January 2010
54 posts
They Sure Looked Like Doves To Me →
The stories surrounding the passing of Vic Chesnutt are getting more complicated and the tragedy keeps compounding as more details, which I will not go into here so don’t ask, are…
December 2009
43 posts
Cordy Lon, Please
milliansinc:
I have been trying for some 20 years to find Cordy Lon’s demo tape—they were a sometimes quartet from Athens, GA, early ’90s, and they played some cool music. Think moody cello meets folk angst. Gang of Four meets Nick Drake. On a codeine bender. In Elliott Smith’s basement. Good stuff.
Anywho, they put out a cassette tape (maybe 200 copies?) and mine was stolen in 1993 by someone...
The Mist And The March Of Time →
Do you remember what Christmas was like when you were a child? Your intangible excitement and its steady restlessness? At some point for me this gave way to cynicism and, many years later,…
Yes, Dear, But Is It Art? →
It’s all manipulation of desire no matter the motivation or result. What is the morality of manipulation?
Sometimes I write songs, too. →
…but this is the only Christmas song I’ve ever written.
Listomania
I don’t have any end-of-year or end-of-decade lists because…
1) I can barely make a grocery shopping list and, even when I do, I wind up ignoring things on it and/or buying things I hadn’t planned on.
2) The number of records that have a profound enough influence on me in any given year to warrant inclusion on a list generally numbers fewer than 5.
3) I generally like to see a...
I Hear You Through The Wire →
Every day I remember and remain.
If Love Is Sweet, Then I Am Torn By Every Move You... →
I don’t want to talk about it.
Athens Christmas Parade Tonight →
Bar none, the Athens Christmas Parade is my favorite civic event of the year.
What I wrote last year regarding the parade says it the best so I’m going to quote myself:
Today is…
YES, I'M GOING TO THE SHOW.
c u at it.
I glimpsed you once but you were gone again… →
It might have been the music from next door
Reminded me I should have missed you more.
-The Lucksmiths ”Music Next Door”
Tonight I read your letters again for the first time….
Modern man is powerless and insignificant in the modern world.
– Arthur Miller