If you know me well and haven't seen Harold and Maude yet then I don't like you very much. If I made you watch it and you didn't like it very much; chances are you don't know me well anymore. I rate it that highly. Whilst I know it's terribly superficial to set standards by this sort of thing, I'm fairly certain those who don't love this film are dead inside, evil, or in the case of my father, both. The intention of this blog is to be about music. I know that. The [...]
50 Foot Wave, Kristin Hersh, Throwing Muses : several tracks [mp3] Kristin Hersh : "Deep Wilson" [mp3] from The Grotto Carol Bui : "Quan Am" [mp3] Devendra Banhart : 2006-07-07, Tel Aviv [mp3] Liz Durrett : "November (Tom Waits cover)" [mp3] Liz Durrett : "Somewhere (duet with Vic Chesnutt, song from West Side Story)" [mp3] [...]

"After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." According to Orson Welles' Harry Lime, conflict produces great art. And we know this to be true, not just from this quote, but from most of the countries we've looked at so far. Now [...]