One year! I hope all of you will open a bottle of your favorite drink and toast to the NAP. 365 posts in a row, plus 41 podcasts, that is quite an achievement and I trust we are all as proud of ourselves as we should be. In our honor here’s down under native [...]
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago celebrates its 40th Anniversary with forty “free entrance” days and a populist exhibition, Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967. It’s a rambling over-reaching affair but hey, well worth the admission price. 1967 is the year the MCA Chicago opened its doors. It is [...] Well. I can’t believe it’s been an entire year. I, for one, have used a guest writer once in these fifty-two weeks, a feat I will undoubtedly not reproduce. As for my opening promises, I have followed some, and ignored others. I truly never “got” Jack White. My self-exposure as a moron has been [...] Hi- I’ve been transported back to Berlin with a non-changeable, nonrefundable ticket. There are many possible explanations for this, not many of them are plausible. One has to do with an ex-boyfriend whose new apartment I’m helping to renovate, whose lease ran out on his old one, who needed a place to stay and [...] It has fallen upon me to say a few words on this, the august occasion of the one-year anniversary of the Nonalignment Pact. I have a bunch of vague thoughts that don’t really add up to much, but it is perfectly appropriate to the occasion that I share said half-assed thoughts anyway, and probably [...] I’m sure you’re all tired of the scene reports so this week we’re going to take a break from the Sailors, Guilloteens, Animals, Jewelry and Clouds. This week we’re going to talk about an American institution. You know who I’m talking about – The Rainbow in the Dark, The Last In Line, The Holy [...] The album is dead. Or so I keep reading. The theory is that now that we’re all apparently downloading music, we don’t have the patience for songs that we haven’t heard. This is the same theory that the marketing geniuses at Clear Channel apply to commercial radio, leading to a panoply of bland that [...] One of the things I always look forward to when visiting my family in Puerto Rico is spending some time with my uncle. Yes, the same uncle that had the mysterious room filled with strange music, strange girls and even stranger smells that I’ve talked about before. My uncle is the closest thing I’ve [...] An odd name, but hey, it’s funk. Over the years, this sprightly little piece of funk eventually became a favorite of mine. I love how it manages to mine a slow tempo while never not promoting ass-shaking. I can’t say I’d ever followed funk very closely, but this was definitely a topic for further [...] |
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