Otter Limits

“Born to Quit, released in 1995, was the Smoking Popes second album and first for major label Capital Records…….The album itself is a mixture of pop punk and power pop with Sinatra-meets-Morrissey lounge-esque vocals….”

Here is the link to the full review at Oklahoma Lefty.

Filed under: CD Reviews, Lefty, music, Smoking Popes

Lefty Reviews Born Yesterday

otterlimits — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:47:00 +0000

Dave, aka Lefty, wrote a review yesterday of Otisburg’s Born Yesterday EP.

Here’s a link to it:

Oklahoma Lefty’s EP Spotlight: Born Yesterday

Filed under: CD Reviews, Lefty, music, otisburg, ottertainment

Currently Watching: Jericho

otterlimits — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:40:00 +0000

I started watching this TV series about a week or so ago. I first heard about the show at a meeting of the Eastern Oklahoma County Libertarians. My wife found it on Netflix so we both have been watching it almost nonstop.

It was originally broadcast by CBS from September 2006 to March 2008.

Interesting thing about this show is that after the first season, the network cancelled it. However, because its large fan base basically protested the network, it was given a 2nd season (although the 2nd season only last 7 episodes).

A 3rd “season” has been made, although it is not on television. The 3rd season is a 6-part comic book series. There are also talks about a movie being made.

Anyway, the first season is about the residents of a small town in western Kansas (the town is called Jericho) as they deal with the life after the United States is torn apart by multiple nuclear attacks that destroyed almost all of the major cities in the country.

The 2nd season (which I have not completed watching about) so far is about how the resident of Jericho deal with the new “legitimate” government of the United States, the Allied States of America.

It’s a pretty good show. I’d recommend checking it out.

You can read about the show here on Wikipedia.

Filed under: ottertainment, television

Top 6 of 7

otterlimits — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:40:00 +0000

I haven’t done one of these lists since back in January 2009 when I did the Top 6 of 6.

So these are my 6 favorites in 7 different categories (in no particular order, just as they come to me):

BANDS (w/links to their official websites)

MOVIES (w/Wikipedia article links)

BOOKS (w/Amazon links)

Jesus Wants to Save Christians by Rob Bell

The Barbarian Way by Erwin McManus

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

Batman Year One by Frank Miller

Animal Farm by George Orwell

This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti

ALBUMS (w/Wikipedia article links)

Everything Sucks by Descendents

I’m Only a Man by Emery

The Joshua Tree by U2

Crimson by Alkaline Trio

This Is Only A Test by Smoking Popes

Born Yesterday by Otisburg (no Wiki article on this one, just a link to the band’s MySpace site)

WRITERS (w/Wikipedia article links)

TV SHOWS (w/Wikipedia article links)

WEBSITES

Internet Movie Database

Superhero Hype

Facebook

Filed under: books, descendents, fiction, Kurt Vonnegut, Lefty, lists, movies, music, nonfiction, otisburg, ottertainment, Smoking Popes, U2

Smoking Popes: Dream Set List

otterlimits — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:24:00 +0000

As I have mentioned several times in the past few days, the Chicago band, Smoking Popes are gracing Oklahoma City with their presence at the Conservatory on Tuesday, June 26.

This is my “dream” set list of their show. I know a couple of these won’t get played because in my interview with Josh earlier this week, he stated that the Pope’s don’t do Duvall songs. But one can dream, can’t he?

Brand New Hairstyle (from 1991s Inoculator)
Let’s Hear It For Love (from 1993s Get Fired)
Let Them Die (from 1993s Get Fired)
Not That Kind of Girlfriend (from 1993s Get Fired)
Rubella (from 1994s Born to Quit)
Need You Around (from 1994s Born to Quit)
Star Struck One/No More Smiles (from 1997s Destination Failure)
Before I’m Gone (from 1997s Destination Failure)
Pretty Pathetic (from 1997s Destination Failure)
Seven Lonely Days (from 2001s The Party’s Over)
The Moon Looks Like a Tomato (from 2001s Standing At the Door)
Racine (from 2003s Volume and Density)
Welcome to Janesville (from 2008s Stay Down)
If You Don’t Care (from 2008s Stay Down)
Wish You Were (from 2011s Wish We Were)
Punk Band (from 2011s Wish We Were)

Filed under: lists, music, ottertainment, Smoking Popes