This morning on Teenage Kicks, Jacquie Fuller played two hours of side one, track ones in honor of The Current’s upcoming “High Fidelity” showing at The Fitz. It was, as you can imagine, totally awesome,…
Date Archives March 2015
Top 25 Most Listened to Songs of 2014 (Or Music to Revise a Novel to)
The obvious story of this year’s list is Lydia Loveless. Of course. If this shocks anyone clearly you are the kind of reader who skips every single post I make where I yammer about rock…
Girl World, Andrew Smith & Male Privilege
I grew up in a Girl World. That’s what I like to say. I have three sisters and zero brothers. The neighborhood we grew up in was filled with girls around our age. There was…
All the Light We Cannot See Because We Were Bored to Sleep
I’ll be the first to admit I’m kind of an asshole when it comes to war books. They bore me. War is barbaric and dehumanizes us, I get that. Do I need to read one…
The Perils of Being a Freakishly Tall Music Fan
The first concert I ever paid my own money to attend was Bell Biv DeVoe (now ya know) at the Met Center in (I think) the spring/summer of 1991. A longtime New Edition fan, I…
All My Good Ideas Happened a Decade Ago
Yesterday I decided on a whim that I would probably die if I didn’t alphabetize, organize, and thin out my fiction collection. It really was a perfect activity to put February to bed. I don’t…