parlando

parlando archive

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

August 2010

• reading report
• lucky
• the book
• adventures reading a novel and wikipedia
• shuffle, on the return from montreal
• shuffle, on the way to montreal
• gothick dyspepsia
• fear of dying
• 1979: another pointless list

July 2010

• one of my many language weirdnesses
• tentatively

June 2010

• watch what you write

April 2010

• "what happened to the bangles?": old post from the well #41, 31 jul 00
• "date match":old post from the well #40, 8 aug 98
• "asking the silicon valley tarot": old post from the well, #39, 15 sep 02
• "lines you rarely read in reviews": old post from the well, #38, 7 sep 02
• "i'm thinking of a movie" (old post from the well, #37, 5 oct 01)

March 2010

• old post (from the well) #36, 24 jul 96
• old post (from the well) #35, 25 feb 03
• old post (from the well) #34, 13 nov 00
• old post (from the well) #33, 18 may 00
• old post (from the well) #32, 12 oct 98
• old post (from the well) #31, 25 jul 96
• old post (from the well) #30, 15 jul 97
• old post (from the well) #29, 1 apr 97
• old post (from the well) #28, 21 may 97
• where will rush go?
• old post (from the well) #27, 12 apr 99
• old post #26, 13 oct 05
• old post #25, 12 jul 01
• old post #24, 22-24 may 99
• old post #23, 3 jun 97

February 2010

• old post #22, 2 may 01
• old post #21, 19 aug 98
• old post #20, 28 april 98
• old post #19, 7 jan 02
• old post #18, 10 nov 01
• old post #17, 8 may 99
• further lies about brad jones (old post #16, jan 98-jun 02)
• quotable ebert
• more lies about brad jones (old post #15, jun-jul 97)
• lies about brad jones (old post #14, jan-jun 97)
• statistics (old post #13, 15 feb 00)
• old post #12, 17 apr 96
• old post #11, 19 jun 96
• old post #10, 22 jan 05
• old post #9, 7 sep 00
• old post #8, 4 jul 99
• seattle's nocturnal house is closing
• old post #7, 2 jul 97
• old post #6, 29 oct 96
• old post #5, 23 jun 96
• old post #4, 5 jul 96
• old post #3, 16 jan 01
• old post #2, 24 dec 00
• old post #1, 26 sep 96

January 2010

• bite
• the message
• spelling
• my mind, etc

December 2009

• function words
• completions
• intellectually exhausted
• walking
• recovery slipped

November 2009

• issues
• a somewhat funny homework assignment

October 2009

• about novelty socks
• a writer who is down my damaged path
• hailstones in parts of austria kill 90 percent of wild game
• fortune cookies talk back, number whatever
• spooky
• "and if you're against it, then get out of the way."
• talking like myself
• mad, then good

September 2009

• n
• and i can't say

August 2009

• beseech
• 1960 quarter, sitting there
• one thing a day
• organized
• on defense and variability

July 2009

• elami salami
• writing vs speaking
• my favorite music video
• i know you read xkcd, but maybe you skipped one
• found on facebook
• cats (and dogs), part two
• cats, part one
• maybe i should listen to myself
• "the necessity of his condition" by avram davidson

June 2009

• homecoming
• kristian hoffman, "sex in heaven" (2002)
• selling out
• fifteen books in fifteen minutes (approximately)
• "a philosophical discourse suitable only for the strong"
• a video by we were promised jetpacks
• home

May 2009

• riverhead
• reading
• the heart of it
• terrible truth
• he/she
• katherine anne porter, "maría concepción"
• untroubled where i lie
• reading
• thank you

April 2009

• asking
• waking
• 16 april 2009 listening
• 15 april 2009 listening
• 14 april 2009 listening
• 13 april 2009 listening
• 12 april 2009 listening
• 11 april 2009 listening
• the ears

March 2009

• uncollected video beatles
• the dismemberment plan, live
• the hugo ballot, my selfish contribution
• the dismemberment plan, "following through" (2001)
• stroke

October 2008

• if you're not yet awake, for god's sake wake up

September 2008

• kids, this is how crazy the world we grew up in was
• quote of the day
• misheard
• waiting
• writers, i entreat you
• my god
• name that tune day
• derogation derivation
• perhaps not exactly what you meant
• dave marsh, fathead
• dept. of everyone else has doubtless already noticed

August 2008

• slow time
• morning shuffle, with asterisks
• try listening
• working saturday shuffle
• like to read
• shuffle till noon
• shuffle
• one for rob sheffield
• happy returns
• today's shuffle slice
• name that tune day
• today's shuffle slice
• slice of shuffle
• new baby
• "despite or perhaps because of" watch

July 2008

• what does post-punk mean to you?
• quiz
• another elaborate, insufficiently funny idea
• i hope our few remaining friends give up on trying to save us
• name that tune day
• choosing singles
• also, i won't insult your intelligence
• this one's for gavin, jon, and sylvia
• name that tune day
• preliminary unfair opinion

June 2008

• the return of black francis
• pilobolus binge
• new sloan, sloan tonight
• music rights, movies, and television
• more subway ad cutting
• hulk is leaf-spittin' mad

May 2008

• unfortunate advertising headline
• a moment extracted from the crush of work
• name that tune today
• 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

Don't whisper love and dream of wedding bells,
Don't do all the talking, let love speak up itself.

- the Beautiful South