I noticed something while milling around the heavily populated Minnesota State Fair this year – I felt invisible. I have heard of the phenomenom before. My father in his 70’s remarked that people look right past him. At first I thought he was indulging in a moment of elderly self-pity, but now I think he …
Month: August 2011
Personally, I prefer my music to be a bit more dangerous, but I can listen with an open mind. Wild Flag is a supergroup fronted by Carrie Brownstein of Portlandia and Sleater-Kinney fame. This long-awaited debut showcases a band capable of mastering and rocking diverse musical styles. Song types range from gentle and folky in …
http://youtu.be/ldpCBSNC2AY Glen Campbell has just released a strong new work, Ghost on the Canvas, with the title cut written by Paul Westerberg of the Replacements. The great Sal Nunziato is quite impressed, and discusses the album on his blog, here and, particularly, here.
http://youtu.be/7JxfgId3XTs
http://youtu.be/t4RCWAKPh18
Trailer provided by Video Detective I was watching the A&E TV show “Heavy” on Netflix recently. Each episode shows two morbidly obese people trying to lose weight and drastically change their lifestyle over a six month period. They are aided in their journey by two trainers, a psychologist and a dietician. Two things came to …
Chapter Fourteen The remainder of summer was uneventful except Keith drove me bonkers, pressuring me to go home with him. He finally laid off when I threatened to boycott his shows. School finally started, but my mind was constantly on Keith. It took all my willpower sleeping in my own bed every night, but I …
No genre does self parody better than Kpop and Crispi Crunch may have the best self parody video yet:
http://youtu.be/eK3fokrsrsc
http://youtu.be/FPYQcvn7ctw
This fantastic retro vid is best enjoyed by those who remember the 1970s game, Crossfire. There’s a photo of the box here.
In my estimation, Garland Jeffreys is an utterly unique, seriously underappreciated, figure in American Rock, and has been for more than 40 years now! He can sing like Mick Jagger, Arthur Lee and Bob Marley, not to forget Fifties/Sixties/Seventies Soul singers of every stripe, a combo no one else has ever quite managed to pull …
The Swedish fire academy vid (above) shows something that, although impressive, is really just a gimmicky stunt. The possibility of implementing such a technique at an active fire is very small. Cool to watch, but not all that practical. It’s the type of thing that’s thought up by people with an excess of both time …
It still seems slightly preposterous that they will rent you a kayak and camping equipment, sight unseen, and set you off on your own into the North Sea with a vague arrangement to meet you somewhere down the coast in 6 days time. The arrangements en route were also, at first sight, a little ‘loose’ …
http://youtu.be/4zJWA3Vo6TU