From Japan with love. Kaleidoscopically dense, this is a sweet little Pee Wee’s playhouse-like miracle.
Month: February 2012
Tantalizingly wondrous. This is the Egg McMuffin of mashups:
Bobby B! I can’t imagine what Maya Rudolph, daughter of the late, great Minnie Riperton, is thinking and feeling right now. Her admiration for Whitney Houston showed through her iconic, over-the-top impersonations of Houston. Rudolph will host SNL 2/18/2012. – Steve Stav
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCgrEhIovaM
Publicists for Whitney Houston have confirmed that the legendary singer died Saturday at age 48. While there are no immediate signs of criminal intent, police are continuing to investigate the singer’s death, which took place in her room on the fourth floor of the Beverly Hilton. TMZ is speculating that a combination of alcohol and …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAlqbpWWGj0 There have been many of these lists. This is the official one. 1. Van Morrison – It’s Too Late to Stop Now (I’ve Been Working) 2. Little Feat – Waiting for Columbus (Fat Man in the Bathtub) 3. The Band – second Album (Whisperin’ Pines – Album Documentary) 4. Bob Dylan – Blood on …
Holey Moley, they talk about chemical castration… this is like musical castration – just hearing it will dissolve your naddies. Outdoes anything Dan Fogelberg could’ve dreamed up. – Steve Stav http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H7JmtAAFEw&feature=related
Two days ago, a Zippy cartoon titled, “Shoe In” mentioned The Holy Modal Rounders, Peter Stampfel‘s band of the last 40 or so years. Peter has contributed to EPB, thus, this was the first mention of any EPB contributor in Bill Griffiths’ Zippy cartoons, or in any iconic cartoon for that matter: Go here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJJjHiFPGgk
On January 16, 2012, Mitt Romney tweeted that, “More Americans have lost their jobs under Barack Obama than any president in modern history.” I am so tired of hearing GOP Presidential candidates bash President Obama’s alleged folly. Instead, let’s focus on the last decade. First, according to the Wall Street Journal, the eight years of …
MIA flips the bird, and it’s a step for feminism (I tacitly agree). But a lot of the artistic side is T&A, still, backed by huge media conglomerates. When 50% of the media companies are owned by women, I’ll call that a victory for feminism. Not when you have to be young and pretty and …
Story time: I live in Everett, Wa. Right before the Iraq war started my Auntie & I, along w/ others were protesting the war…my Auntie & I had a corner…we got many honks, but of course some comments that were not pretty. Well, Vern Fonk drove by, one of his offices is in Everett & …
Last night, February 4th, 2012, I once again headed to Seattle’s El Corazon where ska legends The Toasters were headlining a show. When I arrived, the opening band, Life Afterlife, was just starting. Life Afterlife is a five-piece from the Tacoma area who play a mix from pure punk pop to some harder core punk …
I was recently asked, “Did the Iraq War foment the Arab spring? Is this even a legitimate question?” To which I responded: Yes, absolutely a legitimate question. Although I would do the professory thing and say, well, do you mean it was the sole and exclusive catalyst/cause? or it was a factor? Maybe because my …
If you haven’t seen this, it might be the funniest skit in Portlandia history. And the Parson Red Heads are in it, the quartet posing around Fred Armisen. – Steve Stav
Glorious fragment o’ PiL’s “Chant”, with definitive Postpunk guitar from Keith Levene in Part I. Then a typically poisonous confrontation and walk-off during hapless intvw segment in Part II… – Tom Kipp
This is just awful. I don’t want to live here anymore. KGW’s lovely Abbey Gibb files an informative news feature on just how Portland’s awful history of human trafficking is revealed in a network of underground tunnels downtown: http://www.kgw.com/entertainment/Sha-138610174.html Thanks to Ben Easher for this 1999 article from Anodyne Magazine Online which includes such tidbits …
Why listen to Neil Young when you’ve got Lou Caruso? 89000 people have viewed this bar band cover of Neil Young’s Powderfinger. It’s a surprisingly good cover:
I’ve just been looking at MIA’s new Bad Girls video. It’s real. I mean she’s always the deal, 100%, despite what anyone might say. You can smell the smoke on this one. I’m still not sure about that other video with Madonna. Can’t help feeling Maya and Nikki are fuelling Madonna’s magpie tendencies. http://www.miauk.com/ – …
Let’s talk about Dada. Best known for “Dizz Knee Land,” their album Puzzle is really quite good. The song “Dim” is first rate (reminds me a bit of Flake – whatever happened to them?) and I go back to “Moon” from time to time as the perfect song for certain moods… – Ron Swanson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aJgdok_iRc
Big Steve‘s definitely gettin’ it done! I enjoyed a wonderful steak dinner he and Tim Midgett prepared during my last Chicago visit in October 2009… – Tom Kipp Here’s, Mario Batali Voice, and here’s some commentary in the LA Times.
Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska gave voice to our deepest wonder, imagination, confusion, bemusement, longing and love. She died this week, a Nobel Laureate. I love her poems! Today, an homage.. Then for a few days, her own work. Then, who knows. It is time again to market my blog, Palm Tree in Poland. By market …
Seattle maintains an open marriage with roots music, and has been noted for its dalliances with grunge and hip-hop. However, the Jet City has held pop music — jangle-pop, folky pop, avant-garde pop, power-pop — dear to its heart for quite some time. It’s a reliable mistress. Seatown seemed a fitting stop, then, for eternal …
This person is pleasingly plump, perfectly so. The song is “I’m Good, I’m Gone” by Lykke Li: