For your Sunday dose of Shoegaze, here’s The Stratford 4’s “Where The Ocean Meets The Eye,” which sounds a bit like The Jesus and Mary Chain.
Shoegazer Sunday: The Stratford 4’s “Where The Ocean Meets The Eye”
October 12th, 2014Library Additions: Chapbooks By Swanwick, Mieville, Lovecraft
October 9th, 2014A variety of interesting chapbooks came in, including two books about H. P. Lovecraft’s family and a few Swanwick chapbooks I hadn’t been able to pick up before:
Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “Sleep”
October 5th, 2014What? Another obscure Slowdive song? Really, Lawrence? Really?
Yep.
Evidently this was originally an Eternal song, Eternal being the band Christian Savill was in before Slowidve.
College Football Broadcast Or Conceptual Art Piece?
October 4th, 2014You make the call!
I mean, I wouldn’t put it past Jeff Koons or Damien Hirst to slip Katy Perry 10 grand…
Shoegazer Sunday: Explosions in the Sky’s “The Birth and Death of the Day” Live
September 28th, 2014How do you feel about six minutes of intermittently pleasant guitar noodling?
Tough.
They’re an awful lot like a strictly instrumental version of Midsummer.
Two TV Artifacts From My Misspent Youth
September 25th, 2014There are two forthcoming TV show DVD sets that hearken back to the days of my youth:
Recommended without qualification is the complete WKRP in Cincinnati with the original music restored. If it wasn’t the greatest sitcom of the late 1970s/early 1980s, it was certainly in the top 5.
A bit more qualified recommendation for the complete 1960s Batman. Every significant dark, gritty Batman of the last 30 years (from Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight to the Christopher Nolan trilogy, and even the Tim Burton movie) has been largely in reaction to this show’s campy tone. The show is very much a product of its time, but retains a certain charm for just that reason. Plus the cast of villains (Burgess Meredith, Vincent Price, Julie Numar, Frank Gorshin, etc.) draws from some of the very best character actors of the time.
I’m sure either might make swell Christmas presents for someone you know…
8-Bit Version of Nine Inch Nail’s “Closer”
September 24th, 2014Either you like this sort of thing or you don’t….
I think it gets better the deeper into the song you get.
Restaurant Review: September 20, 2014: Pour House Pints and Pies
September 23rd, 2014Pour House Pints And Pies
11835 Jollyville Rd (Austin, 78759)
(512) 270-4740
This is essentially a sports bar that serves pizza. The pizza was pretty good (but could have used more cheese to hold our “four meats plus onions” toppings in place), but the fried mozzarella was undersized for the price, and the service was indifferent at best.
Unless you want to watch sports, there’s no reason to go here instead of Reale’s just up 183.
Shoegazer Sunday: My Violent Ego’s “Trail of Lights”
September 21st, 2014“Trail of Lights” is a lush, laid-back, multilayered Shoegaze piece from Scottish/Italian duo My Violent Ego.
The Lame Excuse Books Page Has Been Updated
September 19th, 2014I’ve updated the Lame Excuse Books web page with a number of new books from the August catalog. Includes a number of tasty books (many signed) for your reading and collecting pleasure…
