Books and Film Favorite Piece of Fiction (Read During 2011): Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger. Not just a favorite of the year, but a favorite, period. It’s a rare work of art indeed that can shed light on both The Royal Tenenbaums and the Jesus Prayer. Unbelievably wise, delightfully funny and deeply religious (in […]
September Playlist
Big Sky – The Kinks- Song of a Baker – Screaming Trees
- Back to the Lake – Guided By Voices
- Enjoy the Silence – Nada Surf
- You Were So Warm – The Dwight Twilley Band
- Warm Self Sacrifice – Emitt Rhodes
- Strangers Getting Stranger – Dawes
- Maidstone – Squeeze
- I’ll Cry Alone – The Flamin’ Groovies
- I Found a Reason [demo] – The Velvet Underground
- Black Star – Gillian Welch
- The Death of You and Me – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
- My Mistakes Were Made For You – The Last Shadow Puppets
- You Put Something Better Inside Me – Rod Stewart
- Heavy Church – Three Dog Night
- A Quick One, While He’s Away [live] – The Who
- The Postcard – Stephen Duffy
- Rainbow Connection – Willie Nelson
Three Dog Night Need You Playin' in the Heavy Church
Wouldn’t it be something if Mockingbird could kick off a Three Dog Night revival?! These guys may not have written their own songs (neither did you-know-who), but boy could they pick ’em. And they had quite the, you know, joyful sound. Some call it blue-eyed soul, some call it early 70s top-40 radio, I call […]
Weds Morning Bubblegum: When The Osmonds Were The Light Of The World
Some would say that what The Jackson 5 were to the Jehovah’s Witnesses, The Osmonds were to the Latter Day Saints. But that might be giving The Osmonds (way) too much credit. A better analogy might be, what the Jackson 5 were to James Brown, The Osmonds were to latter-day Elvis (with the jumpsuits to […]
