I sent along my research about John Berryman to a few friends who are fans. They let me know in no uncertain terms that I was about a year behind in my “fan-boy, hold steady, geeked-out fact-checking”.
To which I respond with the above: a word cloud derived from the lyrics of every Hold [...]
Tag Archives: Music
Berryman
21-Oct-08
The mention of John Berryman from this song was bugging me. So I looked it up on wikipedia. He was an American Poet who committed suicide by jumping off the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lyrics:
The Devil and John Berryman took a walk together
They ended up on Washington talking to the river
He said “I surrounded myself with doctors [...]
MBV. 16 years later.
24-Sep-08I decided months ago that the best way to get to the MBV show was to go up the morning of and work in AOL’s offices there. So I got up at 5:30am, caught the 6:52 Amtrak to Penn Station and made my way down to Union Square.
THe offices at 770 Broadway are kind [...]
MBV
21-Sep-08
The last time I saw My Bloody Valentine, it was the summer of 1992. They played the Trocadero on a muggy night. Buffalo Tom and Mercury Rev opened.
A good friend from high school was at the show. He got progressively weirder as the opening bands worked thru their sets. By MBV he was off his [...]
Big Rock/Very Small Package
27-Aug-08Rid of Me. P.J. Harvey
That Was Just a Joke About the Money…
18-Aug-08XXX by Helium
to Keep Our Lives, Lives Going….
18-Aug-08Brakhage by StereoLab
ParkLife by Blur.
Another classic video. Simple concept, Damon Driving around with that guy from Quadrophenia, A bunch of Benny Hill speed ups, and mugging for the camera.Funny Lyrics.
Side note: vorsprung durch technic: translation: Progress through technology. Audi slogan. FYI.
Charmless Man, by Blur
13-Aug-08Why do I love this video? The band pops up again and again in the charmless man’s path. Thusly representing the ever present, inescapable reality of the charmless man’s douchitude.
I said douchitude. heh.
Green Screen + Layering = Pop Stars!
09-Aug-083 videos. 1 thing in common. Well, besides being in heavy rotation at Revival, Pulsations, Phoenix, Shadows…or whatever other dumb dance club I might have visited in the late 80s/ early 90s. They all feature the green screen and lots of pointless layering. I’ll bet they costed coin to produce.
The Soup [...]