One for Friday: Jack Logan, “Teach Me the Rules”
When I was removed from the constant discovery zone of college radio, I often poured through music magazines to find my way to new artists. This meant that, like a sportswriter considering whose name to write on his or her MVP ballot, I was unduly susceptible to a performer with a good story. Jack Logan had a great story. He was a longtime songwriter who came to prominence fairly late in life, after moving to Georgia, where he befriended Peter Buck of R.E.M. While Logan was still making his living as a swimming pool motor technician, he started releasing albums, … Continue reading One for Friday: Jack Logan, “Teach Me the Rules”
Top Fifty Films of the 60s — Number Thirty-Seven
#37 — My Night at Maud’s (Éric Rohmer, 1969) Two old friends bump into each other one night, trading memories and even little jabs. The test out the accuracy of their lingering impressions of one another. Eventually, one introduces the other … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 60s — Number Thirty-Seven
My Writers: Harlan Ellison
I really wanted to be a science fiction fan when I was in middle school and high school. It seemed the proper extension of my geeky interest in comic books, albeit an extension that, I felt at the time, carried … Continue reading My Writers: Harlan Ellison
Top 40 Smash Taps: “The Riddle (You and I)”
These posts are about the songs that can accurately claim to crossed the key line of chart success, becoming Top 40 hits on Billboard, but just barely. Every song featured in this series peaked at number 40. A guy born Vladimir John Ondrasik III is probably making the right choice in adopting a stage name before going into showbiz. Rather than adopt a straightforward name, Ondrasik opted for a moniker that called to mind a band, taking inspiration from his favorite sport, hockey. Under the name Five for Fighting, Ondrasik came out with his debut album, Message for Albert, in … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Taps: “The Riddle (You and I)”
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My team, The Cakers, had another resoundingly successful weekend in the annual staging of The World’s Largest Trivia Contest by WWSP-90FM, the student-run college radio station at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Adding to the satisfaction of our fifteen place … Continue reading 15
Programming Note
Despite my best intentions, I had no reasonable time to keep up my regular features these past couple of days. There will probably be a couple placeholder posts for the next few days, then back to normal after that. Continue reading Programming Note
One for Friday: Super Morrissey Bros., “Come On Eileen (Blinky’s 8-bit Chasers version)”
As per tradition, the One for Friday format can shift on the day the World’s Largest Trivia Contest begins, in large part because I feel obligated to post a certain #1 hit from the nineteen-eighties. And so I once again present a version of my team’s theme song. The only way this track could be better would be if it utilized the sound effects from different version of Pac-Man. Continue reading One for Friday: Super Morrissey Bros., “Come On Eileen (Blinky’s 8-bit Chasers version)”
Trivia Answer of the Day: “From Collier, Who Wants to Make You Jollier”
This weekend, I’ll participate in The World’s Largest Trivia ContestTM. I’m a little preoccupied with preparations for that, including some significant travel. To provide some sense of the madness of minutiae that dominates my mind this week, I’ll return to … Continue reading Trivia Answer of the Day: “From Collier, Who Wants to Make You Jollier”
Trivia Answer of the Day: The Oklahoma Kamikaze
This weekend, I’ll participate in The World’s Largest Trivia ContestTM. I’m a little preoccupied with preparations for that, including some significant travel. To provide some sense of the madness of minutiae that dominates my mind this week, I’ll return to … Continue reading Trivia Answer of the Day: The Oklahoma Kamikaze
Trivia Answer of the Day: Hot Buttered Soul
This weekend, I’ll participate in The World’s Largest Trivia ContestTM. I’m a little preoccupied with preparations for that, including some significant travel. To provide some sense of the madness of minutiae that dominates my mind this week, I’ll return to … Continue reading Trivia Answer of the Day: Hot Buttered Soul
