Bonnie “Prince” Billy did a guest DJ spot on NPR’s “All Songs Considered” – and yes, I know that’s old news, but I’m still catching up after a busy week. What makes it relevant has nothing to do with timing. This is our blog. What’s relevant to this blog is what Kerry and I want [...]
On particularly rough and stressful days, I tend to go in search of good news that’s a little more heart warming than people dancing to “Thriller” or potential assassins being caught. Those things are great and all, but they’re not as great as this: Elephant 6 is on tour again. “All Songs Considered” has posted [...]
 ’Cause that’s what they do. Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, the Penetrators gotta penetrate. I’m behind on my podcasts. There was an episode of “All Songs Considered” released on Sept. 29 that I’ve just now got around to. Which surprises me. Kerry and I have been huge Okkervil River fans since last year’s fantastic [...]
I had started writing this post and it had kind of an awful pun in the first sentence. I proudly showed it to Matthew, who cringed and suggested that I start with my second sentence. A fine suggestion, provided I had thought about what the second sentence would be. Instead, I’ll give you the Reader’s [...]
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Butcher ‘em, Baby: a dissent
There’s not a lot of opinion out there that can truly set me off. I like when people disagree with me – as long as they’re intelligent about it. There are a few exceptions, and, honestly they’re fairly ridiculous. I’m going to take a few minutes here and talk about one of them: The Beatles. [...]