Entries from July 2008

July 25, 2008

Bowerbirds!

An interview that I did with frontman Phil Moore just went up on the Boston Globe website. I feel, a little bit, like they may know the secret. Like that scene in Rushmore where Bill Murray’s looking at Jason Schwartzman, so calm and serene and happy, and he says, “What’s the secret, Max?” and the [...]

July 25, 2008

Argh

I have a lot I want to write, but now’s not the time, I think. I’ve been in a complete mood-perhaps it’s the weather? The magic of summer (completely and thoroughly my least favorite season)?
There has been a sort of “goodbye to all that, regarding ‘indie’ culture (and, possibly, also the internet)” percolating in my [...]

July 22, 2008

Eat food

This ice cider:
Plus Manchego and Old Amsterdam:

Plus Figs = MAGIC!!!

July 11, 2008

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson is swell

“Buriedfed” is a staggering song, simply one of the best songs I’ve heard in quite some time. Visionary and epic. If the whole album stood up to this song, it’d be a classic. Instead, it’s just very good. I don’t know how I feel about the video, but he’s a charismatic dude. I saw him [...]