” A baby on the way’s a good enough reason to get you out aliveGet you out without having to swallow any pride.”-The Drive-by Truckers – “Marry Me”Cold north wind out of the highlands of Scotland (yes, it’s still August) has got me contemplative today. Last night was our last antenatal class. I’ve learned pretty [...]
Archive for August, 2007
New Music Monday: The Cinematic Orchestra – “Ma Fleur”
The exciting new music drought continues until some good ones come out this week, so it’s a new-ish review again this Monday. Metacritic is a great resource for the music geeks out there. They compile reviews of albums as they are released and give each a score based on multiple reviews. Thus, if you’re torn [...]
MP3s of the Week: Bishop Allen – “Castanets” and “Rain”
The best thing for me about this type of post is that I can discover new bands that I would never have run across otherwise. This week it’s Bishop Allen a Brooklyn quartet that made some indie news by releasing an EP for each month of 2006. Their debut long player, “The Broken String”, was [...]
Political Friday: Karl Rove Leaving and Britain Bleeding
“I tried to get in my taxi
A man in a tracksuit attacked me
He said that he saw it before me
Wants to get things a bit gory
Girls run around with no clothes on
To borrow a pound for a condom
If it wasn’t for chip fat, well they’d be frozen
They’re not very sensible…”
-The Kaiser Chiefs – “I Predict [...]
It’s the cheating, dummy.
“Grandma’s home by the radio
On the television watching Joe
She jerks the beard off of Grandpa’s chin
Joe DiMaggio’s done it again…”
“DiMaggio Done It” – Woody Guthrie
There’s not much to say about the Barry Bonds thing – which is why I didn’t say much about it when it happened. Everyone knew it was inevitable. It’s the worst [...]
Wordless Wednesday: White
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Berries and the nomadic lifestyle
” I’ve been a long time that I’m waiting
Been a long that I’m blown
I’ve been a long time that I’ve wandered
Through the people I have known
Oh, if you would and you could
Straighten my new mind’s eye.”
Nick Drake – “Northern Sky”
This was meant to be a kind of flippant Tuesday post about berry picking, but as [...]
New(ish) Music Monday: The Editors – “An End Has a Start”
“It creeps all over you like a dull ache
Think of all the things your hands could make
It pulls you to the ground like soaking wet gloves
The change in your face when anger shows…”
-The Editors – “When Anger Shows”
With a dearth of any truly new albums to review, this one (released in June) came to me [...]
MP3 of the Week: Jamie T – “Salvador”
I had kind of dismissed Jamie T as the latest flavor of the month. Standard story, the excitable British music press raved about him as “The Next Big Thing”/ He won an NME best solo artist award earlier this year. He’s been shortlisted for (the more prestigious) Mercury Prize. Jamie Treays is a 21 year [...]
Saturday Slideshow: Florida
My Mom’s comment and writing “Missing Misery” got me thinking about Florida. You sometimes don’t appreciate the place in which you grow up so I probably don’t have as many nice photos of northeast Florida as I should – but here are a few.
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