Beers in New Orleans (12/12-13)
Last weekend, my wife and I went down to New Orleans with a couple of friends for the weekend. We'd gotten an awesome deal on a hotel in the Garden District from Travelzoo.com. And it was worth it. But this isn't a travelogue, so I'll just tell you about some beer. Note: I'm only going to talk about beers that I actually drank last weekend, even if I might reference other beers I didn't. Full disclosure: we did drink our fair share of regular old domestic beer (i.e., High Life and Budweiser) because we're not made of money, shit. Aside from...
Here Comes the Beer
I'm going to be shifting gears and focusing, almost exclusively, on homebrewing and beer. In an effort to more narrowly define my site and hopefully find a focused niche, I won't be posting about all of my interests anymore. Nobody's a pro at it all, except maybe Tom Waits, and I ain't Tom Waits. I'm currently trying to find a new home (read: blog) for The Box of Vinyl Project (only one rejection so far) because I think the idea is too much fun, and hopefully, to you guys, interesting, to quit altogether. If you know of a blog that it...
On the Turntable
Filed under: On The Turntable, Uncategorized, panorama, playlist
What's good this week: Against the Peruvian Monster--Man Man (The Man in a Blue Turban with a Face) World Class Fad--Paul Westerberg (14 Songs) Evil--Interpol (Antics) Strange--Built To Spill (Ancient Melodies of the Future) Winner's Blues--Sonic Youth (Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star) Bomb. Repeat. Bomb.--Ted Leo & the Pharmacists (Living With the...
The Worth of Art’s Evolution Leading to Its Abandonment
Filed under: Non-Academic Adventures in Academic Literature, Uncategorized, panorama
With Nabokov's unfinished, final novel, The Original Of Laura, finally being published next week, literary scholars and apprieciators are likely to be either defending the publication (which Nabokov explicitly opposed) or siding with Nabokov. As a fan of the few Nabokov novels I've read, I'll admit that I'm a little interested in taking a crack at the new "novel." However, I can't help but feel strange about reading what (I've heard) amounts to a rough draft outline of the novel knowing that Nabokov asked that it be destroyed if he died before he could finish it. But I can see obvious merits...
Carl Sagan: Posthumous Recording Artist
Filed under: News you've probably heard, Uncategorized, panorama
As a fan of Carl Sagan, reader of Scientific American and pop science books, and believer that I understand some of what people like Hawking, Feynman, and Kaku do/did/do, I figured I had to post an entry about this little video I read about earlier in the week (over at Pitchfork (also of note: Jack White is releasing the song as a 7")). Apparently, somebody took footage from Cosmos, the Carl Sagan c. late 1970s/early 1980s miniseries, added music and autotuned Sagan's voice into a song. I'm almost 100% sure this video is awesome. Although with...
On the Turntable
Filed under: On The Turntable, Uncategorized, panorama, playlist
A list of what I want to hear this week: Smog vs. Stars--The Glass (Hibernation) Titan--Les Savy Fav (Cat and the Cobra) 100%--Sonic Youth (Live at Battery Park) Don't Take Your Guns To Town--Johnny Cash (Love God Murder) Lust For Life--Girls (Album) AT & T--Pavement (Wowee Zowee) Shoot The Singer--Pavement (Watery Domestic EP) Written In The Snow--The Autumn Defense (Circles) The Queen Is Dead--The Smiths (The Queen Is Dead) Kissing The Beehive--Wolf Parade (At Mount Zoomer) Watching The Planets--The Flaming Lips...
On Stouts: Don’t Judge A Beer By Its Color
Today, the New York Times ran an article about Stouts (the beer) in which the author, Eric Asimov, and others tasted 19 different American stouts. Asimov (no relation to Isaac?) made a pretty good point, and one that is often overlooked or ignored, that stouts traditionally are low in alcohol, possibly even lower than the Buds, Coors, and Millers of the big breweries, and have a much more delicate flavor than the name implies and the color indicates. You can check out the article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/dining/reviews/28wine.html?_r=1&8dpc This discussion of stouts makes me wonder, as I have before, why...
10/30 Poacher Flyer
Here's the flyer for the Poacher show next week. I think I might have spent way too much time with scissors and tape today. Now I know the tediousness of creating a ransom note. It's super-tedious. Look for this beauty the next time you're in Dave's. Also, please don't tear it...
Missing Tom Waits Live
Filed under: News you've probably heard, Uncategorized, panorama, vinyl
A little over a year ago, in July '08, Tom Waits played in Birmingham, AL as part of his "Glitter and Doom" tour. I remember finding out about the tour a few months earlier and telling my then-finacee that we would have to go no matter what because I wanted to see a Tom Waits show more than any other show I could think of, and I told her what date he'd be in Birmingham. She had bad news for me and had to spoil a fairly big and cool surprise. We were getting married at the end of that May,...
Damn the Torpedos and such…
The fact that I'm writing this, and you are currently reading this, you non-passive participant, means that I've crumpled beneath the behemoth, soul-taking, time-killing, ever-present way to avoid productive (assuming you're a good little worker bee) work...blog. Honestly (be honest. Honestly, c'mon.), I fought it, derided it, kicked it in the throat, laughed at its dog while it was taking a shit, and but then I bought it. But still, I didn't think I'd be writing it. So we (I) find ourselves (myself) here. It's awkward--I apologize. Here's what I think you can/should expect from this site: Fun and FUN Discussions of music,...
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