5:29 a.m. Startled awake by the sound of the snow plows scraping up the eight or nine inches of snow that fell last night. Sounds more like they are trying to scrape away the blacktop….
Date Archives 2015
Top Five Side One, Track Ones: A Teenage Kicks Tribute List
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,…
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…