Super Short Album Review: Tinted Windows, Self-Titled Album

After the break up of The Smashing Pumpkins, in 2000,  James Iha moved on to join A Perfect Circle.

After two albums with APC, one decent, and one mediocre, James has formed a “supergroup” with singer Taylor Hanson of Hanson, bassist Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Ivy, and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick.

Their self-titled album Tinted Windows was released on April 21, 2009 – and it is awful.

Check out the music video for their “hit single” Kind of A Girl:

Trite, simple, and disapointing. For a rock “supergroup” we sure don’t get a lot of bang for our buck with Tinted Windows. Not only do I expect more from James, Adam and Bun, but even Taylor Hanson can be a talented musician.

Tinted Windows’ debut album is poppy, sophmoric and uninteresting.

Wilco – Impossible Germany

My favorite song of the moment.

Pickling Radishes

Sometimes as I am preserving vegetables, I notice that they are beautiful.

Preserving veggies is a big part of my job right now. I absolutly love pickling things… I am lucky that my chef lets me do 99% of the pickling at Nicks.

Updates from Twitter for 2009-04-18

• Wild Colonial is delicious. #
• I met a republican today. He doesn’t twitter #
• sleepsville. #

Updates from Twitter for 2009-04-17

• Got my breath turned off, machine gun, biscuits and gravy, and nowhere to run. #
• wow it’s a nice day. I should try to be productive. #
• Yeah big Steve #

Updates from Twitter for 2009-04-16

• Perhaps I should have studied for this wine class midterm. Perhaps not. #
• come on memory. work your magic. #
• I wonder how well car upholstery cleaner works. #
• Random 888 numbers, please stop calling me and hanging up. #
• I am a huge nerd, but its amazingly cool that they discovered a new nucleotide http://tinyurl.com/d6q3p4 #

I knew it all along, mom

via SA_steve @flickr: Sugar Helps You Diet!

Everything in its right place

I start moving into my new apartment this week, the fourth in four years of university. Five if I counted the dorms freshman year.

I can’t help but think that everything is in its right place.

And I can’t get radiohead out of my head. Not that I want to.

Just me and my uke

Another Sunday has gone by. This one was eventful. Breakfast at Nicks, my Sunday tradition. I spent some time with Brandon today, we jammed with PJ. Me on guitar, PJ and Brandon switched between drums, guitar and bass. It wasn’t productive in a literal sense, but it was fun. I spent some time on the phone tonight with someone who is feeling down because of an Ex. And then I spent sometime online with another friend who is feeling down because of depression. Talking to so many sad people really makes you value your own happiness. It really is what you make of it.

And for now, I sit, waiting for tomorrow to come, for sleep to overtake me, singing softly to the world, strumming my ukulele, listening to the rain.

I’ve ordered Miracle Fruit

So I’ve ordered some Miracle Fruit… Should be here by this weekend.

For those of you who’ve never heard of Miracle Fruit, it’s an African berry that coats your tongue in a lipoprotein called Miraculin. This causes all foods that are sour or bitter to taste sweet for 30 minutes to 2 hours, depending on what you eat.

So anyways, I’m planning on having a little sour / bitter food party. Let me know if you’re interested.