neomodernist

Today’s intermède amusant comes to us via Facebook, via the lovable Kate.

My brother recently converted the web page for his record label of recordings to a blog. He and his partner Aaron will post new releases there, along with witty musings about taxonomy, the Golden Break, and basketball.

Those who know me well know of my deep, abiding live for that most precious artifact from the past: the mixtape. I started making my own mixes in high school; sadly, I made them for myself rather than for others. Perhaps I subconsciously realized that it would take me a while to develop […]

My sister sent me an email. The subject line read “Please to enjoy.” The email contained a link to this:

I suggest watching the full three minutes and twenty-nine seconds.

Tonight I should have cleaned my apartment. Instead I spent a couple hours putting together the following mp3 Christmas mix. It starts out a little melancholy, largely because December often puts me in a wistful and pensive mood. The mix gets peppier as it goes along. There’s Motown! And remixes! […]

At this point, it seems rather clichéd to feel depressed at Christmas but on the other hand, cliché, true, you know what they say. And it’s hard for me to break out of the alone at Christmas stereotype when one of my favorite Christmas songs is “River” by Joni Mitchell.
I prefer Sarah McLachlan’s version […]

Every now and then I receive a MySpace bulletin that contains information (rather than a painfully long and pointless survey or a drunken ramble). Today, for example, People in Planes posted a bulletin announcing that their song “Falling By The Wayside” will appear in an A&E promo spot for The Sopranos. Because nothing […]

Tonight at the Taphouse in Ghent there will be a:

in the style of Max Roach. A drum battle in the style of Max Roach looks something like this:

only with less orange in the background. I’m not exactly sure what else differentiates a drum battle in the style of Max Roach from any other […]

Well, I used to adore Grease (the film, not the lubricant), but then reality programming came along and ruined everything. Can my love for musicals survive this onslaught?
I fear not.

Jessica posted about some holiday sales in the online poetry world, which inspired me to list some poet-friendly gift ideas.

I can’t say enough good things about Kristy Bowen’s book The Fever Almanac, available from Ghost Road Press for just $13.95.
Kristy is running a January special at Dancing Girl Press. Seven chapbooks for $25.
If […]