New threads started in December ’06
Friday, 22nd December 2006
I guess those well-paid Claire Denis gigs have dried up. “Heavy-set, older, redheads and even black chicks can have me if they can pay the bill. No real female will be refused. However, I…
[Link] The Blog Mob “Written by fools to be read by imbeciles.” BY JOSEPH RAGO Wednesday, December 20, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST Blogs are very important these days. Even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has…
Who’s got love for this book? Also, Senelita / Emelio’s Carnival [Image]
The neighborhood I grew up in was the subject of this piece in Providence (RI) Journal... If you wanna read it use bugmenot [Link] I didn’t realize lived in the BAPTIST part of town?!!?…
’5:55’, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s first album since 1986’s ‘Charlotte Forever’, has that dreamy, melancholic sound at which the French seem to excel. Recorded with the French group, Air, and…
By me: “New Age Girl” by Deadeye Dick: Classic or Dud? By others: Most Hilariously Genius Rap Lyric Ever
I just like saying, writing, and reading the phrase “gut microbes” [Link]
I just wanted a place to post this stupid picture: [Image] WAY TO GO GOVERNOR GRANHOLM, YOU GOT HALF YOUR STATE BACKWARDS
Couple weeks ago, I was reading an interview with Andy Summers who sounded quite proud to say “We weren’t like those shoddy punk bands, we could actually play our instruments.” Last night…
I met this girl about eight years ago through a friend, she was a rock critic who knew more about 60s pop than anyone I had ever met. Now she’s a christian conservative abstinence…
Let’s talk about her music...
i’m looking for stuff w/vocals similar to mr. fingers, colonel abrams, and yes, the LCD 45.33 mix. early-mid 80s sound appreciated. sorry vahid
OK, I’m taking a risk here, but everyone talks about Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, etc. What about Bossanova? It is their greatest album, IMO. Some of their greatest, weirdest lyrics ever -…
I mean, really! Suspected Sussex Strangler charged appears 15 minutes into a half-hour news bulletin?! Because of THE FOG. Pfffft.
Saturday, 23rd December 2006
During my Christmas shopping, I saw several bargain bins full of CDs from a shockingly wide variety of classic rock, soul, and jazz acts. All the discs had: a) eye-wateringly bad design…
Oopsy.
we are gonna need a new slogan when nu-ilm is up and running, aren’t we? not that there was an old slogan, but still...
Dude, thank you so much, you rock. I don’t know how the (various communities that make up this) community would have survived without this sandbox and I hope you’re not getting gigantic…
“attitude” live in 79 [Link] “right brigade” & “attitude” live in 84 [Link] “sailin’ on” live in 79 [Link] PM Magazine news story on Bad Brains with insane live footage 1982(?) [Link] “I”…
RIP arthur lee, syd barrett, ahmet ertegun, arif mardin, mariska veres, betty friedan, jane jacobs, “grandpa” al lewis, don knotts, coretta scott king, ivor cutler, nam june paik, allan…
cables -vs- kitty empire you know the answer you fat fucking dick
Dec 31 2006 8:00P Station Square Pittsburgh, PA Feb 1 2007 8:00P Mulcahy’s Long Island, NY Feb 2 2007 8:00P Harper’s Ferry Boston, MA Feb 3 2007 8:00P Stone Pony Asbury Park, NJ Feb 5 2007…
Top priority = value for money. All genres considered.
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mainly just so I can ask if this song was an intentional ian curtis tribute (“don’t walk away” “never to be torn apart” “shadowplay”). anyway I used to love this but after I noticed the…
Is the latest Jay Farrar project his best since Trace? Death Songs For The Living, his colaboration with Anders Parker, is my favorite of his since the Son Volt debut.
KIRK RUSSELL IS A FAMOUS ACTOR OF THE MOVIES. I WISH I WAS A FAMOUS ACTOR TO EARN ALL THAT MONEY TOO. I WOULDNT BE IN MORE THAN ONE MOVIE. BECOS AFTER THAT ONE MOVIE WAS OVER. I WOULD…
like Philadelphia, for instance. I just spent some time in your fair city, which heretofore had mostly eluded me, and I gotta say it’s pretty nice, though all I got to see was around…
where does one buy grape leaves? would a large suburban grocery store have them? and how do they come packaged: preserved in olive oil or fresh? i don’t know where to look or what they…
via BBC news, I apologize if there was a thread for this but I couldn’t find one. So many interesting thigns in this article... Record collectors’ shop faces the music By Robert Plummer…
Sunday, 24th December 2006
like me...working a night shift...my radio show is repeated in ten minutes, 1.30GMT on www.rnl106.com check it out....lots of new minimal house, i am going to listen to myself...feel free…
robyn was right, art school confidential was a steaming pile of yuck
I was listening to the version on the Live at Village Vanguard Master Takes on my drive home today and I played it three times in a row. At 3:22 when the high note breaks made me want to…
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No Matter What It Is! Just finished a bottle of Maison Louis Latour 2005 Pinot Noir. Starting in on a bottle of Rodney Strong 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon. Wish me luck!
Thus. Frankly it’s all worth it for this picture of Hoobastank: [Image]
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I had a dream last night that I owned this album on vinyl, and the LP displayed a tear in its upper right hand corner, rather like a “cutout” in the old used bins we used to traverse. I…