I'm in love with this video. Happy Halloween, folks. More coming tomorrow.

This is almost as good as Jimmy's Neil Young impersonation videos. If you haven't seen them, go look up his version of the theme song to "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" or his duet with Bruce Springsteen of Willow Smith's "I Whip My Hair Back and Forth," both with Jimmy as Neil Young.

"And Sandy, the aurora is rising behind us. This pier lights our carnival life forever. Oh, love me tonight, for I may never see you again. Hey, Sandy girl, my, my, baby." ~bruce springsteen

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I have another day off tomorrow thanks to Sandy. Today I ventured outside to look around and to meet a friend for dinner, and luckily my neighborhood wasn't hit too hard. I saw one store awning that had fallen and a handful of fallen trees, but it seems like we got pretty lucky compared to what others in NY and NJ are facing. And I never lost power, which is a blessing. I've seen tons of pictures and videos of what's happening elsewhere, and I'm in awe of the devastation. I feel for everyone hit hard by the storm and am thinking of and praying for them.

"Hurricane Jessie's gonna crash into the harbor this summer. She don't wanna wait till she gets older. Hurricane Jessie's gonna crash into the harbor this summer. She don't want to wait, she said it only gets harder." ~the hold steady

Folks, thanks to Sandy Frankenstorm you get to see what happens when I'm really bored. I've had a whole lotta time stuck in my apartment with nothing to do and nowhere to go, so I've been playing around on my computer. Scroll down to check out my recent posts (music-related), because I've been posting a lot lately. Here's another project I did. I watched last week's Parks and Recreation a whole bunch of times, and I made some gifs of my favorite scene. The gifs are after the jump; don't click if you don't want to know what happened in the last episode. Stay tuned for more evidence of my boredom.

 "'Cause I belong to the hurricane, it's going to blow this all away." ~florence + the machine


Scroll down to my last post to see/hear my favorite hurricane-themed song. 

Because I didn't have school today (or tomorrow) thanks to Hurricane Sandy, I had time to put together another Counting Crows concert post!

Counting Crows is my favorite band, so seeing them once last week just wasn't enough (scroll down for my previous CC concert post from earlier in the week). I also saw them at Roseland Ballroom on Thursday. I've seen CC so many times that at this point I'm always thrilled to hear them play a song I haven't heard live before (I'll be perfectly happy to never hear them play Mr. Jones again because I've heard it so many times). This time, I was happy to hear Monkey, St. Robinson In His Cadillac Dream, Richard Manuel Is Dead, Time and Time Again, and a bunch of the covers they did (Like Teenage Gravity, Look At Miss Ohio). I will never get sick of Holiday In Spain, no matter how often I hear it. I'm obsessed with that song, and it's their best closer. It was a great concert. Not their best, but still wonderful. I particularly liked the version of Goodnight Elisabeth they played, and Omaha and Hanginaround were fun because the crowd got involved.

Tender Mercies and Mean Creek opened for CC, and I was so, so excited to see Tender Mercies live. I love them. Half of Counting Crows is actually in Tender Mercies, which is kind of funny. They played some of my favorites; I was particularly thrilled to hear them play Wiseblood.

I recorded Counting Crows, so here's my recording. I'm surprised at how well it turned out considering where I was standing. Being in front of the stage right next to a speaker isn't a great place from which to record, but it actually sounds okay. You can download all the tracks here if you want.

I filmed Holiday in Spain because I love it so much.
The video doesn't include his intro speech, which I love, but it's on the audio version.
I also love how he adds something about this city not being a drag whenever he sings this song in NYC. 

 

"Well you can only pray, when you're waitin' out the hurricane. Waitin' out the hurricane." ~augustana



I love, love, love this song, and this seems like an appropriate time to post it. Here's the video I filmed of Augustana playing this song at Rockwood Music Hall awhile ago. It was a fabulous, intimate, concert, and this song was one of the highlights. Be ready for a new post tomorrow, and if you're in Sandy's path, stay safe.