Archive for 2008/07


Blackwaterside

I went to Reva’s birthday party. In June, of ’67, just after school let out. I didn’t know her well, but she invited everybody from Geometry class. We ate cake, we did the limbo and listened to music. I remember fingering her records, evaluating her collection. I came across the Incredible String Band. I never […]

Sales-Week Ending 7/13/08

1. Lil Wayne "Tha Carter III" Sales this week: 124,676Percentage change: -20%Cume: 1,806,562 Oh what a great country we live in. Where we have so many diversions that not only do we not care what’s number one, we never ever have to hear it if we don’t want to! The major labels perpetuated a myth, […]

Mailbag

It’s funny, but for the last few nights Jimmy Herring and I (well, most of the band actually) have been wearing out a dvd a friend passed along of Jeff Beck’s performance at Clapton’s ’07 Crossroads festival. And when I say wearing it out I mean it! We watch it every night, wishing that we […]

Coldplay At The Forum

LINE OF THE NIGHT So I’m wandering the Forum floor, looking for Lisa and Brooks, and I run into Dave. He’s just upgraded a young couple from the cheap seats to the first five rows. They’re giddy, in a state of disbelief, and I say I want to go on his next mission, into the […]