Despite being featured in the self congratulating baby boomer epic that is the Big Chill, “A Whiter Shade of Pale” is one of my favorite all-time songs. The film on this particular copy of it is from the original 16mm, and has some intense 1960s-ness going for it.
Last Friday, I wound up at a large gay bar in San Antonio for a friend’s birthday. I heard “Womanizer” not once, not twice, but three times in the two hours we were there. Britney Spears seems to be making major inroads as a gay icon, and I hope she sticks with it. Starlets fade, […]
Medley from Riki Lindhome on Vimeo.
My friend Bart (note his blog is often NSFW, although he’s usually good about putting images behind cuts) pointed me to Garfunkel & Oates. The music’s playful and poppy, and it’s great to see a woman-led act in this comedic vein. You can download a whole bunch of their songs […]
I am incredibly disturbed when people don’t know who ABBA is. I don’t especially love ABBA — they have some excellent tracks, but I was never particularly tied to them — but, I think it’s impossible to conceive of the current pop music scene without ABBA having happened. Also, they’re the only band to ever […]
Iris DeMent is playing tonight here in Austin. I put off buying a ticket and now, of course, can’t, as the show sold out. To be fair, I put off buying a ticket because the price ($30) is a few notches above my mindless ticket-buying tipping point. While junior year of college I blew $80 […]