15 Years Ago
Posted on April 8, 2009 - Filed Under Death, Music | Leave a Comment
Kurt Cobain found dead 15 years ago today. MTV News reporting archive.
Read More..>>Monica Is Funky Enough
Posted on March 30, 2009 - Filed Under Art, Music, Photographs | Leave a Comment
Funky Enough, originally uploaded by bigoteetoe.
My first foray into the world of sleeve facing. This one was quick and dirty. I expect better work in the future.
The D.O.C. – It’s Funky Enough [blip.fm]
Read More..>>searching for the perfect beat
Posted on March 25, 2009 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
This bootleg got a lot of rotation in my Mazda when I drove around the greater KC area in the fall of 1998. I especially like the sample work provided by the then newly added DJ Mix Master Mike. The build up/lead into “Time To Get Ill” is a highlight for me, along with my [...]
Read More..>>Presumably the iTunes numbers for “Margaritaville” downloads aren’t in yet
Posted on March 24, 2009 - Filed Under Diversions, Food, Money, Music | Leave a Comment
New York Times: “When Economy Sours, Tootsie Rolls Soothe Souls”
I guess we all need our escapes. Mayday – Rock and Roll Can’t Save Your Life
you don’t say
Posted on March 13, 2009 - Filed Under Food, Music, Sex | Leave a Comment
{via}
NP: Harvest Moon
stimulation ideas
Posted on March 10, 2009 - Filed Under Books, Money, Music | Leave a Comment
If you got money, then show it and throw at these:
A.L. Kennedy’s Day out in paperback today.
20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers ($13 w/ free shipping). It includes all your favorites. For Real.
$10 super-fantastic cassette tote bag {via – who always has the best leads}
things that make me think of other things
Posted on March 6, 2009 - Filed Under Music, Perception | Leave a Comment
Comcast – Commercial
The Faint – Agenda Suicide
Read More..>>Why would you like Elvis if you had the real stuff?
Posted on March 6, 2009 - Filed Under Drinking, Music | 1 Comment
Raised on classic rock radio, I never thought much of Van Morrison. Moondance was a pretty decent track, but not worth paying for was how I viewed it.
That all changed when someone gave me Astral Weeks on vinyl. It was akin to hearing Rod Stewart and the Faces do “Stay with Me” as [...]
unpaid advert
Posted on March 4, 2009 - Filed Under Music, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
Quick shout out for TagScanner, which I should have downloaded a long time ago. After a quick run through, it appears to meet all my MP3 tagging/file renaming needs — mostly for songs I get from archive.org.
I recommend this batch for starters if you’re looking: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists at Brownies (NYC) July [...]
Born Again
Posted on March 2, 2009 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
Feelin’ nostalgic.
Mercy Rule – Spark MP3
Tell Tomorrow video
Now: Domestica
see also
Blink-N-Blog
Posted on March 2, 2009 - Filed Under Art, Books, Drugs, Music, Now Reading | Leave a Comment
Looks like my blogging habits will be forever changed/damaged/cured by twitter…..LET’S SEE!
There are so many nooks & crannies on the internet filled with dopeness. It is always a pleasure to fall into another.
(Watering Hole by Amy Stein) {via}
And you say, Goddamn
This is the dope jam
I started Gravity’s Rainbow this weekend. So far, I am loving [...]
post, memory
Posted on February 24, 2009 - Filed Under Music, Vagaries of the Heart, Writers | Leave a Comment
random links, etc….
Roger Ebert remembers Gene Siskel, who died February 20, 1999:“We almost always thought the same things were funny. That may be the best sign of intellectual communion.”
Facebook 25 things note win
Lucero concert MP3s (Feb. 6, 2009) at nyctaper.
Jonathan Baumbach at The New You Project: “It’s always hard to like books that you’re compelled [...]
Speechifyin’
Posted on February 18, 2009 - Filed Under Music, Writers | Leave a Comment
Haruki Murakami, in his acceptance speech for the Jerusalem Prize.
I have only one reason to write novels, and that is to bring the dignity of the individual soul to the surface and shine a light upon it.
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Take a moment to think about this. Each of us possesses a tangible, living soul. The System has no [...]
20 Albums That Changed* My Life
Posted on February 16, 2009 - Filed Under About Me, Facebook, Music | 2 Comments
I’m pretty sure I don’t accept the premise that there are 20 albums that changed my life. But I am a sucker for these facebook lists, so I’ll put down 20 (or so) that I think are capital “I” important to me. Some are old standbys; some are newer additions; the reasons they are included [...]
Read More..>>Press/Record Label Subscriptions
Posted on February 15, 2009 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
A voice from the twitterverse (or is it twittersphere?) cries out.
Also, worth noting that www.twodollarradio.com has 2008 and 2009 subscriptions to all of their books for $50. I am obsessed with this model.
Smart. But got me thinking … why don’t record labels do this? Or maybe they do and I don’t know about. For smaller [...]
In honor of Friday the 13th
Posted on February 13, 2009 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
A strong De La/Redman collab, with a very nice Pharoahe Monche “Ghost Weed” rap at the end. The only time I’ve heard triskaidekaphobia dropped in a rhyme. Not too shabby.
De La Soul – Oooh
You Can’t Copyright No Beat
Posted on February 13, 2009 - Filed Under Crime, Music | Leave a Comment
QOTD:
While Muxtape was technically breaking the law by streaming unlicensed music online, it was not, as CD Baby founder Derek Sivers comically put it, “clearly illegal, immoral and harmful, like Auto-Tune“.
On a minor PE kick lately. So, yeah…
Caught Can We Get A Witness?
My Inner Joan Crawford Vehicle
Posted on February 12, 2009 - Filed Under Music, Vagaries of the Heart, Writers | Leave a Comment
As I count down the days to John Darnielle with Tobias Wolff, there is this video taken from a nice trove of recordings form some sort of singer/songwriter cruise?
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Read More..>>it’s better my sweet, that we hover like bees
Posted on February 11, 2009 - Filed Under Facebook, Music, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
As with all things, Facebook is the Prime Mover. You know how it is. By fiat, I’ll put all my chain-notes on this blog & link back from there, so that all y’all aren’t required to go to FB for scoops on me if you don’t want to/can’t. I’m talking to you China and Ticha [...]
Read More..>>You Got Served
Posted on February 10, 2009 - Filed Under Crime, Music, Politics, Religion | Leave a Comment
I feel compelled to post items in the case of Ernie Chambers v God as they continue to trickle through the Omaha World-Herald’s RSS feed. In today’s installment, former Senator Chambers’ response to a judge’s dismissal of the suit on the technicality that God had never been served properly.
A God who is “all-knowing” would realize [...]
