September 2009
132 posts
Sashimi Bento Box with Seaweed Salad, Koi, Baton... →
Sashimi Bento Box with Seaweed Salad, Koi, Baton Rouge, originally uploaded by real_voodooboy.
one more ham sandwich →
Reigning Sound - Time Bomb High School (listen) You feel like he is gonna break down and cry or kiss you full on the mouth or throw a bottle at a cop car at any given second.
[The Record Crate] Hideaway at the Juke Joint, Dr.... →
Eugene “Hideaway” Bridges left Louisiana as a young man with a wealth of personal blues history and a one-way ticket to Paris. His dad, blues legend Hideaway Slim, gave Eugene his first guitar at…
some schlub's head exploding →
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay and Straight Life - I’ve listened to these records before, but I don’t think I ever got knocked out by them like last night…
[225] Voodoo Experience preview and the last of... →
In the October 2009 issue of 225 magazine, I have a piece about the last of the jukeboxes in Baton Rouge, a Voodoo Experience preview* including a small piece about how one mobile app…
The Incense Merchants, Red Star, Baton Rouge, LA →
The Incense Merchants, Red Star, Baton Rouge, LA, originally uploaded by real_voodooboy.
Jon Hassell meets David Sylvian at the wrong speed, in a good way. In the spirit of Les Baxter….
exPanded Trio, Red Star, Baton Rouge →
exPanded Trio, Red Star, Baton Rouge, originally uploaded by real_voodooboy.
What sex feels like after doing a line of Drain-O
a paucity of lingering impression →
Dr. Dog - Fate (listen) Finally coming around to this record. Really, the issues I have/have had with it are all mine, not the record’s. There is nary an…
Vote For Stang →
holes get deeper →
Lightnin’ Slim - The Best of Lightnin’ Slim (listen) My friend Amy is in the hospital in Germany, and asked for links to get her and her laptop busy while laid up, and one of those,…
Arnold Stang Is 84 Years Young →
Verdell's Stang Reminder →
so ambitious →
I’m not a huge Jay-Z fan. And I’m beefing with Pharrell right now, too. But I love this song. Sometimes when these two get together, it’s a sonic revelation, and I’m the sucker peon in the situation,…
nighthawks at the gas station restaurant →
This weekend saw the first of many circuitous trips I will be making for the book, heading way out and circling back in via nightclubs and gas stations like the one outside of Opelousas…
we don't have fans →
Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie - s/t (listen) Geno Delafose is nearly omnipresent in Louisiana music circles; when driving through Eunice this weekend, he was…
"I got wild mushrooms growing in my yard" →
Lloyd Cole - Don’t Get Weird on Me, Babe (listen) I love Lloyd Cole. His collection 1984-1989 is the perfect document of the bracketed era. “My Bag” is one of the…
Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They Introduce to... →
Spiders Work Hard For the Money →
Gerard Delafose & The Zydeco Gators, Teddy's... →
McNeil vs. Science →
Bear vs. Snake →
Kierkegaard On Lewis →
An Analysis of the Foil Itself →
pub rock forever →
Dave Edmunds - Repeat When Necessary (listen) Precisely the kind of passé gem that Rhino Records was adept at reintroducing to curious souls. I’d all but forgotten…
ate up with love →
The Waterboys - Fisherman’s Blues (listen) Mike Scott loves you more than you could ever love him. One could say he’s ate up with love for you. He’s about to pop, though…
5 general status updates →
The process of the book is giddily underway, with constant reminders that I should do this the way I always do things like this, except better this time, which seems like a good general motto.
I…
Review of Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000... →
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux My rating: 3 of 5 stars I enjoyed this book, but I wonder if I’d enjoyed it more or less…
Literary Matters →
Means Donkey →
Meet McNeil's Lunch →
Bible Unicorns Are Doing It For Themselves →
three words for you →
Howlin’ Wolf - A Night With Howlin’ Wolf - This album cover is one I want to hold up and say “I got three words for you: How. Lin. Wolf.” But since you aren’t here, and…
Review of The Moviegoer by Walker Percy →
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy My rating: 4 of 5 stars I just finished The Moviegoer for the second time. The first time was in college when I was a little too headstrong and mired in…
[The Record Crate] An app for that →
Though I have never been a full Apple computer acolyte—I write software in other parts of my non-music nerd life and a Mac is just not a viable platform on which to do that—I am an…
Rumspringa? →
Dwarves - Blood, Guts & Pussy - Unsavory music for unsavory people. In a rare moment of self censorship for those of you that may be pulling up this site at…
the love song's stay of execution →
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (listen) I do love the whole thing, but I wonder whether it was wisdom or folly that led Merritt and crew to front load this…
Make It Stop →
Today In Mascot News →
Maud Newton Does It Again →
I Like to Find the Things I Find →
Singapore Mei Fun, China Bear, Baton Rouge, LA →
Singapore Mei Fun, China Bear, Baton Rpuge, LA, originally uploaded by real_voodooboy.
I hate to resort to this but… More like Singapore Mei Full! Noodles, shrimp, egg, chicken…
"slow day at the observatory music" →
Christopher O’Riley - Second Grace: The Music of Nick Drake (listen) Otis Taylor - Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs (listen) Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of…
A Good Joke About Repressive Desublimation →
used CD score - heavy psychedelics edition →
It has been a while since I’ve had a good used CD score, mostly because I become increasingly post-object as far as music goes with each passing day, but truthfully this trip to the…
Do Your Part For Repressive Desublimation →
i'm back, more obnoxious than ever →
I know that is an extremely big-ass, obnoxious photo of myself at the top of the page, but until I find another one better than that, you’re going to have to deal with it. I am so happy to finally be…
"Blog"ligations →
"Blog"trospective 7: Beach Boys, The →
Cacophonous Christmas →
Please Don't Do That Thing You Want to Do →