I have a complicated relationship with two bands: Queen and The Knack. I’ve always been able to “respect” Queen, which means that when I say “I sort of hate Queen” and people react with shock, I politely say “maybe they’re just not my thing” and leave it at that. I’ve always been [...]
2006 is so close, it’s on the brink of being a year we are allowed to look back to with nostalgia. I’m getting a bit of a head start, I think, because lately I have been listening to Junior Boys’ So This Is Goodbye and thinking “they just don’t make music like this these [...]
This was my tune two weeks ago, but I seriously can’t stop listening to it. I must have played this song close to 100 times in the past few weeks:
Certain people can do this, certain people can listen to the same song over and over for weeks at a time. I’m one of [...]
I know it’s 2010, I know I am still in the middle of writing about 2009, that’s okay. The pressure to wrap up end-of-year lists has always struck me as pretty stupid. No, I’m not done thinking about 2009. I’m also not done thinking about 1979, so suck my blog.
Despite this, the [...]
I only just now discovered Erasure, you guys.
Give me some time to process this and maybe I will write some more words, because right now I can’t even think, I can only bop.
It’s so easy to complain when stores start playing Christmas music. People say that “they” play Christmas music earlier and earlier each year, and no! That’s not true! People just start bitching about it earlier. It’s to the point where I am equally annoyed by both sides of this hoilday gripe.
What [...]
