Spitball Army

I was voter number 7 in line, so I was able to cast my “gender” vote quickly. There were two ballot boxes at the school where I vote, and one of them was down (it was sitting there like an abandoned R2D2, emitting an electronic beeping sound every few seconds). If they don’t get that baby fixed, they are going to have one hellish day come lunchtime or after work.

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Damn! I missed it…the Josh Ritter Live at the Artists’ Den already aired on Ovation. If, like me, you missed it, it will re-air on February 21st. Here’s a clip (courtesy of ovationtv.com):

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I nearly hit the floor when my friend Ben gave me this painstakingly and lovingly made reconstruction of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, as a farewell tribute to my teenage record store, who has flown the nest after 16 and a half years.

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k.d. lang’s Watershed, Cat Power’s Jukebox, and Curt Perkins’ Get Something Started

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This set list was nabbed after a Josh Rouse concert at Birmingham’s Workplay Theatre in October 2003.  I tried to determine the date online, but both Josh’s site and the Workplay site do not have archives going back that far.  Band member Daniel Tashian’s blog started up in January 2004, so there is no mention of […]

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I compiled a playlist a while back to complement a little writing project that I’ve been working on for, oh, the last 35 years or so. One of the pieces that I chose fit the mood of some of the source material incredibly well.

Eerily well, as it turns out.

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I wouldn’t bet on it, in this case anyway. I would imagine that this particular bumper sticker sold more bumper stickers than soundtrack CDs.

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…so while we’re waiting for her, let’s make a video!  Yes, this is Ryan Adams.

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A live recording by Elton John of Ryan Adams’ “Oh, My Sweet Carolina,” from EJ’s 2002 Australian tour. Great performance and piano-playing, despite the Muppet-hands. The lyrics have a startling similarity to those from the early John/Taupin compositions, which I assume Ryan Adams has a fondness for.

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Music permeates every moment of this movie. The sounds of objects in the film ricochet off of the musical score like instruments in a contrapuntal symphony: the click of a cigarette lighter, overhead lights being switched on in an infirmary corridor, the busy clacking of the typewriter keys and wrrrrhh of the platen as the paper is ripped from the carriage.

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