God, that long ago.
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Leader Of The Band
I’ve never been a Dan Fogelberg fan, generally speaking. However, my mother is the world’s biggest Dan Fogelberg fan. His music was the reason she became a singer-songwriter, and in fact she reviewed his album High Country Snows for Rolling Stone. I grew up listening to Fogelberg albums (that’s vinyl, folks). So I was really […]
My Cassandra Complex Turns Out To Be Quite Real, Thank You
Remember when the Iraq War started, a few years ago, and Turkey didn’t want to allow us to stage the invasion from our bases in Adana and Inçirlik? And when they suddenly changed their mind, I said — very explicitly — that I believed we’d made a deal with the Turkish government. Specifically, I figured […]
links for 2007-12-16
My Perfect Christmas by James Caan “Anyhow, there I was mindin’ my own business, shootin’ the breeze with a couple of buddies of mine from back home, when these five broads come in. ‘Who the fuck are they?’ I ask my pal, Sil. He turns to me and says ‘that’s the Spice Girls – th […]
CBC.ca Arts – Dances with Wolves actor-musician Floyd Red Crow Westerman dies
CBC.ca Arts – Dances with Wolves actor-musician Floyd Red Crow Westerman dies Floyd Red Crow Westerman, a U.S. aboriginal activist, actor and folksinger who appeared in the movie Dances with Wolves and performed with Willie Nelson and other musicians, has died. He was 71. Westerman died Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of […]
New Red State Soundsystem Track — "Clive Owen"
New Red State Soundsystem track, “Clive Owen” (direct link, MP3, 192kbps stereo). This is an instrumental minimal techno track. It’s a lot of manipulated acoustic and electric Rhodes piano. It sounded like the soundtrack to a scene where Clive Owen is moodily contemplating the future from his future car, so that’s where the title comes […]
links for 2007-12-14
Students Flirt With Death In New Chest-Punch ‘Choking Game’ – Orlando News Story – WKMG Orlando “Students at a middle school in Orange County have been experimenting with what is believed to be a new variation of the choking game, where teens hold their breath and get punched in the chest until they blackout.” Wow. […]
RIP, You Pistol-Whippin' Muthafucka
Ike Turner, rock pioneer, ex-husband of Tina Turner, dead at 76 | TimesDaily.com | Times Daily | Florence, AL Ike may have been a mean-ass sonofabitch, but — separate from his own personal life — he was a goddamn musical genius. In his memory, here’s some wallpaper I made a while back: And whether he’s […]
Istanbul: City Of Cats Now Available On Volette
Some of you know this, but I’m formally announcing it as of now: I’m serving as the editor-in-chief of Volette, a new and badass travel blog created by my friend and colleague Joe Tangredi. Volette is going to be my kind of travel blog, which means it’s going to be weird and cool and will […]
It's Been A Long Time Coming
It was this day in 1964 that Sam Cooke was shot and killed in Los Angeles. He’s most known to people for songs like “Cupid” and “Twistin’ The Night Away”, but I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to suggest that the most important song Cooke ever wrote or recorded was one of the […]