I speak of two Mays on this warm, sunny Spring afternoon: of the request, and of the calendar. Yet the two terms are related, in their way. For Spring is a metaphor of rebirth, and "mother may I" is a sort of rebirth, too: of the moment, of the allowance to move forward, of the soul. Appropriate, I think. This past year, I've given myself permission to act again, treading the boards for the first time since a failure to learn my lines in time caused my high school director to [...]
Choice of coverage says so much about a folksinger's generational outlook. Okay, every once in a while, someone like Peter Gabriel comes along with a Bon Iver cover, or Richard Shindell takes on Josh Ritter, and the world turns topsy turvy for a week or two. And though she's not really my cup of tea, Joan Baez has made a point in her middle age of promoting and celebrating the works of others younger than herself, from Ritter to Dave Carter. But generally, such things are the exception, not the rule. [...]
May you live in interesting times , says the old apocryphal proverb and curse, and we do: as I teach my students each December and May, the rise of the digital is in full swing, and even as the window of possibility that digital technologies have wrought begins to close, the power to leverage this new technology and fundamentally wrest society's power back into the hands of the people still theoretically lurks among us - though the Huxleyan tendency towards passivity, and the wont of those in power to work to stay in power, mean the deck is stacked high [...]
I was never a real fan of goth-rock, though as I've written about before, pretty much anything that made the Top 40 in the 80s seems to linger in the minds and hearts of both my own generation and the artists it has since spawned. And The Cure was undeniably the most prevalent band of its type in mainstream mall culture when I was growing up: in my early adolescence, I dated several girls with somber black-and-white Robert Smith posters on their bedroom walls, and - looking back - can only suppose that the band's [...]
It's been most of a year since our beloved cat Jacob passed away, and although I still think of him sometimes when I pass the rock where we laid his body to rest, the memory of his heaviness on my shoulders, like the sound of his rattling purr, has lost its weight as it moved from heart to brain. As I wrote back in September when he first fell ill , Jacob was our first child, the first other life to which I committed myself wholly. To lose him was to [...]
No, I'm not making apocalyptic porn Hey kids, I feel like the past few weeks had been my longest absence and I hate that. I've probably got too much on my plate and I'll spell it out here to give myself some sort of excuse for the lack of reviews (but when my schedule normalizes in the fall I know it'll get better). What I am doing right now: Full time film major/English minor at UC Santa Barbara Applying to Graduate School (taking the GRE next week) Pitching a [...]
****************************** * The Brooke, A Tiny Ocean : " Jamie " (Weezer) from the ' Roaring Nineties ' compilation - download it for free from cllct! Bonnie Prince Billy : " World`s Greatest " [...]
Atlas Sound - I'll Be Your Mirror British Sea Power - Green Grass Of Tunnel The Brooke (Tiny Ocean) - Born On A Train The Lucksmiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out Scott Simons - Umbrella British Sea Power - 16th May 2008 @ Lee's Palace $15/19+
Μια διασκευή για κάθε ημέρα της επόμενης εβδομάδας.. 1. Diamanda Galas - Interlude [box ] Όταν ο Morrissey διασκεύασε το Interlude η έκπληξη ήταν μεγάλη, όχι τόσο για το ότι κατάφερε και βρήκε αυτό το υπέροχο τραγούδι της Timi Yuro [είναι γνωστό το πάθος και οι γνώσεις του για τη μουσική, ιδιαίτερα για τις δεκαετίες '50 - '70], όσο για το ότι το τραγούδησε μαζί με τη [...]
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