Hey, my latest post is up at LAist (wherein I gush about Devin Davis rather a lot.) Check it out.
I’m home. It’s late. Finished my Hell Days, which is what I so cleverly call Mondays and Tuesdays, whereupon I work from ten in the morning until 11:30 at night at two jobs. I’m beat, but before I stretch out and plunge into my latest book (Chris Moore’s “Island Of The Sequined Love Nun”) I […]
Musician, reader, writer and music aficionado Michael Keefe has sent along his May music reviews. Check it out for some excellent advice on what’s new and cool at your friendly neighborhood Amoeba, Rasputin, Rhino, Django’s, CD Baby or what-have-you. And if you’ll notice, I’ve installed an extra room on the sidebar dedicated to his reviews, […]
Damn. No one told me that it was Curtis Mayfield’s birthday today. If I’d known, I’d have tried to make it to the Curtis bash at Little Temple that LAist mentions here. Oh well. Instead I hang out with Joy and Heather at the Hammer Bash in Westwood, where one of Joy’s Showtime coworkers is […]
It’s late. I should be sleeping. But I just picked up a couple discs from work that you should know about. One, I’ll tell you about now. The other tomorrow or the next day. Diverse producer/sound-sculptor Boom Bip released Blue-Eyed in the Red Room back in March. The track here is the final cut from […]
The audio file has been mixed, compressed and uploaded. I’ll provide a link to it either tonight or tomorrow night. Can you stand the tension? The anticipation? The suspense–? Oh. You can.
When I fist sign up for to participate in Mandala, Amoeba’s in-house DJ series, I plan on spinning a predictable set of traditional tunes that cover my interests. I figure that way, I’ll offend the fewest number of people. But somewhere along the way, I decide, “Fuck it,” and I set out to spin a […]
I’ll post in detail about the whole thing later today. Despite a few difficulties (a pitch control with a mind of its own) the set went very well.
Remember this post? Back in January a copy of the Academy promo-issue score for Alexander comes in over the Buy Counter at work. I blog about it. Defamer picks up on the post. It sells the next day. Dedicated Vangelis collector extraordinaire, “Uncle Don,” gets wind of the score and asks me to alert him […]
Taking ecstasy is like this: You swallow a small pill. After anywhere from fifteen minutes to an hour you look down at the table in front of you and you think, “Wow. What are all these marbles?” They’re arranged in a neat little pile, glossy, irridescent and shot through with color. Thanks to the little […]
Set your calendars, kids. Next week, May 25, is my DJ debut at Amoeba Music in Hollywood. I’ll be setting my hands on the wheels of steel at about 8:30 and spin for an hour and a half. I’m billed as DJ HUMBLE (because I’m the best DJ ever,) and it’s described on the flyer […]
I’m in West Sacramento, hanging out at my brother’s house. Procrastination is underway. I’ve sat down to do a little work. Instead, I’m posting. But it’s high time I did so anwyay. So here’s the tracklist for my contribution to Amoeba’s CD club. Eleven of us formed the club a few months ago. The idea […]
In the middle of an early-week crush, but I want to mention that Michael Keefe has weighed in again with his latest round of music reviews. Check them out here. As usual, it’s a intelligent, clever and informed bit of writing. Until I set up some cool margin links, click to re-visit the collections from […]
Back in October I waxed rhapsodic about film composer Thomas Newman. Last week I finally manage to track down a high-quality boot of his score for the Paul Brickman film, Men Don’t Leave (Brickman, you might remember, had the musical wherewithall to use Tangerine Dream for his earlier film, Risky Business.) This score even contains […]
Since returning from my Saturday stint at Coachella I’ve been working non-stop. Today’s my first day off. I plan to spend it writing. But so this blog doesn’t remain dormant any longer I thought I’d post some pics from the festival. The crowd waiting to get in is massive, but in good spirits. The bag […]
