My concert attendance has been picking up in 2008. AC and I saw the Decemberists perform on January 31st and this week is even better.
On Sunday, Brooke, Birch and I headed to the Showbox for scratchy goodness. I arrived five minutes into Kid Koala's opening set to find the crowd hooting and hopping, obviously pleased [...]
This song and video truly moved me. It's good to have hope for our country's future, political and otherwise. I'll be taking some time off tomorrow morning to hear Barack Obama speak at Key Arena a bit after noon.
So, when you're responsible for Weezer's "Buddy Holly" music video and the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" and Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" and, AND, Being John Malkovich, you already have my utmost respect. And then, when you get involved with a video like this:
I just have to stand and give my due. Cheers, Spike. You rule.
Oh, [...]
I would love to have any of these posters hanging on my wall. The artist responsible, Jason Munn, has a spare, balanced style that is so effective without being ostentatious. I also enjoy his use of muted colors. I cannot support, however, buying posters for concerts which I did not attend but there are a [...]
I first give you an offering by the way of Matt Kassoff. Do you remember Crazy Frog?
Glorious. That taller kid is all elbows. His brother probably wears glasses to protect his eyes from pokings. What's next?
I am snoozing an extra ten minutes or so each morning, the cold driving me back under my new fuzzy duvet cover and blanket. With four pillows all to myself, I sleep on one and construct a sort of warmth fort around my head with the other three.
The time change last weekend has pushed my [...]
I will go years and years, decades even, without having thought of a song and then suddenly it will pop back into my head. This song will be a bad song, something outside the realm of any reasonable musical taste, and often from the 80s or early 90s. I will listen to it once, and [...]
