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How To Have A Concert In Your Living Room

Posted in Belief, Music & Film, tagged , , , , on February 21, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Invite David Bazan. This last Sunday I was fortunate enough to host Mr. Bazan (or Dave as he likes me to call him) at my house for one of his living room shows.  For those of you who don’t know – this very blog is named after one of his songs, so to have the [...]

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Sleeper Albums

Posted in Culture, Music & Film, tagged , , , on September 9, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Sometimes a record just fails to win you over on the first, or second or third listen.  How many listens do you give it before accepting that you just won’t like it?  And once you reach that conclusion, do you sell it back to the store or keep it, in hopes that, at some point [...]

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Plastiki You Say

Posted in Environment, Miscellany, Music & Film, tagged , , , on March 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Ran across this post today about a boat made from 12,500 plastic bottles.  Very interesting to say the least.  Check out the post to read more, and view the video below for a trailer about the project. Added bonus… the guy who made the trailer and is on the boat filming has a film company [...]

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Thou shalt have no American Idol before me

Posted in Music & Film, tagged , , , on March 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Last week I had written post about American Idol, and how I was finally coming around on it after years of hating the very idea of it, reluctantly watching it to appease my wife, and/or guiltily enjoying it with a large dose of self-loathing.  I wrote that this season was different and offered some of [...]

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Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz

Posted in Miscellany, Music & Film on March 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Ironically, my brother Greg was writing a post on our Uncle John at the same time I was.  However, as he is an infinitely better writer than I am, I would suggest you check out his post over at Lost In the Cloud. Our uncle was a reclusive, witty, and highly intelligent fellow who has [...]

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Weekend Sendoff

Posted in Miscellany, Music & Film, tagged , on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Have a great weekend everyone.  Enjoy “To Kingdom Come” by Passion Pit. Thanks again to Greg for the introduction.

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Bon Iver – Blood Bank

Posted in Music & Film, tagged , on February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Thanks in part to lists from Elijah and Greg, I checked out Bon Iver.  I have been addicted to this song for a couple of weeks now.  Enjoy.

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Death to Pete Records

Posted in Music & Film on February 1, 2010 | 14 Comments »

My family and I moved last week, in part because of a foolish interest-only loan we took on four years ago, and in part because of some utterly contemptible behavior on the part of Chase bank, and in part because of the fact that my parents are really cool and are allowing us to rent [...]

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21 Artifacts from the 21st Century

Posted in Culture, Music & Film on January 1, 2010 | 26 Comments »

The end of the decade has resulted in a number of best of the decade lists.  We’ve kind of OD’d on best of lists here already, but Elijah and I wanted to throw in our votes for those works of culture from the 2000′s WE think will/should stand the test of time. I feel somewhat [...]

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The Top (Two Thousand and) Ten Films

Posted in Music & Film on December 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Dear reader, I give you these 10 suggestions (from the 35 films I saw this year) to consider as eminently watchable and deeply worthwhile cultural experiences… 10.  The Road:  It was bleak and heart-wrenching and so difficult to watch…but it was unflinchingly truthful and often had a kind of tarnished beauty.  An amazing film that [...]

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