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 #25: Funniest Dyke in the World contestant Jane Lynch

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

08 Pride Post #22: A praetorian vanguard of queer power — Dykes on Bikes®

The spectacle thundered to life about 10 a.m. in the traditional manner, with hundreds of motorcycles ridden by the Women’s Motorcycle Contingent — the “Dykes on Bikes” — pouring off Beale Street onto Market Street. Greeted by their gay brethren’s cries of “Here come the girls!” the leather-clad and occasionally bare-chested riders whooped and yelled [...]