I had the day off on Monday – something that I really didn’t brag about in advance, because I value my safety….can’t have any of my fellow friends or co-workers after me to kick my ass, ya know? But yes, it was the glorious 5 day weekend that is coming to a very sad conclusion […]
Category: The 90s
Spending another Sunday morning with the Counting Crows
I’d like to start this particular post off with a plug for Mel, who takes a look at the pros and cons of long distance relationships via a two-parter post on her blog. Oh, the paragraphs I could dedicate to the subject…. We’re going to talk some Counting Crows in a second, but here’s a […]
The many faces of Courtney Love
I could probably start a separate blog dedicated to the frequent blog dispatches from everyone’s favorite crazy blonde this side of Anne Heche, Courtney Love. While I’m not sure that Courtney has ever done the naked dazed Anne Heche street walk of shame, I’m pretty sure she’s done everything else, and I love her for […]
I’m thinkin’ about Tonic
Any Tonic fans in the house? I’ve been listening to Tonic’s second album Sugar a lot this week. It’s probably my favorite from the three albums that they’ve done, (so far?) and I feel like they often got the short end of a stick as a band. Take a look at their three albums, and […]
A new reason to hope that ex-Zeppelin members find new hobbies + the new GNR album
Greetings kids! I know I’ve been a tad silent in the past couple of days, and I’ve got a good explanation for that. Assuming that I start getting mail again someday (long story,) I decided to go ahead and finish up Andy Taylor’s Duran Duran book, so that I can start to power through some […]
Good Listening: Hall and Oates – Acoustic Power (1991)
Hall and Oates – Starting All Over Again (live on Aussie TV in 1991) Hall and Oates acoustic. I know you like the sound of that. So here’s the deal – Daryl Hall and John Oates went back to their roots in 1991 with the release of their album Change of Season, and had the […]
And tomorrow will make a day since we’ve met
I wrapped up the week freshly reunited with an old friend. Gregor over at captain’s dead caught my eye with MP3s of one of my favorite KFOG-FM/ San Francisco broadcasts, a 1996 session with Paul Westerberg recorded at Fantasy Studios. This particular broadcast is a nice little one hour Westerberg career rundown that held a […]
Everything old is new again
It was 1993, and I was head over heels in love with Sarah McLachlan and her album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. Did I mention I was in love with Sarah? In 2008, Sarah might be finally paying attention to the important “don’t cut your hair EVER” rule for girls, having gone from looking like Lilith Fair […]
Now your arms embrace me strangely in your unfamilar room…
Appropriately enough, it’s snowing here in Cleveland this morning… Snow in a soulless city covers up the cracks in the road As a wastrel buys her cigarettes and wipes her pretty nose Like a part-time Elvis imitator these streets I knew so well Have been pasted beyond recognition with a temporary smell Now the midnight […]
New adventures in cheap packaging – The Police
I went to Best Buy last night in search of the new Eric Johnson live DVD Anaheim. No dice on that, so I took a quick look to see if Best “sometimes we stock vinyl” Buy might by chance have the vinyl edition of the new Mudcrutch live EP. Again, denied. One newly released item […]