Sure, you’ve got your summer songs with Katy Perry, Lady Gaga. I’ll raise you one, with Wild Flag, an all girl out fit from Portland.
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Summer video: Wild Flag – Romance
Sure, you’ve got your summer songs with Katy Perry, Lady Gaga. I’ll raise you one, with Wild Flag, an all girl out fit from Portland.
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Review: The Terror by Dan Simmons
Terror by Dan Simmons Dan Simmons attempts to write a supernatural, horror, historical novel version of Moby Dick. Where Melville’s monster was an albino whale stalking Ahab’s Pequod, Simmons conjures up a mythical beast that roams the Arctic Circle slowly picking off the crew of the HMS Terror and Erebus frozen in ice. And like…
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Thoughts on Fort Worth mayoral campaign signs
On June 18th, the Fort Worth Mayoral run off will be held between Betsy Price and Jim Lane. Through out the entire campaign, their respective signs stood along roadsides and street corners. Regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum, their signage is interesting as well as signage for the other candidates. Below are…
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Review: Tina Fey – Bossypants
Tina Fey brings clever wit and charm to her memoir, Bossypants that tells of her growth as a creative individual. This creative individual is also a confident woman, business woman, mother, daughter, wife, keen and self aware of the life she lives. All these roles culminate as she recounts the perfect storm of getting Oprah…
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Bloom like an artist
An illustrated parable to growing as an artist by IdaEva. So true, and applies all the same to any ability to create something.
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Seryn unplugged in my living room
To get a band to play in your living room, there are several steps to make it happen. Find an intimate setting large enough to fit a band and their equipment. Get owner of said place to agree to let a band play in their intimate setting. Ask said band to play in said intimate…
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Review: Looking for Calvin and Hobbes – Nevin Martell
Nevin Martell writes reverently of Bill Watterson in Looking for Calvin and Hobbes. The far reaches that Martell goes to find out who Bill Watterson really was, took him into the world of cartooning and going into the depths of Bill Watterson’s past. Numerous cartoonists were interviewed: Jim Davis, Bill Amend, Lynn Johnston, Stephen Pastis…
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What I learned from 46 days of no Facebook
In keeping with the Catholic tradition of sacrificing something for Lent, I chose to give up Facebook. In the past, I’ve given up chocolate, sweets, dessert, beer, alcohol, caffeine, soda, (listening to) music. Forsaking a technological medium that seeks to connect people, and purposefully disconnecting from it, goes against the instant gratification of modern life.…
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Cranking
Merlin Mann tells a moving and personal story about creativity, priorities and life. Sometimes the cranking made something special that will be really useful to people who badly need the comfort and help. But, a staggering amount of the time, my cranking has produced joyless and unemotional bullshit that couldn’t comfort, help, or please anyone.…
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Review: R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now
Every Day Is Yours To Win could fit into New Adventures in Hi-Fi, while That Someone Is You bounces around like Radio Free Europe from 1983. … Discoverer’s lead riff sounds like Finest Worksong Oh My Heart has a bit of Drive Every Day Is Yours To Win, a shimmery uplifting ballad with simple melody…