This is a little late! The trip over the holidays and catching up at work have slowed me down a lot. 2012 wasn’t a great musical year for me, there were quite a few really good albums, but nothing like other years. I think part of it is that I’m just not [...]
Poison oak, some boyhood braveryWhen the telephone was a tin can on a stringAnd I fell asleep with you still talking to meYou said you weren’t afraid to dieIn Polaroids you were dressed in women’s clothesWere you made ashamed? Why did you lock them in the drawer?And I don’t think that I ever loved you [...]
RIP Tony Sly
She’s never alone, because she’s scared of what she might say to herselfAlways drinking in the backroom of the bar where everyone turns inA half-hearted grinShe won’t be afraid as long as that prescription keeps going throughAnd all the happy pills make her look like cardboard cut out of someone,I use to learn [...]
Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts; Poolside; 0 for 1 and don’t forget spoons twice
Lukewarm folgers; mold on his moonpie
Rooms in his home that dissipate into fruit flies
Suicide lane wide load ride looting in the wake of an amicable marooning
My duty go from moving in packs to sharing food with a cat. [To Moms:] “it’s me, I [...]
Heading up to Winnipeg to see an old favorite band of mine, Propaghandi! They don’t really play in the States and some HS buddies are making the trek. I’m pretty excited, leaving in under an hour. Guess I should pack, eh? Adios.
It’s that time of year again. But I have left myself very little time to think about the best music of 2011. Luckily I have a Last.fm page that covers my last 12 months. I don’t know if I’ll do 10 albums this year or not. There seems to be a backlash against the year [...]
One day, after all is said and done and I have all albums by John Darnielle, I’ll write an exposition on the importance and interest of his select works. For now, I’ll say that his music is quickly rivaling Dylan in it’s importance to me. Alas, there can never be another Dylan, but [...]
1. The Vaccines
2. Foster the People
3. Fleet Foxes
4. The Cults
5. Bob Dylan
Other updates on Last.fm :)
I’ve gotten a lot of good CDs lately, here’s a current playlist:
The Tallest Man On Earth: All of his stuff
Rural Alberta Advantage: Departing
Bayside: Wasting Time
Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Bright Eyes: The People’s Key
Destroyer: Kaputt
They are all pretty good so far. The Tallest Man On Earth will definitely make some of my favorite music this year, the [...]
Mary Ann, do you remember,
The tree by the river,
When we were seventeen,
I can’t ..calling in the answer,
And the .. in the pasture…his teeth.
I recall the sun in our faces,
Stuck in our engraces and be … to change
Radio and the pones we find frozen,
All the thornes and the roses beneath you though pain
I’m gonna sleep in [...]