Here it is Tracklist: A Real Hero. College Nightcall. Kavinsky & Lovefoxxx Warm in the Winter. Glass Candy My Name is Trouble. Karen Ann Kelly. When Saints Go Machine Winter Beats. I Break Horses Summer Days. Toy Camera My Mistakes. Eleanor Friedberger Shampain. Marina & the Diamonds Ten-Twenty-Ten. Generationals Undertow. Stars As If You’ve Never [...]
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Thursday Playlist: Random things I can’t get off my mind lately
1.) The Human Centipede. I can’t bring myself to watch the movie, but I can’t stop wondering about some of the anatomic and scatalogic little details. Are there any intrepid film-goers out there who care to report? 2.) Will the Euro disappear? 3.) This tour video and song by Glass Candy 4.) How unfair not [...]
Thursday playlist: Loose associations
Last time grandpa fawcett posted here, it was a bunch of gripes. This time it’s a jumble of thoughts and enthusiasms, the ramblings of early dementia: 1.) This song “A Real Hero” by College (feat. Electric Youth) is from the movie Drive. I could not stop playing this song every day, ten times a day, [...]
Thursday playlist: 10 recent gripes
Ten recent gripes: 1.) Aging 2.) American people’s opposition to Progressive Taxation. How did so many Americans reach the conclusion that it is not the role of goverment to correct economic injustice? It makes me sick that lofty principals of limited government trump the equally lofty principals of economic fairness. America is so weird. 3.) [...]
Farrell and Trixie’s Endless Summer Mix
Like I promised a few weeks back, here is the summer mix (basically a strongly edited mix of songs we have encountered and loved since springtime). And a tracklist too: 1.) Robyn – Every Teardrop is a Waterfall (Coldplay cover) 2.) Lady Gaga – The Edge of Glory 3.) Katy Perry – Last Friday Night [...]
My ten favorite things of summer 2011–so far
I hope all yuz are having a great summer. Here are a few of my favorite things: 1.) Old Bay Seasoned Potato Chips 2.) The Book of Mormon, the musical. And especially this song “I Believe” (Although “Turn it off” and “Hello” (and half a dozen more) are also amazing). I have never seen a [...]
Thursday Playlist
Good morning! Here are three of my latest enthusiams: 1.) This essay, “You blow my mind. Hey Mickey!” from the NYT magazine two weeks ago. It’s written by a former stoner Dad taking his kids to Disneyworld for the first time. He’s really smart. In a conversation I had about the essay with another TGW [...]
Bryan Waterman. Television. Marquee Moon. His book. It’s finally here!
I got something amazing in the mail yesterday. I can’t remember the last time I read the Prelude to a book and felt so completely captivated by the writing that I wanted to devour the rest of the book standing in my kitchen–at midnight. And it’s BW’s book! It’s so engrossing. Two years after being [...]
Favorite crapps
And by crapps, I mean iPhone apps and other inconsequential stuff like that. 1.) Leaf snap: Have you ever wondered: hey, what is that plant or tree I’m looking at? Boom, the future is here. Break off a leaf, hold it against a whitish background, snap a photo. Press submit. Wait 20 seconds. The app [...]
Sorry, late entry
Nice idea: 10 inspired book-and-album pairings here. Some are pretty clever, but ten wasn’t enough. And I don’t really need all the extra text (except for those books I wasn’t familiar with). Anyway, the list made me think that y’all could think of even more satisfying pairings. Here are a few of my own offerings [...]
