Archive for June, 2008

biz, music

i heard it on the radio

One Saturday, back in April, I was tooling around getting errands done and heard the last syllables of an interview with some British musicians. Immediate segue into this (only live on radio):

meta

state of the blog

While I’ve done a pretty good job of ignoring things here and getting other things done, a couple of things have come up to nudge me into making some decisions. For one, it’s been a year since this thing started (really?!), so that meant a decision on whether to renew domain names. For another, a [...]

music

podemos

I didn’t see this until after Obama clinched the nomination, which is interesting, considering it was put together to help him in the Puerto Rico primary (in which he got creamed). It’s obviously a take-off on the “Yes I Can” video done earlier by Will.I.Am (seen here).

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view [...]

music

where you be, it’s still alright

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Elias McDaniel, aka Bo Diddley, died today at age 79. Rock wouldn’t be rock without him.
Guitarist George Thorogood, a Diddley disciple, put it more bluntly.
“[Chuck Berry's] ‘Maybellene’ is a country song sped up,” Thorogood told Rolling Stone in 2005. ” ‘Johnny B. Goode’ is [...]

« Newer Entries