MONDAY MUSIC VIDEO: Someone Was Up, Working in the Quiet
January 31, 2022
Widowspeak have created something magical with both the song and the video for “While You Wait.” Parts of the video remind me of San Diego, and La Jolla
MONDAY MUSIC VIDEO: Doors Are The Way You Leave
January 24, 2022
A cool 14 year-old from a tiny Canadian mountain town made an album of Nick Cave covers with the Flaming Lips. Faith in the universe, restored.
MONDAY MUSIC VIDEO: Come Sail Your Ships Around Me
December 6, 2021
A cool 14 year-old from a tiny Canadian mountain town made an album of Nick Cave covers with the Flaming Lips. Faith in the universe, restored.
in the space between carefully chosen words
November 2, 2021
This is a post I am not happy to share. I’ve had a new poem published on the periodicities blog. Though I am grateful for rob mclennan and his bottomless well of poetic and publishing energy, today is a reminder of other sad days. This poem is in response to
MONDAY MUSIC VIDEO(s): Once a Big Thing…
November 1, 2021
This post about bands that were big in the 80s releasing new music now has been cooking for a few weeks and only came together after Midnight Oil released their new song, “Rising Seas,” earlier this week. While they might not top many lists of the best bands of the
This Is Not Art, This is Disaster,
October 19, 2021
Hey Everyone! I hope you are doing well today. As many of you know, I am a verrrrrrrry slow writer. I’ve been working on the follow-up to Lunatic Engine for what seems a decade already though it really has only been a couple of years. The working title for the
Only Jarmusch Left Alive
October 4, 2021
I often feel like I’m the last one to know anything. The latest case in point: Jim Jarmusch’s film “Only Lovers Left Alive.” Though it was released in 2013, I only just watched it this weekend. Late at night. By myself. Isolated in the basement pending the results of a
MONDAY MUSIC VIDEO: But I’d Like to Show You, PENLOP
August 30, 2021
Hello fellow Gen-X oldsters (or other indy music fans.) Do you remember St. Etienne? Their album “Foxbase Alpha” from 1991 was one of those albums that got under your skin and became part of your synapses. Have you listened to any of their subsequent material? Doesn’t matter, you’re going to
MONDAY MUSIC VIDEO: Going To A Place That’s Rotten
July 19, 2021
Some days are not awesome. Today was one of those days. Nothing truly terrible happened to me personally today, but more than one person I love did not have the best day. This is exacerbated by the fact that our environmental degradation is floating in the air, blocking out the
CROWS CIRCLING OVERHEAD, Holding Type to the Light
July 13, 2021
I love chapbooks. I have boxes of them. They’re like singles, like EP’s. A quick listen, enjoyment without the commitment to a full book. They are also, to switch metaphors, like details from paintings in an Art History textbook. They are deep dives, parts representing a greater whole, a way
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