*I'm here for a repair appointment at the Apple store.

John Adams' masterwork on 9/11

News from Amanda Palmer, or, "How to Remake the Music Industry While Damn! Having Fun!".

Home from Haydn concert at school and a botched hike on PCT: my coworker, the Moviegoer, pooped out after less than three miles. Shit.
We left Silverwood, intending to hike to Cajon, but he got tired-er and tireder, panting, and lagging behind. We stopped for a rest, and he didn't want to go on.
I hate this.

So I got back and Stick was gone; he said (on the phone) that he had gone home because of the snow. Some valiant housemuffin he is! and he turned my heat off! and left his knapsack!
Maybe hiring him was a mistake.
Meanwhile the Century of Amateurs unfolds in HoustonI can come back, check weather, and go down to Baja or not, depending on the rain. ( Read more... )

Why is that no one ever mentions Days of Open Hand as Suzanne Vega's most technically perfect album? What is wrong with them?
Well, it did win a Grammy. Deep are the eyes of Time. I bought a copy, and it came today in the mail...I am enchanted, taken into the Within, by it.

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Nice article in the New Yorker about Amy W. Worth reading.

From Gizmodo, a band:

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Enjoy.

I heard Lily Allen and thought, when she was saying "a little whine and a moan", that she was saying "a little wine and a nun". I was really bewildered.

Comment on this post and I'll give you a band. I'll make it one you know and love. You put your ten favorite songs by that band on your LJ and challenge others to do the same ( Read more... )

Hey, the_dean, there was a short writeup of Amy Winehouse in this month's Rolling Stone; her alcoholism is graphically described. Just so you know.
Going to get some lino for prints once this knitting project is done.