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The Boredoms lacked ambition on the seventhSeventy-seven drummers drum, the city hardly notices The lucky number seven deserves greater respect Seven’s true story takes place in Kingston When Marcus Garvey prophesied a reckoning day And Joe Hill wrote a powerful song Learn more here and here 7 7 SongTwo Sevens [...] As I sit here writing this, I am effectively putting off a paying assignment in order to pull something out of my ass for your benefit (you being the three people who end up reading this). I love writing for this blog as it affords me the opportunity to stroke my ego, create something, [...] hehe… this is the result of sliding down that slippery slope of reading, writing, and considering seriously the work of ac/dc and steely dan. sure, there may be a genius unrecognized by the h-word people in their music, but then you’re going to force my hand, and i will end up writing about bananarama [...] Click on the podcast link in the right margin of this blog to hear episodes of the NONALIGNMENT PACT podcasts. If you need help…. ask. Please submit guesses for Ramon’s mystery tune in the comments section of this post. Clues may be provided if the songs cannot be guessed. Song and [...] today is the last day of the Auckland International Film Festival, and in the past 17 days I’ve seen something like 60 movies. (Actually, I’m writing this Saturday night and I have four more to go, but barring getting hit by a car or something, I’ll see them tomorrow. And TWO-LANE BLACKTOP is the [...] Here we are again, it’s that annual Houston Press Music Awards Showcase. Now to be honest nobody gives a shit who wins. In fact, for quite a few years I would just simply write-in Rusted Shut for every category even if my band was nominated. Why? Just because, well, why the fuck not? I [...] I’ve been trying to figure out why I’m not as interested in seeing live music as I used to be. I guess the obvious answer is that I’ve seen so much of it that not much live music seems new. Once you’ve seen a few guys playing guitars a few hundred times, you don’t [...] Ok, I’ve gotten the feeling over the past year we’ve been doing this blog, that Steely Dan is not the most popular choice among us. But you know what, I love Steely Dan. As a matter of fact if I had to pick a genre of American music that I like almost as much [...] Horace Andy recorded in the Bronx and I was riding through the Bronx on a Greyhound bus with an elderly Jamaican woman verbalizing behind my head into a cellphone.She was letting everybody know, from Jimmy to Leon to Rita, that she was okay despite accidentally roaming the New England highway system for twenty-four hours [...] My wife likes shitty music. It’s a bone of contention. Of course, if you ask her, I like shitty music too. We fight about it. I hate her Dixie Chicks CD and she detests my Jandek records. I’ll never let her down for liking Edie Brickell, and she will never understand what is so [...] |
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