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eleven songs in thirty-four minutes

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

As we get more and more news about R.E,M.’s upcoming album, it’s difficult not to get too excited. Luckily, getting too excited rarely does me much lasting harm.
In other happy news, Richard Thompson is playing JazzFest this year. But it looks like the first Sunday is my must-go day, with Al Green, Elvis [...]

this just in — Béla Lugosi is still dead

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Overheard conversation snippet: “He has a will-not-play list with songs like ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead‘ by Bauhaus that are so overplayed.”
Now I don’t know whether to be happy it’s on the will-not-play list or unhappy that it’s overplayed enough to get on such a list.