“What We Talk About When We Talk About Mad-Cow Disease.”
BY STEVE LOHSE”
Oh, you think you’re so pretty.
I can slowly hear my bank account draining. I don’t care so much for Squeeze, but I’ve been waiting for James to do a US Tour since high school.
Ok, watching people row a skinny boat down a Chinese canal without being chased by hippos or maneuvering through water mines is really fucking lame. How did this event earn TV time?
They’re actually rowing away from their shattered childhoods…
This is part of where we are as a country. Sooo, there’s that.
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Hybrid Groove Project (http://www.hybridgrooveproject.com/): turntables, sax, distinct contemporary influence, and finally bringing that “rock/rap” swagger to the classical scene. The link above gets you to their 2008 summer rap anthem for the chamber set.
My two favorite lyric sets:
So Percussion! So what?! Think they’re in touch with the street.
On your minimalist tip we got that champion beat.
Iannis Xenakis. What? You think you bad playin’ hard shit
with nested triplets and septuplets?
and
Now that Boston’s got Levine and playin’ Wuorinen all the time,
They’ve got a lot of people sayin, “Oooh, that’s so divine.”
But HGP’s on the scene and we’re gonna shake it up,
So mind you’re business, Gil Rose, or we’ll BMOP you up!
If you’re the slightest bit geeky for “new” music, it’s worth a listen. I’m a little disappointed they didn’t name check Nico, though.
Things picked up quickly when the New York City Police Marching Band took the stage and pounded away “Tusk”-style on “Message in a Bottle.”Aaron, I was thinking of you the whole time!
Sigh…
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The new look for the 2008 University of Arkansas Razorback football team was unveiled at the 2008 on-campus football media day.
The official supplier for the Razorback football team, adidas, created a unique new uniform that combined several traditional parts of the Razorbacks with a couple of new twists.
The most notable was a pair of up-swept stripes that evoked the look of a pair of Razorback tusks on the sides of the torso.
The state name remained above the numbers and the player names were on the reverse. Jersey numbers were larger, and more legible with the edition of an outline to define the white numerals on the traditional Cardinal background.
…ahem, that’s “addition”, unless we’re referring to this being the first of many itterations of the particular numeral outline.
I’m back in SD playing Dad after being away for two weeks. It’s almost as if I’ve had to reintroduce myself to the daughter. I’ve been home since Sunday, and we’re just about back to familiarity.
She’s asleep right now and Cash Cab just wrapped up. I noticed my favorite game show disclaimer at the end:
“Portions of this program not affecting the outcome may have been removed.”
I think that’s wise. Airing the parts of the show where he drives around NY in an empty cab trying to find passengers to pick up would probably be pretty boring. I always wonder, though, who designs a game show that has portions that don’t affect the outcome? I can’t imagine that production meeting, “This next set of questions have no right or wrong answer and don’t affect the results in anyway, but I really want to know these people, you know?”
Thankfully, my life operates under no such policy.