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Stuck in My Head: Monroe Mustang
The Bees, Candidate, We Aren’t the Stars | Monroe Mustang | Plain Sweeping Themes for the Unprepared The greatest hottest newest musical sensation is Monroe Mustang, or at least it was twice in my life. Once with the summer release … Continue reading
Stuck in My Head: Tonight
Tonight | Sibylle Baier | Colour Green early 70’s Last night an old professor of mine (and friend) wrote asking for a record suggestion for a Birthday present for his lovely companion. “…beautiful bewitching stuff like Nick Drake and Leonard … Continue reading
Stuck in My Head: Oscar Brown
Oscar Brown | Baxter Dury | Len Parrot’s Memorial Lift 2003 I love salutes, whether it be Van Morrison running through his recent reading lists as he is apt to do, Bowie self-referencing his own work, a well used sample … Continue reading
Stuck In My Head: Il Mio Canto Libero
Il mio canto libero | Lucio Battisti | Il mio canto libero 1972 Last night I finally saw Inception and this morning I woke up with this beautiful Battisti song in my head, a song so sad and tender but … Continue reading
The Writing is on the Wall
In my last post I wrote that the future of technology is ubiquity. I wanted show what an evolutionary step between today and that imminent future. I decided to show this in what might a business card look like. So … Continue reading
Stuck in My Head: After Laughter (Comes Tears)
After Laughter (Comes Tears) | Wendy Rene | Stax 45s This time last week I was 34 and driving with friends to Blacksburg listening to records we used to play all often when we all lived together, and of course … Continue reading
Stuck in My Head: Mother Sky
Mother Sky | Can | Soundtracks There is at least one track on every Can record you have to love, and then a straight run of from 1969 to 1973 of must own records, making it hard to pick a … Continue reading
Stuck in My Head: Meet On the Ledge
Meet On The Ledge | Fairport Convention | What We Did On Our Holidays When Joe Turner told me about Tony-stock, and how everyone on Camera Obscura was recording private sets to send to him in his final moment here, … Continue reading
R.I.P. Tony Dale
I heard of his death yesterday while on a 10 hour drive. The crazy feeling of frustration about his situation that I had been feeling the weeks before, blurred into something else as the mountains and trees sheared behind the … Continue reading
Stuck in My Head: The Desert Song
The Desert Song | Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros | Up From Below Maybe it was the subway poster this morning which read an “An epic of epic epicness,” but I have been on an epic song kick. Returning … Continue reading