NOT ENOUGH TCHAIKOVSKY THE MEME OF FOUR: Four jobs you've had in your life: web site producer (x3), author, teacher, grocery sacker (Aspen 1981) Four movies you could watch over and over: WAKING LIFE (Linklater), GODFATHER 2 (Coppola), DRESSED TO KILL (Eddie Izzard), Let it Be (Lindsay-Hogg) Four … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2005
CLICK THE FALSIE
Journalism Interns at a School of Rock: "Casting calls are going out on college campuses late next month for aspiring Rolling Stone writers who would also look good on MTV and want to become famous, or almost famous..." The New York Times, which knew about the secret wiretaps for more than a year, … [Read more...]
SKATE A LITTLE LOWER NOW
BOOK OF THE WEEK from SWEDEN, recently featured at Liverpool's Beatles Days, not nearly obsessive enough... TOP TEN PODCASTS Beatlegs John Winn KCRW's Left, Right and Center le show Harry Shearer Media Matters from beautiful downtown Champagne Urbana Democracy Now Amy Goodman Soundcheck … [Read more...]
REARVIEW MIRROR
New podcast: Complete Motown Singles, broadcast yesterday here in Boston. … [Read more...]
TOO SEXY FOR ITS FONT
AIN'T NO ONE FOR TO GIVE YOU NO PAIN From the iTunes Celebrity Playlists, this acute remark from the perennially underrated Jeff Daniels: "A great example of why Bonnie Raitt is one of the premiere blues guitarists. By the time she's done playing this song, every guy in the audience is wishing … [Read more...]
“QUAGMIRE” ANYBODY?
NOBODY TOLD ME Steve Knopper on John Lennon, telling my story that a cellist from the Eastman School once told me: "One guy told me this story: He was on the streets in New York City, a truck pulls off and a band is playing on the back of this flatbed truck. And it's John Lennon and his band." … [Read more...]
JUST LIKE YESTERDAY
... to the tune of "Uncertain Times," by the Raveonettes. … [Read more...]
THROUGH THE ROOF
X FOR EYES Bradley's Alamanac has a Chris Brokaw live set from last month... Brokaw was also featured on Here and Now... it's almost like there's a BUZZ... HAWKEYE'S A REPUBLICAN???? Previews for West Wing, the Smits subtext: "Okay, I'll play your Democratic presidential candidate and go live … [Read more...]