January 2009
3 posts
Right before your naked steaming laptop eyes...
I’m not much for video games. Never have been. But I was a true Van Halen freak back in the day, and I suppose there will always be a little VH in me that all those Sammy Hagar fronted albums and endless reunions will never be able to destroy. So I get a kick out of this flash game where you get to shoot “assteroids” out of David Lee Roth, who is in permanent jump position....
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Judge this one by the cover: Bruce Springsteen's...
This is Bruce Springsteen, so a little respect is in order. And maybe some repeated listens. But first we have to downplay our expectations, which isn’t easy to do. Long the perfectionist, Springsteen is known for taking years between albums, obsessively pouring over track listings and details, and leaving entire albums worth of material for the archives. The quick turn around of this...
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You Read A Book (I'm Writing An Album)
The holidays are long over, winter has worn out its welcome, and it’s time again for February Album Writing Month. The idea is to write an album worth of songs, 14 of them, over the course of the shortest month of the year. It started out in Madison, WI in 2004 and now has participants from all over the country, as well as different corners of the world. For me February has always seemed...