When I was younger, I used to love finding spare change in old pockets and couch cushions. I thought of it as a bonus on my allowance, and would usually spend it on something frivolous but eminently enjoyable. Sometimes, I'd save the change in small jars, but always with the intention of collecting enough for an ice cream or an afternoon at the ( Read more... )

When asked about DJ'ing weddings, I have a list of reasons for politely declining. I don't like being stuck behind a pair of decks while my friends have fun and there are some other DJ's who are far, far better at soundtracking weddings than I. I'm also honest enough to say that I've DJ'ed events outside of my scene comfort zone and have done a ( Read more... )

so, Pandora users ( Read more... )

apparently, there's also a fairly sizable music festival going on in the outskirts of Paris the weekend that PBP finishes; and it's totally on the way back to the city from where we finish. Bjork, Jarvis Cocker, The Arcade Fire, Faithless, MIA, UNKLE ... mmm, apparently, Mogwai goes on stage a couple of hours after the last rider gets in ( Read more... )

silentq and I signed a lease for an apartment tonight, which makes it official. We're moving ( Read more... )

Sometime last year, I caught this documentary on cable. I didn't have high hopes for it. The very title, Live Forever, an allusion to an Oasis song, probably meant that it would use the Gallagher brothers as its focal point, and there's not much room for other artists when Noel and Liam's egos are involved. That part went as expected, but the ( Read more... )

There has been a lot of instrumental melodic drama that I have loved, listened to and replayed in the genre of post-rock, and some of it is very good (Sigur Ros, Mono, Godspeed You Black Emperor) and some I can take or leave (Labradford, The Album Leaf, various GYBE side projects) but, for me, there's no band that makes the trip between good and ' ( Read more... )

This was the plan on that Tuesday night -- take the 3:15 Acela to New York the day before a client meeting; check into the hotel, drop off bags, change clothes, and walk down to Avalon for Mono, possibly meet up with damiel enroute, head back to hotel, sleep, get up for 9AM meeting, drink lots of coffee and cover-up any hearing loss by solicitiously ( Read more... )

I suppose I could just register on upcoming.org and just track all of these events there, but then I don't get to poll the friends list to see if anyone's interested in coming with ( Read more... )

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(trailer on Apple's siteThe trailer has a suspicious focus on commentary from U2, but I'd like to believe that it's just to get more mainstream recognition, and won't hold it against them ... yet ( Read more... )