6 Cardinal Colors: Purple Larry Clinton, Deep Purple. Art Tatum, Deep Purple. The Clientele, The Violet Hour. Sebadoh, Violet Execution. The Kooks, Indigo Lights. Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Dance of the Lilac Fairy. Prince, Purple Rain. Stina Nordenstam, Purple Rain. Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze. Scott Joplin, Heliotrope Bouquet. Eva Taylor, Jeannine I Dream of Lilac Time. Jeff Buckley, Lilac Wine
I'm finally feeling the morning-after effects of graduating from UC Berkeley. Appropriately, it takes about two full months before you can properly reflect on how you feel after a 138 year-old institution emphatically deflowers you. In some ways, you have to be a masochist to love UC Berkeley; the students are competitive workaholics, but in this rather inconsequential way since the academy is just a long assembly line for California's suburban middleclass; professors generally think their students are an onerous burden on their research, thus they resent spending any time with them; plus the political discourse among [...]
6 Cardinal Colors: Yellow Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington, Yellow Days. Frank Sinatra, The Moon Was Yellow. Zhang Ruei, Song of the Yellow River. Oregon, Yellow Bell. Syd Barrett, Golden Hair. Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Yellow Coat. The Ventures, Yellow Jacket. Yo La Tengo, Yellow Sarong. Peggy Lee, Golden Earrings. Cab Calloway, Yaller. Leadbelly, Yellow Gal. Gene Autry, The Yellow Rose of
A depression era dustbowl refugee and Korean war vet., no one can say that country oddball Lee Hazlewood wasn't a genuine cowboy or toughguy. But what makes Lee's compositions endure to the hipster set when so many conventional Nashville types barely inspire the energy needed to yawn, is that he seems to be one of the only country producers equally influenced by the psychedelic Spaghetti Western soundtracks of Ennio Morricone as he is by some sort of rugged Western ideal. Even if his music wasn't very interesting (which it is), his behind the scenes [...]
“What’s your favorite movie?†It’s a question I get asked all the time. And without hesitation, my answer is always the same: Home for the Holidays . Since this is Soundtrack Week, I couldn’t skip out on posting about it. I first saw this movie my freshman year of college, on the recommendation of a good friend of mine, and I’ve [...]
Play it: Entourage Eps 303-305 The upside to missing a few Entourage episodes while I was on vacation, is getting to watch them all back-to-back (via DVR.) Another thing that happened while I was gone was that Pirates Of The Carribean: Dead Man's Chest surpassed Spider-Man for the all-time opening weekend box-office record . It's a case of life imitating art as it was [...]
This week, I will be celebrating my one-year anniversary of this blog, by taking a look back over some highlights (at least, as far as I'm concerned). If we go all the way back to the beginning , I ran this site some years back, but let it go in the Fall of 2000. In fact, the last thing I wrote was something about the Vice Presidential debate between Lieberman and Cheney, focusing on their attacks on the entertainment industry. This site twisted in the wind until July 11, 2005, when it was [...]
Play it: The Sopranos - Ep 6.12 If it weren't for the fact that there are still eight more episodes to come next year, I'd have been throwing things at my tv last night - which I almost did due to some repeated satellite interference (let's just I've literally got an axe to grind with a tree in my backyard.) The Sopranos Season finale last night didn't so much leave things in the air as just, well... leave things. [...]
<img style="margin: 0pt 10px 0px 0pt; float: left; " src="/images/sinatra-ford.gif" alt=" Frank Sinatra in a Ford Thunderbird, 1953" border="0" />Did I mention I don’t like kitsch and I don’t like camp ? (Although I do love the genuinely weird.) And yet the power of the song shines through... In 1927, composer Nathaniel Shilkret wrote the song "The Lonesome Road," with lyrics by vocalist Gene Austin (best known for his big hit song "My Blue Heaven"). The song was added to the first film version of [...]
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