I’ll be honest. I’m behind again on my book blogs. I have three more to blog about and each of them deserve their own blog so here goes. Set in what I am guessing is a place you might not find marked on any map, the suburban town of Hell, New York, The Silk Road [...]
I know it sounds terribly morbid but I’d like to know the year I am going to die. Douglas Coupland has a good comment about this (in his fantastic novel, Life After God) in which he talks about how a person telling fortunes gains customers simply by putting up a sign that reads, “I promise [...]
(Logan Square Auditorium 11/11) THE ETERNALS This Chicago trio really had an eclectic sound. Vocalist Damon Locks and bassist Wayne Montana were actually previously a part of a hardcore quartet called Trenchmouth before forming the Eternals. The instruments used on stage consisted of keyboard, organ, drums, bass, and a sampler. At times, the band’s songs [...]
(Double Dooor 9/9/5) THE ESSEX GREEN I remember the first time I heard The Essex Green. I was in college teaching a loved one how to drive stick (I swear I don’t even know how to drive an automatic). It was after they had released Everything is Green but way before their fantastic follow up, [...]
(I apologize in advance for the seriously bad pun here) Saturday night, I was very priviledged to see a presentation put on by a woman named Inger Lena Gaasemyr from Norway who has studied the urban planning and community involvement in the Nedre Nygaard section of Bergen, Norway’s second largest city. She presented different photo [...]
(Abbey 11/4/05) THE LIKE YOUNG The Like Young are a Chicago male/female duo that we have seen a couple times now opening up for different bands. They have a definite youthful raw energy to them with Joe Ziemba singing the majority of the vocals in style that remeinds me a bit of Ian MacKaye of [...]
10/10 This one will probably be my film of the year. On the surface, it is an engaging profile of Ed Murrow, a CBS journalist and newscaster in the 50s. It’s also a film with some adept performances by Straithairn, Clooney, Clarkson, and Robert Downey Jr. with some great black and white cinematography that skillfully [...]
It was a lovely day for a protest today. Unfortunately, I made it down there late as I had to work but I caught over an hour of interesting guest speakers and musicians from quite a few different backgrounds as well as professions. As usual, It was good to hear their point of view whether [...]
And in my dream, I was driving through a blizzard to get to Toronto. Sigur Ros was putting on a show at the Congress (there’s a Congress theater in Chicago but not in Toronto to my knowledge. It was actually some weird dinner buffet thing. I was wearing this pair of black dress pants I [...]
Did I say I was going to get better at blogging about book after I finished them? sorry. HEAVEN LAKE by John Dalton CRAWLING AT NIGHT by Nani Power THAT EYE, THE SKY by Tim Winton HEAVEN LAKE by John Dalton I didn’t really enjoy reading this book too much but mom had loaned it [...]