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Posted on February 25, 2006 - Filed Under
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WikipediaIn which I copycat Dave. If you want to read me live-blogging an iTunes shuffle session, proceed after the ever mysterious “jump”.
Read More..>>The millenium of aftermath
Posted on February 23, 2006 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentInspired by the Onion’s AV Club:Â
I’m in the mood for love, Louis PrimaÂ
Working at a coffee shop in Nashville in the late 90’s, many of my co-workers were stereo nazi’s, i.e., their 5 CDs were put on the changer when they came in, protests be damned. It was right in the heart of the big [...]
Read More..>>Music Event Horizon
Posted on February 21, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI may have to bookmark podbop, where you type your city and its robot brains list upcoming shows with MP3 samples from the bands. Via foghorn.
Read More..>>Do You Speak American?
Posted on February 21, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentFleetwood Mac may have told us to go our own way, but it was “Jim”* - a coworker from my dishwashing high school days who told me that I talked pretty normal for a guy with such a crazy name (Tito Perez for those scoring at home). Perhaps it was this encouragement that drove me [...]
Read More..>>The Murakami Mix
Posted on February 17, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentFor a while I’ve been procrastinating the project of compiling a mix of all the songs from Norwegian Wood. Friend of BMK, Gaston alerts me to Haruki Murakami’s web site where all his song references are available, plus lots of other goodies. Doo-doo for making it Flash-only, though.
Read More..>>Omaha’s Folk House
Posted on February 17, 2006 - Filed Under
| 2 CommentsMy cousin’s Folk House made the fishwrap [full text after the jump] last Sunday. For the last six years, Jerome & Diane have opened up their home as a venue for traveling musicians to give house concerts. A while back a film crew came by and recorded one concert, and it looks like the DVD [...]
Read More..>>A Man A Plan, A Blog, Golb An Alpan Ama!
Posted on February 16, 2006 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentEd has the goods on a Jonatahan Ames reading in the Haight.
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Pining for a mysteriously dark album by a (formerly) aspiring baseball player, Beat obsessed, recovering alcoholic Omaha native who regularly sojourned to New Orleans to busk? This may be a good start.
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Ice-T will speak at the re-opening of an Omaha Library branch. A pretty [...]
No, the hunting partner wasn’t Scalia…
Posted on February 13, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentEven if I have watched at least some of every Super Bowl since John Riggins bowled over the Dolphins, I must confess that, Madison Avenue’s efforts notwithstanding, the only pre-dotcom Super Bowl commercials that readily come to mind are the yearly Bud Bowl installments. In fact, I can even remember talking about it the following [...]
Read More..>>What do you love?
Posted on February 10, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI don’t have time to give this the full treatment, so for now I’ll leave the first that comes to mind and add more when I can.
The line “Fuck being hard, posdnuous is complicated”
Whatever that sound is in MC Lyte’s “Cha Cha Cha” along with the guy in the video who says “So long as [...]
Alterior Motives?
Posted on February 10, 2006 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentThe fine MP3 blog gorilla vs. bear alleges (leagal mumbo-jumbo? for “calling bullshit”) that the music blog http://musicglob.com/ is not “legit”. The main reasons being suspicisous disclaimers & terms of use along with awkward writing. Sounds a lot like pitchfork, to me. [Assume Vin Scullly voice] What’s interesting to note here is, that the blog [...]
Read More..>>BMK - Leah Garchik Style
Posted on February 10, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI’ve been too busy lately to do my usual bang-up blogging. Haven’t noticed the difference? Won’t fool me again… or whatever the quote of shame is.
Irregardless, Wednesday I did do the double whammy of a Sarah Vowell reading and Will Sheff concert. Spotted at the packed reading: local writers Daniel Handler and Andrew Sean Greer. [...]
Tent pitching
Posted on February 10, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentDan Savage seems to be popping up everywhere these days. Special kudos go out to him for slipping this nugget past the vigilant eyes of the Times editorial staff this morning:
That world didn’t exist when Jack and Ennis were pitching tents together, but it does now — even in the American West. Today, the tiny and [...]
Cursive Sneak Peak
Posted on February 9, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentTim McMahan on a “secret” Cursive show in the Big O last night:
Cursive’s new music has a swagger to it not heard on their previous material. By contrast to the usual straightforward, arch, “angular” sound, the new material has an undeniable bounce, a swing, almost as if the band has been listening to a lot [...]
Hell Hath No Fury
Posted on February 9, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentChristopher Muther (pun intended?) in a puff piece about The Office, describes the “Tuesday night sitcom that has survived both early expectations that it would fail, and later, a female president on a rival network who has yielded a tremendous amount of power in the same time slot.”
Read More..>>Free James Brown
Posted on February 8, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThe fine folks at 33 1/3 direct us to the first of a series of outtakes from Dan LeRoy’s upcoming book on The Beastie Boys’ masterpiece Paul’s Boutique.
Read More..>>Hollywood Lies?
Posted on February 8, 2006 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentBack To The Future possibly not possible.
THE laws of physics seem to permit time travel, and with it, paradoxical situations such as the possibility that people could go back in time to prevent their own birth. But it turns out that such paradoxes may be ruled out by the weirdness inherent in laws of quantum [...]
Notches, Getting “Kicked Up”
Posted on February 8, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentFirst Ted Leo is johnny-come-lately to Coachella. Now, The Flaming Lips are confirmed for Noisepop 2006. Back-to-back evenings at Bimbo’s to see the Flaming Lips and Feist? Thank you, management.
Read More..>>Rick Moody & David Foster Wallace on the Radio
Posted on February 8, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThanks to Robert for the heads up in the comments of a previous post. Rick Moody’s conversation with David Foster Wallace (blogged previously) will be broadcast on KQED this Sunday, February 12 at 1:00 PM. Tune in to fill in all the gaps my conspiring mind left out. You can even sign up for an [...]
Read More..>>Two Months Was Too Much To Expect
Posted on February 6, 2006 - Filed Under
| 2 CommentsFor those scoring at home, my iPod shuffle crapped out again, making it about as reliable as Windows 95. Way to go fuckers. Back to the genius bar, I guess.
Read More..>>Lookout Below!
Posted on February 6, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThough not on the Coachella page, Billboard & Punknews.org are reporting that Ted Leo will be performing on the second day of the two day festival. Since Monica and I have already locked up our tickets, this just increased my anticipation by about 250%. This nugget slipped in with the news that his next record [...]
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