Sunday morning coming down video: I think you’re just so pleasant

Brand new She & Him video!  Self-consciously precious! Shiny! Is kinda bloody, ackshuly.
Snark aside, still loving this album.  Heart hug!

“but you ain’t lived to tell it yet…”

I’ve made no secret of how I feel about Patty Griffin’s voice, intelligence, storytelling, songwriting, guitar playing, performance, etc, etc, etc. I do go on a bit, I know (she DID make time stand still that one night @ Stubbs- I was there, it happened)  but it’s not just me, folks — she IS all [...]

Fin de siècle

When you haven’t updated in a week, it doesn’t matter if you post two music videos in a row.

Sun…no, Satur…day morning coming down: you’re in an awful fix

One of the best—of many — covers of one of the best songs in the world. Tracey Thorn is on my list of “phonebook” singers, as in, I’d listen to her sing it.

“It’s intriguing to watch her deal with us”

I guess irony is just pining for the fjords:
But of all the albums written from a woman’s perspective, this is one of the most accessible to men. It’s intriguing to watch her deal with us.
And I still don’t like Dave Matthews.
However, more power to him for signing Liz Phair to his rekkid label ATO, reissuing [...]

Running for freedom, Year 232

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That [...]

Blogtastic birthday trifecta!

It just so happens that three genius bloggers all have the same birthday today:
The esteemed RMJ @ Adventus
Holden the Pony Boy @ First Draft
Woman about town, she of the $9 margarita: res ipsa loquitor @Rising Hegemon
What are the odds, folks?
Have a great birthday, all of you:

08 Pride Post #23: — “The epitome of class and romance” — Johnny Mathis

08 Pride Post #18: everyone will quote me on this line

San Antonio’s own punky homegirls Girl in a Coma are all over the place lately, most prominently as part of the True Colors 2008 gay benefit juggernaut line up, touring with The Clicks, and handpicked to open for Morissey.
Above, their video debut Say, below Road to Home, featuring lip synching by plastic surgery [...]

08 Pride Post #15: Cleavage Cleavage Cleavage