If You Can Read This, I Am Driving
Posted on April 29, 2005 - Filed Under Music, On The Road Again | 1 Comment
Off to Coachella. Look for pictures next week. Unless there is some WiFi in the desert, in which case you can expect some early, low quality pictures. Who knows, if things get crazy enough some of you intrepid googlers looking for "pictures of black market kidneys" — apparently my #1 readers — may finally get [...]
Read More..>>Rock is dead, they said…
Posted on April 29, 2005 - Filed Under Music | Comments Off
Clear Channel’s five fetid formats look to be fading to four. Turns out the kiddies don’t see a reason to have the hourly Nickelback thrown at them between commercials when they can download far better rock and roll online. Fare thee well.
Read More..>>You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
Posted on April 28, 2005 - Filed Under Turf Wars | Comments Off
At a glance, this (bugmenot) looks promising, though the name "NoDo" sounds less than good to me.
[Omaha] is seeking proposals to create a "significant retail, entertainment and/or residential structures that will help create a lively mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented urban neighborhood."
All within a stone’s thow of Pettit’s. Woo-Hah!
Read More..>>Hemingway in KC
Posted on April 28, 2005 - Filed Under Books | Comments Off
I just ran across the Hemingway
page at the Kansas City Star. Created in 1999, as part of his 100th birthday
celebration, the site has a variety of Hemingway/KC related thingies such
as KC/Hemingway
landmarks, and articles he
wrote for the Star includging one in which he reports from a KC emergency
room:
One day an aged printer, his hand swollen from [...]
Country Time
Posted on April 27, 2005 - Filed Under Music | Comments Off
On the rock front, Spoon and Pinback are possibly my two favorite bands playing, mos def not to be missed. Rather than describe them, I’ll let you take a listen.
Spoon
Pinback
But all things being equal, I cannot allow you to miss Immortal Technique. Intelligently radical political hip-hop forcefully spit, and it sounds great too [...]
Going To The Country…
Posted on April 26, 2005 - Filed Under Music | 4 Comments
I’m heading to Coachella this weekend and would like to query you, kind reader, for any bands you may suggest. They have yet to release the set times, but the bands are listed here. (If you feel the need to say "Snow Patrol", go straight to jail, do not pass go, do not collect [...]
Read More..>>Can’t (Anti) Trust It
Posted on April 26, 2005 - Filed Under Music, The Man Stickin It To Us | Comments Off
Taking a page out of Fidel Castro’s playbook, "The Recording Industry" is washing crap-tastic CDs on our shores, fullfilling the technical requirements of an antitrust settlement. They are using this as an opportunity to unload some of their Not-So-Greatest Hits, including 73 copies of a "Christmas with Yolanda Adams for the San Francisco Public Library. [...]
Read More..>>Because BMK Is For The Kids
Posted on April 26, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days | Comments Off
"Talking about supplements and steroids needs to start
in the third grade," Small said. "If you wait till ninth grade, it’s
too late."
WTV and the musicians who love him
Posted on April 21, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Music | 5 Comments
Which of these do not belong? Ed, Scott, and Yours Truly? The first two: well-read, thoughtful and insightful members of the blogger literati and the LBC. Me? A jackass with a typepad account and the attendant hubris. Regardless, we met for dinner Wednesday and headed to The Booksmith for William T. Vollmann’s reading. They had [...]
Read More..>>SF International Film Festival
Posted on April 21, 2005 - Filed Under Mark Your Calendars, Movies | Comments Off
I’ll see which I see, but I saw Chokher Bali: A Passion Play at the Naz, and (two-snaps) HATED IT!
Read More..>>Proust Yahoo Group
Posted on April 20, 2005 - Filed Under Books | 1 Comment
Diane is rounding up "Prousters" on Yahoo! Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProustianWay/
Read More..>>He Loves It When You Call Him Il Papa
Posted on April 20, 2005 - Filed Under Music, Religion | Comments Off
Mark Moford in an open letter to Benedict XVI touches on many important issues, some swept under the rug by lesser brown nosers. Among them:
Pope, why is Christian music still so patently awful? Do you know? Oh, I know, there’s all these quasi-hip new Christian rock bands and drug- and alcohol- and debauchery- and [...]
If I Were A Book…
Posted on April 19, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Look Away! It's My Brain | 1 Comment
You’re Watership Down!
by Richard Adams
Though many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you’re
actually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink their
assumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they
build their houses. You might be one of the greatest people of all time. You’d
be recognized [...]
Ted Leo: Jokester
Posted on April 18, 2005 - Filed Under Music, We Kid Because We Care | Comments Off
Earlier this week, BMK favorite, Ted Leo, resumed posting to his website – complete with a dubious link to Readers’ Digest worthy jokes*. He tries to make good by giving us one to file under "St. Pete at the Pearly Gates":
Read More..>>Husker Coüp
Posted on April 18, 2005 - Filed Under Politics | Comments Off
Bloomberg may have gotten me off cigarettes, but I’d still take Bob Kerrey as Mayor of New York.
Read More..>>Mercy Rule/Frontier Trust
Posted on April 18, 2005 - Filed Under Music | Comments Off
Timmy Mac at lazy-i writes up a recent reunion of 90s Omaha heavyweights Mercy Rule & Frontier Trust., who have a new 7" split out.
The set lasted until around 1:30. They played songs off Flat Black, God Protects Fools, Providence
and the singles. It was fun, though Ron was sorely missed. I never
realized just how much [...]
Europe Central
Posted on April 18, 2005 - Filed Under Books | Comments Off
The Oregonian takes a look at William Vollmann’s Europe Central.
In style, scope and imagery, Vollmann’s novel resembles works by
William Gaddis, Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Thomas Pynchon. In one
passage, Vollmann seems to riff on the opening line of Pynchon’s
"Gravity’s Rainbow." Pynchon opens his book with the line, "A screaming
comes across the sky," instilling an immediate sense of [...]
Museum One, Museum All
Posted on April 15, 2005 - Filed Under Art | 1 Comment
The NY Times takes a look at the expansion of Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center. Photos of the building, designed by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, hint at asthetic the team also provided for their work on San Franicisco’s De Young, set to re-open this fall.
Read More..>>OK, But Who Is Licking My Funky Emotion?
Posted on April 15, 2005 - Filed Under Food, Money | Comments Off
Mark Moford describes Safeway sucking your soul.
And then one day you just so happened to be handed a glass of
old-school milk and you remembered your happy childhood, so you took a
big swig and almost gagged because it tasted like thick liquid phlegm
and you were like, "Oh my God, how the hell did I ever drink [...]
Nipped In the Bud
Posted on April 14, 2005 - Filed Under Crime | Comments Off
Do we have legalized abortion to thank for lower crime rates?
Back in 1999, Mr. Levitt was trying to figure out why crime rates had fallen so dramatically in the previous decade. He was struck by the fact that crime began falling nationwide just 18 years after the Supreme Court effectively legalized abortion. He was struck [...]
