Since Sgt Grumbles and shared his more finalised version of the ‘Best Albums of 2009′ I figured it was as good a time as any to revisit my list. I would have simply updated the original post, but there have been some significant changes to my ‘Best Albums of 2009 (thus far)‘ list due to [...]
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Best Albums of 2009 Revisited
Posted in Culture, Music & Film, tagged Album, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Atlas Sound, Axe to Fall, Best Albums, Best of 2009, Born Again Revisited, Buddy Holly, Camera Obscura, Cass McCombs, Catacombs, Chris Cohen, Converge, Cryptacise, Cursive, Curtains, Domestica, Dragonslayer, Elvis Costello, Girls, Grizzly Bear, Happy Hollow, Hellhole Ratrace, I'm Swollen, Jane Doe, Logos, Mama, Merriweather Post Pavilion, My Maudlin Career, Mythomania, NME, Noble Beast, Pet Sounds, Pitchfork, Rip it Off, Stereogum, Sunset Rubdown, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, These Four Walls, Times New Viking, Two Weeks, update, Veckatimest, We Were Promised Jetpacks, While You Wait for the Others on November 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Addicting?
Posted in Music & Film, Sports, tagged "Talking about practice", Allen Iverson, practice song on November 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
You decide… but I can’t stop watching this for some reason, and now the song is stuck in my head. “Not a game, not a game, not a game… we’re talking ’bout practice.”
Thanks Shawn.
Grizzly Bear in Glasgow
Posted in Music & Film, tagged Glasgow, Grizzly Bear, O2 ABC, St. Vincent on November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What good is an “international correspondent” (as I have once been dubbed by Mark) if that correspondent doesn’t comment on regional happenings? No good. So instead of writing about seeing Grizzly Bear, a Brooklyn-based band (whose album Veckatimest is currently my number one pick this year), in America I will briefly comment about their show [...]
Daniel Smith
Posted in Art, Culture, Music & Film, Religion, tagged a Family Movie, Bob Dylan, Daniel Smith, Danielson, Elliott Smith, heroes, Jesus Christ, John Gardner, New Jersey on October 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In my lifetime I have been blessed with the opportunity to know or at least to be exposed to various people that have a magic in them that necessitate a portion of my devotion – my heroes. Among them are people like my father, who taught me the meaning of selflessness, hard work, and patience, [...]
Sew it on…
Posted in Music & Film, tagged The Pixies, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jeremy Enigk, Pavement, reunion, Jimmy Fallon, Seven, Blur on October 1, 2009 | 14 Comments »
The year of reuinons?
Maybe we’re not seeing Moz and Marr back together, but we are most certainly seeing Pavement – and more importantly – Sunny Day Real Estate reforming, at least for now. (Note: The Pixies are recording new music together and I guess Blur reunited too, but who cares about a Blur reunion?)
Just to [...]
Extras
Posted in Music & Film, tagged Extras, Patrick Stewart, Ricky Gervais on September 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Elliott Smith, Intercessory Psalmist
Posted in Culture, Music & Film, tagged Elliott Smith, Figure 8, The Royal Tenenbaums, Heatmiser, Good Will Hunting, Hurricane Streets, American Beauty, Thumbsucker, The Go-Getter, Paranoid Park, Guitar Hero 5, Academy Awards, Roman Candle, Either/Or, XO, From a Basement on the Hill, New Moon, Sweet Adeline on September 25, 2009 | 9 Comments »
This post, in partial attempt to push my last post under the radar, is more in my line of pseudo-expertise and at least non-inflammatory interest…
On 6 August 2009 Elliott Smith would have turned 40 years old. Instead, on 21 October 2009 we grieve six years without him. Readers may or may not know who Elliott [...]
Bands that Yo La Tengo taught me to love
Posted in Music & Film, tagged Big Star, covers, Flaming Groovies, love, The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, Wire, Yo La Tengo on September 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yo La Tengo is my favorite band. If you’ve never heard them, I suggest you start with “I can hear the heart beating as one” or “And then nothing turned itself inside out.” Though, as a side note, I cannot make any guarantee that you’ll care for them – I’m always surprised to [...]
Inglourious Propoganda
Posted in Belief, Culture, Music & Film, tagged Inglourious Basterds, nazis, Quentin Tarantino on August 29, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I saw the film Inglourious Basterds the other day, upon the recommendation of a number of friends. I left the theater feeling two simultaneous and somewhat contradictory feelings (in a word: ambivalent). On the one hand, I “enjoyed” the film: the tension-building dialogues exploding in a climactic release (apologies for the sexual undertones there), the [...]
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