Book Stack Updates
Posted on December 30, 2004 - Filed Under
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WikipediaThanks to my sister, this year we did a book swap over Christmas. My brother got my copy of Cloud Atlas (along with belated Halloween care package insert Old School). My sister got Happy Baby. I got three books (seen at right): Goodnight, Nebraska, When We Were Orphans and The Seville Communion. I’m still going [...]
Read More..>>Link-A-Roo, Stink-A-Roo*
Posted on December 30, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAs I return from my Christmas holiday in Omaha, I take the scattershot approach to reading/linking.
All things tsunami:
TEV points us to The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami blog which contains news and information on how to help.
Ed has GWB’s stance on the tsunami
Bud at Chekhov’s Mistress posted his open letter to his government officials.
This [...]
Read More..>>Goodbye, Night Cabbie
Posted on December 28, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentSF’s Night Cabbie turns in his last report.
Read More..>>Ted Leo on Air America Radio
Posted on December 27, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentLookout Records has posted some clips from Ted Leo’s recent appearance on Air America’s radio show Morning Sedition. There is a brief interview plus the songs Me and Mia, The Spirit of Radio (for you Rush fans) and Timorous Me.
Read More..>>My Life Is An Open Magazine
Posted on December 23, 2004 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentIn my last unofficial task before the loooong weekend. I leave you with what the Internet was truly meant for*…telling you more than you want to know about me. It will be super fun if you put your answers in my commenst section. Plus Bill Gates will email you like thirty bazillion dollars!!!! (as part [...]
Read More..>>Mates of State DVD
Posted on December 23, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentPopmatters reviews the Mates of State DVD Two of Us. (Also: popmatters now has an RSS feed)
Read More..>>John Doe’s Guitar
Posted on December 23, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI saw John Doe on Tuesday opening for M. Ward. Since I am just learning guitar and trying to pick up ideas,techniques, etc… anywhere I can and was standing near the stage, I noted he used a rather old looking guitar with a "GUILD" label, to see if I could find anything about it later. [...]
Read More..>>Open Letter To Jose Saramago
Posted on December 22, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentJames Petras has posted an open letter to Jose Saramago in which he defends the FARC guerillas in Columbia. Admittedly, I know little of these goings on in Columbia, but this has piqued my interest.
Read More..>>Not Dead Yet
Posted on December 22, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAs we wade through countless year end best-of lists, I realize my favorite album of the year is from last year. Screw it. It came out in November, and by the time I was able to track it down, it was 2004. All you scanning my brain know it already, but for the ESP deficient [...]
Read More..>>I’ll Stick To Coffee
Posted on December 21, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThe LA Times reports on "sharper thinking through chemistry". But hey, at least it sounds like a good premise for a bad movie (anything that involves "brain scientists" should do.)
Read More..>>Aquarius New Arrivals #203
Posted on December 21, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThey do the work. I direct you there. "They" = the staff at Aquarius Records"the work" = Reviews & samples of new arrivals."I" = me."there" - Aquarius Records New Arrivals #203This week: They tout the "krautrock holy grail" German Oak. I’ve been swayed to try out The Futureheads, in my never ending effort to slay [...]
Read More..>>TóibÃn Short Story
Posted on December 20, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThe Guardian has posted a new short story, A Song, by Colm TóibÃn. His novel The Master is due out in paperback next month, and I look forward to picking it up. (link via Maud)
Read More..>>Sell Outs
Posted on December 20, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentTo nobody’s surprise, all three Arcade Fire dates in SF for Jan 12-15th are sold out. Their album Funeral has gotten lots of dap, and my brother agrees that it’s the goods. I still don’t own it, but am happy to stream the entire ablum from Merge Records’ web site.Also on Merge records, M. Ward’s [...]
Read More..>>The Chicken Comes Home To Proust
Posted on December 16, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAfter a growing number of recent references to Marcel Proust (the most recent being in The Recognitions), I am throwing in the towel and plan to Read Proust©. I am quite looking forward to it, and am recruiting some fellow suckers enthusiasts to help me along. Impressed as I am by the Gaddis Drinking Club, [...]
Read More..>>Where’s The Haggis?
Posted on December 16, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentBecause Haggis is the new Waldo. Find Haggis. Win prizes!
Simply browse through our ten haggis-cams, which are located in various
parts of our beautiful country (and in other lands, for the benefit of
the haggis diaspora).
If you see a haggis, click on the "I saw a haggis" link displayed next to the cam.
GDC In The Place To Be, Never Went to St. Johns University
Posted on December 16, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIt’s Thursday, which means Gaddis Drinking Club tonight.
Read More..>>Anti-Hit List
Posted on December 16, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThis week’s Anti Hit List is out. Among the 10 are these 2:
The Faint’s "I Disappear" / The Cure’s "The Lovecats" (from Party Ben. Check out his super-rad web page. Seriously, check ou this regular download page. It looks like he has some of his older mixes back on line (including the Fugazi & Beyonce [...]
Read More..>>SF Weekly Year in Music
Posted on December 16, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentSF Weekly has their year in music issue. Of the articles I read: Garret Kamps recaps the year including his top 10 albums.Rob Harvilla has his top 10 "alternative" records. On his #2 album Shake The Sheets from Ted Leo/Rx:
Ken Burns could make a ten-part documentary about the song "Little Dawn" alone: The Punk Guitar [...]
Emperor Norton Bridge
Posted on December 15, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThe Chronicle reports an initiative to name the new span of the bay bridge after my long-time favorite San Franciscan, Emperor Norton. Anybody who goes loony toons after trying to corner the world rice market* is OK in my book.
Joshua Abraham Norton — who, according to his Chronicle obituary, hailed from Scotland — was a [...]
Scattershot
Posted on December 14, 2004 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment* Joe Posnanski wrote a memory of recently deceased sports radio legend Pete Franklin.
* You can stream the audio of Broken Social Scene’s ablum You Forgot It In People at their web site web site [real audio] (via brooklynvegan)
* I came across an excellent interview of Ted Leo. Discussed: Bob Seger, Ted’s favorite books, [...]
