Checkmate

Relegate me to the geek table in the internet lunchroom if you'd like, but I've been playing chess online like it's my job. In fact, I wish that it was my job.

I know that there are those of you that play against your computer from time to time (thanks for the hints and undo options Mac!), but playing against other people is always more fun and generally includes a gang of trash talk.

Bring it to the TrailerParkNinja at gameknot for a correspondence based smack down...
I just signed up today; you should chess it too.

Internet Chess Club | Free Internet Chess Server

Come get some.

JEA

Track Listing

01 . The La's - There She Goes
02 . Belle & Sebastian - Get me Away From Here, I'm Dying
03 . Pinback - Penelope
04 . Minus the Bear - Pachuca Sunrise
05 . Band of Horses - Our Swords
06 . Modest Mouse - Trailer Trash
07 . Colin Hay - Overkill
08 . Ben Gibbard - They Don't Know
09 . The Diskettes - 1 2 3 4 5
10 . Half-handed Cloud - You've Been Faithfull
11 . The ELected - a Time for Emily
12 . Park - Conversations With Emily
13 . Say Anything - Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too
14 . Metric - Combat Baby
15 . Vox Vermillion - Controller
16 . Tegan & Sara - Back in Your Head
17 . Askeleton - Cities, Not the People who Live in Them
18 . The Brunettes - Cotton Candy
19 . Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Kiss Kiss
20 . Kings of Leon - Cha rmer
21 . Boxer - Mistaken for Strangers
22 . A Place to Bury Strangers - I Know I'll See You
23 . The Thermals - How We Know
24 . The Subways - Take me Away
25 . Ela - Professional Love
26 . The Format - Tie the Rope
27 . Spoon - Everything Hits at Once
28 . Britt Daniel & Conor Oberst - Let the Distance Keep us Together
29 . Get Set Go - Wait
30 . Olympic Hopefulls - Drain the Sea
31 . Nightmare of You - Ode to Serotonin
32 . Tilly & the Wall - You and I Misbehaving
33 . Woods - Skin and Bones
34 . Roma di Luna - The Face of my Friends
35 . Inara George - Fools in Love

Spring Fever

Puppetmasters

Some of you may remember Sifl & Olly, a short run MTV experiment that ranks as my favorite shows of all time. Mostly, the relationship between originators Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco reminds me of one I've share with the home slice T.Bag for the past twentysome years. They live together with young, clueless Chester. Their landlord wants the rent money, he wants them to get rid of the monkeys, and they put on a show every night.

"Sifl was the calmer leader of the show while Olly was more excitable and often broke into crazed furies. Their assistant, Chester (made out of an inverted mold for a Buddha statue combined with a sleeve), was a mumbling, often nonsensical character who still claimed to be great at everything. No real living people or animals ever appeared on the show (except the hamster during Precious Roy's foot long hamster sale), only puppets" (wikipedia).

As the show has been canceled for nearly a decade, one of the few sockhead bastions to survive the blast is YouTube.

Includes ninja exam, letters to Chester and the song Ninja of the Night.
...you are weak like the salted slug and your mind is slow like the sloth on sake...

How Sifl & Olly came into existence.
The Making Of | a glimpse behind the scenes

Sifl & Olly Season 1 Episode 10: (part 1) (part 2)

Blacklisted Nursery Rhymes / Calls: Problem in the Bathroom, Cheater, Landlord (Waterslide) / Rock Fact: What Human Oddity Will Forever Link Bjork & Will Smith? / Song: "Country Boy Song" / Precious Roy's Night Vision Goggles / News: Olly Won't Do The News / Calls: D&D Wizard Has Herpes, Wart Gems, Take Me Back To Mary's House / Chester: Pet Peeve / Rock Fact: What Is Queen Latifa's Real name? / Interview: Giganticus the Elephant / Song: "Lullaby Song"

Sifl & Olly Season 2 Episode 1: (part 1) (part 2)

Calls from the Public: Pennywhistle Swallower, Gremlin Exterminator, Zafo, Alien / Snailsuit Chester / Olly Moondust sings: "Star Lover" / Precious Roy's Elf Hotel / Interview: President of Shadows Inc. / Kickin' It Old School: "Fake Blood" / Interview: Brett the Gremlin / Chester: Getting Into TV / Craig Allen sings: "The Elf Song"

Sifl & Olly Season 2 Episode 2: (part 1) (part 2)

Calls: Olly's Mom (Fafoo's Recital), Madame Dominique / Chester: Naked Girl / Song: "Remember" / Precious Roy's Disaster Suit / Interview: Olly, Sifl & Chester Read Their Diaries / Kickin' It Old School: "Rock and Roll Friends" / Interview: Peto & Flek (Lost Episodes) / Letters to Chester: How To Break In Jeans / Song: "Empty Zippo Blues (Olly's Dylan Song)"

Sifl & Olly Season 2 Episode 3: (part 1) (part 2)

Sex Girl Intro / Calls: Cres Dude (Uncres), Webby Avalton, Mindblow / Chester: Tranquilized / Song: "Hawaiian Rap" / Precious Roy's Hooker Monkeys / Interview: Sex Girl Returns / Kickin' It Old School: "Prostitute Laundry" / Interview: Cooking With Aesop Jones (Waffles) / Letters to Chester: Picture Pose / Song: "Hair Of The Dog (Now You're Messin' With A Son of a Bitch)"

Sifl & Olly Season 2 Episode 4: (part 1) (part 2)

Calls: Worlock Wannabee, Zafo (Mt. Rushmore), Meteor / Letter To Chester: Modern Lover / Song: "65 & Over & Over" / Precious Roy's All Purpose Juicer / Interview: Breakfast Serial 2 / Kickin' It Old School: "Performance Art" / Interview: Hitch-hiker (Hit by the Car) / Chester: Water & Magnet Collector / Song: "Soda Pop (the magnetic car song)"

...skip a few...
Sifl & Olly Season 2 Episode 14: (in one fell swoop)

Calls: Sifl from Jail, Johnny Fucking Appleseed, Sifl Clone, Sports Talk / Chester Takes an IQ Test / Song: "Speed Reading" / Precious Roy's "Dangerous Don't" Dolls (Betty Blade, Elctrocutie Kitty, Pete Heat) / Interview with Sifls and Olly Clones / Kickin' It Old School: "Weird Day" / Interview: Grout's Trivia Trapazoids with Stealth, Precious Roy, Chester & Cres / Letter to Chester from Dewey Kraus in Prison / Song: "I Sure Do Miss The 80's"

United States of Whatever

Remembering Lamont "Big L" Coleman

Big L

Remembering Lamont Coleman
via hiphopdx

Put It On / Producer - Buckwild
MVP / Producer - Lord Finesse
No Endz, No Skinz / Producer - Showbiz
8 Iz Enuff / Featuring - Buddah Bless, Herb McGruff, Killa Cam , Mike Boogie, Terra, Trooper J, Twan / Producer - Buckwild
All Black / Producer - Lord Finesse
Danger Zone / Producer - Buckwild
Street Struck / Producer - Lord Finesse
Da Graveyard / Featuring - Grand Daddy I.U., Jay-Z, Lord Finesse, Microphone Nut
Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous / Producer - Lord Finesse
Times Iz Hard / Producer - Buckwild
I Don't Understand It / Producer - Showbiz
Fed Up Wit The Bullshit / Producer - Lord Finesse
Let 'Em Have It "L" / Producer - Craig Boogie

The Big Picture (Intro) Producer - DJ Premier
Ebonics
Size 'Em Up
Deadly Combination / Featuring - 2Pac / Producer - Ron G
'98 Freestyle / Producer - Lord Finesse
Holdin' It Down / Featuring - AG, Miss Jones, Stan Spit / Producer - Pete Rock
The Heist
The Enemy Featuring - Fat Joe / Producer - DJ Premier
Fall Back / Featuring - Kool G Rap / Producer - Shomari
Flamboyant / Producer - Mike Heron
Casualties Of A Dice Game
Platinum Plus / Featuring - Big Daddy Kane / Producer - DJ Premier
Who You Slidin' Wit / Featuring - Stan Spit / Producer - Pete Rock
Games / Featuring - Guru, Sadat X / Producer - Ysae
The Heist Revisited / Producer - Lord Finesse
The Triboro / Featuring - Fat Joe, O.C. , Remy Martin / Producer - Showbiz

Lifestyles ov da Poor & Dangerous (repress)| The Big Picture
(download via Megaupload c/o yours truly)

Atmostour

...helping the homie Jake Money pimp his internet duties as the Rhymesayers nerdsite monkey.

photo credit to Dan Monick


Atmosphere announce North American tour dates; to coincide with the April 22nd drop date for their upcoming release "When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold".

When Life Gives You Lemons, Paint The Road Gold.
Get your citrus krylon on, and meet me at Metro!

In the meantime, if you haven't already downloaded Strictly Leakage (complimentary Atmos LP), you've been asleep. A nostalgic nod while I'm lost in my music box awaiting my pre ordered shipment.




The Real Rhymesayers on YouTube


Recently, the masochists at the Onion asked Slug to whip up a Valentine's Day advice column featuring classic Daley wit and smcharm.
Peep game and pick up a few tips from a pro.

Dear Slug | the A.V. Club



can you digg it?

Happy Valentine's Day

his master's voice

Today is a musical organization and inspiration day. As I continue to edit and organize my iTunes, I find myself obsessing about what I lack. When I need inspiration for my digital dig, I tend towards stream of consciousness list making (via stickies on my mac). As I was compiling, I came to a stark realization.

My parents had profound influence on my musical preferences, and this has become fodder for debate after debate. Most debates begin with my pops putting one artist in another's "box" for clarity. That drives me out of my mind, mostly because I recognize the urge and keep it to myself with said lists.

After watching the Grammy's, I had to find a box for Amy Winehouse that would stifle my dad's attempts to get my goat. I found one, and it's shaped like Dusty Springfield. It's probably been said by a million people before me, but they should stop putting people in boxes too (no bonsai kittens).

Just for good measure, here is today's ten minute music marathon list. For good measure, I've linked some YouTube love to my soundtrack for the day.

the kinks (waterloo sunset)
the chieftains (redemption song)
ray davies (in a moment)s
marianne faithfull (as tears go by)
pj harvey (good fortune)
jeff buckley hallelujah
tim buckley (i'm coming home again)
david bowie (oh your pretty things)
nick cave (red right hand)
tom waits (in the neighborhood)
roger waters (music from the body)
pink floyd (see Emily play)
harry nilsson (everybody's talkin')
jarvis cocker (don't let him waste your time)
pulp (this is hardcore)
the verve (sonnet)
damon albarn (strange news from another star)
blur (coffee & tv)
gorillaz (tomorrow comes today)
the good, the bad and the queen (kingdom of doom)
tv on the radio (staring at the sun)
yeah yeah yeahs (pin)
brian eno (st. elmo's fire)
roxy music (editions of you)
david byrne (glass, concrete & stone)
talking heads (psycho killer)
john cale (thoughtless kind)
the velvet underground (sunday morning)
lou reed (heroine)
nico (frozen warnings)
edith piaf (hymne a l'amour)
my brightest diamond (dragonfly)
the decemberists (here i dreamt i was an architect)
patti smith (because the night)
iggy pop & the stooges (the passenger)
the rolling stones (under my thumb)
the who (baba o'riley)
the pretty things (midnight to six man)
dirty pretty things (bang bang you're dead)
the libertines (up the bracket)
spoon (i turn my camera on)
the troggs (with a girl like you)
the byrds (eight miles high)
bob dylan (it's alright ma (i'm only bleeding))
joan baez (diamonds & rust)
neil young (heart of gold)
johnny cash & joni mitchell (long black veil)
emmylou harris (two more bottles of wine)
dusty springfield (i only want to be with you)
sophie b. hawkins (i want you)
johnette napolitano (suicide note)
vowel movement (dinosaur)
concrete blonde (joey)
blondie (hangin' on the telephone)
siouxsie & the banshees (love in a void)
elvis costello (oliver's army)
the mars volta (televators)
arcade fire (rebellion)
lcd soundsystem (movement)

Switch up in the Game

So I'm messing with another blog template...

I like it a bit better because it doesn't cut the edges off of my videos, but it shrinks my title.
All of my old posts are jumbled around (alignment of videos as pictures mostly) and I don't really feel the need to revisit the past.
Onward. If you find yourself digging, please don't judge the layout and enjoy the contents.

Happy Black History month.

Remembering Roy

Actor Roy Scheider passed away yesterday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock. Roy was battling multiple myeloma for the past two years. He was 75.

That's some bad hat, Harry.