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Music Monday - Storefront Hitchcock
Music Monday - Storefront Hitchcock
Written by dave in Monday, December 1st 2008   
Someday I hope to make Music Mondays a regular feature. Speaking of music, Creative Loafing just re-vamped their music page. Here's Storefront Hitchcock. "Filmmaker Jonathan Demme profiles British singer/songwriter Robyn Hitchcock." [+]
Tampa Unchained
Tampa Unchained
Written by dave in Sunday, November 23rd 2008   
Ahhh, the shopping season has arrived. Spending your money at local businesses is a great way to help out the local economy. From the Tampa Independent Business Alliance - "Because locally owned independent businesses generate over three times the economic activity for their hometowns as national chains, if everyone shunned the chains, it would mean up to $19 million dollars added to the Hillsborough County economy on an average day! In these tough economic times, doesn't [+]
Shouldn’t the Banks Mow These Lawns?
Shouldn’t the Banks Mow These Lawns?
Written by dave in Monday, November 17th 2008   
There are a few abandoned houses in my neighborhood with overgrown lawns. In September we had a house down the street with a yard full of bags of garbage. (See here, and here). It was eventually cleaned up, but it prompted some thoughts on how to deal with neighborhood situations where it's difficult to find the responsible party. My solution was AHA Committees (for Ad Hoc Action Committees). It turns out these committees are real [+]
Nick Reynolds 1933-2008
Nick Reynolds 1933-2008
Written by dave in Wednesday, October 15th 2008   
Nick Reynolds is the short one in the middle playing tenor guitar. [+]
Music Monday
Music Monday
Written by dave in Monday, October 13th 2008   
MGMT is the hipster band du jour, making it onto all the current movie soundtracks, like Spoon last year, or the Shins the year before. Sort of a blend between Flaming Lips and Papas Fritas, MGMT churns out a pleasant concoction of psychedelic-lite to a beat you can dance to. Whoops! Their official YouTube page has embedding disabled. So, you can check them out here. But, since I mentioned them here's a Papas Fritas video from 1997 [+]
The Youth Is Starting to Change
The Youth Is Starting to Change
Written by dave in Saturday, October 11th 2008   
I should probably save this for Music Monday, but what the hell. This is JB's new favorite video. She's been playing it all day long. MGMT - Youth [+]
Music Monday - Harry Partch
Music Monday - Harry Partch
Written by dave in Monday, October 6th 2008   
Harry Partch was a brilliant American composer, iconoclastic and at the very avant of the garde. Partch lived as a hobo for 10 years, and this experience deeply affected his compositions. Partch had a passion for building instruments, and it was often these instruments for which he composed music. Partch literally wrote the textbook on microtonal music theory. Partch is not everyone's cup of tea. In fact, he's almost no one's cup of tea. Because of [+]
Peekaboo
Peekaboo
Written by dave in Wednesday, October 1st 2008   
Here's a re/creating favorite, The Cadillacs singing Peekaboo. The first version is from their single, the second version is their live performance years later. [+]
More Music Monday
More Music Monday
Written by dave in Monday, September 29th 2008   
Lukas at WFMU's Beware the Blog located this spectacular collection of Chicha music, psychedelic cumbias. Get it while the getting is good. Here's a link to Amor Indio for your sampling pleasure. [+]
Music Monday - Camp Records
Music Monday - Camp Records
Written by dave in Monday, September 29th 2008   
JD Doyle at Queer Music Heritage has located and made available an extraordinary collection of gay-themed novelty songs from the early and mid 1960s. Ahhh, the internet. What library would collect material like this? By digitizing these songs Doyle has helped keep a relatively unknown portion of American history available. Check out his tribute page to Camp Records. "I'd Rather Swish Than Fight" "Almost nothing is known about the mysterious 60's record label Camp Records. They released [+]

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