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Flirtin' with Disaster 14 Sep 2011 | 04:24 am
Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. A friend stopped me on the street yesterday to point out that I was riding a sk...
Fix My Mind 13 May 2010 | 03:32 pm
I've been stewing in this new/forthcoming Damien Jurado record for a few weeks now. The alchemical transformation of downerism into uplift is an ongoing mystery. There's a stretched horizon of mellotr...
WE TWEET! (FOLLOW USTH) 10 May 2010 | 12:49 pm
Here at TDSP, the rate at which we go back in time is at least five times the rate forward, essentially leaving us terminally in the 1970s. But we still do go forward occasionally. Some. A bit. Now an...
Mogrify Me 21 Feb 2010 | 02:07 pm
There was some delicious false hope in the air today. A taste of spring that was snatched back as soon as the sun went down. But while the fantasy lasted I got out with the kids (waddled in mud and sl...
Knights of Infinite Resignation 14 Feb 2010 | 02:28 pm
The Detroit Harmonettes pass the obscurity test. Can't find much of a trace on wikipedia or elsewhere on the web, and one has to bore down deep into rare European compilations to track down a trail. T...
BIG AND RICH 5 Feb 2010 | 04:13 pm
Found a beautiful compilation of early Charlie Rich in a junk shop in Red Hook today (Songs for Beautiful Girls, Pickwick/33). I'll forgo the overstatement: maybe the most soulful white man ever recor...
Cellular Accounting (Yogic Integers) 17 Jan 2010 | 10:20 am
I used to work on a farm with a couple yoga teachers, and they'd stop in the row and teach us some stretches. We came up with the theory of "opposite yoga postures" with regard to bending and weeding ...
A Selection From Harry Reid's Ipod 13 Jan 2010 | 03:32 pm
The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch--Brian Eno Line notes. Commenatry on vinyl LPs. Pop, rock, folk, prog, indie, so much more. Love.
That's the Way It Is 4 Jan 2010 | 05:17 pm
[REVISED!] Every couple of years, I return to the question of whether there's such a thing as a musical "canon," a hierarchy in pop history. It's not fashionable to believe so, what with alternate po...
Yep, It's That Time of Year Again: SNAP, CRACKLE & POP, VOLUME 7 21 Dec 2009 | 05:29 am
I love vinyl record albums -- a LOT. But when you're approaching 40, it starts to get a little embarrassing, doesn't it? It's like, dude, get a job and raise your frickin' children stedda taking up sh...
