“Last September, Carrie Brownstein wrote, “I have no desire to play music unless I need music.” During her post-Sleater-Kinney forays into music blogging and sketch comedy, she explained, “I started to need music again, and so I called on my friends and we joined as a band.” Hence: Wild Flag, a new group she’d formed …
Month: August 2011
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Yes, this is a great country for the downwardly mobile! – John Ambrosavage “September 7, 2010 my house burned down. From late September until April 30 I lived in a lovely house that the insurance company rented. Now I am a motivational speaker who lives in a van down by the river. If that sentence …
Poor parrot can’t catch the laser pointer:
Chapter Thirteen Keith had some nerve asking that. I threw my brush down, faced him and began to rant. “Oh, where do I start? Do I start with Ryan dumping me in a corner where I couldn’t see the band. After the show no one came so I had to lug two heavy boxes across …
“Die ladies sagen, WOW.” Gucci Und Prada by Moneyboy is the hot German hip hop video of the day. Shot in Monaco and set to the tune of Rupert Holmes “Escape (The Pina Colada Song),” it’s hard to tell if it’s an intentional parody or not. It’s much funnier if the tacky, unsmooth, Hasselhoffian humor …
What follows are image scans of a pamphlet printed by the North Park College News in 1926. I found it this week among my stuff in Portland. I don’t know why I have it, or why this document, amongst all the David Nyvall/North Park/Mission Friend/Covenant materials in my parents’ home which could have survived, this …
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Starting to LOVE the new Swedish hip hop. It’s not your Grandfather’s Swedish hip hop: http://youtu.be/5_0nn0lDvOM
Retro and excellent in a thousand ways: http://youtu.be/kGXKvPZqGog
http://youtu.be/tLu8iPXzlJM
“From a Norwegian to a Black– I’ll tell you– we’re both about as ostracized as two groups could be…” – Aspen woman. (I went back and listened again to make sure this is what she actually said, at :54.)
A 2006 tune rediscovered for the “Crazy Stupid Love” soundtrack: http://youtu.be/4P3SHXQEpRU An interesting cover of the ’60s chestnut: Here’s Time is Running Out. Released in 2003, this is the last tune I remember enjoying on alt rock radio. Sadly it was burdened with one of the most tedious videos since the 80s:
http://youtu.be/S9lPEP2mGWw http://youtu.be/JnIfFLifgek
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I have a confession to make. I am a Christian addicted to watching the show Mad Men. Some Christians may say, “So what? It’s just a TV show. There are more scandalous shows out there to watch.” Other more strict Chritian viewers may question my watching a show that regularly showcases adultery, debauchery and lying …
There’s a hot’n sexy new show set to start Sept. 19 on NBC called, “The Playboy Club,” set in 1960s Chicago (Ike and Tina Turner make an appearance). This story is from the LA Times last May, when the show must have been in its’ final stages of production, giving the sad and lonely endgame …