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Archive for April, 2008

J. Storer Clouston–The Lunatic at Large (1899) [THE COLLINS LIBRARY No. 5]

Posted in 19th Century, Adventure, Foreign Books, Funny (ha ha), J. Storer Clouston, McSweeney's, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse, Paul Collins, Paul Simon, Smarty Pants, Star Trek, Vampire Weekend on April 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »

SOUNDTRACK: VAMPIRE WEEKEND-Vampire Weekend (2008).
There’s some hype surrounding this record. And of course, I wouldn’t have heard about it without the hype. But I have to say this is my favorite record in a long, long time. It has everything! It’s got really tight, fun catchy songs…some as short as 2 minutes. It has wonderfully [...]

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What I learned… (19) [That Mitchell and Webb Look]

Posted in Digression, That Mitchell and Webb Look on April 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I noticed that as of right now my number of views is 7,344…and that’s Numberwang!

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John Lloyd & John Mitchinson–The Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know is Wrong (2006)

Posted in Canadian Music, Dip-in Books, Douglas Adams, Funny (ha ha), John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, Smarty Pants, Stephen Fry on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

SOUNDTRACK: NEIL YOUNG-Chrome Dreams II (2007).
I reviewed some live Neil Young releases a little while back, and now I’ve come to this, Neil’s latest release. Since he stopped making his grunge records in the nineties, he’s been releasing a lot of records that are more mellow (aside from Living with War which was [...]

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Bill Loehfelm–Fresh Kills [excerpt] (2008)

Posted in Adventure, Bill Loehfelm, Contests, Marriage Trouble, NPR/PRI/PBS, Nirvana, Scranton, PA on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

SOUNDTRACK: TEENAGE FANCLUB-Bandwagonesque (1991).
In honor of this post about an author I went to college with (go class of ‘91) I’m going to mention this album from ‘91.  According to the movie, 1991 was the year that punk broke.  And, with all of the grungey/alternative bands that got onto major labels at the time, you;d [...]

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McSweeneys #26 ["New Stories from Overseas", "New Stories from Our Shores", and "Where to Invade Next"] (2008)

Posted in Adventure, Canadian Content, Consumerism, Contests, Discworld, Gangsters, Marriage Trouble, McSweeney's, Political Humor, Short Story, The Riches, WMDs, War, tagged on April 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

SOUNDTRACK: JOSE GONZALEZ-In Our Nature (2007).
I first heard Jose Gonzalez, as pretty much everyone did, in the Sony commercial. The one where thousands of superballs are dropped down a San Francisco street to the accompaniment of Gonzalez’ “Heartbeats”. It was a beautiful piece of video. And the song was really perfectly suited. A mellow [...]

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Gordon Korman–Born to Rock (2006)

Posted in Books about music, Consumerism, Digression, Gay/Lesbian, Gordon Korman, Holidays, Knocked Up, Loudon Wainwright III, Set at School, Short Books, Undeclared, YA Books on April 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »

SOUNDTRACK: LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III-Career Moves (1993).
I first discovered Loudon Wainwright III through the great short-lived TV series Undeclared. Wainwright was the main character’s dad, an unlikable lout who, over the course of the show, became a really funny, interesting character.
Wainwright has become something of a staple in the Judd Apatow world, and he did the [...]

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Gordon Korman–Son of the Mob (2002)

Posted in Adventure, Barenaked Ladies, Gangsters, Gordon Korman, Gordon Lightfoot, Moxy Fruvous, Set at School, Short Books, The Sopranos, YA Books on April 4, 2008 | 8 Comments »

SOUNDTRACK: GORDON LIGHTFOOT-The Complete Greatest Hits (2002).
In keeping with the Gordon theme of this post, I’m going to mention Gordon Lightfoot. He is an iconic Canadian folk singer that I was sure I must have heard in the past. He seemed to be mentioned a lot recently, so I decided to get a hits collection [...]

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Blake Nelson–Rock Star Superstar (2004)

Posted in Blake Nelson, Books about music, Queensryche, Set at School, Short Books, Tiny Masters of Today, YA Books, Yngwie Malmsteen on April 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »

SOUNDTRACK: RADIOHEAD-In Rainbows (2008).
OK Computer has been my favorite album for many years. And since then, I’ve been consitently blown away by Radiohead. Even their willfully obscure phase is pretty awesome in my book.
I’m not going to say much about Radiohead’s decision to sell this record online. I congratulate them for [...]

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