Category: Music

Interesting postscript to my WOMAD writings. Tony Levin wrote about the show too and took photos from the stage! Unfortunately I was too far over on the edge of the stage to make it into any of them…

I was pretty sad about George Harrison’s passing yesterday. It’s pretty sad that on a day like today, the World AIDS Day site is only #3 on Blogdex. Apparently, we’re not all doing our jobs… 🙂

Currently playing song: “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” by The Beatles on The Beatles (White Album) (Disc 1).

This morning, a moment of silence for George Harrison, who lost his long struggle with cancer yesterday. The Washington Post has a good eulogy, as does the BBC.
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Currently playing song: “Walking & Falling” by Laurie Anderson on Big Science.

Currently playing song: “Well Well Well” by John Lennon on Plastic Ono Band. Good old John. I can always count on him to do some primal screaming for me when I can’t.

Currently playing song: “Rebecca Sylvester” by Gastr Del Sol on Upgrade & Afterlife. What a weird, wonderful song by a weird, wonderful band. I think the great thing for me about this band (unfortunately defunct) is the way David Grubbs’ lyrical melodies seem so comfortable with the weird sounds that Jim O’Rourke wraps around them. Besides, how can you dislike a song that ends, “Why did the sharks watch him drown?” … I owe Tyler a big debt of gratitude for introducing me to the band (even if he did freak me out when he told me, “Their songs sound like the noise inside my head when it’s quiet”).

Currently playing song: “Ain’t That A Groove” by James Brown on Star Time (Disc 2) The Hardest Working Man In Show Business. Ow! I just gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta know!!! Boy, it makes working on finance cases much harder. 🙂

Currently playing song: “Blue Angel” by Squirrel Nut Zippers on Hot.

Currently playing song: “KEXP Live (56kbps)”.

(Fixed it.)

Currently playing song: “KEXP Live (56kbps).

Currently playing song: “Feel the Pain” by Dinosaur Jr. on Without a Sound.

Currently playing song: “Horses In My Dreams” by PJ Harvey on Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea.

Currently playing song: “Creep” by Richard Cheese on Lounge Against The Machine. This is an alarming little big band lounge Radiohead cover that almost made me hurt myself laughing. “You know, folks, I was talking with my honey the other day, my Pablo Honey, and I said to her, I said, I said, you go to my head, my Radiohead. OK Computer! When you were here before, couldn’t look you in the eye…” There’s an interview with the perpetrator here.

Currently playing song: “Like Spinning Plates” by Radiohead on Amnesiac.