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I’ll be spinning tunes on WMBR tomorrow.

i followed yellowjkt’s directions except I used Flickr’s Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial filter to pick IMG_4894 (which really looks much better uncropped), by noswonky.
My quote was Ernest Hemmingway’s “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” (I think I’d heard that before and suppressed it, as I probably will again.) My random wiki page, […]

I’m really glad I saw Control in a theatre, mostly because of Martin Ruhe’s stunning black & white cinematography. In fact, it was perhaps a little too stunning. One of the film’s opening shots, in which a young Ian Curtis (Sam Riley) slouches across the length of a grim, soulless apartment building, got me thinking […]

I think CD Baby has a technology that figures out what I’m going to order from them a few days before I order it. I’ve placed my last two orders with them on Fridays, and received the package on Monday, which is even more remarkable since we’re on different coasts.

If I were dictator of the world, everybody who wanted to form a band to play in front of people would be legally required to watch Standing in the Shadows of Motown first, and everyone who wanted to sign a record deal would be required to read Everything I’m Cracked Up to Be. In my […]

OMG JamSpot so totally rocks! When I first heard about this place, I figured there was no way I could afford to rehearse there. Nice equipment in good condition, rooms with honest-to-goodness acoustic treatment, and ample off-street parking!? But it turns out, JamSpot’s rates are completely competitive with the typical scuzzy rehearsal rooms I’m used […]

I found Gray’s enormous, dense history of The Clash mostly fascinating, but the obviousness of Gray’s authorial agendas bugged me. The book is subtitled “The Story and Myth of the Clash,” and Gray spends a lot of effort looking for the points of divergence between the (hi)story and the myth of the band. He provides […]

Laurie Lindeen’s rags-to-well,rags chronicle of her band Zuzu’s Petals reminded strongly of Tommy Womack’s excellent and thematically similar Cheese Chronicles, with the added fillip that Laurie hooks up with someone Much More Famous midway through the band’s career arc.
Almost all of the book is written in the present tense. Lindeen is sometimes deliberately cagey about […]