My work kept me up until 3 a.m., so today I’m working from home, with the grey skies outside and the sound of rain gurgling through the trees making me feel even groggier than I would be anyway.
I happened to notice that Margo Guryan had posted a new song to her MySpace page–well, not a “new” song, [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Margo Guryan
Posted in Albums, Margo Guryan, MySpace Pages, Performers, Songwriters, tagged 16 Words, Margo Guryan on November 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Nigel Kennedy
Posted in Albums, Classical Moosic on November 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been digging piano concertos recently, so thought I’d branch out into violin concertos.
In getting this collection of Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos, I basically stumbled onto the punk rock Yo Yo Ma in the form of Nigel Kennedy, the lead violinist here. A little research shows him to be quite the anti-intellectual, or at least [...]
Ooh, You’re Strange…
Posted in Bands, Shows on November 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I saw the Strange Boys Sunday night at the Smell. Some friends and I had been ”playing” football earlier, so we brought the ball into the club and were throwing it around in the crowd and dogpiling each other while the band played.
I’ve seen these guys twice that I remember–once in a crowded basement room with kids literally bouncing off the [...]
Thee Makeout Party!
Posted in Bands on November 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I love love love Thee Makeout Party. They’ve combined the Kasenetz-Katz sound with the Velvet Underground jangle and made something both engaging and incredibly sweet. And they’re really great guys, without a shred of pretention (except maybe from Daniel, and even then only in conversation), who play pop music for punk people. It warms my [...]
Fancy Space People – Live at Mondo Video
Posted in Fancy Space People, Shows on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t go try renting videos from Mondo–the Los Angeles establishment closed its doors forever on Halloween night, in a spectacle of destruction, drunken rage, costumes, outsider artistry, dementia, and strobe lighting.
Things started off with the proprietor, Colonel Rob, pulling a giant U-Haul in front of the store, cursing loudly about broken ribs and police brutality [...]
