Tim Quirk

“Son of Sam I Am (Tommy's Version)” - Too Much Joy — ODYSSEY There are reissues, and then there are resurrections. Son of Sam I Am (Tommy’s Version) is the latter: not just a re-release, but a reclamation—an album finally returned to the hands of the people who...

I confess I was unsure about including so many outtakes and demos on the reissued Son of Sam I Am, but this reviewer seems very glad we did:

"There are reissues, and then there are resurrections...This isn’t just 'the album + a demo or two.' This is the full ecosystem of Son of Sam I Am."

LISTEN: Too Much Joy Rejuvenate Their Punk Classic On Colorful "Clowns (but Ska)" - Glide Magazine When Too Much Joy first released Son of Sam I Am on the San Francisco-based indie label Alias Records, critics were delighted. Rolling Stone called it “an

Glide Magazine has a nice piece about a new version of an old song of ours called Clowns -- includes a lyric video.

A photo showing boxes of CDs being packed for shipping.

4.63 Tim Quirk Interview Spotify video

Had a long, fun chat with The Music Lab podcast about Tapedeck (though the interviewer begins well back in my past):

I remember that well!

It's a bit odd, though, how ~25% of the movie feels like it was storyboarded and obsessed over and should be taught in film schools, while the rest looks rushed and hacky.

That 25% though was worth whatever portion of my DirecTV bill goes to TCM.

Was watching something else when my TV hiccuped and sent me to TCM, where a shot that was perfectly composed but patently ridiculous made me rewind to see which Brian DePalma movie I was missing.

Turned out it was The Fury, and I watched it to the end, and I'm glad I did. Ludicrous fun.

I'd like to thank all the reviewers who lowered my expectations for Nebraska '82, because I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I do if they hadn't convinced me I'd wasted my money pre-ordering it.

The multiple versions of "Downbound Train" are, surprisingly, what I like most so far.

Every once in a while I think about the far kinder and safer and less expensive and scary country we could all be living in right now if enough people had understood what he was gonna do, and voted for Harris.

None of this shit was a secret!

And soooooooooo ahead of her time, artistically, and as a human being.

Easily Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" in Apocalypse Now.

(If Kubrick were allowed, it would be Wendy Carlos Williams's electronic version of the "Ode to Joy" section of Beethoven's 9th.)

I got it, too.

I endorse this sentiment!

A sign at the Oakland No Kings March that reads: Unpaid Protestor. I hate fascism for free.

Oakland No Kings March just getting started.

Heh. There's a ska version of "Clowns" on the reissue, which can currently be heard only on Tapedeck, a new digital music store/streaming service I've been working on as part of my day job.

tapedeck.app

LL was a mensch for doing this. The first time we heard his version we all said, "This sounds like a TMJ song."

Then hopefully you won't mind this brief commercial for the Sandinista-sized reissue that's coming out on Halloween:

toomuchjoy.bandcamp.com/album/son-of...

I'm only four minutes into the latest South Park episode, but I've spent the last two of them laughing non-stop.

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

A screenshot of today's Connections game, in which some of the tiles read Third Sister Lovers Magic Big Star

The person who makes Connections is apparently a Big Star fan.

(By "that riff," I mean "Seven Nation Army," not "Blitzkrieg Bop." Not that you could sing it to "Blitzkrieg Bop" if you tried, which I just now have, and failed miserably.)

At Oakland Ballers games, when a player named Tyler Lozano comes up to bat, everybody chants, "Go Ty-ler Lo-zan-O" to the melody of that riff.

And now I sing that randomly to myself at least twice a day.

You had me till "live in Atlanta or Charlotte."

I hate when they take away things you were just starting to really enjoy, like your favorite TV show or democracy.

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Thanks! I wrote it cuz I felt it. And I've been married to the person who made me feel it for over 33 years, now.

Trump will just have to keep murdering fishermen until you stupid jerks give him the peace prize

I mean, for DECADES the conservative position was that trying to ensure U.S. minorities had equal rights was somehow favoring them.

But now there's one minority (conservative Christians) that is literally getting rights that the government is depriving other minorities of.

Related: it's kind of amazing that the Supreme Court seems to think protecting minority rights means states CAN'T outlaw non-medical treatments such as conversion therapy, but CAN outlaw genuine (and widely-supported-by-doctors) medical treatments for trans people.

Kind of funny (but not ha-ha funny) that we liberals thought we were so smart for telling conservatives who wanted to return to the "good old days" that they weren't all that good for everybody because there was segregation and kids died from measles and stuff.

Apparently they actually wanted both!