The thing that’s making me crazy excited and equally scared about mister Obama down south is not that he’s good looking or well-spoken as much as it is that he says things nobody ever says… more →
(bad) monkey Xwrote 1 year ago: Time 2 take a lil’ break from the appletini blogwar and just have a good old-fashioned lazyblo … more →
wrote 1 year ago: The thing that’s making me crazy excited and equally scared about mister Obama down south is n … more →
wrote 1 year ago: This song is punching me in the throat right now but I can’t stop listening: Black, by Okkervi … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I have a question. There are a number of songs from the late Seventies/early Eighties Britain procla … more →
wrote 1 year ago: From the ever-pleasin’ Messthetics collections, The Spunky Onions: How I Lost My Virginity. Ro … more →
wrote 1 year ago: A friend turned me on to an interesting lecture from 2007, featured on TVO’s Big Ideas, by a s … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Gentle Readers, I hope this finds you well. I have spent some time in that awkward state wherein one … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Been talking and thinking about papparazzi and star-f**kery a lot lately. Then I found this old Elvi … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a record I found at Goodwill and wound up really digging: Musique Folklorique Du Monde: … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I collect Sesame Street records – in the haphazard way I collect anything, which means that I … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Got to see The Future is Unwritten recently, and recommend it highly. Along with Don Letts’ We … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I’ve mentioned here before that I really love a lot of Adrian Belew’s work, but that I h … more →
wrote 1 year ago: … or, as we total hipsters call it, WTPRGRJBTGP is the period in the early 80s when, well, you … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I like this idea – Earth Hour is asking people all over the world to turn off the lights for a … more →
wrote 1 year ago: On the This American Life podcast, the episode about Special Education, there’s a segment with … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Alrighty, here’s the final piece of Drama Week (which, incidentally, took three weeks). I hadn … more →
wrote 1 year ago: The period we’ve been calling When the Prog Rockers Got Real – Just Before They Got Plas … more →
wrote 1 year ago: There’s no incredible thesis here – just an interesting across-the-musical-generations t … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I pulled out Yes’s Drama last week on a whim; it’s always been the only Yes album I … more →