November 2007
4 posts
Could this get me on Letterman?
I haven’t figured out if this is a marketable, or even remarkable, trait yet, but I’ve got some sort of musical ESP. I must pick up on some sort of ethereal music-related knowledge, mostly centered around album releases and band reunions, that is nearly uncanny. Recent examples: One day in my car, I had the thought, Gee, I wonder if Superdrag will ever get back together. I received an...
I never thought I'd lust after a sequined item
But I never thought they’d make a sequined Chuck.
"TVs gonna be there for you, baby."
It’s this kind of writing that makes me glad there are words: Screenwriter Josh A. Cagan’s “Letter From Hollywood.”
Flava for thought
Having only been 7 years old when Public Enemy’s landmark album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back was released, I just recently procured this record and listened to it for the first time. Some questions now remain: 1. What possessed ’80s and early ’90s hip-hop producers to think that that repetitive high-pitched squeal sound effect was cool? (See also: Cypress...