In addition to my usual year end lists , I've also compiled Best of the Decade lists . Following are my favorite albums that were released between 2000-2009... Muruch's Best of the Decade: Albums 25. Muse: The Resistance This is one of those albums that has classic potential, and I expect to move its way up the list as the years go by. A quote from my review : [...]
It's that time of year again! Following are my Top 15 Albums of 2009. As usual, I tried to balance the order of the list between what I personally perceive as artistic merit (quality of songwriting, vocals, and instrumentation) and basic listenability (how many times I played the album throughout the year). I've included some new commentary and brief quotes from the original reviews. Click on the album titles to read the full reviews, purchase the albums, and in some cases download mp3s... Muruch's Top 15 Albums of 2009 [...]
Sometime in my early 20s I became a huge fan of American satirist Kurt Vonnegut. His dark sense of humour couple with his ability to make keen observations about human nature made for compelling reads, regardless of the genre he chose for any given project. Breakfast of Champions still ranks among my favorite books of all-time. From the story of the least famous Watergate conspirator of
Contrast Podcast recently asked music bloggers like myself to submit our favorite 50 songs of the year for their annual "Festive 503 podcast. Our selections were then compiled into a shortlist and now we've been asked to recruit votes to narrow it down. For the curious, I've bolded the 10 songs I personally voted for. I really, really want "Nice Very Nice" by Kurt Vonnegut & Dave Soldier (from their album Ice-9 Ballads ) to make the final list. Not only because it's my favorite song of the year, from my favorite album of the year, [...]
Ice-9 Ballads is the new soundtrack to Kurt Vonnegut 's classic novel Cat's Cradle . A 1997 collaboration between the late, great author Vonnegut and composer Dave Soldier, the album features nine tracks that were directly inspired by the book. I didn't know quite what to expect when I first received it, but I can't imagine a more perfect score for my favorite novel of all time. Kurt Vonnegut adapted the lyrics himself from his novel Cat's Cradle , and named the [...]
Inspired by the contest that I won on The Paul & Spike Show , I'm starting a new series of "Haiku Book Reviews" on Muruch. The first haiku, which won the contest, is about my favorite book of all time: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Ludicrous mankind. No damn cat, no damn cradle. A doomsday satire. Buy Book @ Amazon
(via Graphjam ) I'm taking over linkage duties for Thursdays now. Prepare yourself accordingly. - First up, nyctaper has been nice enough to post the National segment of the recent Dark Was The Night show at Radio City Music Hall. The National are my favorite band and there are two new songs in here, so I'm pretty psyched. - Second, our friend I'm A Bear, Etc posted a really great video a couple days back that showcased the [...]
Orders from the Fire Marshal sent the marathon Fauxchella festival packing from the announced Traction Ave. venue earlier in the week, but by showtime on Good Friday organizers had moved the event to gamier precincts many blocks away. Hangar 1018 is beloved of the downtown party set and I know the space well, having wandered along its sketchy and verminous stretch of S. Santa Fe many times in various states of hallucinogenic inebriation. Inside, instead of the usual haul of faux-fur and near-naked ladies, were a couple hundred gamboling on the fragments of their Eastside Cool. I was waved past [...]
"I love you sons of bitches," Eliot said in Milford. "You're all I read anymore. You're the only ones who'll talk about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage and not a short one, either, but one that'll last for billions of years. You're the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to us, what tremendous misunderstands, [...]
My headache has subsided temporarily and I can think for a moment. By the way, I got a killer headache earlier from playing Solitaire on the computer obsessively. You could say that Long Beach Island was enjoyable only during the day, when I could lounge on the blanket on the sand with my iPod cranking out "Parisian Skies" by Maximo Park (which Ali supplied me with) as I stared out at the ocean and considered that the Atlantic is all that separates me from France, pretty much. I hate the people on Long Beach Island. Everyone's living [...]
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