Double Reading

I’ve been meaning to get back into the blogging thing for a few weeks, so since Molly tagged me to join her Seven Song meme, I’ll take that as a cue to get warm up.
According to iTunes, these are the seven songs that I’ve most recently added that have a rating of four or more [...]

The film Across the Universe accomplished something that I’ve been playing around with in my head for a long time: Create dialogue that constantly references pop music lyrics. While Across the Universe took the idea a step further and turned that dialogue into a musical format, I still love the idea and was impressed with [...]

I just returned from the Justice concert.
First, this concert has been a series of ups and downs for me. I got my tickets in August and have been excited for the show since then… then about a month or so ago I found out that Midnight Juggernauts were added to the show. I was super [...]

“John the Revelator” has been one of my favorite Depeche Mode songs ever since I first heard it on Playing the Angel (which also happens to be my favorite Depeche Mode album [yes, I'm not quite a Gen-X'er]).
For the fun of it, I was reading about the song today and came across this amazing unofficial [...]

I went to the Experience Music Project for the third time yesterday. The first time I loved the exhibit about the history of alternative music (or so I recall that’s what it was about — in particular I remember a special mini-section about the Minnesota music scene which I found awesome and validated my love [...]

My trendspotting regarding Frankie Valli doesn’t seem to be as random as I hoped. Apparently there was recently (2005) Broadway play called Jersey Boys about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. That would explain all of the recent interest.

Recently I’ve noticed that masks are the new cool thing to wear. Animal masks, in particular.
Exhibit A:
Fox N’ Wolf performing “In Yr Underwear”:

and

Exhibit B:
The Bat For Lashes video “What’s A Girl To Do”:

Exhibit C (my favorite):
Last night at the ridiculously awesome Institubes Paris Terror Club show a bunch of the DJs were wearing animal [...]

For some reason Frankie Valli seems to be the guy right now.
A while back Pilooski remixed “Beggin’” and spawned this awesome video:

Then I saw that Simian Mobile Disco mentioned his song “The Night” as one of their current faves. And pretty much immediately after I saw that I noticed that Leam or Rosebud had already [...]

Last night I saw the Klaxons for the second time.
The first show was fun but very short. I convinced two of my best friends to come with, and they were not very impressed. When the Klaxons rolled in to town again (last night) neither of them were interested in seeing them again.
Now I sort of [...]

I started writing this in May 2005. I had much more of it written but I forgot to save and my browser crashed or I accidently opened a new site or something so I lost everything and then got discouraged about the whole post and stopped writing it…
Last summer when it was really hot out [...]