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After a momentary set back yesterday (I woke up on the bitchy, unpleaseable side of the bed that was best served by not spewing rancid bile around the Internet. Lucky for you, I sent a lot of it to Christa in an e-mail so I’m back to being fucking perky). Last time I shared with [...]
“Hi,” I said, and slid my copy of What He’s Poised to Do toward Ben Greenman. “Nice Replacements’ quote.” (The epigraph to his book is the line “I’ll write you a letter tomorrow. Tonight I can’t hold a pen.” from Can’t Hardly Wait) “Yeah,” he said. “I’ve been waiting years to use it.” “I’m Jodi,” [...]
“Groupies sleep with rockstars because they want to be near someone famous. We are here because of the music, we inspire the music. We are Band Aids,” ~Penny Lane, “Almost Famous“ Last week I went to the Medina Ballroom to see Bret Michaels. Yeah. It’s taken me an entire week to process the experience. It [...]
I’ve spent most of my waking hours the past week or so working. I’m all working working all the time with the working and it makes me boring. No, that’s the not true. I’ve got a little to-do list on Enid’s dashboard filled with ideas of stuff to write about for this here blog. The [...]
When she was in high school my best friend Jodi Hanson had a huge crush on Freedom Williams (thirty-two double plus bonus points if you remember him before you read the next sentences). This might have been the summer between her sophomore and junior years because I remember coming to visit from Wisconsin, entering her [...]
For a long time I’ve been longing for a good place to go to get good musical recommendations. And more than recommendations I wanted someone/something to offer advice. As you may remember, I have lost a lot of faith in music bloggers playing that role. I’ve come to terms with the what they’re doing as [...]
Over Christmas, I spent a lot of my time trying to con Sister #4 into performing the dance at the end of John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Cherry Bomb” video for a Very St. Martin Christmas. Despite my cries and pleas, she denied me my one true Christmas wish. Bitch. I love John Cougar Mellencamp and have [...]
We used to have this really awesome radio station in Minnesota called Rev105. It was my post-college, pre-real-job savior while I worked as a gas station attendant. They had this great little feature they called “Evolution of the Revolution.” It was just short 15 to 30 second snippets of songs and it was all if [...]
Sure, sure it’s March, but it’s time to announce my Top 25 most listened to songs of 2009. I got my first iPod in March, so March – March is my musical year. My friend Vodo thinks you can tell a lot about a person by taking a gander at their Top 25. I will [...]
You have a very heated debate (with yourself) on whether you should spend five of your hard-earned dollars on 20 Greatest Hits from Conway Twitty (for real, it reminds me of being a kid) or on the Crazy Heart Soundtrack. The debate is raging on, I still haven’t made up my mind.
For those of you who have forgotten, Trip Shakes is one of my Nerdery co-workers. He’s the bomb digs, for real. When I interviewed there last fall he asked me what was the best forty-nine cents I ever spent. I bombed the question because I was really seriously thinking about it, and he was making [...]
Today I discovered Kick Drum Heart by The Avett Brothers. I discovered the song today after buying their album I And Love And You. It’s one of those things I do every New Year, vow to discover new (to me) music. And today The Avett Brothers caught my eye and hot damn am I glad [...]
Earlier today I was having a conversation via Twitter with Kyle Matteson (@solace) about the A.V. Club’s Best Music of the Decade list. I took issue with the fact that this is a best of the decade list by a sort of indie-pub and there were five bands on the list I’d never, ever heard [...]
If I could travel back in time, I would zoom back to Friday and I would wrestle Ziggy from Nolan’s germ-covered, Tap Tap Revolution playing clutches. I would also go to bed at a decent time on Friday night and Saturday night. Also, I would drink more water than wine and I would eat some [...]
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