February 2011
46 posts
Three Reasons Ke$ha's New Album Title Might Be An... →
In which I continue to cover the Electric Six beat for the Broward-Palm Beach New Times.
Electric Six, "Fabulous People" →
The supermarket tabloid appeal…the crazy little lives of fabulous people.
Electric Six song of the week.
Ten Things That Will Turn 20 This Year
Inspired by seeing a bit of New Jack City last night, which will also be turning 20.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Lollapalooza
Nirvana’s Nevermind
REM’s Out Of Time
My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless
Hot Shots!
The Death Of Freddie Mercury
Michael Jackson’s “Black Or White”
Disney’s Beauty & The Beast
Thelma And Louise
And here’s ten...
Electric Six, "Lovers Beware" →
Someone somewhere is keeping track of what every pencil costs But he cares not for the human resources that he exhausts
Electric Six song of the week.
A Memorial For My Previously Perfect Best Album...
This totally worked until that goddamn Arcade Fire enraptured the codgers in the Grammy voting pool.
1. Is there a “jazz” album nominated?
In any real (or fake) sense of the word. If so, the winner is Herbie Hancock (2008), Norah Jones (2003) or Tony Bennett (1995). The only exception in the last fifteen or so years is Santana beating Diana Krall in 2000, and at this point Latin-rock...
WatchGarth Brooks, “We Shall Be Free”
The very important first single from the follow-up to Garth’s mega-breakthrough, combining a pro-gay message (“when we can love whomever we choose”) and a heavy dollop of Christian content. Though he managed to avoid using archaic, offensive terminology like “Orient,” he did fill the video with anti-prejudice admonishments...
Congratulations, Matt Damon And Green Zone
Last time I looked (while researching a post for work about movies unlikely to be nominated for awards this year), the only awards ceremony to acknowledge Damon and Paul Greengrass’ post-Bourne Gulf War meditation was the Kids’ Choice Awards, which nominated Damon for Choice Movie Actor: Action/Adventure (he lost to Channing Tatum for GI Joe). I checked again after reading Alex’s...
