Jack Horkheimer, RIP
OnIt’s old news now, but Jack Horkheimer died last week; he’s always been one of my favorites, just because he had this great energy in sort of a nerdy way — but that ideal of “Here’s something cool I want to share…
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Picking Coconuts In Manahattan
OnImage via Wikipedia Paul Collins is one of my favorite authors; he’s got 5 books out (Banvard’s Folly, a collection of essays on forgotten folks of history, like the guy who invented the Concord grape, or the titular Banvard, who created a…
PEACE project = 180 MP3s for 5 euros
OnImage via Wikipedia A pair of DJs from Spain have put together an incredible online fundraiser for Amnesty International: PEACE, a collection of 180 MP3s from indie bands all over the world, downloadable for a donation of as little as €5.00! …
Earl Brooks – I’m To Blame
OnThe murder ballad is one of the few really American forms of music. Strange, I suppose, but it’s not one you really see in other cultures. Actually, truthfully, you don’t really see it much in our culture anymore — there’s a few…
Kit Kelley – Moonstruck Rhymesters & Common Romancers
OnPhoenix has a pretty good history of awesome rock and pop. The Tubes came from there, f’rinstance. And now, there’s Power Pop Songstrix Kit Kelley. You can download for free some of her songs over at Bandcamp. I particlarly recommend “The Tragical…
Torture Playlist
OnThe Torture Playlist – Mother Jones Magazine released a list of songs used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep deprivation, “prolong capture shock,” disorient detainees during interrogations—and also drown out screams. The compiled list of 24 playable songs…
Cindy & Bert – Die Hund von Baskerville
OnWhat’s better than Black Sabbath? How about a couple of Germans doing a note-for-note cover in that language with wholly new lyrics? Presumably about the Sherlock Holmes story? And with an actual Hund von Baskerville on stage with them? (It appears to be…
Lock & Key
OnFriend of Kittysneezes and interviewee Chelsea Spear has a new short on the WGBH Lab, called Lock & Key. It’s a 3 minute piece about three women who keep journals — actual, real-live paper journals in a book and everything. It’s pretty…
Hedwig – Exquisite Corpse
OnHey! It’s Halloween! So how ’bout a SPOOKY video, huh, kids? And since we’re still in the gay thing for a few more days, how about a spooky gay video? Huh? How about this — the song “Exquisite Corpse” from Hedwig &…