On Thursday November 17 I left my place of work, a high school in North Seattle, and headed five miles south to the south end of the University of Washington. Today’s march was in honor of the second month anniversary of the Occupy Movement. As I approached the masses standing in the shadow of the …
Month: November 2011
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Meet England’s newest hitmakers. Love it because it’s so over the top:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoG9PmdGaT8
Some incredible geese marching with their trained humans as escort:
She’s back. It’s horrible, of course, but I do like the phrase, “crime scene on the dance floor.”
http://youtu.be/_E3-_z5YP0M The preceding, historically significant, footage shows Robert Kennedy in Indianapolis on April 4, 1968 speaking to a crowd on a campaign stop shortly after learning of the death of Martin Luther King. Kennedy’s trenchant, moving comments were given very soon after King’s assassination. “[Kennedy] first heard that King had been shot while leaving Muncie, …
This is one of my fave tunes from The Staxx Brothers recent album, Jungle Cat, and I’m glad to see that it has a video now:
Media has finally come to understand and harness the power of cats:
When I walked into the legendary Showbox across from the Pike Place Market, last Sunday night the first band of the Pop Punk’s Not Dead show was already on stage and in full swing. This Time Next Year is a Bay Area pop/punk five-piece that play a very poppy sound with punk thrown in and …
Of all the American songs that came out of World War II, Hitler Blues is one the very few that blames Hitler for his mistreatment of the Jews. This gritty 1942 recording by Huddie William Leadbetter (Lead Belly) is the definitive version, but is not the original. Hitler Blues– it’s actually not a blues but …
Five years old but still funny. The contortion move with the back and butt is a number 8:
From the publicist – “Amanda “Fucking” Palmer, who recently wrapped a west coast tour with husband Neil Gaiman, has been visiting Occupy sites around the country, making stops at Occupy sites in L.A., Oakland, Portland, Vancouver, and Seattle, in addition to her recent stops in Boston and Occupy Wall Street. “One of the most fascinating …
Chapter Sixty-One A doctor was leaning over our daughter’s isolette listening to her with a stethoscope. I suddenly felt weak. That wasn’t a good sign. Keith wrapped an arm around me and squeezed me tight. The nurse who stood beside the doctor noticed us and approached. “We were just about to rouse you,” she began. …
Gosh. A very early listen to a new single from FOE that will be out in January. I like it lots. It still has a skewed and twisted theme, but compared to say ‘Tyrant Song’ or ‘Genie’ it’s… dare I say it… almost a bit more mainstream? And, there is news on the album Bad …
We have all seen and heard Video Games by now, possibly the best single song I have heard performed in the last year. I was desperate to get to this gig and couldn’t, even with shall we say ‘certain connections’ it wasn’t going to be, and I’m still sad. So I was grateful to see …
IF I should die, think only this of me; That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England’s …
I loved the last Peter Gabriel album, where his transcendent cover (cocreation? PG supplied the melody) of Lou Reed’s “The Power of the Heart” (which somehow quotes “Ol’ Man River” in a love song to Laurie Anderson) almost balances out the Lou-Metallica combo/car crash. Speaking of Lou, James Wolcott’s memoir of NYC in the 70s …
It’s the 20th anniversary of Loveless by My Bloody Valentine. It may not be anybody else’s cup of tea, but I love Loveless (though I can’t claim to know it—it is a surpassingly strange album), but it is a landmark, and Stereogum puts it as well as anyone I know: Click here. – Tom Fredrickson …