Friday, August 22, 2008

Add your voice to ONE

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Bruce Springsteen - Hershey, PA - Aug. 19, 2008

Great show. Beautiful summer evening. Bad seats. Expensive beer. Cool t-shirt. Setlist:

  • Summertime Blues
  • Radio Nowhere
  • Out in the Street
  • Spirit in the Night
  • Promised Land
  • (sign collection):
    • Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker cover)
    • Darlington County
    • Waitin on a Sunny Day
    • Reason To Believe
  • Prove It All Night
  • No Surrender
  • Because the Night
  • She's The One
  • Living In The Future
  • Mary's Place
  • Workin On The Highway
  • Part Man Part Monkey
  • The Rising
  • Last To Die
  • Long Walk Home
  • Badlands

Encore:

  • Thunder Road
  • Jungleland
  • Seven Nights to Rock
  • Born To Run
  • Rosalita
  • Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
  • American Land
  • Gloria

Sunday, August 03, 2008

The last great rock-n-roll album

There has not been a great rock and roll album since 1987's The Joshua Tree.

There, I said it.

Sure, there have been notable albums - Elephant by The White Stripes, or Robert Plant's Mighty Rearranger, maybe. But has there been anything truly memorable - an entire album where you just went "wow"? And no, I don't count Nirvana - quick, name me five great Nirvana songs. How about three? I'm not trolling here, but I'd really like to know if anyone can recommend a great rock and roll album in the last 20 years. Even U2's later efforts prompt a "meh" reaction, and I'm a huge U2 fan.

So, prove me wrong.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Glass wing butterflies

Very pretty.

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

How your Senator voted on the FISA Amendments Act

Sunday, July 06, 2008

artist's block

I have artist's block. What's worse, I'm practicing avoidance in order to, well, avoid dealing with it. That's not working so well. I'm told (by the venerable Joe Kubert, no less) that the best way to deal with artist's block is to get to work. Sigh.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Freedom of the Associated Press

The Associated Press now wants you to pay a fee to post an excerpt (as little as five words) of an AP article in your blog. So much for fair use, freedom of the press, and all of that nonsense. Via Boing Boing.