THIS POST IS NOW COMPLETE! At one stage the news columns of Hobo Magazine were called Street News and Shoestring Blews. I even wrote a song around this title. Shoestring because we were working on a shoestring budget (no fancy grants back then) and Streetnews because most of the news was gathered by...
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die Published in 2005 by Cassell Illustrated. Selected & written by 90 leading international critics, general editor Robert Dimery. In chronological order 1955-2005. Year of release only given here, when considered absolutely necessary. Where there were...
Looking back on 2007, I can't help but think that this was a pretty good year. I lived fully, accomplished much and grew as a person. I will watch the year 2007 pass with a hint of nostalgia and a lot of gratitude. 1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before? Traditional Ashtanga yoga in...
When I was a kid radio was still big and not everyone had a TV so I used to listen to the stories my grand parents used to tell of their old days. I loved all these stories and at the time did not fully understand I was being given the oral history of my family. Such things are rare now days and...
The Never-Ending List Of Things I Want To Do Before I Die (in no particular order) Properly ride a motorcycle Tell someone "I Love You" and truly, truly mean it. Write something incredibly good. Learn German. Read and understand Plato's Dialogues. Have a baby with the man of my dreams. To be able to...
Holy crap, I'm posting on a Spam Bandits-endorsed blog! I never thought this day would come… It's interesting to think of my last words to Rory, in the parking lot of Cossetta's: "Some day [I'll become a Spam Bandit]…some day!!" We had just finished up our annual Extended Day-After School...
While I spent the majority of the year listening to dub, goth, and post-punk from the late 70s and early 80s, I still acquired some thirty-odd albums released in 2007, most often via paid download (1). Narrowing these down to my top 10 albums (2) of the year was no easy task. Among the also-rans,...
David Bowie is curating the High Line Festival this year. In honor of the occasion Time Out New York posted interviews that Bowie did with Ricky Gervais (see earlier post for more Bowie/Gervais fun) and performance artist Laurie Anderson, who will be performing along with Arcade Fire and others at...
Travel: Palm Springs, CA Bands: Of Montreal, Gillian Welch, Tilly and the Wall, Silversun Pickups, Arctic Monkeys, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Jarvis Cocker, Sonic Youth, Bjork, Regina Spektor, Hot Chip, New Pornographers, Peter Bjorn and John, MSTRKRFT, Andrew Bird, The Decembrists, Kings of Leon,...
I would first like to apologize to all friends and family for the lack of communication in the last two weeks. I have been surviving on a 21 minute phone card and no internet, so please forgive me. I am alive and very well. That being said, surviving is probably not the most appropriate word. Japan...
Last night was a late one courtesy of good company, alcoholic stimulation and a thumping set from Groove Armada at the Hammersmith Palais. This was the official launch of the forthcoming new album "Soundboy Rock" out in May. The venue was the Hammersmith Palais and this was to be the last gig to be...
the gig i have now, a long-term subbing for advanced spanish, is in almost every way really sweet. the kids are motivated and charismatic, love the language, and are genuinely excited about the material that i'm presenting. also, i am the only advanced spanish teacher, which means i can plan...
"Tell the person next to you, that they're beautiful" "Jen, you're beautiful." That pretty much sums up the entire assembly we had today. I already forgot most of it, but apparently i'm either a Zebra or a Moth, If i'm a zebra then i'm half black. The speaker talked about people hiding behind masks...
so i'm suffering from the ugliest prickly heat rash right now. it's on the right side of my neck. it's seriously killing me. i was a victim of the indio heat. thankfully my palm has a memo function and i was able to "blog" a lil bit. granted my notes are in shorthand, i'll expand as i go along...
here they are. my picks this week will be in blue. no reason. honorable mention goes to my friend, jim even's band helen stellar. you can find them on myspace or cameron crow's label (the name escapes me right now.) here is a quick video. jim is the one singing. he's in europe for a while and i miss...
The Austin City Limits Music Festival 2007 official lineup is online. Once again, as always, the diversity of the musical lineup is impressive. This is what makes ACL Fest so special compared to the other major music festivals in America. I already purchased my three day pass a month ago. Here's an...
Or something like that. The really cool thing about working until 10:56pm is that Arcade Fire gets blasted. Right through my speakers. My speaks. I know only my friends read this, and I know only...2 of those that DO read this are qualified to handle what I'm about to spew, but...oh well. A glimpse...
Title: Springing Heart | Total Length: 1:18:05 The reason why I am posting this and I am posting this so late is that Chaz reminded me of how I made certain mix CDs. Granted, I have not made any in a while, but this is the latest one that I forgot to share. I made this around February (around my...
The first e-mail in my inbox this morning was a polite, apologetic missive from the founder of Pandora, telling me that international listeners will no longer be able to access the Pandora service due to licensing issues - namely the licenses needed to provide the service are too expensive to be...
To get an idea of just how deep Phil Spector's psychosis runs, you need only to know this one story. It's well-known that Spector took the title for his first hit, "To Know Him Is To Love Him," from the epigraph on his father's tombstone. Less known, however, is that Spector's father committed...
