Believe it or not, I do more than take photos. I am busy at work preparing for my trip to Europe (departure one week away and counting!) so apologies for the dearth of actual content around these parts. To make it up to you, here's a tune for your iTunesing pleasure.

[MP3] - Paul Weller | Wild Wood (Portishead Remix)
I was thinking about what artists it would take to make me head to Chicago and take in Lollapalooza, and these two, Weller and Portishead, immediately sprung to mind. So here's their collaboration. Very stark and sparse. The Modfather does trip hop! Brilliant. I prefer this version to the album cut.

New (old) Radiohead?

Slightly related: RSS Headline of the day - Subterranean Homesick Allen.

Nice! And well deserved if I do say so myself. The Globe is really good at keeping their readers up on the Beantown blog scene.

Yes, please. Don't forget the tour.

If you ever get of line over there again, I'll smash your fuckin' head in so hard, you won't be able to put that cowboy hat on. You hear me? Fuckin' hick.

Worst commercial ever. [via Catpita]

I'm bringing back a well intentioned but poorly executed feature I use to run every week around these parts called "My Forgotten Favorite" in which I gush about an oldie but goodie that needs more plays my iPod.

Today I'm all about "I Am The Resurrection" by the Stone Roses. I heard this song for the first time in ages at DC9 when I met Amanda and Mike for a drink before The Good, The Band & The Queen's gig at the 9:30 Club. And I'm not talking about the wimpy (and kinda disappointing) album version, this was the full on eight minute and 17 second funk workout. When the original "song" ends around the 3:40 mark and the band gradually lets go and gives John Squire room do his thing, it's pure Madchester bliss.

I get kinda mad whenever I think about all the music we've been deprived of from Squire over the years due to his ego and drug use. I don't play air guitar to many songs, but if I do, I'm usually imitating John Squire. Don't even get me started on "Driving South." Pure shredding, that.

[MP3] The Stone Roses | I Am The Resurrection (Original Version)

A quick aside - I met Squire once, when I was interning at Epic and on the road with Mansun while they were supporting The Seahorses, Squire's post-Roses group. I was with some friends and we'd been scheming on how to meet Squire for a few gigs (it's not like he was hanging out with everyone) and we finally blagged our way into the group's dressing room in Boston and he was a total and complete dick. I can honestly say that I've never met a more rude and arrogant prick in my life (and I've met Stephan Jenkins). I was crushed. Lead singer Chris Helme on the other hand, could not have been nicer. I guess that's what busking will do for your ego. But I digress...

Anyways, I love this song, in all it's pre-Britpop, jamming glory. As you may have read, Ian Brown and Mani played this very tune earlier this week at the Manchester Charity gig, so good timing. I wish I could have been there.

Here's the second of a two part Youtube clip of a live version from the mid-90's. This is latter half of the song with all the jammy goodness.

The first part is here.

Today on "As The Red Sox Turn"

This kid Marte is apparently pretty damn good. Someone in the Braves front office said "he’s the best player we've ever traded". Yes, he said BEST EVER.

But it gets better. Is Theo making these moves? Like Woah.

Even if Marte starts the year in AAA, the Sox figure to have an entirely new infield, with Mike Lowell at third, Mark (aka Adam) Loretta at second and Kevin Youkilis at first. Who will play short? How about Miguel Tejada? Umm.....wow.

Related: The Top 20 Red Sox prospects.

The World Cup draw is today/tonight!

Best movie mistakes of '05.

Quoth the Peabs: Whatevs is the new Retrobuzz.

So I was at Best Buy the other night looking for the new Rogue Wave CD and that live Pulp DVD (yes, I am aware of how incredibly stupid that statement sounds) and even though I didn't find either of those, I did buy this!

Blur are about to go back into the studio, but there is still something missing from this picture. Not to be outdone, Graham drops the knowledge on his next solo joint.

Today's Forgotten Favorite:

Pink Floyd : Fearless (MP3) - Not a huge Floyd fan by any means (although it's all you hear on classic rock stations in North Carolina) but this song is a favorite of mine, if only for the backwards soccer chants that are looped at both ends of this song. Best.