About

My Photo

Other Note Writers

  • Kisa Hawklin
    She doesn't wear pants! If you get that joke, you should stop by her site.
  • Dirty French Novel
    Neither French, a novel, nor especially dirty, but always urbane and interesting.
Blog powered by TypePad
Member since 02/2004

Categories

Recent Posts

Concerts

When I moved out here, I realized that I'd have access to a lot of concerts that were really too far away for a luke warm music fan like myself to go to. I haven't had a chance to go yet, but my brother and sister in law have kick started things by giving me tickets to see Dido on Wednesday, which I'm looking forward to immensely.

I'm also going to get tickets to my favorite Canadian pop acts, since BNL and Alanis are doing a concert together on July 27th. I've even got a couple of people at work lined up for that one. All hail the benefits of living in civilization.

May 16, 2004 in Music | | Comments (0)

Stops on the Underground

Bound Words Unbound!

  • Justinian's Flea
    Granted, I'm not done yet, but with histories you can get a feel for the book about halfway through. It's not like there's a surprise ending that the author can ruin.
  • Rex Stout: Fer-de-Lance

    Rex Stout: Fer-de-Lance
    I liked the TV show, like the books.

  • : Game of Shadows

    Game of Shadows
    I've followed the steroid storylines, but there's something depressing about seeing it al laid out in front of you in one big lump. The Olympics seem to be a joke, and baseball looks like it's championing the worst aspects of Sport: codes of silence, cheating to get ahead, and stupid denials.

  • Max Hastings: Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

    Max Hastings: Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
    Wow. World War II is seriously one of the most depressing events in world history, and this book only covers what happened in Europe. Max Hastings pulls no punches when it comes to morality, yet never reall loses sight of the fact that the Western Allies were the best of many bad choices.

  • Maier: Among Empires

    Maier: Among Empires
    A pretty morally neutral look at what an Empire is and whether or not America is moving towards it.

Subversive Listening

  • KT Tunstall -

    KT Tunstall: Eye to the Telescope
    A good friend of mine once noted that I tend to like rocker chicks. I'm not sure Michelle Branch and KT count, but I tend to like the female voices better than males, and acoustic over electric. KT has a good voice that go from dreamy and etheral to a little raspy with some steel in it. I always say that if you get 4 songs that you really like off of an album, it's a good one, and thus far 5 have hit heavy rotation on my iPod. (*****)

  • Tegan and Sara -

    Tegan and Sara: The Con
    I didn't think they could get better, but the collaboration with Death Cab for Cutie seems to have paid off in a more poppy sound that expands upon some of the songs I liked more off of So Jealous. Hmmm. I still don't sound like a music critic... (*****)

  • Imogen Heap - Goodnight and Go

    Goodnight and Go
    Imogen Heap: Speak for Yourself
    The album by the female axis of Frou Frou. Quirky electronica, with a voice I could listen to for hours. Gotta love the Brits. (*****)

Recent Comments

Add me to your TypePad People list
Subscribe to this blog's feed