OK so i know this makes me a huge dork but the Britney Spears is so catchy, I am sitting here at my desk, thinking is this what my little girl will call oldies?

OK if you remotely like u2 and you remotely like world music the following is for you.
ZACH just stop, some of us like Velveeta cheese and McDonald’s.

This is the MAIN site and this is the My space where you can here bigger chunks. I did not find this on iTunes but on Amazon.

enjoy or blast me for being such a consumer.

It was a beautiful weekend here in Austin. SXSW was the big deal this week, so you had loads of extra people in town from all over the place. I hope no one got a bad taste in their mouths for us. Really it is hard to keep that from happening at some point. There will always be someone who has a little too much fun at some point, Guaranteed.
There was a big Spoon Show across from my building that I should have thought about. People who went said it was great. I saw them building the stage and that was as far as I got with it. I always pass up events at Auditorium shores. Remember last years rally with Obama? I watched from my tower across the river. When will I learn?
I did not take in any shows really either. That’s a bit of a change for me. Zach and I went to Home slice pizza for one of their free shows. We meant to see Joseph Arthur, but when we got there, playing was another band that what I heard of them I actually enjoyed more. For the actual set we came to see the crowd sort of cleared a bit, I assume for better shows in other locations. So we actually got to sit and relax a bit. Yeah, Relax, I knew I was a bad idea! we both fell asleep. Good Show Huh? It was just the singer on stage with his guitar in hand, and a chick playing on some tracks with an electric. Not a very rousing rock show either. I felt old and exhausted. We left early and ordered and got a free pizza due to a mix up. All in all it was nice to be out of the house. Saturday was absolutely beautiful. I didn’t care how sickly I was feeling, I needed to see the sunshine. Earlier that day we went to the park and played with the babies and had a McDonald’s cheeseburgers in all of their horrible goodness. Good day!
Then Sunday was good too. We washed the cars and had more pizza watching family guy getting tips on how to be a great dad. Hope yours was good too.

I should have a page on here that is nothing but reviews of products. I realize that.
I just have to tell you about this though.
It is called Jukebox and I am yet to find a track that rubs me wrong. Cat Power is so stinking good.
Her voice is low and sultry; completely old but fresh at the same time.
If this were food it would be Smoked Meat that falls off the bone, so tender and juicy.
Look her up if you don’t like it you cant be helped.

I am listening to this great Shawn Colvin cd Whole new you. It is good give it a listen.

Um nothing-new here that I can write about. We had a good staff meeting last night. I thought it was good anyhow.

Tonight is our night off from church stuff Thank GOD there is nothing going on tonight. I went to the Dr. today and got prescribed Flonase. Whew ok that stuff gives me horrible headaches. So, right on.

I am loving this new show on HBO called Extras. It is the uncomfortable humor that is more like real life. More like my real life any way. I am always saying the most inappropriate things and it swings around and bites me in the are-ce.

I love to do this thing where I tear a cd up. I leave it in the player so long, then I hate it and I am like “what is this old rap crap? Get Bel-Biv-Devo outta my sight” and then like a year from then I’ll see it stuck out from under the couch and I am like hey I have been looking everywhere for this! Yes the prodigal cd has come home! I want to listen to you and show you how much I love you Be Be Winans by attempting to sing every improvised “oooh” and “yeah” and “say it again”, with the predictability of Christmas.

So I wore the newest ColdPlay cd out like in 12 hours after it was released on to the US market and then I on purpose “lost“ it. Well I found it again today. My favorite song is still twisted logic and I still think Chris Marten is one lucky bastardo being married to my favorite actress.

I have my own feelings about what they named the baby but hey I know first hand that having a jacked up name will screw with a person for the rest of their life, unless that person is to change his name! And by the way my cousin is doing just that. He is going to be going by his middle name and then changing his last name to his mothers Maiden name. Sweet huh? I am now not the only Branham and there for can opt out of kids if I so desire. Sweet. I do want kids but the thought of yellow shit just gives me the willies.

I am not sure what kind of coverage this got in the review section. So I am gonna give it one more pass…Hasidic Reggae

Honestly I am not sure when it happened to be but I absolutely love reggae music. I have a neighbor from Trinidad with big long deadlocks & has the most blood shot eyes you have ever, ever seen. Maybe it was seeing all 7 feet walking backwards. Not literally but the next time you see a tall man from the islands watch how he walks. It is like the whole motion is backwards. Like the moonwalk but not so cartoon like.

Ok so Reggae music is not an all out passion of mine but Karina did get us tickets to go see Toots and the Maytals at Stubbs early this spring. I took a phone picture of her with a contact high from the 2^nd hand hash burning next to us, the exhaust of which was being readily accepted as good will from recipients. Karina’s eyes were blood shot too. It was a great show. So through all of this I find this show that we missed at that was recorded live at Stubbs and “oh yeah you would have liked it my friend. Thees maan is a boneified Hass Hassin… I don’t know what you call like one of the Jew fellows with the big beard?” “Hasidic Jew? Like with the pony tails on the side burns?” I am so laughing at this guy thinking I am more of a Hasidic Jew, than a Rasta Man. I am neither but, you know the stigma when people know you are involved with a church group, they seem to completely separate there beliefs from the equation. No matter how devout they are to what they claim. When speaking of Faith you are the extremist. Does not matter how many times you clank your Red Stripes together. …”Gees maan, you would have loved these brudda maan!” So it probably was my personal Rasta that introduced me to Matisyahu, the Hasidic rapping reggae preacher. The little spills the guy goes on in-between songs jolted me back to the days of Bible college travel choir. We used to have some caffeinated, sexually frustrated kid in a suit and tie come up and scream at the people in between songs and the louder he got, well the better he was at it quite frankly. I never got to good at it. In service that is.

So I have listened to this Matisyahu fella about 12 times now and it is strangely not getting old. It is awesome and will no doubt make it in to my top 5 at some point this summer. Stay tuned for that.

So what would I give the Jewish Reggae as a total score? It would be a solid 7. I know reggae in concert is a Smokey place and that could be the culprit for the live vocals to rest a bit on the sharp and flat edges of the notes. The music and lyrics are so humorous and Biblical to boot. My over all advice, listen to this on i-tunes and then just pick up the tunes you are into the most.