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August 2008
I'd Like a Vice President with More Experience than the Average Medal-Winning Chinese Gymnast
08/31/2008 11:40 A GMT-05
The other day a white van with a sliding cargo door was starting and stopping, lurching and screeching, down 7th Avenue. Hanging out the side: John McCain. Spry! In command! "You!" he shouted at passersby of al
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How Much You Want to Give Away Just to Feel Loved/I Will Turn the Hose on This Culture, Make My Presence Known
08/26/2008 11:44 A GMT-05
(photo via NRK P3's Flickr)You've probably heard of Ida Maria (myspace) already. You should have! People tried to tell me, tried plenty. Bill from Soundbites tried to drag me to see her at Galapagos last year at CMJ, and sin
That Closing Ceremony Really Could Have Used a Cat Eating Spaghetti
08/24/2008 8:46 P GMT-05
Whiskey in My Whiskey (Eli "Paperboy" Reed/Langhorne Slim/Felice Brothers, McCarren Park Pool, 8/10/08)
08/20/2008 3:26 P GMT-05
Well, I'm going to play it again. Because someone has to:Eli "Paperboy" Reed and the True Loves - Take My Love with You (mp3) (buy)Disappointed the band (myspace) didn't play this, more so than I could be when Radiohead
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
Contract of Depravity
08/19/2008 6:27 A GMT-05
Don't know when I'd last seen The Hustler, but it's been too goddamned long. How perfect everything and everyone is in that flick. Misdirectional dialogue that cuts both ways, huge fitting silences wherein people get sized up,
Snap Crackle Pop
08/17/2008 8:11 P GMT-05
Stars Like Fleas - I Was Only Dancing (mp3) (buy)If you're at all like me - and if you are, support group meets Tuesday, bring cupcakes - your first thought after pressing that Play arrow up there was that it couldn't change into a Stop squar
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
"Please Don't Close Your Door" (Oliver Mtukudzi/ Habib Koité/ Daby Touré/Yossi Fine/Extra Golden, Prospect Park Bandshell, 8/03/08)
08/13/2008 1:19 P GMT-05
[Before you start in below, please go here and give what you can to help photographer Lori Baily following her tragic loss.]Celebrate Brooklyn's fifteenth annual all-day African festival was actually the third date on their schedule this summer h
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
Speedo Justice, CSI: Esther Williams...
08/12/2008 10:01 P GMT-05
At this point, NBC should just go ahead and gavel up 13 hours of Law & Order: Michael Phelps.
Get it While You Can
08/10/2008 6:58 P GMT-05
Missed: 1. Appropriately timed connecting trains which would have shaved 30-60 minutes off the trip to/from Liberty State Park.2. "Take My Love with You" and "Roll with You," the two best songs Eli "Paperboy&
I Will Decide What to Do with My Hands, Mr. Franti (All Points West, 8/08/08)
08/09/2008 6:16 P GMT-05
I had never seen Radiohead (myspace), now I have, now I don't have to see them again.Their show's conception and execution is top-notch, this is a great band, no arguments. The set list was pretty much what I expected, if not what I'
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
We're Not Out of Ammo Yet
08/08/2008 8:28 A GMT-05
"why? why have i resisted radiohead for SO long? failed to see their greatness and just give in already. well, partly because i hate to be told what to do. doubt should be anybody's natural inclination when they're being bombarded with h
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
Uno Amor Something Something Something (Erykah Badu, Wingate Field, 8/5/08)
08/06/2008 7:32 A GMT-05
Last night at a baseball field in Brooklyn, Erykah Badu tried to pull several thousand people into her head. Some climbed in willingly, some staggered off shaking.Wait.Erykah Badu - The Healer (mp3) (buy)Badu released a weird, indulgent, amazin
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
Who Reports for Jury Duty Without Bringing Something to Read?
08/05/2008 1:39 P GMT-05
Some of these people are in for a very long day.
It is Too Nice Out to Even Think About Blogging
08/04/2008 3:46 P GMT-05
Haven't gone radio silent yet. Have some intentions of retrotackling this weekend's African Festival, last weekend's Siren Festival (someone has to!), the weekend-before-that's Afro-Punk Festival. (Fethtival fethtiva