Category Archives: Music

Music For the Ages, Or Of An Age, Anyway

Posted on Thursday, July 19, 2012 by Keith

Over at Crooked Timber, Henry has asked for testimonials from us folk of a middling age about the music that survived — those bands and styles we grew up listening to in the 80s and 90s that continue (or failed) … Continue reading →

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Monkee Gone To Heaven

Posted on Thursday, March 1, 2012 by Keith

Davy Jones of the Monkees died of a heart attack Wednesday. He was 66 years old. I’m too young to have been involved in the first wave of Monkee mania back in the 60s. And to be sure, the Monkee’s … Continue reading →

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All You Need is Hate

Posted on Monday, February 15, 2010 by Keith

Over at the Onion Av club, they have an interesting discussion of movies, TV shows and music that people have fallen out of love with. As much as I’m loathe to admit it, Sam Adams has a point about Tim … Continue reading →

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Goodbye, Mike

Posted on Thursday, June 25, 2009 by Keith

If you’re my age, plus or minus a couple years, then Michael Jackson’s music was part of your life. And yeah, later, he became a troll in his own life, poisoned by celebrity and the weird depredations that lifestyle brings, … Continue reading →

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The Universe Has Gone All Wobbly

Posted on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 by Keith

So, Joaquin Phoenix has apparently quit the film industry to become a rapper. I… hold on. Wait, let that sink in a moment…You know that scene in Being John Malkovich where Malkovich tells his agent he wants to be a … Continue reading →

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Awesome Sandwhich

Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 by Keith

Michael Gondry directed an episode of Flight of the Chonchords and is rumored to be directing the Green Hornet movie. That’s an awesome sandwich, right there. I mean a sandwich made of awesome, not just like a really good roast … Continue reading →

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Long Live Triphop

Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 by Keith

After ten years, Portishead has a new album. This is undoubtedly a good thing, though you wouldn’t know it from this Salon article by James Hannaham, who seems to think that because the band’s new album doesn’t sound like their … Continue reading →

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Old Time Family Values

Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 by Keith

Today, Elvira and I celebrated our Seventh Wedding anniversary in that tried and true way couples have for years: we bought Guitar Hero III for the Wii and spent most of the afternoon making really loud (and bad) music. It … Continue reading →

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Sounds From Up North

Posted on Saturday, August 25, 2007 by Keith

Picked up the new They Might Be Giants album, The Else* this week and my faith in the Johns is restored. where The Spine was a little disappointing (felt like Left over B-sides from John Henry) the Else has a … Continue reading →

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Where Does All The Music Go?

Posted on Sunday, June 3, 2007 by Keith

It’s recently come to the attention of my wife and I that our music collection is not organized correctly. We have more than 13,000 songs in our iTunes Library, classified into 28 genres, which is a pretty representative collection, providing … Continue reading →

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