Spitball Army

I wouldn’t even try to push a river, even though I love getting wet.

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The last really cool homage to the iconic album cover photograph from Bob Dylan’s 1963 The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan was in the film Vanilla Sky. Now we have another in the cover art of American Idol finalist Melinda Doolittle’s new CD.

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The Damnwells have created a new album, and they – in league with Paste Magazine – want you to have a copy of it for free! The Damnwells have always excelled at crafting songs with a rock and roll veneer over a sensitive heart, and One Last Century may be their best yet.

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– My favorite writing instrument is an L.C. Smith manual typewriter with glass keys that is in perfect working order, sits atop a desk in my office, and rarely gets used.

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I had the good fortune to see Ron open for Nick Lowe twice within the last two years. At both shows, in Somerville, Mass., and in Atlanta, they closed the show by singing this duet. I was really pleased to find that it made its way onto YouTube. Ron’s attempt at a crazy acoustic guitar break is funny – he is the complete antithesis of a show-boater.

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“How come every internet address begin with W?”

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There are many things that are behind us, other than 2008. Some are in a constant state of sputtering back to life (see above, excepting Dodos), while others have been wiped from existence forever (see Dodos, above).

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The first 45 minutes to an hour were nearly unendurable. Mamma Mia! follows the standard Hollywood musical formula, with characters singing a song where a mere sentence would suffice, in conveniently improbable settings.

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