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I Am a Peanut, a Proud, Peculiar Peanut

Beth and I were considering going to see Rasputina last week, but we didn’t. That did, however, remind me that I hadn’t said anything about their two latest albums.They’re both mostly covers. The Feel-Good Hits of 1817 – It’s part … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Music, Mythology, Poetry, Rasputina | Tagged carl sandburg, cello, david bowie, duke ellington, edvard grieg, johann wolfgang von goethe, lana del rey, melora creager, metamorphoses, none but the lonely heart, ovid, patti smith, piotr ilyich tchaikovsky, potato face, potato face blind man, rootabaga stories, smiths, the feel good hits of 1817, the rocky horror picture show, the who, thomas john williams, thomas weelkes, wallis simpson |

Don’t Let the Earth Get in Your Eyes

Here are my thoughts on some albums I’ve heard recently, some old, some new, some borrowed, and…okay, I don’t think any of them are blue, but I’m not going to double-check the discs to find out. Robyn Hitchcock, A Star … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Ben Folds, Carolyn Mark, Fairy Tales, Humor, Music, Rasputina, Robyn Hitchcock, Star Trek, Star Wars, Tori Amos, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged a star for bram, bill mumy, blur, boots walker, dr. demento, george macdonald, graham coxon, great american gingerbread, hits from outer space, kim boekbinder, leonard nimoy, leslie fish, melora creager, rusty humphries, samuel adamson, so there, sound of the tone, spock, the firm, the great luke ski, the light princess, the magic whip, tolan mcneil, vermillion lies, zoe boekbinder |

When You’re Traumatized, You Take Everything as Scary

Erin McKeown, Manifestra – Beth and I first saw McKeown perform live with the now-disgraced Jian Ghomeshi. She does catchy folk-pop music with some hints of jazz and an old-fashioned sensibility. We’ve followed her career since then, but didn’t get … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Music | Tagged emily dickinson, erin mckeown, jian ghomeshi, manifestra, melora creager, rachel maddow, Rasputina, ryan montbleau, unknown, wizard of oz |