Bad Movie Nights have gotten harder to do. There are two elements to this observation. For one, when we started engaging in this diversion in dreck over a decade ago it was relatively easy to pull a night together. Out … Continue reading Would you believe it’s a happening?
Gone bad movie nightin’. Details to follow. Continue reading Coming attraction
I think one of the natural tendencies of students working in college radio is to spend the time building their own personal music collections. I don’t mean that the theoretically student in question plays something new and exciting on their radio program, inspiring a trip to the friendly neighborhood record store. Instead, it it done somewhat illicitly, spare copies of CDs or vinyl records going straight from mailed packages to bookbags. I use the qualifier somewhat because, in my experience, the representatives of the labels and the distribution companies were often complicit in this practice, actively encouraging music directors to … Continue reading One for Friday: Juliana Hatfield, “Everybody Loves Me But You”
I’ve been traveling a lot lately. It’s nice to be home. (Posted simultaneously to “Jelly-Town!”) Continue reading I don’t see you hanging around, I’m goin’ home
Well, today’s news certainly isn’t going to help my woeful record in the annual Oscar nomination prediction contest. (Posted simultaneously to “Jelly-Town!”) Continue reading There are maybe ten or twelve things
I read recently that a fellow decided it was a good idea to carve up his own Volkswagen automobile to make this: Today seems like the right day to note that I’d much rather see the Transformers movie this guy … Continue reading The future is yours, so fill this part in
…where you used to play pinball 2005 This tape was made as a part of the flurry of mix activity that preceded a road trip to Athens, Georgia. Selections from this batch of cassettes have made prior appearances as part of this process of purging. This particular tape was purely an exercise in nostalgia. I thought back to my days as an impressionable student at 90FM and tried to come up with some of the artists and songs, in roughly chronological order, that I connected with most dramatically at that time. Basically, I’d been concentrating so much on discovering new … Continue reading You stop in the old cafe where you used to play pinball
As you may recall, I have a method I employ when I’ve run out of time to prepare a proper daily post: an out of context panel from Eightball. Enjoy! (Posted simultaneously to “Jelly-Town!”) Continue reading And when you wake for it, you’ll ache for it all night
It has been a banner week for the U.S. House of Representatives. In the midst of continued economic hardship at home and events on the world stage with the potential to create a startling shift in the geopolitical landscape, they passed an ever-so-timely apology for slavery. To be fair, they weren’t entirely oblivious to the the cataclysmic events dominating the news (and by “news” I don’t mean to imply that the events dominated cable news networks where footage of wild traffic arrests or breathless, hand-wringing reports about missing children still took priority). They did, after all, overwhelmingly pass a resolution … Continue reading I’d lay my head on the railroad tracks and wait for the Double E but the railroad don’t run no more
As I’ve noted before, my time as a student in college radio was a prolonged musical education. Many people walk through the doors of a station like that convinced that they have unique reservoirs of knowledge that they are duty-bound to share with the world. I was certainly opinionated and had my flashes of ego when it came to matters of musical taste (especially when contrasting my interest in, say, Husker Du against the adherents of godawful hair metal prevalent among the population of the wing I lived in during my freshman year), but I was also always keenly aware … Continue reading One for Friday: American Music Club, “How Many Six Packs Does It Take To Screw In A Light”
Coffee for Two 