Things I Like


geodesicrecordings.org

November 20, 2008

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Free downloads from Ex-Hypnolovewheel guys? A Hypnolovewheel 3 disc set in the future? Don’t mind if it DID. Well played, GeoD.

Heart of the Sunrise Covers on Youtube

October 21, 2008

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Yes’ “Heart of the Sunrise” covered ridiculously and thoroughly by Chris Squire devotees. That song is really hard to play. For bass lovers everywhere. And BK.
I’m a fan.

“A few mistakes here and there but hey - the song’s ten & a half minutes long!” [StalkIncubus2012]
On a Rickenbacker 4001 Bass [motorpsych0]
No sleeves to slow him down [...]

I am the shoreline, you are the breaker

October 16, 2008

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It took me thirty-five years, but I now realize that I was born with one true gift: eidetic memory for a terrible/amazing 1981 song by The Sherbs. Maybe “The Skill” was on MTV once when I was a kid. It has been playing in my head every day since.

Check out how the lead singer gets [...]

Bookworm

October 9, 2008

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Holy shit. Michael Silverblatt’s Bookworm is without a doubt one of the greatest things I have discovered in the last few years. His love of books…infectious! His soft, soothing voice encourages me to be a more attentive reader.

Sheep!

October 8, 2008

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Colleen on sheep.

Eddie Money

September 26, 2008

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I remember hearing that one’s guardian angel always made sure your favorite song came on the radio when you needed it the most (this might have been from Sabrina, The Teenage Witch). Well then, I have my guardian angel to thank for the Eddie Money classic that came on today.

He was screaming

September 25, 2008

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Highly pleasing article in Harpers about The Recognitions. “I bought it in May of 1993…and read it later that year, in October, after I quit a job in Manhattan and went to live in a small town on the Adriatic coast of Italy.” New goal: to quit my job in San Francisco and finally finish [...]

Clarks –> Rockports

September 22, 2008

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Thank you, pair of Clarks, that I wore every day for the last year until they turned into soft, archless slippers. You’ve been replaced by sensible and borderline geriatric Rockports. Also, on the first night wearing them out, I stepped in dog doo.

Dear Chris Bathgate

September 18, 2008

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I would really like to see you play your sweet but sort of sad songs this fall in San Francisco/Oakland, but you will be playing so far away then. Please come out here when you get back.

Ida Maria

August 25, 2008

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Alert reader AJ turned me on the powerhouse that is Ida Maria. Anticipating her playing at a venue close to me soonish.