Last night, The Hold Steady rocked my finely tuned butt off ...


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The August 2008 Music Mix has been posted. It can be downloaded onto your iPod, you can listen to the individual files, or listen to the whole mix here.
Enjoy! August 2008 Music Mix Track Listing

1. Coconut Coolouts - (Please Don't Break Me Out of) Party Jail
2. Rick Springfield - What's Victoria's Secret?
3. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of ( Read more... )

I was watching Letterman last night and heard something that actually made my mind explode a little bit (although that could just be a side-effect of this friggin' ear infection) ...
Pamela Anderson was on, plugging her new reality show, 'Pam On the Loose' or 'Barbwire on the Run' or 'Boobs Gone Wild' or whatever it's called when she responded to ( Read more... )

Proof that God is a Democrat? Valerie Plame's brain is tumor-free

Totally off-topic - how did Roscoe P. Coltrane and Cleetus have a new patrol car at the beginning of each episode of the Dukes of Hazard? Did Hazard County have a never-ending supply of patrol cars or was Cooter really that good of a repairman?

I am now, once again, a proud ( Read more... )

I feel like I should post an update ... but, to be honest, I don't really have all that much to say. Life is good, work is fine, happy that USA Basketball starts tonight, finally catching up with 'Mad Men' and loving it, yadda, yadda, yadda. Which is all good for me ... but doesn't make for interesting reading, methinks.
One resolution I made for ( Read more... )

Firstly, he July 2008 Music Mix has been posted. This mix can be downloaded onto your iPod, you can listen to the individual files, or listen to the whole mix here.
July 2008 Music Mix Track Listing

1. Graveyard Girl - M83
2. Thou Shalt Always Kill - Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip
3. Eazy - Aceyalone feat. Chali 2Na & Bionik
4. Tranquilo - Kassin + 2
5. Gamma Ray - ( Read more... )

Ok ... so I'm going to be a bit of a music snob for a second now ...
I subscribe to a number of podcasts including, All Songs Considered and NPR Live Concerts. Every once in a while one of the podcasts introduce me to something interesting and new (Orchestra Baobab, Fleet Foxes, and Kassin +2 to name a few recent favorite finds). However, the host ( Read more... )

Nelson Mandela is on the cover of most recent issue of Time, which reminded me of a recent moment of confusion.
I was flipping through television channels the week before last and landed upon a concert on VH1 Classic. There, Amy Winehouse was warbling the 80's tune "Free Mandela" and thought, "Good lord, he's in jail again?"
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So, yesterday, a very good friend sent me the following press release that she had received:
New Edition Celebrates 25 Years of Success - Group Dishes on Past Drama and Their Next Career Move
Bad business deals, internal differences among members and the decision to vote Bobby Brown out of the group in 1986 were just some of the topics New Edition ( Read more... )

I do hope that everyone had a very happy fourth of july or - as it will now be known - "jesse helms is dead day".
I was looking at a couple of mixes that I had lined up, looking for the best one to ease us back into the daily grind and figured this one would do.
This is kind of an extension of the History of Hip-Hop podcasts I posted a looong time ( Read more... )