The best moments are like watching people decorate a Christmas tree that’s spinning at 400 rpm, with every bauble hung for a moment before it zings off to explode against the club wall in a glittering shower of spicules of red glass The moment of shock when, deep inside a knockout whirling solo, you could [...]
There’s been a lot going on. Threading the film to run in reverse: I’m in a chair at home in Brooklyn, with an increasingly vegetal right foot: swollen, and mottled in patches with bruising like the peel of a banana. The puffiness of my toes gives them a budlike quality, as though they might split [...]
Good things are coming up if you’re in town. Here are some of them: This Thursday April 22, doors at 7:30: The wonderful White Hinterland just came out with a new album, Kairos (a taste: “Magnolias”) and is going to be playing w/ Dosh at Union Hall here in Brooklyn. Twelve bucks. Sunday April 25, [...]
(Three more days from the thirty days of music: a song you know all the words to, a song that makes you dance, a song you fall asleep to.) Words: In, it must have been 2002, Amanda and I drove across the Bay Bridge into San Francisco and “(Nothing But) Flowers” came on the radio [...]
Ganging the thirty days of music a bit, got a lot going on: Day 3, a song that makes you happy. Right now, Chuck Berry’s “Too Much Monkey Business.” That guitar solo that kicks in about 1:17 is cheap gas, shot springs, shot brakes, and a cigarette burn on the seat upholstery, plus Berry’s “aahhh!” [...]
Day four of thirty days of music: a song that makes you sad. Initially hard to find, because I have a sadness problem, and I regularly purge my music of songs that bring the sadness because sometimes I get trapped there. But here’s one: Peter & the Wolf’s “Safe Travels.” I don’t know why it [...]
For day one of thirty days of music: your favorite song. Broken Social Scene, Emily Haines singing, live a little while ago. I remember J first playing this for me in the white-walled tile-floored laundry room we intermittently shared in LA. “This is my favorite song.” Violet light outside, midsummer sunset, the blue in the [...]
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