Music
Ohrwurm – Exploring my earworms.
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My favorite cover of an Elvis Costello song so far: “The Comedians” by Roy Orbison. Malcolm Gladwell spends the first 10 minutes of his “Hallelujah” podcast lambasting Elvis Costello’s Goodbye Cruel World. He calls it “awful,” “disastrous,” and “unlistenable.” He emphasizes that he is a “massive Elvis Costello fan” and that even Elvis Costello himself says
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The Venture Brothers is my favorite Bowie-Non-Bowie comedy performance. I didn’t lose my virginity to David Bowie like Lori Mattix did. I don’t even think he was in the tape deck at the time (that’s how long ago I lost it). Is there a Bowie song that’s right for that type of occasion? He has
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This is The Nightmare Before Christmas It would be unfair to say Christmas snuck up on me this year. It’s done everything to make its coming known; settling down in store shelves even before the Halloween candy could have its turn. But, despite the foretelling, my apartment remains inconspicuous, innocuous, not a trace of the
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Bob Casale’s death has me combing YouTube and the rest of the web for clips and stories about Devo. A friend introduced to their music in high school and Are We Not Men was among the cassettes that I brought with me to my first year of college. I was not a huge Devo fan
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The Thursday after the 4th, they shot scenes for the movie, Can A Song Save Your Life? in my neighborhood. I haven’t been able to find out much about the film online but according to the Bowery Boogie: The film focuses on an aspiring singer-songwriter (Knightley) who moves to the city with fellow musician and
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The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust turned 40 this June. To celebrate, EMI released a remastered version of the original album. Rolling Stone is streaming it. And the National has written an informative piece about the birth of Ziggy Stardust, his demise, and his far-reaching influence. If you crave even more information, visit 5years.com. Digging around the internet for Ziggy info,
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I know exactly how Hedwig got into my head. It was Wayne County being interviewed in a BBC documentary about the Velvet Underground’s “Walk on the Wild Side”. Then I remembered this compilation CD that I got through my Mojo subscription, I Love New York Punk. Wayne County’s “Fuck Off” is the second track. And
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There’s a curious lyric right after the famous opening lines of the Talking Heads song, “Once In A Lifetime.” Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down… It’s curious because when you think of “letting the days go by,” you think of “going with the flow,” you think of “floating.” This lyric
Vincent Young 