In the chapter on the Minutemen in Michael Azerrad's OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE, there's a quote from Steve's journal after he learned that D. Boon had died. He wrote, "So there's nobody left who's been doing it since the beginning and doing it all the way right. Fuck. It's like Buddy Holly or...

Huey "Piano" Smith, the New Orleans R&B legend who, among many other things, wrote "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie-Woogie Flu," and was the man behind Frankie Ford's "Sea Cruise." His music was pure joy you can dance to. https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/new...

I watched the whole movie and it's never as funny as the folks who made it seem to think it is. Irwin Chusid could probably make up a very long playlist of real acts who are more interestingly bad. Meh.

I think in terms of sheer quality, the current lineup of GbV, with Doug Gillard as unofficial musical director, may be the best edition to date. Seriously. I don't know if Pollard's songwriting is quite as great as it was in their heyday, but the albums are more consistently strong than ever -- no d...

I saw them back in 2017 on a riverboat cruising around the Detroit River with Protomartyr, Preoccupations, and a couple local bands. I thought they had the best set of the night. I saw the same show and I concur. As much as I love Protmartyr, Metz trounced them for sheer force. I seem to like the r...

I can’t believe
I’ll never believe
In anything
Again

https://youtu.be/9RLcPXPLshE

The other night, I had a nightmare in which someone I hadn’t seen in decades had kidnapped me with the help of a large number of their friends and family. They were holding me in a basement, and they were staging a kangaroo count to determine if I should be executed or I should be allowed to live. T...

losthighway wrote: Thu Oct 14, 2021 7:46 pm Jim Croce

Anyone who doesn't get that this is a brilliant song is dead inside.

^ Apparently, the character of "Z-Man" was inspired by Phil Spector.... so the other Let It Be producer, but they got closer to the first one. Roger Ebert said that Z-Man was loosely based on Phil Spector, but neither he or Meyer had ever met him or knew much about him, so most of it was ...

Along with Jacques Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse , I think Get Back one of the very best films about the creative process I've ever seen. Like La Belle Noiseuse , it takes its time getting where it wants to go, but that's part of the point. We're watching work being done, work that's often deeply rewa...