So It Goes

Mantle This! Mantle That! It Makes Me Sick!

Oct 1st

Gate B33

My flight to Texas is boarding and I’m assuming that anyone wearing Wayfarers indoors, an...

Oct 1st

It’s 4:01 a.m. and I’m already at the airport....

Oct 1st

“Nothing springs instantly to my pen—no characters so...”
— from Michael Palin’s...

Sep 30th

Winston-Salem sunrise, approximately 6:40 a.m. Go ahead,...

Sep 30th

“ALCS? Isn’t that what Lou Gehrig had?”
— My former boyfriend, when I...

Sep 30th

Thanks for the excitably punctuated email, Yawkey Way Store!...

Sep 30th

Yes, I am wearing an Out of Time shirt. And a bathrobe. ...

Sep 29th

Last Night at the 40 Watt Club

Mike Mills took a turn at the mic during the Baseball Project, etc. show,  Bill Berry sat behind the...

Sep 29th

The Greatest Baseball Card Ever. The Greatest Prank Ever. ...

Sep 29th

Dog + JIF Jar = Bliss It also equals slightly...

Sep 29th

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The Baseball Project: “Ted Fucking Williams” Live at Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC ...

Sep 29th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27)

Sep 29th

Oh Hey, New Gym Guy

It was really cool the way you stomped and sighed and went waaaay past “Baby With An...

Sep 29th

Retrospace —via nevver

Sep 28th

Today's Internet Obsession

So on Saturday I saw The Minus 5/Baseball Project/Steve Wynn IV at the Cat’s Cradle.  It was...

Sep 28th

Elvis Costello Back Cover: “Welcome to the Working...

Sep 28th

“Using the word ‘weird’ implies that there is a...”
— Robyn Hitchcock

Sep 28th

Tony Conigliaro. Bless his heaaahhht.1 1 Boston...

Sep 28th

Watch

The Standells: “Dirty Water” So my Boston Sawx were swept by the Yankees (again) who...

Sep 28th

“The events of everyday life are by their nature...”
— —From the introduction...

Sep 28th

1:00 a.m. “To Jelisa…Welcome to the Minus...

Sep 27th

One more of Mister Buck and Mister Holsapple.  The latter...

Sep 27th

Steve Wynn, Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey.  Every shot of...

Sep 27th

Brace yourselves.  It’s time for me to post several...

Sep 27th

Tonight’s Entertainment: Steve Wynn, The Minus 5 and...

Sep 26th

Listen

Nick Lowe: “Lately I’ve Let Things Slide” Smoking I once quit Now I got one lit...

Sep 25th

Just in case you’d hoped for a pleasant afternoon,...

Sep 25th

Listen

hellointernet: Here’s a Beatle recording you may not have heard. It’s Paul playing Mother Nature’s...

Sep 25th

If I saw this vehicle beside the shopping cart return,...

Sep 25th

Oh, Syndicated SVU Episodes, What Would...

Detective Benson: "Do you think there's a reason the killer sodomized your husband with a banana?"
Victim's Wife: "He was allergic to bananas."

Sep 23rd

GPOYW: About To Go Pay A Parking Ticket Edition Presented...

Sep 23rd

spmorrissey: Morrissey on Top of The Pops, 1987

Sep 23rd

“There are more, like, shapeshifters than werewolves in this...”
— And just like that, I start...

Sep 23rd

Watch

The Kinks, 1965 New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert

Sep 23rd

Marty Feldman for Volkswagen: No disrespect intended, Mr....

Sep 23rd

Kurt & Courtney Sassy Magazine April 1992

Sep 23rd

My Nick Lowe Thing Of The Day: Dave Edmunds with Mister...

Sep 23rd

“Mr. Tanner was a cleaner/From a town in the Midwest/And of...”
— I woke up this morning with a...

Sep 23rd

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R.E.M.: “First We Take Manhattan” Because I was too busy making lists of things I...

Sep 22nd

“Woo hoo! Lupus!!!!!”
— My mother is excited for the...

Sep 21st

spmorrissey: Morrissey in his Los Angeles home, with a...

Sep 21st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20)

Sep 21st

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Massive Attack: “Teardrop” Oh hey, it’s totally just a coincidence that I’d...

Sep 21st

PREMIERE TONIGHT! PREMIERE TONIGHT! pant pant wheeze ...

Sep 21st

I call this one “Dehydrated & Dejected”. ...

Sep 19th

Richard Hell & Elvis Costello Backstage at CBGB 18...

Sep 18th

You may just have noticed all the hoo-ha in recent days...

Sep 18th

WANT.

Sep 18th

Graham Parker: Backstage Pass Fillmore Auditorium, San...

Sep 18th

Is that the way you say it, ‘That’s a...

Sep 18th

Matador Records has the best error messages. Also...

Sep 18th

Sometimes I see things like this on eBay and I think...

Sep 18th

Reasons to be Cheerful I’d be way more cheerful if...

Sep 18th

lickystickypickyme: In 1969 Mick Jagger, who was a huge...

Sep 17th

HOORAY MORE RAIN HOORAY! MY SOCKS ARE WET BUT MY STERNUM IS...

Sep 17th

“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept...”
— W. Somerset Maugham

Sep 17th

“You know what Stewie, if you don’t like it, go on the...”
— Brian Griffin

Sep 17th

Now’s as good a time as ever to revisit the time...

Sep 16th

Comedian Eddie Izzard Finishes 43rd Marathon...

Sep 16th

Oh, Amazon UK, as excited as I am about the second volume of...

Sep 16th

Watch

Contra vs. Duck Hunt My day? Made.

Sep 16th

If you guys think I'm not immediately...

Sep 16th

Oh my.  How I want NEED this t-shirt.

Sep 16th

GPOYW: Mini-Golf Edition Not only am I pretty sure I made a...

Sep 16th

This garish eggplant colored bit of Gore-Tex is the most...

Sep 16th

Listen

Yo La Tengo: “Autumn Sweater” This is the perfect early-morning accompaniment to my...

Sep 16th

Carrots, peanut butter, Snausages… I’m glad...

Sep 15th

“If we are going to have more [celebrity] deaths, I want to...”
— My friend Tommy, who is no...

Sep 15th

Watch

Aaaand here’s your daily dose of immense stalkery fan.1 A song about Stephen Fry, in which...

Sep 15th

stephenfalk: Perfect.

Sep 15th

“But he was always being distracted by other thoughts. He...”
— Stephen Fry, The Liar

Sep 15th

—via

Sep 15th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-13)

Sep 15th

“Award shows should tag [Kanye West] like scientists...

Sep 14th

An Etymological Venn Diagram of MLB Team Names —via

Sep 14th

—via

Sep 13th

Hardee’s: Because You Hate Yourself.™

Sep 13th

THERE ARE BODIES INSIDE 4th Street, Winston-Salem, NC ...

Sep 13th

OK, there are exceptions I guess. Hugh Laurie could be the...

Sep 13th

Breakeven

I just walked the Boxerbeast and—thanks to the ooTunes iPhone app—was listening to BBC...

Sep 13th

No, it’s not too early to get dressed. The...

Sep 13th

Stacy: Happy anniversary, Wayne. Wayne: Stacy, we broke up...

Sep 13th

Doing an interview later tonight, another rock and roll...

Sep 12th

Oh hello, HMV ad featuring Nick Lowe that I may or may not...

Sep 12th

“We really played three halves of football not very good.”
— Wake Forest football coach Jim...

Sep 12th

You’re sick of hanging around and you’d like to...

Sep 12th

Dear iTunes: I HATE YOU AND I HATE YOUR ASS FACE. Love, ...

Sep 12th

“Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”
— Michael Jordan, speaking at...

Sep 12th

Listen

Elvis Costello & The Attractions: “Watch Your Step” Watch who’s knocking on...

Sep 12th

So Far...

October is shaping up to be the best concert month in the history of live music. Behold what...

Sep 12th

Listen

Richard Thompson: “I Feel So Good” “I feel so good I’m going to break...

Sep 12th

If I don’t keep an eye on me, who will?

Sep 11th

“I’m a newer fan of the TV show but have a long-time...”
— From an Amazon review of the...

Sep 11th

Laurie. Fry. Awesome. —via warningdontreadthis

Sep 11th

Three Things From Last Night's Dreams

1) I somehow seduced a nattily dressed, regionally-famous comedian and lured him back to my...

Sep 10th

If Jeremy Shockey Had A Blog

Sep 10th

Watch

Richard Thompson of 60s Brit folkers Fairport Convention—and one of the best living gee-tar...

Sep 10th

Listen

The Beatles: “For No One” 2009 Mono Remaster Intellectually, I’m for John...

Sep 10th

waxandmilk: The Beatles “Eight Days A Week” / “I’m A Loser”...

Sep 9th

Sween, enjoying his fifth Krispy Kreme.

Sep 9th

“Don’t get too close to Amy Winehouse. She will lay her...”
— At 3:17 a.m., I got out of bed...

Sep 9th

“Like hearing your dad sing Radiohead.”
— An iTunes Customer Review...

Sep 8th

My Nick Lowe ticket arrived this morning.  I anchored it to...

Sep 8th

I hate you, Twitter.

Sep 8th

Watch

House: An Anthology of Yeah Yeah Yeahs 13 days, 1 hour, 23 minutes until the premiere. No,...

Sep 8th

“Magritte-inspired Son of Mac decal” by Etsy...

Sep 8th

PRINCIPLES OF COMEDY BY BILL HICKS 1. If you can be...

Sep 8th

“Spearheaded by the increasingly mustachioed Fake Paul, the...”
— Chuck Klosterman reviews the...

Sep 8th

I Just Popped a Bowl of Popcorn

And am sitting on the sofa, listening to these long-awaited remasters and staring at the speakers...

Sep 7th

Rubber Soul Remastered: Two Discoveries

1) Peanuts. In “Drive My Car,” Paul apparently says peanuts. That makes soooo much...

Sep 7th

I Say This With a Heavy Heart

Thanks to the crispness and clarity of the remastered Beatles recordings, it’s highly unlikely...

Sep 7th

I’m kind of ready to make out with the...

Sep 6th

Sweet dreams, Internet.

Sep 6th

I’m about to eat a Pizza Hut P’Zone. The only...

Sep 5th

“J-Money? More like No-Money.”
— My father, on my internet...

Sep 5th

If anyone needs me, I’ll be spending the weekend with...

Sep 4th

It’s after five, which means it’s time to crack...

Sep 4th

This could taste like battery acid and it would still be the...

Sep 4th

“Arrrrr, it’s drivin’ me nuts!”...

Sep 4th

Hush Puppies Are Two for $0.29

One day I’m gonna come in and order a hundred bucks worth, just to see what happens.

Sep 4th

On the counter at Long John Silver’s. Related: I am...

Sep 4th

I had a fitting today for my Maid of Honor dress for my...

Sep 4th

Meet the Beetles at London's Pestival

Sep 4th

I’m all packed, getting ready to wrangle the dog into...

Sep 4th

And with this graphic lifted from The Sun’s Sport...

Sep 4th

Listen

Me First & The Gimme Gimmes: “Take Me Home, Country Roads” Yeah, here’s John...

Sep 4th

Listen

Robyn Hitchcock: “I Often Dream of Trains” Live at the Cat’s Cradle 8 April...

Sep 4th

“He has two expressions: constipated and Mean Cop.”
— My sister, discussing...

Sep 3rd

I just heard "New Moon Rising"--the...

Also somehow it simultaneously impregnated me and rendered me sterile.

Sep 3rd

No no no no no! “Driver 8” is an R.E.M. song and...

Sep 3rd

Soft lighting, sleek basins, and wood paneling. ...

Sep 3rd

I’ve run less than fifty miles since this year’s...

Sep 3rd

“You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that...”
— E.O. Wilson, Pulitzer Prize...

Sep 3rd

—via

Sep 3rd

Watch

From now on, anytime someone enquires about my personal life, I’ll be taking a cue from...

Sep 2nd

Well.  This promises to make my trip home more exciting.

Sep 2nd

“The sailor cried. Then the Admiral also cried. The frog...”
— Today’s most poetic spam

Sep 2nd

Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Reasons to Be...

Sep 2nd

Listen

Pixies: “I Can’t Forget” From the 1991 I’m Your Fan compliation,...

Sep 2nd

Watch

Nick Lowe: “So It Goes” I never caught this one before, from The Kenny Everett Video...

Sep 2nd

In forty-eight hours, my entire family will be reunited for...

Sep 2nd

GPOYW CAFFEINE SUGAR CAFFEINE SUGAR CAFFEINE SUGAR I...

Sep 2nd

I’m probably one of the more obsessed House fans...

Sep 2nd

Just in case I needed another reason to continue my...

Sep 2nd

Sep 1st

Downtown Beckley, WV

Sep 1st

—via snuh: juliasegal

Sep 1st