Man, it's been a bit since I've mogged, but I have to let everyone know that if you get a chance to see Graham Parker and the Latest Clowns this summer, DO IT! I saw them at the great Old Town School of Folk Music theater in the second of two sold-out shows. There's not a bad seat in the house, and opening act Jon Langford and Graham Parker did not disappoint--we didn't leave the venue until after
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The B today stands not for "Beyonce" but for "birth," and in addition to it being international Labor Day and May Day in the former Soviet States, May 1 also marks the start of another season, well illustrated here by Jonathan Coulton.Other notable May 1 babies:* Ray Parker Jr* John Woo * Wes AndersonIt is also the day the cans of pineapple (and the protagonist's love) expire in my favorite movie,
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The moving vans have finally awoken from hibernation this weekend, and folks are cramming their possessions into vans and humping them across town, only to get the sofa stuck on the third-floor landing. Whenever I see a couple getting ready for a move, I think of this song, luxuriating in its jangly layerosity and deceptive simplicity.
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I don't have a quarrel with businesses that want to save money by going to low-cost regions; I think that is essentially the purpose of a business: to find the cheapest legal way to make something that sells for more than it costs to make. No, the disgrace of globalization in my eyes is homogenization, and now we've got Tom Cruise and Celine Dion, Ashwarya Rai and Faye Wong - the stars of the worl
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I know that it didn't make a dime at the box office, and reviews were mixed to say the least, but "Grindhouse" seemed to be tailor-made to my tastes, and this is probably the cause of the aforementioned problems. Among the things I loved was this awesome admonition courtesy of April March--Hang up that chick habit, daddy.
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Shonen Knife isn't nearly the first act from Asia to cover the Monkees (I have an awesome tape that originates in pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodia with a cover of this song, as well as some Joni Mitchell and the Carpenters), but they really came close to perfect with this cover.
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Say what you want about D'Angelo when he's outside the studio, but he's pressed some gorgeous wax. I think this is perhaps the best cover of a Roberta Flack song ever, and that includes Lauren Hill's by-the-numbers "Killing Me Softly."
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This is late for a variety of reasons (Guitar Hero II for my Xbox 360 being the main one). But here's a gem from the Trojan Records archives. I hope someone deserving is getting at least a little bit of the cash from the recent resurgence of Trojan in the popular consciousness.I like a lot of songs simply for the sentiments they convey, and this is definitely one of them.
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I've had a tough week. I got a bad neck sprain somehow, but the medicine I got for it was only good at night, because I couldn't get a damn thing done at work while I was taking it. So I'd come home, take some pills, and recover from a painful day. It stirred up a lot of stuff inside me, and I found myself intensely missing several people I doubt I will ever see on a regular basis again, ever. I
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