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General – Page 24 – Chris Flannery

General

Dry Cities

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I just realized why I didnt like Atlanta when I visited. There are no rivers or bodies of water.

By this rationale I have decided to never visit:
Reno, Las Vegas, Tucson, Houston, Dallas and Charlotte

Baltimore

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B & O Railroad Museum:




more pictures
They’re trains, what do you expect?

Inner Harbor:

Eat crabs.

Camden Yards:


Baltimore wins in the bottom of the 9th on Ramon Hernandez’s walk-off homerun. Camden Yards is still the best ballpark in America.

[tag]Baltimore, B&O, Trains, Railroads, Camden Yards, Orioles, Inner Harbor[/tag]

Washington D.C.

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I attended my first businessman’s special baseball game at RFK to see the Mets pound the Nationals. RFK is an odd place from the outside but the seats seemed to be good from just about anywhere (for baseball mind you).

For some reason I took no pictures. So I’ll pretend like I did:

[tag]Nationals, RFK, Washington[/tag]

New David Plowden Book

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In May, David Plowden’s “A Handful of Dust: Photographs of Disappearing America” will be available. If you’re unfamiliar – get learned!
www.davidplowden.com

He is the greatest living photographer to capture the rise and fall of Industrial America.

All photographs are property of David Plowden.

[tag]David Plowden, Photography, Industry, Railroads[/tag]

The Chris Flannery Band

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I started a band today. Pretty remarkable how well we gelled together… so much so that we cut an album as well. The album is called “The New Fertilizer” and will be out tomorrow. I hope to post some mp3s soon. I only plan on touring for the summer – and there will absolutley not be any live cds or bootleging. Be forewarned.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
-Albert Ellis

R.I.P. Gene Pitney

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Gene Pitney: The great Amercian who destroyed his own career by promoting the British Invasion.

Always a big fan of his oldies hits playing in the grocery store… and later finding out all the songs he wrote for other pop sensations. Remarkable.

My favorite collaboration of his was the dirty unreleased song he sang with the Rolling Stones (w/ Graham Nash and Allan Clarke), about Andrew Oldham (the Rolling Stones ex-producer)…. Andrew’s Blues.

Eef Barzelay – Bitter Honey

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[tag]Eef Barzelay[/tag]
Lead singer of [tag]Clem Snide[/tag].
Sounds like Clem Snide less three people.

Overall a pleasant album with quirky and ironic songs.
Not many could get away with indie-countryish song with lyrics about rap video ho’s..

    Ballad of Bitter Honey:

That was my ass you saw bouncing
Next to Ludacris
It was only on the screen for a second
But it’s kinda hard to miss

And all those other hoochie skanks
Ain’t got shit on me
And one of Nelly’s bodyguards,
He totally agrees

My mother cleaned the homes of weatlthy people til teh day
She died and so to california
I did make my way
I tried to finish nursing school
I really wanted to, you see
But all those boken bodies
Well, they really got to me

And they all think I’m stupid
I can see it in their eyes
But I know whats inside their hearts
I penetrate their lies
Sometime it gets me crazy
But I’ll keep my feelings hid
Because i know deep inside they’re only
Freightened little kids

And If I press my breasts together
And arch my back just so
I can ask for pretty things
And they will not say no
No one should have to suffer
No one should go with out
Don’t hate me ‘cause I know just what this world is all about
Don’t hate me ‘cause I know just what this world is all about

or my personal favorite:

    I Wasn’t Really Drunk:

You look so pretty when you have been drinking,
I don’t care that your friends say you’re a mess.
You laugh at all my jokes no one else does.
So I’ll feel it’s only right I must confess.
You see I wasn’t really drunk, I was just pretending.
Because I wanted so much to feel the way you do.
You know this party seems never ending.
And I would gladly sip my champagne from your shoe.

Take a listen @ http://www.myspace.com/eefbarzelay

Why?/Odd Nosdam Split EP

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i’d like this cd.

it’ll be nice when springtime comes,
sending winter in one thick rolling migration of displacement, condensed and heavy,
back into the freezer in the ardmore wawa, where my grandfather once said it went,
when green birds, whistling, make melodies.

The Larkin Brigade

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As it bein’ Irish season and all…
I thought I’d help promote my friend’s Irish trad punk band…

They have an album coming out soon. Listen to them at:
http://www.myspace.com/thelarkinbrigade