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• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• Music

  Oh Yes

  04.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Weezer’s new album is out 6/24.  And, oh my, what’s up with that cowboy hat? In other music news, for some reason I’ve been in a mood to listen to Terence Trent D’Arby today.  TTD is the poor man’s Prince.  I’ve never much cared for Prince.

• Music

  Commercial Opportunity

  04.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  In the Black Sabbath song “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”, there is a moment towards the middle of the song, after the second jazzy acoustic interlude and leading up to the solo, where Ozzy shouts “You bastards!”.  Just that snippet would make a great cell phone ringtone.  I’m not going to go looking for one; I don’t […]

• Music

  Twice is Coincidence. The Third Time it’s Enemy Action

  02.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yesterday morning shuffle chose to cue Django Reinhardt’s “Mystery Pacific”.  I was startled because the previous night the last thing I read before I went to bed was a short story by Alastair Reynolds called “Pacific Mystery”.  Whoa.  I know that there is something about coincidence that is attractive to our brains.  We assume they are […]

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