Archive for February, 2006



Good Night and Good Takk…

When I was a kid my parents had a subscription to the Saint Louis Symphony and I quickly became indoctrinated to the all-so-civilized world of Bach, cocktails at intermission, and polite applause. Often the music itself was so soothing that before long my eyelids became heavy and I sank deeper and deeper into my [...]

Partly Sunny and Partly Cloudy

I was beginning to doubt whether winter was ever going to come to Cincinnati - the average temperature had been in the high 40s-low 50s during December and January - but then that rat-bastard groundhog had to go and see his shadow. Since then we’ve been huddling around the radiator until bedtime.
But yesterday we [...]

No, Cuts Like YOUNG Knives

One of the stand outs in my current rotation of songs is the Decision by the Young Knives, a band out of Oxford, England. The song comes from an EP the trio put out in November. At first listen it reminded me of the Darkness, but whereas the Darkness clearly love 70s rawk, the Young [...]

The Ficht

Seamus and I are both unabashed fans of character actors. Okay, maybe we’re abashed fans, but this is a great time for them. Two fantastic character actors (I’m looking at you, Messrs Hoffman and Giamatti) have been granted starring roles in major Hollywood movies (in Mission Impossible 3 and Lady in the Water) and nominated for Oscars [...]

Belle & Sebastian

Seamus, you said that you were reluctant to post anything about Jenny Lewis’s new album because of the amount of press she’s been getting, but I hope we can use this site in the way we’ve used emails in the past: to recommend things to each other and to anyone else who might be reading. [...]




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