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After two AWOL weeks I was hoping to have more for you this week. Unfortunately, sickness has my head completely abuzz and awash in thoughts of restless nights and a lack of inspiration. So, uh, I am attempting to break the solid chunk of pain with the following tracks: 09 Satin Chic 12 [...] This is the first folk album that I have ever turned up to a level that made the neighbors complain. And I’d do it again. I will steal his voice in the night and tame it and make it my [...] Doings a-transpiring have made me late to the party this week – and a little short(er) on material. Here’s a retrospective on my weekend: 07 Tuxedo Hat (BONUS VIDEO HERE BUT EMBEDDING DISABLED BY REQUEST – EXTREME SADFACE) [...] There’s hardly anything I wouldn’t give to be able to turn on music and have the pain go away. When I see people tweeting about how a song turned their day around, it makes me insanely jealous. My reaction to adversity during the day or during a particularly difficult time is to shut off [...] My rotation has a traditional structure and a nontraditional substructure. As I’ve described before, I find moments I simply want to put on repeat. Not whole songs but moments. I’ve always done this. I’ll be the first to admit, to my significant embarrassment, that one of the first repeat moments I experienced was the [...] So, uh, our state was in the news this week. You may have heard shiny new Maine Governor Paul LePage, also known as Archie Bunker, respond to critics upset at his decision to skip Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day events by asking them to “kiss my butt.” I just have no words at [...] I’ve never felt before like I should back off the negative. My personal view is that tastes and standards are important, and that I am not here simply to praise what I love but also to examine, in some depth, why I don’t like what I don’t like. But as I sit in revulsion [...] I’m a sucker for heavy reverb. I’ll admit it. It’s probably the easiest and laziest way to obscure musical content but that doesn’t make it any less effective. So it was of some interest for me to hear NPR interns talking about their “songs our bosses missed” and mentioning the brilliantly named Gauntlet Hair: [...] You can trace the decline of the television theme song in a straight line from Barney Miller to Seinfeld. This was my first thought when I heard the news of Steve Landesberg’s death this week. Though I do recognize him first and foremost and frankly ONLY as Arthur Dietrich — a perspective this article [...] The selection this week of Tom Waits, Neil Diamond, and Alice Cooper for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame made me feel about three shades less embarrassed to look over the Hall’s site. I am, like everyone else, highly skeptical of all Hall-of-Fame-type structures until they make choices I agree with. [...] |
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