Friday Five: Rekkid Edition

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1. Detroit Cobras – “I Wanna Holler (But the Town’s Too Small)”

The Detroit Cobras and their brand of soul classics/garage moxie are coming back into my life in a big way recently. You can listen to them every day, regardless of mood, locale or sobriety, and the music is bound to make you feel pretty good. Also, new album soon!

In the meantime, I listen to this song, which to me sounds like it could track the opening credits to the as-of-yet-unmade film version of John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row – scored to the gritty sundowns in Monterey, where everything is covered in dirt and still seems to glitter with epic promise.

2. Knee Socks

This morning I was like, “I don’t even care if it’s supposed to be cold today and I don’t care if I’m too old to dress like I attend a boarding school for anxious British girls – these legs are going KNEE SOCKS. These legs are going almost BARE NAKED.” You know sometimes when you dress like you’re forcing warmer weather to happen? It seems to have worked – hello sunshine, wha?

• Note: not my actual legs

3. Drinking and Gardening

This is a thing, right?

3.5. Dogs Dressed As Hot Dogs

Nothing says springtime like a dog dressed as a hot dog.

4. Using Record Store Day as An Excuse to Buy New Records for Once

Gonna try to catch No Flyers Please at Taz (2 for 1 on used records, eee) and Dance Movie and Cursed Arrows at Obsolete. This Exclaim! guide helpfully lists some of the special releases that you can pick up tomorrow. That Ty Segall one looks pretty durn good.

5. Planning Ugly Tattoos that I Will Regret When I’m Older

Like Storm from X-Men as a punk:

Or this stupid thing:

Happy Weekend!!!

This article appears in Apr 14-20, 2011.