Friday, October 6th, 2006
the wrens are a great band from my former home state of new jersey. they started playing in the early 1990′s and put out an album called ‘silver’ on grass records and a single on saddle creek. grass records was bought by a guy named alan meltzer. in 1996 the wrens release their 2nd album, the epic ‘secaucus’ on grass. now this part comes from the wrens website:
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006 Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
ST. PAUL, Minn. — In his 40-year-plus career, Eric Clapton has rolled up plenty of honors: He’s had numerous hits, 18 Grammys and is the first musician inducted three times into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He still sells out arenas across the globe as fans make the pilgrimage to hear one of the greats in action. Yet when asked to give an assessment of his own play, Clapton offers a blunt review that might seem unkind coming from someone else’s mouth. “I think I’m definitely on the decline,” the 61-year-old said a few hours before kicking off the North American leg of his world tour. He recently watched video of his 1997 blues tour and says he was “shocked by how much more proficient I was then than I am now.” Monday, October 2nd, 2006
so jen and i were playing trivial pursuit last night. the question was something like-what david lynch movie did bobby vinton fans think was a documentary? Â i said-mulholland drive? sometimes i’m just not very smart. this was the second time i’ve gotten this question asked. the first time i answered lost highway. what was she wearing again? Monday, October 2nd, 2006
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — Former Rep. Mark Foley is in an alcoholism treatment center three days after resigning from Congress amid allegations that he sent inappropriate messages to teenage pages, Foley’s attorney confirmed Monday. The FBI and Florida state law enforcement officials were beginning investigations into the case concerning allegations that e-mails and instant messages between Foley, a Florida Republican, and pages contained sexually suggestive material. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, has also asked the Justice Department to look into the congressman’s electronic correspondence and the response of congressional Republican when the allegations were first raised. Foley resigned Friday after his alleged e-mail and instant-message contacts with pages were reported by the media. Foley, a six-term congressman, was co-chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus and a prominent backer of legislation to crack down on online predators and criminalize child pornography on the Internet. Friday, September 29th, 2006
Manifesto # 1 1) NO COVER SONGS. EVER. 2) No banter with the audience. Get onstage. Play songs (I.E. rock) and go home. Let the music stand alone. 3) Being paid for a gig is a benefit, not a requirement. 4) Make a list of venues to play before you even get a gig. Also have a list of venues you would refuse. 5) Dictate to your audience. Don’t be dictated to by your audience. If you like it, someone else will. And they will find you. 6) Look the part. Dress to be taken seriously. 7) Discover new approaches to songwriting through the collaboration of ideas. 8) You’re only as good as you think you are. If you think you are local bar band that is what you are. Aim high. 9) Know when not to play. Silence is a note. 10) Consistently challenge yourselves to create your own sound. Be compared to no one. Friday, September 29th, 2006
Egg Hunt was a short-lived project started by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson in early 1986. This ran concurrent with the tail end of Ian’s Revolution Summer era band Embrace (9 shows over 9 months 1985-1986). MacKaye and Nelson went to England and recorded the 2 song 7†‘We All Fall Down’/’Me and You’. ‘We All Fall Down’ is said to be Ian’s feelings regarding the end of Revolution Summer and perhaps the impending break-up of Embrace. Following Embrace, Ian and Jeff went into the basement with ex-members of Gray Matter but the project failed to coalesce. Nelson and the Gray Matter people left and formed the band 3. MacKaye found ex-Rites of Spring people and an ex-Beefeater Roadie and formed Fugazi. We All Fall Down Why do we act like we just learned how to walk when we’ve been walking all this time? What was carved in granite just wiped off like chalk What was ours is now yours or mine I guess in our own minds we’re never wrong and I swear to you this is the last time I’ll write this song I’m sure you’re sick and tired of hearing from this child I’m feeling kind of lonely, I won’t be dying for a while In search of the quiet life We all fall down In search of the righteous life We all fall down We are falling down We all fall down Thursday, September 28th, 2006
BAILEY, Colorado (CNN) — As Park County, Colorado, Sheriff Fred Wegener was deciding whether to enter the high school room where an armed gunman had been holding six girls hostage, he was “scared to death.”Police eventually stormed the Platte Canyon High School classroom where the gunman was holed up Wednesday afternoon with two hostages, after releasing four. Then, the gunman fatally shot a 16-year-old girl and killed himself, police said. Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
These are my favorite Christmas cartoons/claymations
Starring George Gobel and Joel Grey Clocks, mice and too much education.
Seems to have been forgotten by many. I remember seeing in the late 1970′s on the ABC affiliate in Syracuse, NY. Best cast in Christmas entertainment anywhere.
“Pull up an iceberg and lend an ear.†This is all about unions and stuff.
Rankin/Bass is the mark of quality in Christmas programming. I saw this on Christmas Eve 1978 in Hamilton, NY. It started at 9 pm. The snow started at that time as well. The programme ended at 9:30 pm but they snow ended 36 inches later at 9 a.m. Christmas Day. Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 Â
These are the most depressing Christmas entertainments around. And they rule.
This is the one where Capra invents the concept of suicide.
This is a 30 minute film that was made the the Church of the Latter Day Saints. People who like to dress in black. Stewart, in his last role plays a grieving widower who lives alone in his basement apartment with a tiny Christmas tree and a cat named George. He steals a glove from a little girl. Totally disturbing.
Arguably the best Version of Dickens’ classic tale.
Truly twisted as only fundamentalist christians can be. |
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