May 28, 2011, 2:15pm
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Ethan Master of the Hawaiian Ukulele - When I Was Younger Tygerstrype - Angelic Eyes I'm having flashbacks to when things were easier. Two unrelated songs for unrelated occasions. Ethan played in my backyard in 2008 and, to date is one of my favorite singer song writers and story tellers. He will be returning to that yard on June 24th playing a solo set and a set with his band Spiked Punch Also (although completely unrelated) Tygerstrype just came up on my playlist. He was holding it down in LA and [...]
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Every so often you come upon an artist that is nearly as preoccupied with telling stories as they are making beautiful music. Musicians like John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats and Leonard Cohen are often charged with this, of striking that heartbreaking balance between the pen and the guitar. I think it is refreshing when songs are not always anonymous or general, but instead about something you can visualize, something you can fully inhabit while listening. So when Pukekos tipped me off to Ethan Master of the [...]
Some of the piss and vinegar of this post has been taken out due to the fact that when I first got to the computer full of it (piss and vinegar...maybe something else, too, we'll let Chris decide...) I had to help my grandma print out a latke recepie because her printer wasn't working. Anyways I am in Hawaii! Fuck yeah! It's my second day here and my mind is still racing around in circles like "do this, do this" but I should be a much mellower person by the time I get back in the ATX. [...]
Whoaaaa so we had a parttay last night. I think it went rather well, with the exception of the door to our bathroom getting kicked in and completely fucked. Hey, take it out of our deposit. It was a black light party and the basement was tricked out blacklight style, courtesy one mr david salines, who i found passed out on my floor at 4 in the morning after returning from some appartment complex crashing swimming (across Red River from the HEB...nice pool, id never been there before). There was an empty couch available. Signs [...]