I know, I know, I’m early. Like most of you, I hate when the stores put out their Christmas decorations in September, so that’s why I didn’t post this video two weeks ago. I tried to at least start pre-celebrating in the same month as the actual holiday. Halloween is Bean’s absolute favorite time of [...]
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Two weeks ago Bean and I went to see The Dodos play. They were amazing and the new songs are spectacular live. So the whole experience was wonderful; great band, great company, great venue … Except for one thing, the guy standing next to me had ehm, terrible BO. I don’t know how to put [...]
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A few weeks ago, Bean wrote a very cool post that linked The Raveonettes to Twin Peaks. I never really made a connection between a piece of music and a seemingly unrelated TV show that way until I heard “Revival”. I’m still sad that Carnivale, the HBO show set during the Great Depression which was [...]
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Soundtrack Day is an older 100b category that I had to bring back for this post, because this song is definitely a part of my personal soundtrack. Indonesia’s day of independance is celebrated on August 17th, but we will be celebrating the joyous freedom of my motherland this saturday. And by “celebrating”, I mean eat. [...]
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I was sad to learn that Willy Deville passed away two days ago. He was the frontman of Mink DeVille, who were part of the CBGB scene. They were, however, the odd man out in this early punk setting, because they had more in common with classic soul and R&B acts. Their sound was a [...]
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