Certain Songs

The Lemonheads = Youth

And they always will to me. I will forever associate albums like 'It's A Shame About Ray' and 'Come On Feel The Lemonheads' with my coming of age years. The last couple of years of high school, and my first couple of years in college. In hindsight, I may not have been to wise to have Evan Dando pen the soundtrack to my formative years, but I think everything turned out ok :-)

Evan and the band have a brand new album of covers coming out on June 23rd called Varshons. The Boston band covers some of my all time favorite songwriters on here...Gram Parsons, Townes Van Zandt, Christina Aguilera - kidding! But there is a lovely version of her hit 'Beautiful' on the album.

Here is their take on a Leonard Cohen classic, with a little help from Liv Tyler.

* 'Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye' MP3

(Note: Slight name change...i have realized there is way too much beautiful weirdness on Craigslist to focus only on missed connections)

seriously.... - 23 (Columbus)

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Reply to: pers-816322674@craigslist.org ^[?]
Date: 2008-08-28, 4:57AM EDT


I can really speak for a bunch of lonely guys out there...
Just, both expectations on the female and male end have been warped. We no longer know how what to expect out of our signifigant other. We put so much on how it should or shouldn't be. The oppostie sexes are just so pushed away from each other in these times. Its no wonder why there are so many gays and lezzies, its just easier. I couldn't find a girl to fuck tonight if my life depended on it, but how many guys do i know by happenstance. (I guess by waiting tables in the short north) But that's not what i want. Its not that it's really that hard to find something, but its really hard to start somehting because you never know how long it might be. There are a ton of guys like me that KNOW that they are going to stick to that piece of tail for as long as they get. Its so hard to date because we know we won't end it and you'll end up knocking her up and being with her for the rest of your life. There are just so few opportunities that, sh*t, this might be it, and that thought is not so much terrifying as much as it requires a lot of thought. -Its trying to be selective with very few slections.- So, we pass on her or her and end up alone and wondering whats wrong. "I'm sorry i thought i had a choice in this" I'm just slowly realizing that me; a 6'3" built, smart, good lookingy, great in the sack guy, is just going to end up alone because it seems that i can't stand women and i definitely won't resort to guys.
I guess it might also be that my philosophy on life is quite wierd and i am quite vocal about it. I'm sorry i'm well read and you aren't. It's just really fricken funny, because if you knew me, you'd never understand why i'm single.
I think really the problem is that i have never really had to try to go after girls, they just came after me. Just year after year more and more women i could know, get married and move on and im just getting left behind. Now it feels like i would grab onto anything. I just work so much that its really hard to find time.
If that made any sense to anyone, i don't want to even include a picture because i wouldn't want it based upon looks. Just take my word for it, i'm not conceited but i am quite cute.

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Too bad there's not a 'Man Seeking Self' sub-category on Craigslist, it would be perfect for this guy. He obviously thinks he is quite the catch, and he OBVIOUSLY has life all figured out...he may be the only one who could tolerate him.


The Lemonheads - 'It's About Time' MP3

Ah...last night's Lemonheads show was like the mid 90's all over again! And I mean that in the best possible sense.

Evan Dando stumbled and mumbled(literally) his way through a non stop set of sing along favorites! I know almost every song they played by heart, and I am not sure I understood a lyric all night. This isn't a complaint mind you, just a fact. That is the beautiful thing about rock n' roll, its not meant to be perfect. Since I spent most of the mid 90's in college, and many times in some altered state or another, that is how I most fondly remember the Lemonheads anyway!


Dando only stopped to attempt to speak to the crowd once that I remember...taking a second to blast the new Dylan bio-pic 'I'm Not There'...he didn't like it, not at all. But I wouldn't put TOO much stock into a film review by a guy who spent like 5 minutes trying to get his jacket sleeve untangled from his guitar's tuning knobs...yeah, Mr. Dando was HAMMERED! And I loved every sloppy second of it...good times, good times.

The boys played all the hits, 'Shame About Ray', 'Down About It', 'Confetti', 'My Drug Buddy'. The end of the show was my own personal favorite moment...when Dando graced the stage alone then played three acoustic tunes, including one of my favorites, his cover of Vic Chestnutt's 'Frying Pan.' Then he slammed down his acoustic guitar(not in a Pete Townsend 'FUCK THE MAN' kind of a way, but more like a 'Oh man, I forgot...there are more drugs upstairs' kind of way) and literally RAN up the steps at the side of the Troubadour stage. Looking confused he and the band came back for an impromptu version of 'Freebird' as requested by some heckler(a very original heckler at that) and a couple of more songs and just like that it was 2007 again.

Thanks for the time warp though fellas, it was a wonderful night of rock and nostalgia.