Review: Geek Love
OnCover of Geek Love I like books and movies that really stick with you. When I first saw Barton Fink, I loved it and couldn’t stop thinking about it for a couple weeks. When I saw Mulholland Dr., I didn’t like it…
On the DEVO Song Study [Now With Song Streams!]
OnImage by SansPoint via Flickr Recently, DEVO, along with Warner Brothers, has deigned to give us listeners a chance to help them decide which twelve songs out of sixteen should go on the first new DEVO record in twenty years. This is…
Review: The Hurt Locker
OnI was so pleased to see a genre film win Best Picture at the Oscars this year. Usually genre films are maligned as being just for profit, without any artistic merit, even though that’s not true. And that’s particularly true for the…
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…
Stupid Ideas I Haven’t Done: SEXY KEVIN
OnImage via Wikipedia Like everyone, I tend to come up with a lot of ideas that I never get around to doing. Sometimes out of laziness, sometimes because I can’t figure out how to make it work, and sometimes, it’s just because…
Review: Snobby Little Elf
OnI suppose it was nigh inevitable that I’d post about the new Morningwood video — after all, I love music and I love animation. I’ve also been a fan of Morningwood since the debut record — and I’m happy to report that…
Guilty Pleasures: Tammy Wynette
OnI am a Tammy Wynette fan. Most people assume this is because of her association with the KLF in the early 1990s; their song “Justified and Ancient” harkened back to her massive 1960s hit about submissiveness to men, “Stand by Your Man.”…
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…
Stupid Ideas I Haven’t Done: Wasted Opportunities
OnDavid Bowie via last.fm Like everyone, I tend to come up with a lot of ideas that I never get around to doing. Sometimes out of laziness, sometimes because I can’t figure out how to make it work, and sometimes, it’s just…