Tag: 2009 February

  • Prettiest Chain – Castanets – 2008

    Prettiest Chain MP3 With the lights off, I pull the string on the mini-blind and slowly let the moonlight in.  I slide the window to the left.  I swing my leg over the sill.  I’ve done this so many times the move is choreographed.  I know exactly how to get in and out of the […]

  • Limelight – Rush – 1981

    Moving Pictures was an album that crawled inside of me and lived for years.  I was barely 11 when it came out, and it just captured my imagination.  Everything about it was perfect for my time and place in the world.  And this record (along with a few others) would dominate my consciousness for the […]

  • The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys – Traffic – 1971

    The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys MP3 “If you see something that looks like a star And it’s shooting up out of the ground” There were all these kids in the mid-90’s in Albuquerque from all these different places.  Most of them were punks and goths, and I have no idea how they all […]

  • Orbiting – The Weepies – 2008

    Being a human being is very complicated.  I know exactly what I want to say about this song, but I instantly hear every argument against it.  And all of these points of view are just as valid.  We are all humans and we make mistakes.  And we inherit all of these problems from our parents.  […]

  • The Ancient Common Sense of Things – Bishop Allen – 2009

    The Ancient Common Sense of Things MP3 Lately I have found this blog to be incredibly satisfying.  But in that satisfaction, I find myself at a crossroads.  And while it may take me a while to get to my point, I think this is a common theme of my entries.  I have a point, but […]

  • Go On Say It – Blind Pilot – 2008

    Go On Say It MP3 During a particularly purple time in my life where the world had a sort of grayish twilight feel to it, I drove between Houston and Albuquerque about two or three times a month.  I thought it was a girl in Houston.  And some of it was, but the girl was […]

  • Holiday in Cambodia – Dead Kennedys – 1980

    Holiday in Cambodia MP3 By the time I heard the Dead Kennedys for the first time, I had already seen a couple of local punk bands playing somewhere in Houston.  So it’s sort of interesting for me to note that my first real exposure to punk rock was on a local live scene.  No one […]

  • So What – Miles Davis – 1959

    So What MP3 Instrumental jazz has played a huge part in my life, but I have had a hard time finding a way to start writing about it in this blog.  So far I have written about what I as rock/pop music, mostly with lyrics.  There is something sort of sacreligious in writing about Miles […]

  • Washing of the Water – Peter Gabriel – 1992

    Washing of the Water MP3 The only time I have been suicidal for any length of time was the winter of 1992 and 1993.  I was working as a bureaucrat and trying to put something together musically.  But really I was just too depressed.  I lived in Brighton and commuted to the South Shore in […]

  • Ume – Walters on Washington – January 31, 2009

    Ume took the stage around midnight.  They were tight and well rehearsed and there was something new and crisp about all of their delivery.  The new songs were great to see played onstage.  There’s something about seeing the live version of any song that gives it some other meaning.  I am always amazed at how […]