Tag: music

  • 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…

  • Jazz Fest 2004, day 2

    Still behind on taking notes, but here are my photos from Saturday.

  • Jazz Fest 2004, day 1

    I’ll post my notes later, but for now here’s a photo album.

  • Mekons me like

    If I hadn’t been so ragged out B and I could have stayed for more than the first four Mekons songs at the Starry Pluff in Berkeley last night, but what I heard sounded fantastic. I said to B, “What they’ve retained of the punk aesthetic is the ‘no wanking’ rule.” Everything was spare and…

  • Make it easier

    My guitar was too hard to learn on. I took it the Thin Man music store in Alameda and the dude there to restring it with lightweight strings and lower the action for me. I also bought this beautiful tenor ukulele for $75 because I figure that will also be much much easier to learn…