You Too Can Be A Movie Director
I’m still loving this season of Project Greenlight. It’s weird because you really want to root for the people and see them succeed, but OTOH, that doesn’t make for very interesting television. So, we revel in the conflicts and eccentricities, and get jazzed from the sparks a-flyin’. The hope is that out [...]
Today I Woke Up Uncertain
Last night, I finally got around to watching my DVD of Dirty Old Town, the concert film featuring Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. Though it was a good glimpse into the man and the music, I felt it needed more (music, at least). There were really only nine songs performed, and the sound [...]
Local Award Season
Our local alternative weekly Westword came out with its annual Best of Denver issue last week. A CD by one of the bands my brother-in-law Glen plays bass with, Wanker, got the award for Best Audio Alternative to a Handful of Vaseline. I wish the webpage showed the accompanying cartoon, which took up [...]
Buy New York and Sell Chicago
My favorite CD of the year so far* is Mistakes We Knew We Were Making by Boston band The Information. It was recommended to me by mr. pathetic, who does indeed know what kinds of musical things I like. The tunes are bouncy and new-wavey, an uptempo combination of frantic vocals, guitars and [...]
World of Ghosts
My friend Bradley Skaught, musician/songwriter extraordinaire, late of Belle Da Gama, has released some new stray songs on his website. The first two songs, World of Ghosts and Ballad of Matt Herges, make it sound like the spirit of the late, great Elliott Smith has taken up residence in Bradley’s body. I hope [...]
Nothing Better 2 Do (But My Hair)
My bro-in-law Glen has been sitting in on bass a lot lately with the entertaining punk band Wanker. Tonight he’s going to be playing with them at Herman’s Hideaway in a show that is being webcast at RockDenver.com starting at 8pm MST. As usual, he’ll be using my bass guitar (which he sold [...]
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