First Quarter Report

So, I started the year eager for some harder fare, but after a several weeks of grinding and droning on with the Whigs, Ladyhawk, the Foals, the Dodos, and pop punchsters Vampire Weekend, I found myself under a self-induced avalanche of Van Morrison and Elvis Costello, and then back at blues guitar, digging out Buddy [...]

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Remember 2007?

Before I begin, let me just say, you won’t earn my love by reading the whole thing. It’s just nice to know you.
I’ve been so busy putting together a list of the Greatest Recordings Known to Humankind, 2007, that I didn’t have time to get around to this list of Albums I Really Liked This [...]

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Not Even the Internets Know What I’m Talking About

Get a Cash Advance

Note: That’s not my ad. I don’t recommend getting cash. I’m just not savvy enough to remove it. Smarts, for sure.
Another way of looking at this: All that education, and I still can’t write like a grad student (“no duh,” says Graduate School Community).
Actually, my understanding is that each of these [...]

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Pluralisms

“Come on down to Crazy Don’s Toyota Superstore in Oxnard! We’ve got Camries, we’ve got Carrollae, check out these 2008 Prii, and our entire stock of Matrices!!”
I started wondering today if the Toyota people ever consider the possibilities. “A bunch of Cordobas” is rather graceless, in comparison.
Sometimes all the cars slow down, and you have [...]

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More things I don’t have time to hmph hmph hmph (zzzzzz)

1. The new Happy Apple. The old Happy Apple, for that matter. Back on Top.
2. This bumper sticker: “We are making more enemies than we can kill.”
3. This printed across the front windshield of the pick-up behind me in large, capital, ambulance-style reversed stencil print: “SLOW TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT.”
4. Randy Harris often says most of [...]

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Free will in the Super(free)market

At Vons, the sign
hanging over the freezer aisle
reads:”Frozen Choices.”
(fade lights. exit stage left.)
I discovered that Vons (Safeway) were selling their DVD selection for 2/$10* (exclusively to Vons Club members, meaning only elite customers who can remember and reproduce their phone numbers). Discount on LeBlanc’s uproarious orangutan comedy Dunstan Checks In, you suppose? Bargain on Fallon/Latifa’s [...]

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Hardly education

Gabe wrote a Modest Mouse review, way back in the days when WWDBtSES first came out, where he mentioned not being familiar enough with Smiths’ guitarist Johnny Marr’s previous work to pick out his impact on the Mouse. (Hey. lay off Gabe! This man teaches other people to write. Also, he is an internationally renowned [...]

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Hat Tips all around

A moment of joy for those of you who are more behind than I am: Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Teen Bless Her Sweet Heart. [Youtube]
Oh, to have rehearsed and rehearsed, and then it just doesn’t quite come out like you’d hoped. I know just how she feels. Except for the part about having just been [...]

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