Friday Video Weekend: “(Cups) You’re Gonna Miss Me” Cover by Anna Burden
Friday, January 6th, 2012 Posted in Fun Clips, Music | No Comments »Here's 90 seconds of joy, a great voice and a great smile, to send you off on the weekend. I can't wait to show this clip to my daughter. Thank you, Anna from Indiana. Now get outta here! [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKcChGsDqnU] Still hanging around? I guess ...
Dream Guitar
Monday, November 28th, 2011 Posted in Before You Go, Music | No Comments »I was happy to come across this article, "Revealed: The Real Guitar Heroes," which features a new book,Instrument, by photographer Pat Graham. (Check out Graham's awesome blog, here.) In the article, various musicians discuss their favorite instruments. I particularly liked Peter Buck's ...
Maggie’s Post-It Note Binder
Monday, November 7th, 2011 Posted in Family, Music | 4 Comments »My daughter is a slob. Let's get that out of the way up front. She makes messes and moves on -- blithely. Yesterday she sat at the kitchen counter with a stack of index cards, Post-It Notes, tape, a laptop, a ...
When Keith Sings: The Ultimate Keith Richards/Rolling Stones Mix
Monday, June 20th, 2011 Posted in A Pirates Guide to First Grade, Music, Readings | No Comments »I recently finished reading the Keith Richards biography, Life, which I largely enjoyed. It's not a great book, huge gaps, not particularly well organized or written, and it suffers from a classic case of the unreliable narrator (this is Keith ...
Thinking That I’m Not Thinking . . . Brian Eno, Don Music, and the Nature of Ideas
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011 Posted in Around the Web, Music, the writing process | 1 Comment »I've admitted it more than once: I know my work is going well when I have ideas in the shower. That is, those times when I'm thinking that I'm not thinking. By the way, whenever I think about the creative process, ...
Odds & Ends
Friday, May 20th, 2011 Posted in Around the Web, Music | 2 Comments »Around the web . . . * This was sweet and lovely and instructive on the value of seeing things from a different point of view. * I recently read this book and it's just about perfect, a 135-page gem. * Paste Magazine ...
Music Video Weekend: John Grant, “Marz” — a song, and sort of a list poem
Friday, March 4th, 2011 Posted in In the Classroom, Music | No Comments »I recently discovered John Grant, formerly of the Czars, and his remarkable solo debut, "The Queen of Denmark." His backing band on the album is Midlake, if that means anything to you (good things, good things!). The disk was named ...
For Lisa
Monday, February 14th, 2011 Posted in Family, Music | No Comments »Hey, honey. Happy Valentines Day. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cfIXjWtxA0]
The Peripatetic Song: One Good Tune Leads to Another
Sunday, February 6th, 2011 Posted in Music | No Comments »As frequent visitors here know, music holds an important place in my creative life. I'm a listener. I don't play, can't carry a tune, but I'm fairly sure I loved songs long before I loved books, and the words of ...
2010, Best Of: My Year In New Music
Monday, December 27th, 2010 Posted in Fun Clips, Music | 8 Comments »Any list of best music should really be called “favorite music,” and mine has to begin with the standard caveat: I didn’t listen to or absorb nearly enough to make an informed choice. But in addition to that, and possibly ...