I know, I know. *Puts on a mocking, whiny voice* "Confusion, there are too many videos! We want mp3s!" Shhh. Just watch this. Paul Simon backed by The Roots and Antibalas on the horns for a great take on "Late In The Evening". It's one of those moments in music that you didn't expect, but when it happens, it feels right.PigeonsandPlanes
I took an acting class in my schooldays, and was rather dismayed by it. There were a lot of silly exercises like sitting in a circle and passing an imaginary "ball of warmth" to the person next to you, "identifying" with various inanimate objects - rubbish like that. A few years later, I heard about an acting class taught by Michael Caine that took an approach so practical and simple that I e...
Way way back when Detroit was just beginning to overcome its bad case of "Not invented Here" in the matter of disc brakes, discs were first fitted as an extra-cost option on luxury cars.And Ford began getting a much higher-than-normal incidence of total brake failures on its disc-equipped Lincolns; especially odd in that virtually all the systems that failed (if they survived the subsequent fes...
It seems that a vast and previously unrealised void in my conciousness has been filled by my joining of MOG. I discovered this place by eaves-dropping on the comments-box of a friend's blog, and can't believe I didn't get my daft hippie ass to this place sooner. Long have I been in search of a place where I can rant about my strange andall-consuming taste for music to people who will actually...
One and one-half wandering jewsFree to wander wherever they chooseAre travelling togetherIn the sangre de cristoThe blood of christ mountainsOf new mexicoOn the last leg of the journeyThey started a long time agoThe arc of a love affairRainbows in the high desert airMountain passes slipping into stonesHearts and bonesHearts and bonesHearts and bonesThinking back to the season beforeLooking back...
