Idaho >> There is snow covering your blankets

California Month, tremor #19:

Idaho - "If You Dare"

(Caroline Records, 1995)

In my previous Idaho post ("You Are There"), I mentioned that their later stuff was much less bombastic, and this song is perhaps the most stunning example of their quiet side.  The interesting thing is that the band got larger on this album in terms of members, but its sound got smaller and more delicate on most of the songs.

A profound amount of information about this album, whose title is a slang term meaning "inebriated," derived from the poor sailing techniques of drunken mariners, can be found here.

Magazine ad, with a lyric pulled from "No One's Watching"

Promo CD; singer / guitarist Jeff Martin on left

California Month is taking over the world: Yesterday I heard Film School's "Heart Full Of Pentagrams" at Guitar Center, which was the first time I've ever heard anything by them on any sort of radio station.  And GC was founded in, yup, Los Angeles.  But it seems like they have more samplers / drum machines / keyboards for sale nowadays than guitars.... Sign o' the times.

A Hyla cinerea (Green tree frog) getting some shade on my Serenoa repens (Saw Palmetto) yesterday:

Planets with similar climates: American Music Club - "Big Night" (1987), Red House Painters - "Down Through" (1993), Low - "Shame" (1995).