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Watch out! You might get what you’re after

Dan Seeger

Music To Warm a House By, Volume One 1996 The title should make it fairly clear what kind of party this tape was made for. The house in question had already been heated adequately for me; I’d been living there for around a year-and-a-half at the time of the party. However, I had new roommates, including my fellow 90FM alumnus . Since I was anticipating a more social atmosphere with the new collection of residents (marathon sessions of simultaneously smoking pot, playing Nintendo hockey and listening to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness were the nightly default plan of the … Continue reading Watch out! You might get what you’re after

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One for Friday: The Feelies, “Sooner or Later”

Dan Seeger

Lost music was harder to come by when I was in college than it is now. There was no eBay, no Hype Machine, no Amazon (well, there was an Amazon). There weren’t even great used record shops in the humble city where I went to school. So there were a few holy grails of college rock, widely revered albums that had slipped out of print and probably illicitly slipped out the door of the radio station library shortly thereafter. We could read about these records, but couldn’t play them, and often couldn’t even hear a bit of them. The album … Continue reading One for Friday: The Feelies, “Sooner or Later”

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Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Forty-Seven

Dan Seeger

#47 — Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002) Far From Heaven is an exercise in adoration. It is an unabashed, spellbound, swooning tribute to the technicolor melodramas of the 1950’s, particularly those directed by Douglas Sirk. The titles alone reverberate with grandiloquence: Magnificent Obsession, Written on the Wind, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, and the film that served as the most direct inspiration for Far From Heaven, All That Heaven Allows. Sirk’s films are famous for washing the screen with vibrant colors, sending the actors into teary-eyed overdrive with anguished dialogue, and approaching social issues with … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Forty-Seven

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A man’s bar is his castle, and this stool is my throne

Dan Seeger

I seem to be having trouble stringing words together well enough to finish writing about the film we saw this weekend to help celebrate someone’s birthday. So instead, I’d like to share Stephen Colbert‘s suggested slogans for a couple of popular American beers. Bud Light Lime: “It’s like drinking a Bud Light downwind of an artificial flavor factory.” Coors Light: “Delicious–it doesn’t taste at all like Palmolive dishwashing soap.” (Posted simultaneously to “Jelly-Town!”) Continue reading A man’s bar is his castle, and this stool is my throne