If you’re keeping up here, you might be aware that there are two parts to this year’s Fawcett/Honeycups mixmas. Part one, released last week, was an expansive showcase of our unassailable impeccably exquisitely awesome taste. Part two is quite the opposite. Here we open up and let you see the underside. No pretense. No holding [...]
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Thursday playlist: Just a matter of waiting it out
Can we all agree this isn’t the cheeriest time of the year? Okay, probably not; I know not everyone’s with me on this. But you know what I mean, right? The shorter days and longer nights are part of it, and the beginning of the really unpleasantly cold months, for those of us who live [...]
Bonus Playlist Wednesday: (possibly premature) best of 2010 edition
…I’m in love with the hook upon which everyone hangs… Rolling Stone magazine is kind of a joke these days, less relevant than ever, but I keep the subscription out of nostalgia. It’s followed me from my parents’ house to the dorms, to every apartment I’ve ever had, and now to my first home. More [...]
Bonus playlist Wednesday: soul food redux edition
(Links to previous soul food mix posts here and here.) Enjoy! 1. Hot Dog⎯New Mastersounds 2. Burnt Biscuits⎯Triumphs 3. Grits & Gravy⎯The Fame Gang 4. Broasted Or Fried⎯Willie Bobo & The Bo Gents 5. Bar B-Q⎯Wendy Rene 6. Chitterlings Con Carne⎯Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers 7. Cuchy Frito Man⎯Cal Tjader 8. Hot Dog⎯Four Shells [...]
Thursday playlist: TGW 201010
This is a quasi-random playlist… I have been listening for a while to a playlist shuffled by my computer but scanning through it to see what I’m interested in listening to. Here is a very nice grouping of songs from the other night, with some additions of my own. This grouping has some favorite tunes [...]
Bands encountered unexpectedly in legal contexts thus far at VPULS
Modest Mouse (in an opinion by Justice Souter) Sigur Rós (as the band a rather elderly professor claims he listens to while sitting in the desert in his Hummer) Lady Gaga (as a fashion trendsetter; mentioned by same fairly elderly professor)
Song of the summer
For several years running there has been, by common consent among friends, an official/unofficial, sometimes disputed, song of the summer. After an extended email conversation recently with a beloved former contributor (he who shall not be named), I decided to collect a few nominations. Past songs of the summer have been big and epic with [...]
Home tour
In downtown L.A., on a street that comes to an end where the Santa Monica freeway whizzes by overhead, architect Michael Maltzan has built a new apartment building called the Carver Apartments. There are a few things that are unusual about this. One is the shape: the building is like a doughnut – a cylinder [...]
Once you have these notes in your heads, you can sing a million different tunes by mixing them up: A participant-observer at the piano bar
Why do gay men love musical theater? There are various “deep” critical-theory-type answers, I’m sure. At least part of the reason, though, has to be simply that musicals are at least a little bit fun for everyone (show me a child who hates Mary Poppins and I’ll show you an unholy demon-spawn), but they’re deprecated [...]
Tim & J-Man’s mix for a cold summer’s day
Summer has yet to come to the Southland. We’ve created a mix to keep us all warm until the sun decides to grace us with its presence once again. Happy listening! 1. Love and Hate – Blitzen Trapper 2. Blown Out – Jimmie Spheeris 3. Let Loose The Horses – Rescues 4. Ok, Its Alright [...]
