parlando

parlando archive

Posted on February 2nd, 2007 by Scraps.
Categories: Music.

May 2008

• ex matters
• name that tune again again

April 2008

• a pleasant work environment
• r. kelly: creepier than you think
• my favorite sitcom has been canceled
• name that tune day
• two limericks for felix hernandez
• name that tune day
• speaking the same language
• greatest living guitarist stung in hand by scorpion
• bob dylan awarded special music pulitzer
• "despite (or perhaps because of)" watch
• hey that sounds kinda like (with digressions)
• today's work headphone music

March 2008

• name that tune notes
• the unpedant squeaks
• name that tune again
• name that tune time
• great band name and title
• i like this one better
• first indie album cover
• indie rock album cover generator
• most visible profile
• not really, but
• it's MIX tape, dammit
• name that tune day again
• exterminate (a continuing series)
• death of the single

February 2008

• name that tune day
• perhaps a bit too close to home
• name that tune day
• another strangely obsessive project
• look back in embarrassment
• hey that sounds like
• what, a bus? a truck? a helicopter? i think we should be told.
• advisory note for blades of grass
• preliminary thoughts on jeeves and wooster
• hard to dispute

January 2008

• i'll bet it was about making a statement. yeah.
• horsing around
• say
• excuse me?
• another one for 2007
• two more missing seventies songs
• another fine local business
• name that tune game at popdose
• hey that sounds like
• belated props

December 2007

• hey that sounds (kinda) like
• the dark shed of the untameable mind
• wallpapers
• you don't say
• another riff well past its pull date
• taking for granted
• eponymous hiphop?
• eponymous update
• eponymous but not first
• slough of despond - a list in progress

November 2007

• forty funny pictures, one awful artist
• crooned with no irony whatsoever
• c'mon already
• hey that (kinda) sounds like
• cafe tacuba, the repost
• tacuba! - some evidence
• tacuba!
• puzzled regrets
• thinking about what you say
• the joy of duty
• another contender

October 2007

• hey that sounds like (a continuing series)
• musing between floods of work
• hey that sounds like (a continuing series)
• another candidate times two
• seventies survival, update twelve
• i confess, you're an idiot
• hey that sounds like
• library amusement
• seventies survival, update eleven
• another curious omission
• seventies survival, update ten
• early trivial response to andrew bird
• pop art
• fortune cookies talk back: fortune of the year thus far
• musical mythmaking

September 2007

• 2007 for me thus far
• a curious omission
• an explanation
• high on the list of things no one else cares about
• ten bands with vowels in their names
• tuxedomoon, "crash" (1980)
• o-kay
• cool ain't shit (a continuing series)
• seventies survival notes
• seventies survival, update nine
• seventies survival, update eight
• stubblemancy

August 2007

• microtonal goofball
• our upcoming releases
• ednaswap, "torn" (1996)
• enough already
• the unpedant squeaks
• seventies survival, update seven
• max roach, r.i.p.
• free verse
• funeral plans
• seventies survival, update six
• seventies survival, update five
• caveman cartoon idea

July 2007

• today's work headphone music
• today's work headphone music
• seventies survival, update four
• 70s song survival update 3
• an unending song project
• work music
• smartass shuffle
• ayn rand and god
• dept of musical coincidence

June 2007

• seventies survival, more cuts
• golden age science fiction readers will understand
• seventies survival, first cuts
• another random play mp3 thought
• random play mp3 thoughts
• seventies song survival
• lost clue
• jargon rejection pile
• paired quotes
• overspecialized cartoon idea
• mission statement

May 2007

• kristeen young's words
• one for the well: top 50 xtc songs
• unhappily prescient cartooning
• future mix tape notes
• updating 1999
• who is jenkins?
• another old cartoon
• my cartoons

April 2007

• language grrr
• nomeansno, "rags and bones" (1989)
• fortune cookies talk back: ok i get the point already division
• 1999: another shortlist for the incredibly pointless 999 albums project
• funky fez
• i prefer the music of the trains anyway
• hey that sounds like (a continuing series)
• "complete", a continuing annoyance

March 2007

• commenting tweak
• kirsty maccoll, "caroline" (1995)
• red rider, "lunatic fringe" (1981)
• 1989: the first shortlist for the incredibly pointless 999 albums project
• tsk tsk tsk
• bad rhymes
• early reactions to new of montreal album
• paul taylor, esplanade and others
• sunday top five
• powerhouse
• varieties of cultural ignorance

February 2007

• henry threadgill, "spotted dick is pudding" (1988)
• still sad
• name that tune - game one - longer clips
• name that tune - first game
• scritti politti, "skank bloc bologna" (1978)
• lost sides
• mindy and buttons
• blogging thrives on underemployment
• internet radio recommendations?
• fortune cookies talk back, odd verb tense division
• sunday top five
• don mclean, "building my body" (1977)
• personal radio
• watsoning
• diagnostics
• sunday top five
• we had an amazing time, but it took forever to get home
• how to trivialize a story with one word
• funkadelic, "promentalshitbackwash­psychosis enema squad" (1978)

January 2007

• self-awareness is not sufficient. you have to want to change.
• bad actor
• ween, "pandy fackler" (2000)
• quotes for the song project
• musing on female songwriting
• captain beefheart and the magic band, "bat chain puller" (1978)
• gah
• charles mingus, "fables of faubus" (1959) and "original faubus fables" (1960)
• five things
• album!
• bad writing, allmusic division (a continuing series)
• chisel, "on warmer music" and "all my kin" (1997)
• exercises: the pompous bio
• mystical horsefeathers
• lies about animals
• heavy vegetable, "going steady with the limes" (1995)
• headline syntax, a continuing series
• joan armatrading, "like fire" (1976)

December 2006

• bad writing, allmusic division (a continuing series)
• farewell, mill valley
• digital thimblerigging
• an open apology
• beauty based on science - the microscopic septet
• stock phrases and conscious writing
• administrative yuck
• it says heah....
• a parade of ugh
• another way of avoiding writing about peter cook
• doesn't mean what you think it means
• the go-betweens, 1978-1988, 2000-2006, r.i.p.
• nervus rex - "the god sheila" (1980)
• the tapes
• the celebrity breakup announcement i would like to see

November 2006

• bad writing, allmusic division
• good news bad news
• seuss stuff

October 2006

• things in writing that unreasonably irritate me
• flatulent prose, philosophical division
• modesty
• the opposite of animism
• creative use of euphemism
• horsing
• the quote file

August 2006

• variations on a theme by bill james
• joseph hill, r.i.p.
• approaching the radio ideal
• don't
• one chocolate at the bottom of the bag

July 2006

• they've got my number
• an amusing song

June 2006

• jim baen, r.i.p.
• sleater-kinney no more, damnit
• not prairie home companion
• the quote file
• i've been reading too much livejournal...

May 2006

• also, some of them don't swear hardly at all
• what century is the post office living in?
• gilbert sorrentino, r.i.p.
• hey, europeans: you can love rocknroll, but you can't make it
• flatulent prose, allmusic division
• grant mclennan, r.i.p.
• how does anyone -- anyone -- say "liberal media" with a straight face?

April 2006

• the music, the spotlight, the glitter ball
• everywhere a sign
• the complete peanuts, part two
• the complete peanuts, part one
• everywhere a sign

March 2006

• that indescribable tightening of the heart
• fortune cookies talk back
• cabaret revival soundtrack
• top five ian frazier lines
• don't

February 2006

• octavia butler's newspaper obit
• stop beating my wife

January 2006

• oprah blasts frey
• top five initially overlooked influential albums
• top five sports teams
• if god exists, how could the sonics lose to the nuggets in the first damned round?
• lies "resonate" when they tell you what you want to hear
• life as a bad movie
• hindsight is a bitch
• if he'd believed in an afterlife, he'd be spinning
• greg egan - "unstable orbits in the space of lies"

November 2005

• wretched criticism, allmusic division

October 2005

• clap your hands say yeah

August 2005

• they didn't say that

July 2005

• fortune cookies talk back
• from the i am a pompous ass files

April 2005

• another business i don't think i'll be using

March 2005

• extraordinary machine

November 2004

• the reality soldier, the laugh child: the Minutemen, Double Nickels on the Dime

October 2003

• goodbye elliott smith

April 2003

• an okay movie

December 2002

• the anti-pedant squeaks

August 2002

• just point the damned camera

April 2002

• damon knight, r.i.p.

March 2002

• r a lafferty, r.i.p.
• mother of us all

October 2000

• fortune cookies talk back, ominous division

I can't abide fools, but I am one.

- Roy Harper