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 [...]
Posts Tagged: Rock and Roll
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Jun 09
Rock & Roll June Book 2: Closer to rock snobdom
I have to admit The Rock Snob’s Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Rockological Knowledge was probably not meant to be read from cover to cover like most books. Really, who sits down and reads the dictionary?
I did, and it was a little exasperating. Mostly because the definitions started to get a little samey. How many [...]
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May 09
Now taking requests for June Rocks
Every June (well every one since the last June) I fill my month by reading Rock & Roll Books and dub it June Rocks. I’m not sure why I’m so excited for this reading excursion, because last year’s selections were kind of a bust ranging from Meh to Barf. Not good at all.
So this [...]
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Nov 08
Now, this is what I was talking about
Okay, this is what I was talking about, Hold Steady and the Drive-by Truckers rocking the free world.
And in case you are interested, Let there be Rock
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Jun 08
Everything I’m Cracked Up to Be
Here’s the thing with rock and roll memoirs (at least this is the thing I’m getting after reading, well, two) stories about playing crowded, smoky clubs all the sound the same after you hear about three of them. Doesn’t matter where the club is, who the band is, or what year it is. Sometimes something [...]
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Jun 08
The Importance of Music to Girls
At one point in her book The Importance of Music to Girls Lavinia Greenlaw makes this observation: “I don’t know how to think or how to talk about what I think. I haven’t learned anything for years. I don’t listen. I can’t speak. I am watching myself happening or not happening . . .”
For some [...]
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May 08
Much like summer loving, summer reading will be a blast
Because I am 99% Booknerd and 1% music-geek-wannabe, I have designated June rock and roll month. What gives me such authority? The fact that my birthday is on the sixth day of the sixth month and this year I’ll be thirty-six. Did I make that up right now? Hell yes.
It’s been a long time since [...]
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May 08
Cranky gets an education, a list
Things I learned from watching most of the 832-part History of Rock and Roll on VH1 Classics:
1. The song “Carrie Ann” was written about Marianne Faithful.
2. “Do You Believe in Magic” came out in like 1965 and not in about 1985 like I had always assumed, also the band who sings it, The Lovin’ Spoonful [...]
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Nov 07
For Jags
Jags, you’ll be surprised that Neil Young didn’t even make the list of the 16 ugliest men in Rock and Roll. I am disappointed.
