New and Selected Poems Random Juvinilia from the Family Art Book: A Poetics I feel I could adore you If it weren't for that thing you do that makes me love you so much. If you see the dawn before you fall asleep, save it for me. A home remedy to catch myself in a revery has almost taken her out of...
Last time I shared with you all songs that mention hips, because I have a thing for hips. As an aspiring fiction writer, I also have a thing for writers, writing, and well, books. So here I share my playlist called 'I Write the Book.' I am sure I missed a ton, so don't hesitate to tell me so. Hey...
Re-construction. Optimism. Individualism. The 1960’s sparked off a new generation of individualism, the individual style started to re-emerge, a style that would echo down the next 4 decades. This individual style was picked up by the youth. There was a 20% increases in the youth; they lead an...
Pro: Finding SweeTarts for $.25/roll at Walmart. Con: Eating them when I'm in the midst of realizing that I'm gaining weight. Pro: Beatles Rockband, and that my kids now sing Beatles songs. Con: Uh, can't really think of one here, except for maybe that I suck at guitar. Pro: Being done with school....
Ever since the arrival of DVDs on the video landscape, me and my friends have been scrambling to acquire DVD versions of all those J-pop Concerts and PVs that we’d cherished and loved in the Laserdisc/VHS age, and while we’ve been blessed enough to have seen both Princess Princess AND Moritaka...
This is the new hyperlinked index to all posts on the Hobo site (and there are many!) and more to come. If you scroll down the blog - posts are not all in order anymore but this index arranges them according to easy find categories - But first other links - (with some cool You Tubes of Cov bands and...
I must be honest. When first asked whether I would like to go on tour supporting Nik Kershaw my initial reaction was: “who?”. Thanks to modern technology with its entire wondrous popular music encyclopaedia (in other words, Youtube), I soon discovered I wasn’t unfamiliar with his work at all....
The Public don't really give a damn what happens in between. Si one told me that no one actually wants to watch local musicians, he was right, so god knows why anyone would want to read a Blog by one. Still Perseverance is a virtue, probably. Writing new songs is not like you probably imagine, I'm...
Download FREE MP3 [Part 3] - Click Here! Some titles: Russell Peters - Red White and Brown (2008) 24-Feb-2003 4M - - The Beatles - Sink In the Can 6-Sep-2002 3M - - Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine 7-Jan-2003 5M - - John Lennon - Rock 'N' Roll 24-Jul-2006 3M - - Jefferson Airplane - Bark 27-Aug-2002...
So how does a 39year old white photographer get the blues?. In the mid sixies Jeff Duna's favorite music was preformed by The Rolling stones, the Beatles, the Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac etc. but what he didn't know at the time was that all the music liked was linked by a...
(Note: see Wikisource my wiki for a more complete version with more links.) ANDROID MEME'S XENOCHRONY Bob Dobbs (1922-) Diary (1935-1998) (chronological order; original version) ____ 1935 April 22/35 (Paris) "Crowds are all that's left," James Joyce muttered to Eugene Jolas. As Bob Dobbs walked into...
This was an English assignment, believe it or not. We were supposed to criticize some aspect of modern pop culture, so I chose my favourite subject of ridicule: scenesters. Guide to the Modern Scenester Or: “Hey scenester, hey hey scenester.” You aren’t unique unless you’re just like every...
Updated Oct 27th 2007 Pete Chambers invited me down to Cov to attend the launch of his latest book on the history of Coventry Music - a book mainly photographs. The launch last Thurs 18th Oct 2007 was at 'The Fletch' and after a speech by BBC Radio Coventry DJ and musician Bob Brolly (featured in...
I kind of like this Vegas template and I kind of like Vegas; my girlfriend took me there as a birthday surprise last month. In my daily life, I feel the constant need for stimulation - doing one activity is not enough that I need the comfort of the internet, television, music, and high speed...
No, not the bra that provides appreciated support to countless women around the world. I have been thinking about the slang word "bra," which I already know is short for "brother" and used pretty much the same way I, as a West coast slacker, would use the word "dude." First of all, I think it is a...
Last night husband and I braved the rain and went to see Iron & wine play. That Sam Beam knows how to write a song! We got to the Moore theater early as we had tickets for the second balcony, we wanted to sit right in front and look down at the musicians. As we stood in line waiting to be lead up...
One of the key new features in iTunes 7.1, which came out earlier this week, is "enhanced sort options". What does that mean? Why would you want such a thing? How do you use them? I'm here to answer all of these questions. Hopefully. Before iTunes 7.1 Since at least iTunes 5, there's been automatic...
Sometimes an album comes along and it can outshine all of the other works of any given artist. For the Beatles it was the White Album, for Pearl Jam it was Ten, for Metallica it was the Black album and for Led Zeppelin it was Houses of the Holy. While the every album in each of those bands'...
My Quote Collection 1)There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship Without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. 2)The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. -Plato 3)Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to...
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