NONALIGNMENT PACT

There’s no way this will come out as well as I want it to, but I feel like I should write something here about ktru because it’s pretty likely that if it weren’t for the seventeen years that I was a DJ, Ramon wouldn’t have thought of me when he was shopping around for people to [...]

In this space I will not be writing about [...]

I don’t know if it’s the summer heat or something else, but I just can’t get motivated to do anything. It’s a good thing I have the heat, otherwise I might have to think about what the problem really is. So, in my laziness, I bring you three things. Again.

One

First is this song I [...]

I hate this and love it at the [...]

One of these days I’ll have something more to say. Until then, here’s a video of Keith Moon:

The grunting is what sells it [...]

I heard this on the radio somewhere in Tennessee. It had been maybe a decade since I heard it last and now it won’t go away. I sometimes find myself tapping out that rhythm without thinking about it. Sometimes it morphs into Brave Combo’s version of Skokiaan, I think because the rhythm fits. [...]

Here are a couple things that I enjoyed this week. First is Jason Moran, a Jazz Pianist (from Houston, no less) that I heard on Studio 360 (interview begins at around 15:00. Believe me, you’ll want to miss the Apples in Stereo bit before that) last weekend. He seems to be making the [...]

It’s been a long time since I paid attention to the official American Top 40. I remember a time when, even if I wanted to avoid hearing songs that made this list, I couldn’t. They would be in malls, at drugstores, and spilling out of cars on the street. Now, though, I can [...]

I came across this Metafilter post this week about XTC and decided it’s probably time that I talked about them here. My introduction to XTC was via the video to “Senses Working Overtime” which I saw on MTV in that brief window when they were still trying to figure out what was going to make [...]

I’ll be working back up to three.

Here are a [...]