?". Basically, the "Doesn't anybody..." part sets up the sentence for an action verb (like "Doesn't anybody dance") that is perhaps followed by a span of time or perhaps an adverb (as in "Doesn't anybody dance well?") that somehow is being questioned (rhetorically) to make a point or a statement about the rarity or perhaps diminishing popularity of whatever the proceeding verb is.

However, certain verbs do not work in that particular rhetorical construction for a variety of reasons. For instance, the verb ought (to + infinitive) is one of those. Try saying "Doesn't anybody ought?" outloud. It makes no sense. Even if you put an infinitive after use ought (the way it ought to be used) it doesn't make sense. Try saying "Doesn't anybody ought to run?" five times fast without having a mental meltdown. But that's not the only incompatible verb. There's also "Doesn't anybody confabulate (anymore)?" and " "Doesn't anybody presuppose (anymore)?" and (of course) "Doesn't anybody deserve?"

No matter what follows the "deserve" it is an awkward, barely signifying sentence. How can a person ask rhetorically whether or not people deserve something when stating that a people deserving something (anything) is essentially a statement of opinion and therefore cannot be sensibly doubted or affirmed when someone says it because the act of deserving to is essentially an action in the mind of the speaker (that is, the speaker of the initial sentence not the person or party to whom the speaker is referring to [i.e. "anybody"]). It is the speaker saying that "anybody" should or shouldn't be receiving another action. Therefore the act of "deserving" cannot be as easily doubted as a physical action such as "running" or "eating [ice cream]" in the "Doesn't anybody..." sentences that work. It is not necessary to ask rhetorically whether or not "anybody" deserves anything because nobody but you, the speaker, can answer the question any way. It's like asking aloud "Didn't I just think that?". That being said, no matter what follows "deserve" in that sentence, it won't actually mean anything because it makes no logical sense to ask.

So what's the point of following that failed sentence with an object-phrase like "a government that works", Lou? Don't answer that. It's a rhetorical question. It's one that actually means something. If you didn't catch it's meaning, it means: "Lou Dobbs makes poor speaking decisions."

I guess I can see where he was going with the sentence. I suppose it might've even slipped into safer, semantic territory if he'd only said "everybody" instead of "anybody," then, at least, he could've been asking a rhetorical question about the quantity or quality of the people who "deserve" as if he were wondering why a few were being left out of the deserving and questioning why it seemed like the only a portion of the population, a portion of the "everybody," deserved and another portion did not deserve. But he didn't. He said "anybody" and then he said "deserve." Like he was probably trying to make a more grandiose statement about the government being broken than he was actually capable of articulating. But if that was the case maybe he could have just said: "Everybody deserves a government that works" or "The government is broken, people!" or (maybe in a more populist sentence) "The people deserve a working government" or (maybe taking that last sentence and making it fancy and rhetorical, though somewhat clunky-sounding and ungrammatical) "Don't people deserve a working government?".

I could go on (after all, I haven't even discussed the ridiculous context of the commercial in which he's sitting in some kind of office meeting room looking slightly to the right of the camera at what might be a group of writers or something--a clearly staged situation given that even before there was a writer's strike, I highly doubt that Lou Dobbs actually used any writers since he seemed to reenact the same episode of "War on the Middle Class" over and over again without concern for novelty from episode to episode of his show or concern for whatever the news from that day actually happened to be). But I won't. Let's just agree that much of what Lou Dobbs says makes no sense.