Month: March 2011
“Somali nomad Waris Dirie runs away from an arranged marriage at the age of 13 and ends up on the fashion runways of London, Paris, and New York.”
This is just in from Andrew Hamlin who states, “A new take on one of Tom’s (Tom Kipp‘s) old favorites!” *********************************** To which Tom replied: Hi Andy: If only it weren’t phoned in from “My Producer Said This was a Good Career Move” Land! No death-defying vocal swoops or witty inflections. Utter rhythmic stasis. Hell, …
SXSW 2011, Part 4 This report has four parts. Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 This leads me to another interesting fact about SXSW. As I headed across town to Mellow Johnny’s for the next show, I took note that businesses far and wide participated in this event. That meant …
SXSW 2011, Part 4 This report has four parts. Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Wednesday was a trip to Fader Fort to see my favourite rock band make its SXSW debut on a big stage. A hasty cancellation allowed The Joy Formidable to take the stage and give an …
SXSW 2011, Part 4 This report has four parts. Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Every year in America, the coming of spring is celebrated with March Madness, a competition among 68 of college basketball’s most passionate teams to gain the title of National Champions. It’s great fun but it’s …
Sadly, Knut is Dead.
Here’s the latest from Gary Heffern, “I’m still alive… Good lord… Here’s a video for the first song on the new album. The CD will be available through Glitterhouse in Europe, features Eric “Roscoe” Ambel, Jessie Sykes, Carla Torgerson, Chris Cacavas, Kristi Maddocks, and Al Deloner… Big hug to you… Heff” Chris Eckman describes it …
I think it’s just great that the simple folk are discovering that they too can enjoy the highbrow entertainment of this uncelebrated talent exposition. Actually, it’s usually more like “You watch American Idol? Seriously?” Seriously. Yeah, sure, it’s not the same without Simon, and there are plenty of episodes where almost everybody does bad (this …