Category: Music

  • "know this"

    Here’s one of my pet peeves about television writing. It seems that a writer wants to show a character getting serious and reinforcing some sombre truth, she has that character say to another “know this: I will never leave you alone” or “know this: I’ll be watching you” or something like that. This always grates…

  • Do the pink robots win?

    Last night I saw the Flaming Lips open for Beck and then back him for the second half of his set. Good show, interesting alchemy. I have all of Beck’s records except his most recent one. And I only have the most recent Lips record, but I’ve listened to it a lot and plan to…

  • metaxian blog ping aggregation

    I’ll be pinging this entry to see if I can get my other blog posts listed here automatically on the category page (x-pings).

  • Burning Laundry

    Saturday I paid the bills, and sent a contributor (at long last) his signed copy of my last book. Monday I made an appointment for the car’s 57-month checkup and updated the contributors to my new book about the cancellation of the contract by the publisher. Tuesday I got groceries, talked to an editor about…

  • Catsup

    I’m doing myself a disservice, in this exercise, but not logging what I’m getting done daily. The whole idea is to counter the negative-sum to-do list view of life and actually log accomplishments. If they don’t measure up to the time spent, so be it, but let it be a record at least of some…

  • Top 100 albums of the '80s

    I haven’t found much to argue with in Pitchfork’s Top 100 Albums of the 1980s, but then I’m also a huge Pixies fan. Let me put it this way: if not for Doolittle, there would be no Pitchfork. In other words, the influence of this record is so vast that, fifteen years on, it has…