Tonight we went to a benefit show for 826 Valencia, a writing center started in San Francisco by writer Dave Eggers. It was a great show, with a bunch of my favorites — Grizzy Bear, Britt Daniel of Spoon, A.C. Newman, Feist, the two main dudes from Broken Social Scene, and Jim James of [...]
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Let’s watch videos on our iPods this Yom Kippur
For those non-Jews not in the know, today its Yom Kippur, one of the few days each year I try my best to be religious and usually fall on my face in the process. Sometimes I go to temple with my friends in a desperate attempt to not be home, the dreaded place where, [...]
Darfur and Niger are collapsing; why isn’t Mick Jagger?
Coalition for Darfur asks if it’s possible for us to pay attention to more than one Africa tragedy story at a time, and blames the American “agenda-setting” media for it:
The agenda-setting media in the United States have pretty much stopped reporting on the situation in western Sudan, deciding that the food emergency in Niger is [...]
Everything is Super-Illuminated
So when I was sixteen I was in this band, and you’ll have to excuse me, called The Fags (it was a punk-rock thing). It was a messy, good-at-times band that sounded kind of like Fugazi, Nick Cave, and some ska band thrown in a blender. It was led by the charismatic Eugene [...]
A totally off-topic post (or, I’m a Hippy)
I was talking to a friend last week about my love for Joni Mitchell. I’m so tired of almost everything in my CD collection, and most days when I’m home I end up listening to NPR, no matter what’s on (this can be dangerous; David Garland doesn’t make for the most compelling host, yet [...]
