Category Archives: Music
Dance My Doormat Blues Away
And we’re back! Edinburgh was fun, thanks. Will probably do a blog-recap of it shortly. Anyway, back to the day-to-day stuff. It was a bank holiday weekend here in the UK (hooray) and I had a really good one. Went … Continue reading
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Hot Air Balloons Would Have Been Too Predictable
By my estimation, about 98% of music videos manufactured today are forgettable, tasteless, copycat crap. Every time someone innovates, we wind up seeing approximately 500 knock offs over a few years of said innovation. Using a fish-eye lens? Trying out … Continue reading
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Merry Misery!
Making up my Christmas playlist on my iPod this year, the final tally reached an impressive 160 songs. That’s a jingly jam session that includes Rat Pack versions of classics, some choral tunes, the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack and some … Continue reading
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The Concert That Got Away
There’s a fair number of people who may be instantly turned off when they hear a musician described as ‘girl with a guitar’. Lilith Fair, for all its supportive female-progressive intentions, also dragged a certain stereotype into the spotlight. There … Continue reading
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Feist-Fest
Today’s great thing is a bit of a letter of encouragement to one of my favorite musicians who is on a sort of semi-hiatus right now. Well, she’s still doing stuff…but you know…not the stuff that I, as her fan, … Continue reading
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