Ye Olde Þrīe Þings

Þing ān Russell Brand (who?) has come up with a plan to rid the world of the likes of Justin Bieber (who?). He thinks that teen sensations should all be junkies in order to weed out the weakest. Hilarious! I can see why his comedy is so popular. Fortunately, that old saw about Americans [...]

I’m in a writing frame of mind sort of.

A lot of the songs I’ve written over the years poured out in periods of otherwise deadening depression. They are not all sad songs, but sad is my usual writing frame of mind. Since living up North, my work patterns seem to mirror nature; Spring is a creative time. And now Clara’s bath time [...]

Jonsi

Conference season has taken over my life recently: SXSW followed by the numerous parties, mixers and other miscellaneous brand-sponsored drinking experiences associated with ad:tech, the Twitter conference, the Facebook conference, Grammy Soundtables and so forth. In the midst of all of this, I have regrettably been remiss in updating and contributing to this blog, [...]

Prisencolinensinainciusol

I think whenever I don’t have a post ready to go, I’ll just post this video by Adriano Celentano:

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I have to get the last vestiges of this vacation out of my system before I can get back into the normal rhythm of writing screeds. Please stand by…

Banal Stories #5: “Please Come Home For Christmas”

Christmas of my sophomore year, I stayed up late trying to tape the Eagles’ cover of “Please Come Home For Christmas” off MIX 96.5. They said they were going to play it. But it never came on. It was for a mix tape I was making. For a girl that I liked. Because [...]

Tree Tings

Ting Won Some of you may remember reading about how Alex Chilton didn’t have health insurance and how that may have contributed to his demise. That little piece of information seems to have originated from this Times-Picayune story about Chilton’s life in New Orleans and it was subsequently picked up by just about every [...]

Week 182: Atahualpa Yupanqui 2

I’ve briefly written about Don Atahualpa before. I’m not going to write much about him now. But last night, late, outside with the laptop, looking at videos, surrounded by trees and stars, I found these three videos of him and it reminded me why his music is so timeless.

This one is allegedly [...]

T’ree T’ings I’m writin’ kinda like over der by Justin’

Well Duh

Does this even need to be documented?

Big Fucking Mouth

BM bringing back midi tones and horse whinnies.

I Fucking Love Monkeys

Death Disco

I’d won tickets to see Public Image Ltd play at the Regency Ballroom on Saturday. Had never seen them and was looking forward to doing so, but the tix were worth $50 each + $10 TicketBastard ™ fees! So I thought maybe I’d try to sell them, but the show didn’t sell out, no [...]