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.
Music
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Jan 10
A conversation with Trip Shakes
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 [...]
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Jan 10
The only thing you need to know about today, my heart’s like a kick drum
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 they [...]
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Nov 09
I blame the musicbloggers
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 [...]
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Aug 09
Caught a cold, broke up with Wilco & wondering where the rock went
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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Jul 09
This is the exact reason I always end up working at 8:30 p.m. & eating dinner at 10
Because I get lost on the Internet watching video after video of Caroline Smith & The Goodnight Sleeps covering songs that I love.
Like Rilo Kiley’s “Breakin’ Up”
Or Rod Stewart’s Young Turks, which I’m pretty sure is the most underrated of all of Rod’s songs and a personal favorite of mine.
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Jul 09
On proper concert attire
Out of the last 38 concerts I’ve attended, thirty-seven times I’ve worn a plain black t-shirt, jeans, and my favorite orange and blue tennis shoes. Once I wore a bright red Twins shirt, jeans, and my favorite blue and orange tennis shoes. The Twins shirt, which I got for like $4, has become a constant [...]
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Jul 09
Introduction to a unified scene
This here is Max & Jaycie sitting with me on the steps of the Basilica. They are chanting “Urban Spoon, Urban Spoon, Urban Spoon” because they are brats who like to drive me crazy. There’s an Urban Spoon iPhone app that helps you choose a place to eat. It’s pretty cool. However, despite what Jaycie [...]
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Jul 09
A fitting tribute
“Does it make you uncomfortable when I cry?” I asked Jaycie and Max who were sitting on the couch.
“Yeah,” Max shook his head until his curls bounced. “A little.”
“I’m sorry,” I said. “But there’s going to be a lot of crying.”
“Why didn’t you cry before?” Jaycie asked.
“Because Maya Angelou and Michael Jackson meant a lot [...]
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Jun 09
Luv of my life
The death of an icon like Michael Jackson is one of those unifying events that reminds us how very much we have in common. I would defy you to find an American thirty-something who cannot remember the first time they saw Michael Jackson dance, scooting across the floor in a motion that we didn’t even [...]
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Jun 09
Jodachrome on the demise of Kodachrome
When your name is Jodi Chromey (and I believe their might be two of us, though the other one is Jodie Cromie or Jody Kromey or something like that, which, I am sure we can all agree, is vastly inferior to Jodi Chromey) you develop a love/hate relationship with Kodachrome at an early age, [...]
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Jun 09
I seem to lean on old familar ways
I’ve been singing Paul Simon’s “Still Crazy After All These Years” in my head for about a week now. There’s nothing that I can do to get it out of my head. It’s there when I wake up in the morning and it’s my lullaby when I go to sleep at night.
The song’s staying [...]
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May 09
Young turks
Nolan sat cross-legged on the floor (a manner of sitting my niece Jaycie calls “criss-cross apple sauce” and what was called “Indian style” when I was a kid), Lucinda, my guitar, draped across his lap. Liam sat on the other side of the guitar petting the green surface.
“We’re going to play so loud, we’ll shake [...]
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May 09
Knockin’ on The Nerdery door
Tonight, at the moment really, I’m covering an event we’re hosting at The Nerdery. It’s about building secure websites, and it’s pretty interesting. People were listening intently to the woman who is presenting, I was typing away trying to keep good notes.
I looked up from my laptop and noticed half the crowd had turned [...]
