In that sea of cars, trucks, busses, et cetera streaming from NOLA, is a 3-car mini-caravan containing six of my nuclear and extended family members and four birds. They left their homes on Saturday night and spent nearly 8 hours driving to Jackson. Seeing the news coverage of thousands of cars sitting on the [...]
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Tom Petty’s in town this weekend and I think it’s a good time to remember one of his most underrated records: his soundtrack for Ed Burns’s otherwise forgettable She’s the One. I bought the soundtrack because I loved its signature song, “Walls,” which appears on the soundtrack twice. “Walls (Circus)” includes damn [...] I have to wonder why, after a long campaign with rallies which had some good music–or at least had Tom Petty, Obama picked a Brooks & Dunn song to be the punch line for his biggest speech. Sure, I know the lyrics for “Only in America” fit Obama’s “living the American dream” theme, but [...] This is a secret post. On the surface it looks like it is saying one thing, but really it is saying something else completely. You will read this and think you know what it says, because when we understand the words, we think we understand the meaning, either that or the words make no [...] (No music) Yesterday was my oldest boy’s first day of Kindergarten. We woke up on time though the alarm didn’t go off so I’m not sure how that happened. Then we found out my youngest son has a high fever and will not be going to school, which means I am not going to [...] As part of the Chicago Jazz Fest, both Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman are playing this week for the cost of a couple of CTA train rides. Sonny Rollins is the deepest tenor saxophonist to come out from under Thelonius Monk’s broad wings. And from what I hear, the 78 year old blower still [...] Not being a teenage girl, I wasn’t expecting to get into Tegan & Sara, but after finding an in-store copy of their CD So Jealous for $1 at a CD store closing sale, I decided to give them a shot. Turns out I already had the album as a CD-R, which I’m sure I [...] Picking up a little bit on Justin’s post from Friday, I’m reading a book right now called This is Your Brain on Music – The science of a human obsession by Daniel J. Levitin. Levitin is a former successful music producer and engineer who got so fascinated with how people perceive music that he [...] Not that I don’t like the songs I left off, but I just need a longer break before I can listen to them again. And then, the main reason I like the rest of the songs is the relaxed feeling I get, like I’m going down a country road in a truck with the [...] I remember combing the racks at the old Sound Ex on Westheimer or Vinal Edge to see if Palace had a new record out. I used to sit down in front of the wall of magazines at the Alabama Bookstop and read the reviews in Alternative Press. Josh and I went [...] |
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