onefinemess | February 19, 2010
Go go oxford comma!
Ahem. Anyway. So! I’ve always been somewhat of an evangelist — but not in the religious sense (although I did go through a phase that could be said to approximate that O.o). I’ve always been maybe a little too motivated (at least internally) about sharing the music & books that I enjoy [...]
onefinemess | February 16, 2010
I want it now.
To speak at you, and you at me
only
speak of my issues please only please,
and instantly; my needs.
I can’t help but wish I
had prepared myself in youth with patience and
OH. I had it; gonenow
and OH. PS disregard those texts I was
drunk.
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Oh wait, this was actually supposed to be a post about [...]
onefinemess | January 4, 2010
January! You know what that means for bloggers: LISTS! I’m not lame enough to do a “best of my posts” post (or ten) – lucky for you right? BUT, there are plenty of other last-year-related things to make lists out of. So here’s the first.
You can see how much I cut back on album purchases [...]
onefinemess | November 18, 2009
Kinda rushed, not worth much more. Track by track with poor capitalization & punctuation because much of it was done one handed while holding a child, then a summary:
Arrow – pop gem potential, fucked up by artsy clanky experimentalism. Hear that mechanical clanky distortion at the beginning? That’s a sign of the worst of what’s [...]
onefinemess | October 14, 2009
I ask this question because I seem to recall a review somewhere comparing Monsters of Folk to the Wilburys.
I think that’s a silly crazy thing to say, but that’s just me. I hadn’t even heard of half the MoF – not that I’m uber musically educated, but at the time the Wilburys came out, pretty [...]
onefinemess | October 13, 2009
During which I address a bunch of disparate topics with quite parate rambles:
The season has slipped back into obnoxious up here in the Portland of the West (I’m not talking to you Portland, Maine!). Freezing wind (not literally, yet), cold nights, and RAIN. RAIN. Yes, someday we will move and leave you far behind. New [...]
onefinemess | August 25, 2009
to make music with, in order to make music that interests me.
Ok, this is not entirely true – I did like A.M., which was produced in between Jays (post-Farrar/Uncle Tupelo, pre-Bennett). Speaking of, I think A.M. bears a decent amount in common with the current release (Wilco (the album)) – both seem to be, at [...]
onefinemess | June 23, 2009
Starflyer and me.
[This an update of something I posted to my website a few years back]
Starflyer is one of the few bands whose albums actually have character to me. There are very few bands I have this connection with, probably because one of the prerequisites is that you have to be in on the ground [...]
onefinemess | June 16, 2009
Part 2:
I Can’t Be With You – Cranberries – This one should be in the last list, as it reminds me of my whole Cuesta period, what I can remember of it anyway. I was still struggling, trying to stick with the religion thing, I was depressed because I had put off “real” college to [...]
onefinemess | May 27, 2009
We’re not done with the 00’s yet — so we’ll get to that later.
Here’s my question — does anyone know of a song
a) as good as No Surrender, sonically, lyrically and thematically (within the quality boundaries of the decade) with
b) a title direct, yet powerful enough that one wouldn’t necessarily be embarrassed to get a [...]
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