Happy Thanksgiving

Black Watch

Over the weekend I went to see a play in Brooklyn called Black Watch. It was (is) brilliant, funny, sad, interesting, alarming and eye opening. It isn't what one would call a "date" event but worth your time and energy and money. There are bad words...fair warning. I mean they are Scottish so really you shouldn't be surprised. There is a fair amount of the K word and yes I know you really spell it with a "C". Oh and it's LOUD.



now to lighten the mood "Remember this day...music videos are back" B Town.

Remember if you read a book, see a movie or go to a show write up a quick something and I'll post it. Let the people know.

Thanks and enjoy.
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Gold star cds for 11.18

I just read a laughable and horrible thing. Joe the Plumber will be coming out with a book. Bloody hell. Really? Didn't we already hear enough from him and Bob (sorry I mean) Tito the Builder? Do we really need him to kill off some trees just to keep his 15 minutes going? If anyone I know buys this book I can't be held responsible for my actions.


On to the music

Belle and Sebastian - BBC Sessions (Deluxe Edition)
Again for the fanatic and/or the completist but again if you have never listened to Belle and Sebastian it's time for something from them in your collection. Feel free to add this disc but you could also dig into "If You're Feeling Sinister" or "Dear Catastrophe Waitress".

Dido - Save Trip Home
Quiet and powerful. Quietly powerful. Powerfully quiet.

Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Sunday at Devil Dirt
Dido's quiet and powerful is very clean. Polished. Sadly so is this one. Mark Lanegan works better in the grit. That voice wasn't made for clean. Campbell's voice like Dido's does and works in the "clean" production. What I loved about the first get together for Lanegan and Campbell were the sinister tones. Most of those are gone and I am sure this will be an NPR favorite. A bit of fear but more like a scary movie that isn't quite scary. Still lovely.

Also worth checking
A few live cds. Phish at the Roxy (Atlanta '93) and Jason Mraz has included an DVD to his latest. Stereophonic's release a nice collection with Decade in the Sun. A good intro if you are not aware of them. Also the Definitive Rod Stewart was released but it skims over his best phase (in my opinion) the 60s. The Dude was awesome before becoming a bit stale and safe and mainstream. It basically starts in the 80s but just about every "hit" single is on the disc.

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Bro


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Now playing: The National - Apartment Story
via FoxyTunes

Gold this week 11-11

First we need to give this trailer a look see. Too Cool.


Ok on to the music.


Genesis - 1970 - 1975
A box set of Genesis' back catalog. Genesis 1970-1975 offers expanded reissues of every Peter Gabriel era album outside of the earliest.

Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon The Collector's Editon
Cool and Cocky and smart but as mentioned in the title this re-release is just for the mega fan.

Butch Walker - Sycamore Meadows
Hey look at this...a modern non re-release gold star cd this week. He is best know for producing the Pop/Punk cds of Pink and Avril. He mixes great songwriting with Tom Petty style southern rock on this cd while he glam(ed) it up (T REX style) last time around.

Also Check and/or remember these
The 30th year of Cheap Trick's Live at Budokan. This is the third version and each time they add a disc. Oh and they add a DVD too. Man I feel old. Boxmaster's released a Christmas CD. They are Billy Thornton's band and if you care about actor's making music Kevin Costnermade a cd that is better than The Postman...what you thought I'd get lazy and throw Waterworld at you? I know she was mellow before but man this one is mellow - The latest from Tracy Chapman.

More Coyne yumminess.


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Bro


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Now playing: Muse - Time Is Running Out
via FoxyTunes

Loretta Answers the Questions

Real name: Loretta
Where I live: Oakland, NJ
Occupation: Mom/Grandma/Hemodialysis Nurse/Retired Non Profit Director (Children/Families local NJ)
Favorite movie: Under the Tuscan Sun
Favorite book: The Phone Book
Favorite album: American Beauty Grateful Dead
Three famous people I'd like to meet: Colin Powell, Bruce Springsteen, Arlo Guthrie
One famous person I actually met: Roger Maris
Best concert experience: Pink Floyd Animals Tour the "old" Madison Square Garden...it's a bit blurry now.








Coolest pop-culture item I own: Hanging Vodka IV Bottle with M.A.S.H. logo, has tubing & clamp!












And what movie prop would like to own: The Lamp Post from "Singing In The Rain".

CDs for today 11.04

So thanks to the Steelers kicking the Redskins all over the field I guess Obama will win. Why you ask?

If the Washington Redskins win their last home game before election, it means the incumbent party will get to stay in the White House. Since 1936, except for 2004, the outcome of that game has correctly predicted the winner of the race.

Last night the Redskins lost.

Footnote that I found somewhere.
For 52 years — from 1946 to 1998 — the Redskins failed to make the playoffs under a Democratic administration. That ended when the ‘Skins won the NFC East in 1999, when Bill Clinton was president

Ahhh yes nothing says New Music like mixing football and politics.

HoneyHoney - First Rodeo
Think Amy Winehouse fronting a Jazzed up Country band. Yes you read correctly. A jazzy country cd.

Also check:
Tired of waiting for a new Strokes cd? Try the drummers side project Little Joy. It is nothing like The Strokes but a nice cd. Travis have a new cd too and sadly they still don't improve upon their first (and my favorite) CD. Still stuck behind Oasis and Radiohead and seemingly unsure how to break away.

The Lucksmiths released a new cd but I have yet to find it but I would think it would be gold but until I hear it...

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Bro


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Now playing: Material Issue - Valerie Loves Me
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