September 2010
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August 2010
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'A Confederacy of Dunces' is 30 years old, and... →
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A monkey eating watermelon.
Yeah.
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Agile, Mobile, Hostile: A Year With Andre Williams →
The full feature film is now available on Hulu.
I’ve been working for/with Twangfest for 9 years, and the greatest thing I’ve done, the thing I’m proudest of, is convincing my fellow board members to book Andre Williams for Twangfest 13 sight unseen. The man is a legend and a treasure.
And batshit crazy.
And the subject of some of my favorite musician photos I’ve ever...
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Huey Lewis Honors Stax Records’ Legacy On First... →
Call me crazy, but I’m truly looking forward to this.
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MaxFunCon 2011 →
Same week(end) as Twangfest 15. Dammitalltohell.
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Go watch Jimmy Pardo, please and thank you. →
Click the “Scene Selection” button, and go to the third scene. The man on stage is Jimmy Pardo, and he is my favorite comedian working today. I’ve been a paying subscriber to his podcast, Never Not Funny, for as long as it’s been running, and it’s well worth the meager asking price. Jimmy is in Indianapolis at Crackers in Broad Ripple the second weekend of September,...
Sunday Morning Coming Down →
Just a little something to get the day started.
Son of a Preacher Man — Dusty Springfield
Goodnight Loser — V-Roys
Settled Down Like Rain — The Jayhawks
Alone Again Or — Calexico
Lover, You Should’ve Come Over — Jeff Buckley
Oh My Sweet Carolina — Ryan Adams
The One I Love — David Gray
If You Want Me — Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Your Lies — Shelby Lynne
Who Taught You...
IFC.com: The Kids In The Hall's "Death Comes To... →
I have just been alerted that this starts Friday, August 20, on IFC at 10PM. Two episodes back-to-back each Friday for four weeks!
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When you wake up and I’m gone
You can turn your soaps back on
Eat that...
– Jack Logan, “New Used Car And A Plate Of Bar-B-Que” from Bulk
In which Jay-Z's "99 Problems" is translated by... →
The year is ‘94 and I am driving with uncut drugs in the trunk of my car
In my rear view mirror I can see the police
I’ve got two choices: I can pull over the car or
Run away from the police by pressing the gas pedal hard
Now I don’t want to have the police chase me down the highway
Plus I have got some money: I can fight the case in court
So I pull over to the side of the...
merlin:
[Swell Season via sorry I totally forget who sorry]
Me, I think. Because I’m awesome or something. Maybe somebody else.
The Swell Season covers Neutral Milk Hotel | Music | A.V. Undercover | The A.V. Club
Mule Design Studio’s Blog: Tips On Buying Design →
“Design is a job. It requires understanding and applying business rules, technical constraints, research analysis, success metrics, and user needs. Don’t hire ‘creatives.’ Hire smart workers.”
Also, the article that I’m going to point every potential client to before working with them. (Good) designers will appreciate this, and if you have occasion to work with...
This. Read. Now. →
I deleted every location/check-in account I had after I read this post by Merlin, because you shouldn’t give a fuck where I am, and rest assured I don’t give one about where you are, unless we’ve agreed to be somewhere together and you aren’t there for some reason.
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My great-grandmother, Edna Christena “Teeny” Welmer, celebrates her 99th birthday today. Family lunch and peanut butter pie…
In The Red Records on MySpace →
See my last post re: The Parting Gifts. Two of their songs are on this page.
Ettes + Reigning Sound = Parting Gifts on Blurt... →
October will bring the release of Strychnine Dandelion, the debut waxing from The Parting Gifts - who, in case you haven’t heard, is a kind of garage rock supergroup fronted by Coco Hames of Nashville’s Ettes and Greg Cartwright of Asheville’s Reigning Sound. (Hey, Nashville ‘n’ Asheville - alliteration!) Also playing on the record are Patrick Keeler (Greenhornes,...
Northern lights could illuminate the sky late... →
I should just stop reading stories like this, because it puts time and significance into a perspective that I’m unprepared to deal with and would be better off never thinking about again.
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