Category: Music

  • Camper Van Beethoven gear stolen in Montreal

    Spread the word. Let’s help them get their equipment back. (via MZ, who adds: “This stinks.”) >Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:07:59 -0700 (PDT) >From: “J. Segel” >Reply-To: jsegel@magneticmotorworks.com >Subject: [BA-NEWMUS:14634] stolen gear >To: “Bay Area New Music Discussion” > >hey i don’t know if anybody knows anybody up here in montreal, but: > >all…

  • What to include in your blog

    At Watermark, Sharon Brogan notices that some bloggers are pointedly eschewing politics i nthe runup to the election, and she asks her readers for guidance on whether they prefer a blog that focuses on some core areas of knowledge or one that ranges over a wide variety of topics, including political punditry. It’s a great…

  • Uke punks unite

    It seems that I’m not the only one out there who sees the ukulele as the perfect punk rock instrument. This article, Punk Uke: The four-string Underdog rudely rocks by Christopher Arnott from last year describes an eerily similar path to my own: [Y]ou can wake this restless monster up gently with a quaint strum,…

  • Netflix me baby

    Gradually, b and I are entering the 21st century. We just got a DVD player (but not a TiVo or other PVR yet, and we still don’t have cable or satellite – how to choose by the way?). So of course I just signed us up for a free NetFlix trial. Our queue should now…

  • Swift blog veterans for spam

    At meta-roj blog, roj has done a good job of tracking down the Swift Vet’s blog-spam tactics: meta-roj blog: BLOGSPAMMER ID: Swift Boat Veterans For Truth In other news, been kind of quiet around here lately…. My energy has been going into The Power of Many and most of my other contributors (besides the indefatigable…

  • Chris Bowers at MyDD on the 'top-down' right-wing blogosphere

    Interesting comparison of the “less-sticky” right wing of the political blogosphere: MyDD :: Top-Down Right-Wing Blogosphere Growing Powerful

  • More D.C. blog readers

    One thing I heard a lot in Boston during the DNC was people telling me sotto voce that they or their staff or someone on their team or “everyone here” reads blogs. I was told by one Senate committee staffer that they have a person in their office monitoring relevant blogs at all times, and…

  • Kos on the convention blogging hype

    Daily Kos || Blogger mania: One reporter asked Jerome of MyDD what he would be covering at the convention. Jerome replied, “I’ll be writing about you writing about me.” It’s getting to be that absurd. (Posted from BlogOn, day 2)

  • Atrios is blogging the DNC

    Atrios says he’ll be there too. Maybe I’ll learn his secret identity Posted while at BlogON…

  • Things you'll never hear on the band bus

    1. Ladies, I’ll need to see some proof of age, please. … 7. Gee, I wish Buddy Rich was on the bus with us. … 25. Don’t you just love talking jazz with the fans? They are so knowledgeable.

  • It's official

    I’ve

  • Fujiwara Kaito, I like the sound of that

    According to your real Japanese name generator, my Japanese name is 藤原 Fujiwara (wisteria fields) 海斗 Kaito (big dipper of the ocean)

  • Comments temporarily disabled

    Because of the unremitting waves of comment spam and the fact that this MT install isn’t particularly well camouflaged, I’ve temporarily disabled the comment script while I catch up on cleaning out all the bogus comments. I’ll then take the steps Phil Ringnalda and others have recommended to make my comment script a little less…

  • noticing gujari girl

    Thanks to Gwen, I’ve found gujari girl: I never thought the first person in Walnut Creek to whom I’d defend Oakland would be an Indian guy from New York! I’m now two L(G)L behind on photos. If I post mine we’ll have triangulation on a few of the scenes from the other day.

  • You call it ahi

  • My internet radio debut

    Yes, that’s me, originating the part of Guy Forcips in Bill Cassel’s delightful radioteleplay now current in rotation at Monkey Vortex Radio Theater: Everybody Loves Money Available in plain, and peanut.

  • RSS meme gets a weblog

    Just when I’m thinking of saying webfeeds to people and wondering why any normal person would care if Atom or RSS were or were not offered in equal measure by some service, Dave Winer puts his weblogging where his mouth is with the new Really Simple Syndication site. I’ve just posted more about this (and…

  • flesh cartoons

    words and music by Robyn Hitchcock (email downstyle of capitalization mine all mine mine mine): linda ryan in the sky i seen her laughing but i never seen her cry she took her fireman it was her half-empty flight he brought his hose and everything just turned out right i’m just watching… german leather a…

  • Phish calls it quits

    I’m not a huge Phish head but I really like some of their material and I love their whole approach to making live improvised rock ‘n’ roll together. They also share some contemporaneous New Jersey-in-the-mid-’80s experiences with me in their origin stories (the Rhombus, the miniature guitars, the strange period in 1985 where the Dead…

  • Hot damn

    It’s too early to celebrate but I just resubmitted Chapter 9, the final chapter of my book, the recursive, regressive one about media and publishing and information and knowledge and journalism and books and this book itself. That leaves one chapter left to rewrite. Of course it’s the politics chapter, the biggest mother in the…

  • Who else loves cake?

    Hallelujah. Jeff’s Spleen is producing its… er, bile? once again! But that design, it’s so 2003….