This weekend, I will once again participate in the annual staging of The World’s Largest Trivia ContestTM, the main fundraiser every year for the college radio station in central Wisconsin that is my most prized alma mater. At this time … Continue reading Trivia (Wrong) Answer of the Day: Samantha Stevens
This weekend, I will once again participate in the annual staging of The World’s Largest Trivia ContestTM, the main fundraiser every year for the college radio station in central Wisconsin that is my most prized alma mater. At this time … Continue reading Trivia Answer of the Day: ‘Tis Campbell’s Soup Each Day….
Thirty-sixth in a series… (Source.) Continue reading He calls his child Jesus ’cause he likes the name
This is how I will concede that I have no words in me today that are worth sharing: It’s quite honestly better than anything I could have written at any point in the past twenty-four hours. Continue reading Fuzzy
As I mentioned the other day, I had the good fortune to experience a second spin with college radio around a decade after my undergraduate glory years. While I was operating at a very different capacity in relation to the day-to-day operations of the radio station, one of the things I was most grateful for was the opportunity to simply hear excellent new music once again. Despite my best efforts, I’d grown detached from the left of the dial sort of sounds that I favored, having few outlets to hear the latest material where I was living and lacking the … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 50 Albums of 2001, An Introduction
Thirty-fifth in a series… (Via) Continue reading Got a new friend and my new friend’s name is Jesus
18. “Back on the Breadline” by Hunters & Collectors Hunters & Collectors formed in the early nineteen-eighties in Australia, quickly building a strong reputation as a propulsive live act. Except for those with an instinctive skill for combing the imports section of their local record store, the band didn’t really register in the U.S. until I.R.S. Records signed them up, probably inspired by the surprise success of Midgnight Oil’s Diesel and Dust briefly created a intense record company craving for all things that could be accurately described as both Aussie and epic. I.R.S. took the band’s 1987 album What’s a … Continue reading College Countdown: First Billboard Top 20 Modern Rock Tracks, Fall 1988, 18 and 17
Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972). This intricate, cerebral, elusive drama from the acknowledged master of intricate, cerebral, elusive dramas takes place at stately mansion at the end of the 19th century. A woman named Agnes, played by Harriet Andersson, is on her deathbed and is seen to by her two sisters, both returned home due to their sibling’s terrible need, and the loving household maid. Each character gets their own individual segment, usually devoted to a flashback to some terrible emotional incident in the past, Bergman scraping at their existential agony like a merciless physician slicing at a poisonous … Continue reading Arteta, Bergman, Howard, Newman, van Heijningen
Thirty-third in a series… (Source.) Continue reading It’s not easy to let it all go, but once in a while it’s good for your soul
Time has gotten away from me today, I’m afraid. Words are beyond my capabilities right this second. I’ll do better. Continue reading No time for a gentle rain, no time for my watch and chain
Coffee for Two 