Mike Doughty commands, and I am his obedient servant. I give you: the video for Fort Hood.

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It's simple and effective... and affecting.

In case you were wondering what Fort Hood is about, Doughty tells you. In no uncertain terms.

I recently erm, obtained the complete studio works of Pink Floyd, and have been listening to a lot of their early albums - songs that I had never heard. Part of the inspiration for this was the just-okay VH1 series, "The Seven Ages Of Rock," which taught me more about Syd Barrett - the original founder of Pink Floyd - than I'd previously known ( Read more... )

I woke up early on Thursday morning to take the train to work. After a late night drive home while perilously in the grips of everyone's friend, post-beer dehydration (don't call it a hangover! I never hung!), I was in no mood to turn around six hours later and make that drive again ( Read more... )

So I've been Sqrrling this song, "Thrash Unreal" by Against Me! Yes, the exclamation point is part of the band name, which is a little pretentious, but the song is amazing, and I can't get it out of my head ( Read more... )

For the first time, a blog post will go with the my default icon ( Read more... )

The brutal Santa Ana winds are finally abating. Fires still burn everywhere, but the painfully over-burdened fire fighters are finally getting a break from the weather:

'"The high-pressure system is going to move far enough to the east where it will turn off the Santa Ana spigot," said Bill Patzert, a climatologist for the Jet Propulsion ( Read more... )

I saw an interesting tidbit on Mike Doughty's Blog a moment ago, and decided I just had to share it with y'all. I don't know if you listen to the very excellent Mousse & Sqrrrl podcast, but if you do, you'll have heard the unique lexicon that they use to describe the effect of playing a song/album/artist's collected works to death ( Read more... )

There haven't been any Howard Stern Show downloads available this week, and since I finished the latest episode of Mouuse & Sqrrl, I resorted to throwing the iPod on 'Shuffle ( Read more... )

"I'd be a richer man today if it weren't for physics
If I could levitate, I'd sell lots of tickets
And maybe do an interview with Larry King
While flo-oooating..."
--Clutch, The Great Outdoors

Okay. First of all, hi ( Read more... )