March 25th, 2008 |
No, I wasn’t at SXSW. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t already benefited from it.
Vampire Weekend
According to one of my friends, Vampire Weekend were one of the more hyped shows of the festival and she thought they lived up to the hype, and then one of their songs turned up on XMU (aka the [...]
March 3rd, 2008 |
Haven’t done one of these in a LOOONG time. But I need to, because I actually got a bunch of very good music over Christmas, and I’ve been selfishly hoarding it.
Headlights - Some Racing, Some Stopping
First up, my favorite FFFFest find Headlights has just put out a new album in the past couple of [...]
December 9th, 2007 |
This is some pretty awesome guitar-playing. The real kind, not the Guitar Hero kind. Found via Lisa on Facebook.
December 9th, 2007 |
The commercials for American Idol have been talking about a big change for this year, and I immediately hoped they were going to start including instruments, something that Australian Idol has done for the last two years to great success. And I was right! I’m really excited now. Incidentally, I hadn’t meant [...]
November 6th, 2007 |
One day later and I’ve mostly recovered. Physically, that is. It was probably noon today before I could walk and be sure my legs would hold me up, but that’s also because of the actifed I took when I got home last night to combat being-outside-all-day-in-the-dust-and-dry-grass allergies. Still, everything was totally worth [...]
November 4th, 2007 |
Hi, all. I am in Austin for Fun Fun Fun Fest, a music festival with lots of awesome bands, some of which I’ll probably highlight tomorrow in a Music Monday post. I know those have gotten sporadic, but hey. I gotta have stuff to post in order to post, and this weekend [...]
October 11th, 2007 |
Two things I’m really grateful for at the moment.
1 - That I chose to do my short paper/panel assignment on Ellen Douglas’ Can’t Quit You Baby, because of all the books we’ve read so far in Southern Lit, it’s my favorite. Each one we read I like better than the previous one, which either [...]
October 8th, 2007 |
Do you know how many YouTube concert videos you have to look through to find ones that both look and sound decent? Lots. Many, many, many. But I think I have been mostly successful in order to bring you this (still grossly inadequate) approximation of last night. Thing to note. Amateur [...]