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2009 Music
I'm trying to keep this tradition alive... Lord knows I don't write much anymore. But every year it takes longer and longer to piece together.
1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion/Fall Be Kind
Easily the most experimental album to ride high in the Billboard album charts, the Collective dice up their aggressively anti-rhythmic ( Read more... ) -
A Fond Farewell to Record and Tape Traders in Glen Burnie
So RT&T GB will be closing its doors forever. I spent some six long years working there, and I can honestly say it was a very interesting part of my life. In fact, this very blog never quite recovered after I quit ( Read more... ) -
My vacation, like dearly departed 2009, will soon be "Auld Lang Syne"
I don't have a definite resolution for this, my thirtieth year--echh don't like the sound of that--except to be at this point next year in notably better financial straits and with some completed project (writing, drawing, film or some combination of any two). Work and official business won't count towards the latter. -
Maryland Music Scene-it Primer
I met up with an old friend for drinks last night, and over the course of conversation it became clear that he didn't know about the current boon of good music with overt Maryland ties. Both of us spent a lot of time listening to crappy local acts back in High School and directly afterward. If you spent enough time hanging around that circuit you' ( Read more... ) -
Shelia Dixon.
The verdict came down, guilty of stealing $600 dollars worth of gift cards. A brief sampling of opinion from the man on the street segments on the local newscasts show the “blood and iron” side of the city. “It would be best if she just resign”, “Corruption will never go unpunished”, etc… The message boards on the Baltimore Sun website are a ( Read more... ) -
Da Da Da
I have a feeling today was the last good-weather day of the year, so I trudged myself down to the Inner Harbor. Not for the Ravens game, which as it turns out I was prescient in avoiding, but instead for the Baltimore Comic Convention. I'd never been to a comic-con before, but it was about what I expected: a large number of local retailers set up ( Read more... ) -
Favorite Movies Since 1992
Tarantino gave his (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz4K-Rxx2Bk) here are mine:
- Audition
- The Host
- Children of Men
- Pulp Fiction
- Lost in Translation
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Health Care Protests
So I've been irked by the town hall crashers, but until recently I gave it a pass. You know, free speech and all that Americana. But I started to listen a bit more to their chants, slogans and gripes and it hit me. First, let's take a step back: health care in America is abysmal. There's no arguing it. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't spent ( Read more... ) -
Down and Out at the Charles Village Fair
I'm ill prepared to live without a room mate. Not that I charged any of them too much ($300 + 1/2 of the BGE bill), but I'm generally a man of simple tastes. CDs and eating out are pretty much my only vices, and that little bit of rent satisfies my indulgence of both. I became the sole occupant of my home on May 31st, with no real desire to find ( Read more... ) -
Best of 2008 (better late than never edition)
One comment about another one of these "best of list" noted that all of the included artists were only "indie". It seemed to me the concept of "mainstream" in music vanished sometime in 2007 if not earlier. Is there a "movement" right now with a group of performers producing popular music in a shared style? Who would be in that group? Kayne ( Read more... )