Blog: chrisdellavedova.com

Best Shot Monday: In Bloom

Feb 4, 2008, 9:06am chrisdellavedova.com
Variety being the spice of life and inspired by Arizaphale's foray last week I've decided to forsake Wordless Wednesday for Best Shot Monday.
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Artist:Nirvana
Title:In Bloom
File Name:InBloom.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:1991

Super Sleeper

Feb 3, 2008, 10:42am chrisdellavedova.com
Living abroad as an expatriate can be a slightly disorienting experience and one of the ways of keeping one's equilibrium is to surround oneself with the vestiges of home. Some expats take this to the extreme - making little replicas of their homeland wherever they go (this is why there ...
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Artist:The Dandy Warhols
Title:Sleep
File Name:Sleep.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2000

MP3 of the Week: Lightspeed Champion: "Dry Lips"

Feb 2, 2008, 7:23am chrisdellavedova.com
The hysteria prone British music press has anointed Lightspeed Champion one of the Next Big Things (TM) for 2008. American expat and former Test Icicle Devonte Hynes released his solo debut - "Falling of the Lavender Bridge" a couple of weeks ago. Lightspeed Champion plays Bright Eyes inspired folk-tinged indie ...
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Artist:517 Lightspeed Champion
Title:Lightspeed Champion - Dry Lips
File Name:DryLips.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2008

Link love and memes, memes, memes

Feb 1, 2008, 12:18pm chrisdellavedova.com
"Hoodoo voodoo, seven twenty one two Haystacka hostacka, ABC High poker, low joker, ninety-nine-a-zero Sidewalk, streetcar, dance a goofy dance..." -Wilco & Billy Bragg - "Hoodoo Voodoo" I'm all in a mental tizzy this week. It's been a heavy week of teaching and I've got some incredibly bright ones this term that are intellectually knocking ...
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Artist:Billy Bragg & Wilco
Title:Hoodoo Voodoo
File Name:HoodooVoodoo.mp3
Bitrate:139 kbps
Year:1998

"The Three Sides of Cyanide Valentine" FREE

Jan 31, 2008, 10:33am chrisdellavedova.com
Lost In Your Inbox tipped me off that Boston based Cyanide Valentine has released their latest LP as a free download. I must admit that I wasn't expecting much - what kind of band gives their records away? Apparently a pretty damn good one.
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Artist:The Cyanide Valentine
Title:Neanderthals
File Name:Neanderthals.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2007

Bullingdon Prison Blues Revisited

Jan 31, 2008, 7:01am chrisdellavedova.com
"San Quentin, what good do you think you do? Do you think I'll be different when you're through? You bent my heart and mind and you may my soul, And your stone walls turn my blood a little cold." -Johnny Cash - "San Quentin" I've not been blogging long enough to start running repeats of ...
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Artist:Johnny Cash
Title:San Quentin
File Name:SanQuentin.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2000

Fox Confessor Brings The Flood

Jan 29, 2008, 7:04pm chrisdellavedova.com
More About Wordless Wednesday
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Artist:Neko Case
Title:Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
File Name:FoxConfessor.mp3
Year:2006

Science Tuesday: One Cell's Junk Is Another Cell's Treasure

Jan 29, 2008, 5:01pm chrisdellavedova.com
The human genome, and most others for that matter, is a massive and complex template containing the written instructions for life. Those instructions, our complement of protein coding genes, make up only about 1.5 percent of the genome and are nestled among billions of base pairs of so-called junk DNA. ...
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Zach's Music Monday: Belle & Sebastian

Jan 28, 2008, 4:54pm chrisdellavedova.com
"And the head said that you always were a queer one from the start For careers you say you went to be remembered for your art Your obsessions get you known throughout the school for being strange Making life-size models of the Velvet Underground in clay..." -Belle and Sebastian - "Expectations" There are a number ...
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Artist:Belle & Sebastian
Title:Expectations
File Name:Expectations.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:1999

MP3s of the Week - New Counting Crows

Jan 27, 2008, 8:47am chrisdellavedova.com
Let the 90's nostalgia begin! With the possibility of another Clinton in the White House - though, thankfully Barack Obama's trouncing of Hillary Clinton in South Carolina may slow that train - new albums by 90's rock bands are the next indicator of a revival of the decade of ...
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Artist:Counting Crows
Title:Counting Crows - 1492
File Name:1492.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Counting Crows
Title:Counting Crows - When I Dream Of Michelangelo
File Name:WhenIDreamOfMichelangelo.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2008

Windsor

Jan 26, 2008, 2:09pm chrisdellavedova.com
"God save the Queen, We mean it man, There is no future in England's dreaming..." For someone born deep in the heart of republican Ireland and raised in sovereign Australia, Sinead has a deep and proud Royalist streak. So, our Saturday excursion to Windsor Castle was more of a pilgrimage for Dr. O'Connell. ...
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Artist:The Sex Pistols
Title:God Save The Queen
File Name:GodSaveTheQueen.mp3
Year:1977

In a West End town, a dead end world

Jan 25, 2008, 10:39am chrisdellavedova.com
Pet Shop Boys West End Girls
"Lost in the high street, where the dogs run Roaming suburban boys Mother's got a hairdo to be done She says they're too old for toys Stood by the bus stop with a felt pen In this suburban hell..." -The Pet Shop Boys - "Suburbia" In September of 1985 I was 14 years old and entering the ...
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Artist:Pet Shop Boys
Title:Always On My Mind
File Name:AlwaysOnMyMind.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1987

Color Me Impressed

Jan 24, 2008, 7:27am chrisdellavedova.com
"Everybody at your party They all look depressed Everybody dressin' funny Color me impressed..." -The Replacements - "Color Me Impressed" Two Peach State acts have new records on the British shelves this week and they are doing their home state proud here across the pond.
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Artist:Cat Power
Title:Metal Heart
File Name:MetalHeart.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Drive-By Truckers
Title:3 Dimes Down
File Name:3DimesDown.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2007

A plague on both your houses

Jan 23, 2008, 6:05am chrisdellavedova.com
If you're a Republican, I suspect that you're pretty happy about the recent CNN Democratic Presidential debate in South Carolina. To be fair, I haven't seen it, but the press accounts and transcript seems that the the two frontrunners went after each other like schoolboys in a playground fight - ...
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King of Birds

Jan 22, 2008, 6:49pm chrisdellavedova.com
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Artist:R.E.M.
Title:King Of Birds
File Name:KingOfBirds.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:1987

Science Tuesday: Transatlantic STDs

Jan 22, 2008, 11:01am chrisdellavedova.com
The discovery of the New World in the 15th century presented a novel opportunity for exchange of culture, society and biology between two geographically isolated worlds. It did not go particularly well. At the human level, it has been generally accepted that the New Worlders got the short end of ...
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Good Morning Son, I Am A Bird

Jan 21, 2008, 6:55am chrisdellavedova.com
Ben Folds- Still Fighting It
"Sara spelled without an 'h' was getting bored On a Peavey amp in 1984 While Zak without a 'c' tried out some new guitars Playing Sara-with-no-h's favourite song..." -Ben Folds - "Zak & Sara" Ben Folds is one of the most entertaining live performers I've ever had the good fortune of seeing. He owns his ...
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Artist:Ben Folds
Title:Still Fighting It
File Name:StillFightingIt.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps

MP3 of the Week - The Wombats - "Let's Dance to Joy Division"

Jan 20, 2008, 4:02am chrisdellavedova.com
"Let's dance to Joy Division, And celebrate the irony, Everything is going wrong, But we're so happy..." The Wombats are a Liverpudlian trio making a bit of noise with their cleverly penned indie pop songs. This week's MP3 isn't a particularly new one (it was released in the summer), but it finally got my ...
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Artist:The Wombats
Title:Let's Dance To Joy Division
File Name:LetsDanceToJoyDivision.mp3
Bitrate:234 kbps
Year:2007

Red beans and rice

Jan 19, 2008, 3:04pm chrisdellavedova.com
Something about the Thames bursting its banks for the second time in six months put me in the mood for one of the Big Easy's most famous exports today. Like all of my favorite southern foods, this one required a little bit of fiddling to compensate for ingredients that aren't ...
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Artist:Smilen' Miron
Title:Red Beans and Rice
File Name:RedBeansandRice.mp3

Winning the Sleep War

Jan 18, 2008, 6:26am chrisdellavedova.com
"There's a full moon over Galway Bay tonight Silver light over green and blue And every place I travel through, I find Some kinda sign that you've been through..." -Steve Earle - "Ft. Worth Blues" I love this picture and am a bit wistful when I say that you won't see many more of these ...
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Artist:Steve Earle
Title:Ft. Worth Blues
File Name:FtWorthBlues.mp3
Year:1997
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