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As I prune my I-Pod of songs I only keep on it for the sake of nostalgia, my “old Blondie” library remains largely intact. I’ll always listen to a new Blondie song and expect it to kinda suck like all my old favorite 80′s bands tend to do now. This song rocks just as hard [...]

Filed under: Music on May 19th, 2011 | Add Comment! »

The end of 2010 produced a deluge of music that I’ve almost instantly fallen in love with. Okay, I’m really not sure when some of the stuff came out, but I didn’t find it until the end of the year. It’s a really bizarre mix of things, in keeping with my wildly fluctuating musical tastes. [...]

Filed under: Music on January 6th, 2011 | Add Comment! »

First, let me say that the title of this post probably doesn’t really work in French, as the French probably don’t refer to really cool things as being “the shit.” Is shit masculine or feminine? That said, Neil Young’s new album “Le Noise” is fucking amazing, and Neil Young is a genius. It’s one of [...]

Filed under: Music, Reviews on January 3rd, 2011 | 2 Comments »

So I’m poking around on Facebook one night and find one of those little sidebars about Rufus Wainwright playing someplace in New Jersey. I click, it leads me to a tour schedule and lo and behold, the concert the Queen of my Universe and I have been waiting for was coming to Buffalo! So we [...]

Filed under: Music, Reviews on June 25th, 2010 | Add Comment! »

I went to the Opera once. I don’t even remember what it was. It was shortly after I’d seen the Who in the fifth row and so I couldn’t hear too well, even though I was in the fifth row at the opera. Even though it was sung in English (a real no no as [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Music on February 18th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Thank you Rufus.

Filed under: General Observations, Music, Politics on February 17th, 2010 | Add Comment! »

I’m a huge fan of irreverence in any context. My guitar sensai introduced me to the music of Bobby Bare, who was way ahead of his time in terms of being irreverent, and its this irreverence that initially attracted me to Todd Snider. Snider sings about things that I often think about, but am too [...]

Filed under: Music, Politics on January 14th, 2010 | Add Comment! »

Here they are, in no particular order. The Jane Does – You Bring the Devil This is perhaps my most obscure pick of the decade, and my freakiest find. The Queen of My Universe was showing me the tremendous hoax of a video blog called Lonely Girl or something, and she had a Jane Does [...]

Filed under: Music, Reviews on January 4th, 2010 | Add Comment! »

Ever wake up in the morning when you could be sleeping in, or trying to get to sleep at night but some dumb fucking song just keeps going through your head. Usually you only know, like, a few words of it and those are the ones that keep looping over and over? Welcome to my [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Music on December 31st, 2009 | Add Comment! »

It’s that time of the decade when everyone seems to be doing their end of the decade thinking, and despite my resistance to doing so, I have done so. When I teach my personal recollections of the history of my lifetime I tend to look back on the 80′s as the worst of historical periods, [...]

Filed under: History, Music, Politics on December 27th, 2009 | Add Comment! »