I Like Food, Food Tastes Good: In the Kitchen With Your Favorite Bands is a new food book featuring some tasty recipes from your favorite indie bands including Nada Surf, matt pond PA, They Might Be Giants, The Hold Steady and more. This actually looks pretty cool, it’s on my Amazon favorites, buy it for me.Via New York Magazine: http://nymag.com/daily/food/2007/04/rock_star_recipes.html
Filed under: Food, Music on April 25th, 2007 | No Comments »
Two mighty albums released this year make a reference to Himmler…
The Shins - Australia
Dare to be one of us girl
Faced with the android’s conundrum
I felt like I should just cry
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin
Yeah Himmler in your coat you don’t know how long I’ve been
Watching the lantern dim starved of oxygen
So give me your hand and let’s jump out the window
The Tragically Hip - World Container
There’s a world container with your name on it
and a billion ways to go berserk
when the country quits on you
it must be dinner
and the Himmler on this one is, there’s no dessert
(he’s the one who couldn’t imagine
all the people living life in peace, yoo hoo oo oo oo)
So why Himmler? Heinrich Himmler was a prominent member of the Nazi party and primarily responsible for the entire Holocaust (as organizer). The “Himmler” on his story is that the British captured him but committed suicide before he could be put on trial at Nuremberg.
Filed under: History, Music on April 9th, 2007 | No Comments »
Not sure if anyone saw this but someone posted the mp3s from those Velvet Underground acetates that were found and put on eBay recently. Apparently they sound pretty good.
Here is how it all happened (with pic goodness). This one has a picture of the actual acetate and it’s really wild to see 4-25-66 written on it. That’s over 40 years ago, btw. Wow.
Filed under: Music, Technology on January 19th, 2007 | No Comments »
If you use playlists in iTunes to listen to your music, then you may have noticed that it is impossible to delete a song while viewing the playlist. You might need to delete a lost song or just to remove a song you are too embarrassed to even have on your computer (where did that Wham! song come from anyway?).
I discovered a keyboard shortcut that allows you to do this, simply press control-shift-delete after the selecting the song(s) you want to delete. That’s it, hope it’s helpful for you.
Filed under: Music, Technology on December 29th, 2006 | No Comments »
I’ve always been a big fan of Calvin and Hobbes, there’s something very Zen about that boy and his stuffed tiger. I still remember the final strip in the paper and it always takes me back.
But! Just in time for our first Christmas without snow (in recent memory), here are some of the best C&H snowman strips. Hope you get a kick out of them too. Merry Christmas!
Calvin and Hobbes Snowman Art, via Digg.
Filed under: Funny, Holidays on December 24th, 2006 | 2 Comments »
For some reason, I had Zevon’s “Lawyers, Guns and Money” in my head so I poked around YouTube to see what they had. I was not let down. We always hear Warren this time of year (”Werewolves of London” for Halloween) but he really was an incredible songwriter who left us well before his time. Thankfully, Letterman had him on many, many times.
Enjoy…
See more over here.
Filed under: Music, Video on October 28th, 2006 | No Comments »
The greatest band of all time is finally coming out with the greatest movie of all time. Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny hits theaters November 22nd and I can’t wait. I’ve been a big fan of the D since their days on HBO. Their album was OK but it’s their bootlegs that are hysterical. The best one I’ve listened to (a few hundred times) is them live at the Largo Pub January 21, 1999. Just amazing. (Un)Fortunately, it is not for the little ones.
They have a website up for the movie now and you really should sit through the first couple of minutes where they intro the website - more comedy genius.
Filed under: Funny, Music on October 26th, 2006 | No Comments »
As of a few hours ago, the collaboration between my brother Tim, Kevin Barry and Mike Hogan is now called Easy Wind. We’ll be playing our first show at O Restaurant & Lounge on Saturday at 10pm for a private birthday party (that’s open to the public).
We’ll play our first real show at McGarret’s on Elmwood Nov. 2nd.
Filed under: Music on October 20th, 2006 | No Comments »
