SOUNDTRACK: RUSH-”You Can’t Fight It” (1973). This is the B-Side of the first single Rush ever released (The A Side: a cover of “Not Fade Away”). It was released briefly but has been long out of print. Thankfully, people on the internets have access to all kinds of things. It’s pretty clearly Rush–Geddy sounds right, [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Matthea Harvey–Of Lamb (2011)
Posted in Amy Jean Porter, Canadian Music, Funny (strange), Matthea Harvey, McSweeney's, Rush on August 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm–Babymouse: Skater Girl [#7] (2007)
Posted in Children's Books, Figure Skating, Funny (ha ha), Graphic Novel, Jennifer L. Holm, Matthew Holm, Rush, Short Books on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: RUSH-”Not Fade Away” (1973). I never understood this song. Grammatically it drives me nuts. ”Love is real, not fade away.” Why would someone write that? Anyone with even a rudimentary grasp of English would know that that is just a horrible way to speak. Okay, I got that off my chest. So this is [...]
Judith Schalansky–Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Island I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will (2009)
Posted in 18th Century, 19th Century, Adventure, All Songs Considered, Christine Lo, Culture Shock, Death, Foreign Books, History, Judith Schalansky, Metric, Nature, Russia, The Flaming Lips, The Swell Season, Translation, Travel on August 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: METRIC-Live at the 9:30 Club, June 18, 2009 (2009). I love the new Metric album and this tour supported that disc, so, it’s a win-win for me! Metric sound great live, and the notes on the NPR page where I downloaded this give a fascinating history of the band. Evidently they burnt out in [...]
David Means–”El Morro” (New Yorker, August 29, 2011)
Posted in David Means, New Yorker, Short Story, The Flaming Lips, Unfinished on August 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: THE FLAMING LIPS-Live at Summer Stage, Central Park, NY, July 26, 2010 (2010). This was a cool show that the Flaming Lips played in Central Park. It came during the Embryonic tour and the setlist focuses on that album, but they play tracks from many of their more recent discs. We get “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song,” [...]
Five Dials 19: The Parenting Issue (28 April 2011)
Posted in Advice, Alain de Botton, Alexandra Styron, Arthur Bradford, Books about writers, Cars, Christoph Niemann, Consumerism, Craig Taylor, Culture Shock, Darin Strauss, Diedre Dolan, Essays, Excerpt, Fears, Five Dials, Fretful Mother, Funny (ha ha), Heidi Julavits, Hugh Gallagher, Humiliation, Jim Windolf, John Kenney, Katha Pollitt, Kevin Baker, Kraftwerk, Manuals, Marriage (Happy), Marriage Trouble, Neil Young, Peter Melhman, Piers Paul Read, Religion, Rush, Sarah Miller, Short Story, The Simpsons, Tucker Nichols, William Berlind, William Styron on August 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: NEIL YOUNG-Trans (1982). By most standards this Neil Young album is a disaster. It’s so bad that despite updating his entire catalog and releasing all kinds of bootleg concerts, he has never issued this disc on CD in the States. So, just what’s so awful about this disc? Well, mostly it’s awful as a [...]
Gene Luen Yang–Level Up (2011)
Posted in All Songs Considered, Culture Shock, Gene Luen Yang, Glen Hansard, Graphic Novel, Marketa Irglova, Set at School, Short Books, The Swell Season, Thien Pham, Tim Buckley, Van Morrison, Video Games on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: THE SWELL SEASON-Live at the Newport Folk Festival, August 1, 2010 (2010). This is the second show by the Swell Season that I downloaded from NPR (even though it is not chronologically second). The Newport Folk Festival proves to be an excellent venue for Glen Hansard and The Frames. For yes, in this show, The Frames play [...]
Me? A Featured Blogger?
Posted in Anthrax, Funky Web Sites, Indie Posit, Superchunk, Weakerthans on August 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to your vigorous write-in campaign and your massive texting, I have been accepted as a Featured Blogger on the very cool site Indie Posit. What is Indie Posit, you may ask. Well, I’ll let the site speak for itself: This site is dedicated to creating a community of like-minded, original thinkers who deserve to [...]
The Decemberists–”Calamity Song” (video) (2011)
Posted in All Songs Considered, Colin Meloy, David Foster Wallace, End of the World, Eschaton, Infinite Summer, Newspapers, Parks and Recreation, Short Films, Tennis, The Decemberists, The New York Times on August 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
[WATCHED: August 22, 2011] “The Calamity Song” I woke yesterday to the news that one of my favorite bands had made a music video which was a tribute to one of my favorite books, Infinite Jest. Colin Meloy was a reader during the Infinite Summer project (one of the more high profile readers, although he didn’t really contribute [...]
Douglas Coupland–JPod (2006)
Posted in Douglas Coupland on August 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: THE SWELL SEASON-Tiny Desk Concert, August 10, 2009 (2009). I was going through the NPR recordings that I’ve downloaded and discovered that I had four from The Swell Season. This Tiny Desk concert is the shortest of the four recordings (although it’s one of the longest Tint Desk concerts–most are about 10-15 minutes, this one [...]
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