Boots of Spanish Leather - Bob Dylan
Warm Springs Night - Jole R. L. Phelps
The Hillstreet Blues Theme Song - Mike Post

I can't get enough Dostoevsky. I've read quite a few of his books and now I'm reading different translations and older editions of what I've already gone through because there are surprising variations from one to another. There are so many layers in these stories that a once over doesn't even scrat...

The scene in the Mechanic where Jan-Michael Vincent asks him why he keeps fucking around squeezing a heavy ball of wax. Bronson replies, "Sometimes you have to hold the mark... develops the strength." As he says that he puts his ring and baby finger inside a wine glass and smashes it outwa...

Such a great band, responsible for some of my all time favourite records. Brilliant writing, razor sharp aesthetic, great live show, very nice people too.

Absolutely not crap.

The first time I saw the band Silkworm play I had no idea what to expect, I'd been a fan of their records for years but didn't know what they looked like in person or whether they'd put on a good live show. When they came out to set up I remember thinking that in particular the drummer, Michael Dahl...

While I find his music boring to the point of inducing sleep I'm compelled to vote Not Crap on De Burgh himself. When I started playing music back in the mid 90s I wrote a lot of down-tempo rock songs and played solo on an acoustic guitar. I had unrefined tastes but I loved writing and performing an...

Not in every circumstance but more often than not putting stickers and band buttons on things seems kind of childish. I've put a button or two on my guitar straps in the past but I always end up removing them after a while because I feel it's somewhat undignified for a man in his mid 30s to play wit...

Mazek wrote:

Second-hand cigarrete smoke is overrated.

Why don't they start bitching about second-hand exhaust smoke?

I'm sure they would if people started leaving their cars running in poorly ventilated restaurants and bars.

Second hand smoke = CRAP

I love her new record and I like that she couldn't give a fuck about looking crazy. It seemed to me like a very unaffected performance by someone who's a little nervous and probably really excited.

I agree with tmidgett, her solo piano performance was a lot more powerful than the one she did with her band last night. I like that she's so unpredictable though.. you never know what she's going to do or how her shows are going to play out. She seems to invest a tremendous amount of herself in her...