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Archive for October, 2005

$130 for a BRICK?

I just spent $130 on a brick. Well, on this brick. I actually found it on Overstock.com after discovering that Geico was willing to give me a coupon to Overstock.com for 10% off. The coupon expires tomorrow, so you’d better bet that box set was MINE NOW.

N.P.: James | “Born of [...]

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Whose tip made it onto one of the biggest, coolest, most important political blogs in all of creation? Yep! I did!
Of course, I wasn’t talking about politics. I was talking about Butterstick the Panda. You don’t know about Butterstick? Read on.
“Butterstick Hearts Fruitsicle” (via Wonkette)

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Let’s recap some music news that you all should know about.
- New Babybird album due out in early 2006. Go to the website to find out more information directly from Stephen’s mouth.
- According to ICE, Talking Heads’ reissues are going to be out in digipak format early next year. Of course, I’ll probably [...]

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Merry Fitzmas!

(A political aside…)
I’m trying to find out about the other judges who might be nominated to SCOTUS. Hugh Hewitt, over at his blog, suggests that Michael McConnell would be Bush’s first choice. You can read what McConnell thinks about Roe v. Wade here and can find out more information from ConfirmThem.com, a project [...]

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New Music Tuesday

Aaah.
I never thought I’d say this, but I’ve just bought a Robbie Williams album. There’s a reason though: the album was co-written by none other than Stephen Duffy, formerly of The Lilac Time. As all true British pop music fans know, TLT’s album “And Love for All,” produced by XTC’s Andy Partridge, is [...]

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In honor of the weird dude that Andrew, Hannah, and I met tonight at the coffee shop, I present this mix.
The Police | “One World (Not Three)”The Verve | “The Drugs Don’t Work”Blur | “Chemical World”Talking Heads | “Drugs”Huey Lewis & the News | “I Want a New Drug”Roxy Music | “Love is the Drug”Yo [...]

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This has been the worst day I have suffered through in a long, long time.
I managed to offend or piss off nearly everyone I talked to. Conversations I had with one person were repeated to another without my original meaning or intentions intact. An e-mail that I sent to inform one colleague of [...]

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“One” might be the loneliest number, but my favorite number is “0.00.” Oh yeah.
(Click here for a larger version.)
Eat me, CitiBank!

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I was walking down the dorm hallway the other day when I heard this song blasting from one of my students’ rooms.
What the…? Is he stealing my music, or what? Seriously, though. I love it.

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Nile Rodgers is GOD

Last week, I sent an e-mail to the webmaster of NileRodgers.com asking for an 8 x 10 photo of Nile for the “Wall of Fame” here at the Loquacious Music studios. Today, I received this in the mail:

Can you believe it? And it’s signed in silver permanent marker. Of course it is.
It’s [...]

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