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All things being equal (yeah right), it might be easy for one to take to heart the ideas espoused by dangerous minds like John Lomax over at the Houston Press. It has been his contention – and I am paraphrasing (to say the least) – that hip-hop has replaced rock as the music that [...]
I actually wasn’t planning on writing anything about Ennio Morricone today, but I would be derelict in my duty as a contributor to a music blog if I failed to mention that he was honored last night at the Oscars with a lifetime achievement award. Finally. After writing over 500 television and [...] I will be on an island. The island, as many of you already know who read comments, is Great Barrier Island, a four-hour ferry ride from Auckland. I’m going there for the next thirteen weeks to edit a television show. I’m told I have wireless Internet at the workplace but not much [...] Click on the playlist to go to the Podomatic site and the player. If you have an easier time viewing the embedded player, go HERE. Last weeks Name That Tune Challenge was “Baby Elephant Walk” by Henry Mancini. Clinton provided the music for this week’s NTT challenge, because he was the first [...] Given that payday coincided with a show with Sharks and Sailors and My Education, I figured that this was a sign from above to get my heinie out. By now I’m sure you know that I’m a big fan of S&S and My Education. Sharks and Sailors is a band I admire for their [...]
I can’t listen to a lot of new music; it’s just too “loud.” And before you kneejerk with the “you’re too old” response (true as it may be), I don’t mean that it’s loud, because how could anybody be against loud music*? No, I mean “loud”—music [...] Also included: Part 5 of The Book of Fables. To Supay, Lord of the Ucu Pacha. As much as music may be a universal language, and even without taking into account any lyrics it might have in an unknown language, it is surprisingly difficult for people to get into music that doesn’t have [...] If to my bar compadre I did say the words in this post’s title, I’d be lucky if in return was given a blank stare. Folks I know see blogs as an extension of mundane in the vain “Dear Diary” stuff. No, the people with whom I enjoy a pint of confabulation are completely [...] When I was but a wee, I knew this guy who never took a bath. Ever. Or at least that’s the way I remember it. He had a roommate, and that dude was also a little skint on the soap usage. But what they lacked in sanitary rituals, they recovered in droves with their [...] |
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