Amazon’s new e-book device from two people who I tend to read quite a bit. Mark Pilgrim and John Gruber.
For some reason I like this quote from 1984 very much
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be […]

Fascinating article about the “meaning” behind photographs. Give yourself some time - but since Errol Morris is involved - you should make it.

I spent a considerable amount of time looking at the two photographs and thinking about the two sentences. Sontag, of course, does not claim that Fenton altered either photograph after taking them – […]

Grace in the Idaho Statesman (I am not making the “Statesman” thing up)

Don’t divorce you’re wife just because I said one line.

You said this Gov’t Mule run is your first tour on a real bus. Are you on the bus now? It’s so quiet.
I am. And I’m not wearing any underwear.

You could have told me […]

A benefit to the Daily Show opening up all their archives.

All hail Heather who probably doesn’t even know about my past history with Winona.
Tourettes Update: Heather is a well known lover of all things Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam contributed a song to the Victoria Williams benefit CD called “Sweet Relief”. Also contributing to that effort was “Soul Asylum” doing my fave song on that record […]

Touring with a band like Gov’t Mule has clearly been fun for Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. The Mule’s has called on Grace to help them out with numerous cover songs on the tour. Below are some of the best along with references to some of the originals. This isn’t comprehensive, I’m still looking for […]

The Original
Ron Sexsmith (Sorry, no embedding)
Feist on Carson Daly

While the Feist version is excellent I gotta go with Ron. One of the few singers who consistently sounds like he is going to break apart at any moment.
Plus, Ron doing “Words We Never Use”

Ron sexsmith - Words we never use live taratataUploaded by jujubier
and, “Speaking With […]

Who Knows

- not from Northampton but still.

More later, let’s just say this was an AMAZING live show. This is what Rock N’ Roll is all about. How and sweaty truth played loud to lovers of music. My wife and I were right up front, sometimes leaning on the stage, sometimes a few feet back, just […]

When you first encounter the UI for indie911 you might be struck by it’s similarity to MySpace. That perception is certainly not accidental. indie911 is building a social networking site that appeals to bands and fans who don’t want all the MySpace “noise” but do want to use familiar social networking tools to discover new […]

“the future of rock and roll” was the tagline for my college radio station. It’s also makes a nice strawman at which we can throw flaming balls of analysis in hopes of lighting something up. What am I talking about here? In the next few weeks I plan on reviewing the companies that are helping […]