December 2009
137 posts
You Wouldn't Understand →
November 2009
98 posts
shut up, it's monk time →
Thelonious Monk - It’s Monk’s Time (listen) The Monks - Black Monk Time (listen) The Monkees - Headquarters (listen)
Ramen Review: Shin Big Bowl →
Ramen Review: Shin Big Bowl, originally uploaded by real_voodooboy.
Lives up to its name in quantity and flavor. I like how it dispenses with any alleged relation to chicken or beef…
the snapped rope of the catapult →
Michael Hurley - Ida Con Snock (listen) Michael Hurley is one of those grizzled coot burnout types from a famous band you’ve never heard anything by…
[Country Roads] Floyd's Record Shop →
In the December 2009 issue of Country Roads, I visited Floyd’s Record Shop in Ville Platte, the oldest independent records store in Louisiana, to get at least one side of the story one of…
Review of A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley →
A Fan’s Notes by Frederick Exley My rating: 5 of 5 stars As much as I thoroughly enjoyed Exley’s descent into the crossed worthlessness of his humanity and the humanity of his…
Tantalizing Monograph Reference →
sunday morning rock party with my best girl →
It started with the Bobby Fuller Four and your new favorite old song from “Fantastic Mr Fox”
then… Rushmore Soundtrack…
Sizzling Celebrity Gossip! →
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thanksgiving dinner →
My daughter made this excellent video of what we had for Thanksgiving dinner at my parents’ house.
why I don't throw parties →
Fever Ray - Fever Ray (listen) This is more my kind of dance music, the kind that is kinda lousy to dance to. These guys were previously the Knife who provided an even…
[Offbeat] December 2009 Issue →
In the December issue of OffBeat, I offer this little primer on John Prine. Also be sure to check out the bounty of Louisiana music in their annual top 40. Personally, I think New…
[The Record Crate] Counting Down →
Time is running out to get your sonic artifact dubbed one of the 5 “most intriguing” for 2009. Digital releases, full blown CDs, homemade CD-Rs across all genres are up for consideration, so get…
the Squirrel of Destiny →
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (listen) It’s been two years now, probably about the right time for me to stop hating MGMT and finally latch onto it. Plus after listening to…
I'll be in here should you need me →
Various Artists - Alan Lomax in Haiti (listen) I’ll be in here should you need me, daydreaming that I am Alan Lomax in 1936 lugging 500 pounds of recording equipment through the mess…
Time For It →
what Jesus and Hitler are →
Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk (listen) Eh. I like everybody involved, but if they’d traded any of them for Frank Black it would have been an actual monster.
you know I planned it →
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (listen) Hands-down the album of the weekend. I was taking my daughter and her friend out to breakfast and they were indulging…
New Hampshire's Largest Hearth Retailer →
USS Enterprise and shuttle craft pancakes,... →
Fred, the master frycook at Louie’s, has boldly gone where no frycook has gone before.
Link →
Form of a Bench →
RIP Jeanne-Claude →
NY Time obit
Love? Life? You? Zero? Infinity? →
Adam Carroll - Lookin’ out the Screen Door (listen) I saw Carrroll perform a few weeks back and then last night Slaid Cleaves tore through his “Race Car Joe” and another song…
Slaid Cleaves and Michael O'Conner at the Red... →
Slaid Cleaves and Michael O’Conner at the Red Dragon, Baton Rouge, LA, originally uploaded by real_voodooboy.
You know you are in the presence of instrumental mastery when you find…
Frasier, Briefly →
classic non-classic →
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures (listen) This is what it sounds like in my head whenever I try to play guitar with somebody. It unfortunately does not…
5 things, 3 of them referencing Spock girl →
The Chinese Japanese spam machine is still all over the 5 things I said a couple of months ago.
We got the new Star Trek movie from NetFlix and my daughter piped in that she wanted to…
love me, love my friends, love my record... →
Fred Weaver - Those Ancient Skies…Came Sweeping Wide (MySpace) - Fred is a good friend of mine, but I put 75% of my innate nepotism aside in recommending his music….
It's Funny Because I'm Ignorant →
[The Record Crate] Scarlett Johansson's Appearance... →
Slaid Cleaves lays down a serpentine path through the landscape of heartbreak on his latest album Everything You Love Will be Taken Away. On “Run Jolee Run” he urges his protagonist to…
100 words on the pelicans →
100 words on the pelicans, originally uploaded by real_voodooboy.
The sign that warns “Beware of Alligators” near the boat launch for the LSU lakes hardly registers when there is…
possibly jacked-up enough →
Alex Chilton - A Man Called Destruction (listen) He’s a guy like Paul Westerberg, you aren’t supposed to like anything he did outside the mother band, even when…
six inch valley through the middle of my soul →
Pretty Fakes is to blame for this Bruce moment. Gary U.S. Bonds - The Best Of… (listen) Gary U.S. Bonds is one of those guys I don’t really have a feel…
Frasier, Briefly →
Boudin balls and sausage poboy from Bergeron's,... →
The boudin ball held aloft to the horizon like the celestial thing it is, and the sausage poboy wherein some chow-cow alchemy takes place among the mustard, pickles, onions and…
man, berry →
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour (listen) YES! The mightiest album of the mighty Fall is back in print! It is a failing on the comprehension skills of modernity that it did not collapse…
be sporting →
Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - Break Up (listen) I’m a little conflicted on this: my music snob side wants to call heresy on them covering Chris Bell’s “I Am the Cosmos” but they…
a sign of something →
Ian Dury - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - One of these days I will pull my ears out of the 1970’s, but they really threw caution to the wind back then. I imagine a heated…
Possum Postscript/Pistachio Party →
Never Too Late For Possum Week →
(I regularly cannot) →
Mingus Big Band, Orchestra & Dynasty - I Am Three (listen) Dude, this version of “Cell Block F ‘Tis Nazi USA” is possibly more incendiary than the name. I say “this version” like I…
star power →
Sonic Youth - EVOL (listen) I was thinking about ol’ Lung Leg the other day. Her alluring grimace graces the cover of this record, but really it was her films with Richard…
my luck's like a button and I can't stop pushing... →
Action reading pose; me, Andrea Neighbors and James Claffey - photos by James. My reading this past Saturday at Perk’s went great. Thanks to Andrea Neighbors, Ben, Maureen and…
Crab Friends →
American Dad →
I loathe FOX tv. First, the station has too many ridiculous reality TV shows. Second, FOX kills off all the good shows: Arrested Development, Firefly, and now Dollhouse—how in the hell am I going to…
Diary of a N.E.R.D. →
Oh, how I wish I could quit you.
MTV Diary of… N.E.R.D from Adrian Hylton on Vimeo.
I missed them in San Francisco a few weeks ago. They did a smaller show at USF…
I Am Not Crazy, Arguably →
Not Even a Footnote →