Category Archives: Music
Juna
Well, this was not what I expected when I checked to see whether Clairo had made any videos for her new album. Absolutely genius! Of course, it put me in mind of this prior art.
Homesick
Let’s say I bought an acoustic guitar. Absolutely no experience playing one. How long would it take till I could I could play Kings of Convenience’s Homesick? It doesn’t seem that complex musically. I’ve been practicing the vocals in my … Continue reading
Speaker, Speaker
If a future historian (of unrealised geniuses perhaps) were to break my life into eras, I would suggest that they start a new one last Thursday, when I bought a new speaker. It’s decidedly not fancy — just the cheap … Continue reading
Dinosaur Jr – Learn Your Lessons
Two months later I’m still somewhat bemused by the combination of brain chemical swirls that led me to not seeing Dinosaur Jr when they played in Perth for what I’m pretty sure has to be the last chance I’ll have … Continue reading
Sometimes
I was thinking of posting a youtube link to My Bloody Valentine’s Sometimes, which I think of as the acoustic track from Loveless, although it obviously isn’t acoustic at all. It wasn’t a single so didn’t have a proper video … Continue reading
Pavement – Witchi Tai To
When Pavement played the first show of their recent reunion tour, they finished off with this cover of Native American jazz pioneer Jim Pepper’s Witchi Tai To. Such a lovely and positive vibe with which to end the show and … Continue reading
Really Really Light
The New Pornographers is a band I never listened to mainly because their name made me think they were a kind of sleazy Strokes ripoff. Turns out they aren’t. Since getting my AirPods Pro I’ve actually started to listen to … Continue reading
New Love Glow
What kind of monster, when meeting their brother’s ex-girlfriend at the pharmacy, would casually mention that he’s got that new love glow?
Gardening in the Rain
I have accidentally left cleaning up the garden to the day before our rent inspection and now it’s raining. Looks like I’ll be living a real life version of that early REM song “Gardening in the Rain”.
What’s In My Ears Right Now?
Just a handful of songs that I’m listening to right now – Alvvays, Fazerdaze, and Chastity Belt. Continue reading
Denser Than a Hockey Puck
Will I ever learn? On a whim, I looked up the lyrics for the Malkmus song Old Jerry and the line “Art is denser than a hockey puck” is supposedly “Heart is denser than a hockey puck”. What nonsense! I’m … Continue reading
Skipping Over
I have reached the point with Blue Rev where the songs I used to skip over — Pomeranian Spinster and Tile By Tile among others — are now the ones I skip to.
Pavement: Echelon Your dreams
Do I have a favourite Pavement song? I don’t think I do. Some I like more than others, but for the most part my favourite at any moment is the one I’m listening to right then. But, of course, there … Continue reading
Hot Spring Amber
While I was dozing off yesterday in a relaxation chair at a hot spring in the Japanese countryside my brain recognised a slight similarity in the bland piano background music to Dick Diver’s very much not bland song Amber and … Continue reading