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I rock Creamy Radio online while I'm at work. I keep a running list of songs I like on my Yahoo Notes. I'd like to share my list with you and suggest you dig on some of these tunes. Go to www.creamyradio.com and request them to check 'em out.

In convenient Excel spread sheet, alphabetized form. Artist, Song Title, Album.

Alien Ant Farm - Glow -truANT
Amelia - Better Than Sleeping Alone - After All
Anjulie - Boom - Boom
Beck - Jack-Ass - Odelay
Berkly Hart - Across the Rubicon - Twelve
Better Than Ezra - Extra Ordinary - Closer
Better Than Ezra - Get You In - Closer
Better Than Ezra - Misunderstood - Closer
Better Than Ezra - Recognize - Closer
Blind Mellon - Tones of Home - Blind Mellon
Butch Walker - My Way - Left of Self-Centered
Butterfly Boucher - Life is Short - Flutterby
Charlie Mars - One Horse Town - One Horse Town
Chris Robinson & the New Earth Mud - If You See California - This Magnificent Distance
Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter - O
Danielle Howle and the Tantrums - Sneaky AM - Skorborealis
Del Amitri - It's Never Too Late to Be Alone - Twisted
Dispatch - General - Bang Bang
Don DiLego - California - The Lonesome Hitchhiker Volume 1
Fruit Bats - Born in the 70s - Spelled in Bones
Hello Dave - West - Golden
Homie - American Girls - Meet the Deedles Soundtrack
Hootie and the Blowfish - Time - Cracked Rear View
Jackie Green - So Hard To Find My Way - American Myth
Jed's a Millionaire - Gotta Believe - Kachina Theater
Jeff Finlin - Sugar Blue - Elizabethtown Soundtrack
Jurassic 5 - Concrete and Clay - Improvise
Kacey Chambers - Freight Train - The Captain
Kings of Leon - Day Old Blues - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Laura Sawasko - Last Brave One - Piecing it together
Limbeck - Silver Things - Hey, Everything's Fine
Locksley - Why Not Me - Don't Make Me Wait
Los Lonley Boys - Hollywood - Live at the Fillmore
Love Me Nots - Love What I Got -Upsidedown Insideout
Love Seed Mama Jump - Peace Frog - Drunk at the Stone Balloon
Matt Nathanson - Angel - Beneath These fireworks
Matt Nathanson - Suspended - Beneath These Fireworks
MiGGs - Perfect - Insomnia
Mike Doughty - (I Keep On)Rising Up - Sad Man Happy Man
Mike Dougty - Ways and Means - Rockity Roll
Nick Dastardly and the Escape Artists - The Sleeping Giant Walks Tonight - Let Go of My Bruised Wing
Nini Camps - I Saw Love - Driving You Out
Norah Jones - Be Here To Love Me - Feels Like Home
Oasis - Wonderwall
Pearl Jam - Come Back - Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam - Just Breathe - Backspacer
Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter - Lost Dogs
Rachael Yamagata - Over and Over - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart
Ray LaMontagne - You Are the Best Thing - Gossip in the Grain
Red Wanting Blue - Your Alibi - Pride-The Cold Lover
Remedy Motel - Giving Ground - Remedy Motel
Remy Zero - Over the Rails & Hollywood High - The Golden Hum
Sam Champion - Texas Song - Slow Rewind
Sam Champion - You Can't See the Stars in This Town - Slow Rewind
Shawn Mullins - Blue As You - 9th Ward Pickin' Parlor
Sister Hazel - Walls and Cannonballs - Release
Teddy Thompson - Altered State - Separate Ways
The Allman Brothers - Jessica - Brothers and Sisters
The Autumn Defense - This Will Fall Away - The Autumn Defense
The Bradbury Press - The Bouncing Ball - Hanscom
The Clarks - Better Off Without You - Still Live
The Dissipated 8 - Diamonds on the soles of her shoes - Eighps
The Fratellis - Costello Music - Creepin' up the Backstairs
The Freddy Jones Band - Mystic Buzz - Lucis
The New Pornographers - My Rights Vs. Yours - Challenges
The Pierces - Boring - Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge
The Rugburns - Mama - Taking The World By Donkey
The Wallflowers - The Difference - Bringing Down the Horse
Train - All Anerican Girl - My Private Nation
Treble Charger - Brand New Low - Wide Awake Bored
Tristan Prettyman - Smoke - Twentythree
Zee Avi - Darling - Zee Avi
Zubia Brothers - Hotel Defeated - Voices on the Street


Much love to the boys at Creamy for whom without I would not be fans of some of my favorite bands.

Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?

A thought burst in my head
And I need to tell you
It's news that I forethought
Was it just a dream
That happened long ago?
I think I just forgot

Well it hasn't been the first time
And it sure does drive me mad

That's when I say there's a boy who fogs his world and now he's getting lazy
There's no motivation and frustration makes him crazy
He makes a plan to take a stand but always ends up sitting
Someone help him up or he is gonna end up quitting

I shuffle through my mind
To see if I can find
The words I left behind
Was it just a dream
That happened long ago?
Oh well...
Never mind

Well it hasn't been the first time
And it sure does drive me mad

That's when I say there's a boy who fogs his world and now he's getting lazy
There's no motivation and frustration makes him crazy
He makes a plan to take a stand but always ends up sitting.
Someone help him up or he is gonna end up quitting...

Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? - Green Day

Green Day Rocks My World Again

Maggie and I saw Green Day at the Mandalay Bay event center. We had VIP tickets which put us closest to the floor, with seats, behind the railing, for an unobstructed view.

It was an unbelievably incredible show. If you've never seen them live you are missing out. The wall behind them was a video screen that was perfectly coordinated with every song, everything they did. Billie Joe is a madman energizer bunny running back and forth across the stage. He came out into the stands with his guitar and put it on a kid and played it. Got an 8 year old boy up there who knew all the words to Longview, and a girl who played guitar for St. Jimmy. That lucky bitch. They were forehead to forehead singing into the same mic, and then he sat in front of her with his head on her knee while he sang. She had to sit on the amp down front because his guitar strap wouldn't shorten up enough for her to play standing. I was so jealous. Made me want to learn to play the guitar.

They played Shout and all laid down on the stage and put in snippets of other songs like Iron Man, Free Fallin', Satisfaction, and that was a lot of fun. They played almost every song off the new album, not in order. They also played:

When I Come Around
She
Longview
Basketcase
King For a Day
Hitching a Ride
Welcome to Paradise
Minority
Blvd of Broken Dreams
Brainstew
Holiday
Then he asked who in the audience was an old school Green Day fan and they played Going to Pasalacqua, one of my favorite songs off their first album. I almost lost my mind. The encore was American Idiot, Jesus of Suburbia and then the rest of the band left the stage, and Billie and his acoustic made their way to the end of the platform. He played the love song off the new album called Last Night on Earth. It gave me chills. It was so sweet and wonderful and heartfelt and to watch him in the spotlight with just the acoustic was so touching. His wife is a lucky, lucky woman. He ended with Time of Your Life, held up his guitar and then left the stage. It was so wonderful.

My other favorite events of the evening were when he mooned the audience and later lifted his shirt up and just stood there. I could still see most of his ass hanging out the back of his pants. The only thing keeping them on was...Christ, I almost exploded. I also loved when he told everyone to put their cell phones and cameras away, that these were our memories and to live in the moment. God, I loved that. I'm always stressed about whether or not to bring a camera because I'm so anxious about documenting and remembering big events like this. Fuck it. I have everything I need in my head and pictures would never do my experience justice. I didn't want to worry about taking pictures so I didn't bring my camera in.

I've seen Green Day in concert 5 times now and they just keep getting better. The theatrics, the pyrotechnics, and the showmanship are simply outstanding. A 3 hour show with just about every song I could want to hear and an unobstructed view. I am so in love with this band and with that man. I'm sitting here with a glazed over dreamy look on my face just remembering the night. The cute guy who asked me if he could hold my hand on the way to the show started the show off with a bang, too. I'm spent.

Winnahs!

I was in Ojai's 4th of July parade with Shades of Day and we won awards!!
Chorgy bought an ice cream truck off Craigs List and we hitched a trailer to the back of it to tow Richard the drummer on. The rest of the boys donned wireless guitars and bass and all dressed as ice cream men. The ladies got dolled up in pigtails with big lollipops and danced along the parade route with the band as they played Ice Cream Man ala Van Halen. Jason and Katie were our King and Queen Pretty in their red, white and blue finery.




We won First Place for Band on Float and the Theme Award for our Zippy Dippy Rock 'n' Roll. The theme was 4th of July: Through a Childs Eyes. Yeah, we nailed that!

And I landed a sweet picture of myself on the newspapers website

It was hot, sweaty, and rad. Finally recognition for all of our hard work! =)