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  Aw shucks

  11.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  A couple of times I have mentioned Lucinda Williams on this hyeah web log (blog). I never expected to attract her attention thereby, but now comes news that on her new album she covers AC/DC’s “It’s a Long Way to the Top”.
  I think it’s pretty obvious Lucinda is sweet on me.

• Music

  Corruption

  10.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Earlier this month Mrs The Fyd and I witnessed Weezer bringing the rock music. I write now not to praise Weezer, although they were most definitely praiseworthy that evening. I write to mock the second opening band, Angels & Airwaves. We arrived after the first opening act was finished, so I cannot [...]

• Music

  Next up is a Thompson Twins cover

  10.22.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Thirty years ago AC/DC used a set of bagpipes in one of their songs. That accomplished, they promptly ditched innovation with grim resolve, such that listening for the first time to their new album, Black Ice, I just now found myself asking, “Is that a freakin’slide guitar?” And answering, “Yes. Yes it [...]

• Music, Portland

  A fan’s notes

  09.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  AC/DC is coming out with a new album next month.  The release date is the day before my birthday, which would seem significant if I really thought the world revolved around me.  However, as proof that it doesn’t, it appears from the concert dates posted online that the band will not be stopping in Portland [...]

• Music, Portland

  I got mine . . .

  08.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  . . . tickets, that is.

• Music

  =w=

  08.04.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The song “King” on the new Weezer album is the reason I proudly fly the Flying W on the back of my pickup truck.
  Although the fact that that song (and three others) are bonus tracks on the deluxe version of the Red album, and it was just sheer chance that said version of the album [...]

• Music

  Rock Steady in Back

  07.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve been listening to the Vandals this morning, and so am reminded of some other names for the mullet:
  Ape Drape
  Hockey Hair
  Forbidden Hair
  Achey-Breaky Hair
  For some reason this reminds me of a dream I had last night, where I was out doing some serious shopping for a pair of cowboy boots I needed for work.  This doesn’t [...]

• Music, Portland

  Here is something you can’t understand

  07.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  People of Southeast Portland!  If you post a “free stuff” ad on craigslist offering free bricks, and if I have been refreshing the free stuff page every fifteen seconds because I want me some free bricks, and if I call your number three seconds after the ad posts, and if I leave a voicemail swearing I want the [...]

• Music

  Red & Black

  06.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve just finished listening, for the first time, to the new Weezer album.  First impression is a certain relief that every track is listenable.  The last album had three good-too-great songs, but I cannot bear to listen to any other track on it.  That was a first for me with any Weezer album.
  Anyway, there was something [...]

• Music, Walks with the dogs

  Confounding Expectations

  06.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Tuesday was a chilly day, with the temperature in the forties, and an obligingly cold rain soaked the Resident Dogs on our evening walk.  By the time I took the Short-term Dog for a walk it had stopped raining but it still felt like winter to me.  Yesterday was warmer and dry so I went for [...]

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