Huh. The scheduler showed "A Sitch in Time" for Sunday. Grrr.
Dawn ,'Storyteller'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Nebber mind. I see "Mathter and Fervant" on the grid now and it has been scheduled!
I've finally gotten around to listening to Glenn Mercer's Wheels in Motion for a second time. Love it. Essential for any Feelies fan, I think.
The album reminded me - I'm just a sucker for some of the chord progressions The Feelies use, as Glenn uses some of the same ones....
Excerpts from the Intro to the upcoming 33 1/3 book about Tom Wait's Swordfishtrombones by a certain Mr. David Smay: [link]
Excerpts from the Intro to the upcoming 33 1/3 book about Tom Wait's Swordfishtrombones by a certain Mr. David Smay: [link].
Holy shit! People are already expressing opinions.
Thankfully I've already been defended on the charge of pretension. (Thank you, Marc Woodworth Bee Thousand book writer!) Dude, I didn't want to write a straight book about Tom Waits, okay? Go read something else.
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if i were to write a 33 1/3, i'd keep it as unpretentious as possible. something along the lines of "you know that album by tom waits? it was awesome. the first song on that album: awesome. which is not surprising because tom waits is awesome. second song? awesome..."
that said, this excerpt looks pretty awesome. i bet the book is going to be pretty damn awesome too. can't wait.
Bah! tommyrot beat me to it!
I am going to see what seems like a very Buffista band, the Horrors
I keep meaning to check them out, and forgetting. They sound like something I'd be vastly entertained by.
They sound like something I'd be vastly entertained by.
I 'listened' (read: gave half an ear to them as I worked) to the songs they have up on their MySpace page, and the overwhelming impression I got was of a gothed-up, punked-out B-52's. That kind of sound.
Also?
It's easy to hear Swordfishtrombones as a fistfight between Kurt Weill and Nino Rota with xylophone keys flying out of the orchestra pit while Howlin' Wolf announces the bout.
LOVE.