Posts Tagged ‘music’

it’s up to me

I just paid $5.00 for radiohead’s new record, which will be launched wednesday as a digital download only. I could have paid ten cents or nothing, but I figured five bucks was fair. “We value your custom.”

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sell out

I’m sometimes forgiving when indie bands sell music to companies to be used in advertising. Like when Jaguar used a Spoon song last year in a car commercial. It was pretty cool, and whatever, they probably got enough dough to record their album. However, when I am laying on the bed with the cats, spacing […]

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seven inches

I finally got a look at my 7″ collection. It is considerably more valuable than the LPs I have. Especially given that almost everything contained therein is out of print, first edition, and by bands like Nirvana and Green Day and Rancid and AFI and so on. The great thing is that it’s almost entirely […]

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your smile is a drug

The show was good. Seemed sparsely attended, maybe medium full down in that dark basement club. It’s so small. Hard to fathom Spoon played there last month, conveniently choosing the night when I would be in Chicago. Thanks dudes. Anyway, Patrick Park was pretty great. I’d never seen him before, in fact didn’t really know […]

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penultimate

Tomorrow is my last day here. It hasn’t sunk in. Tonight my chums from work are taking me out for drinks at a nearby classy cocktail bar. I am still touched when I hear that people will miss me around here. I was always kind of the quiet one, but I have come out of […]

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numb fingers

Tonight Brian showed me how to play “Palmcorder Yanja” on the guitar. After about a half hour of practice, I got it, but … are my fingers delicate little flowers or what? I don’t know why I never became a musician — apart from singing, which I can still do and love to do. But […]

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93

I’m sharing music with husband tonight and I see that he has the Slant-6 record. MEMORIES!!! I snapped this polaroid of them in a tri-cities parking lot They put out a great 7″ which I listened to a hundred times back then. There was a song called “Semi-Blue Tile” that clocked in just under a […]

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whole lotta love

+ I’ve been writing a thing about mix tapes for the book. Oh how I remember how hard I worked on mix tapes for people, and how I treasured the ones made for me. Terrible Neil made me a great one in 1997, a really great one, which I am sure I later burned or […]

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something pretty

So just now I was goofing around on the interweb and listening to music and decided to google Patrick Park since I like his tunes but don’t really know anything about him. I found his web site and discovered that he’s playing a show at Cafe du Nord in three weeks! Yes, please. favorite songs: […]

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sneezy

I really do have the best husband ever. I really lucked out. Kind, patient, loving, considerate, heart of gold. I must have done something right to make that boy fall for me. Anyway I say that because the “mystery” of my recent blemish breakout was revealed to me this morning. I took 600MG of advil […]

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