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var _gaq = _gaq || []; (function() { Since the [...] Kick off the summer with me and Orson Welles at the Newberry library! I’m drafting the set list right now and it is awesome: The Shadow, the Mercury Theatre’s version of The Count of Monte Cristo, the Suspense episode “The Hitchhiker”, and of course, War of the Worlds: Orson Welles on the Radio: The Man, the [...] Our friend Faiz says Def Leppard is the answer to the question, “What has nine arms and sucks?” They are, in fact, the greatest episode of “Behind the Music” of all time. The band had everything worthy of a rock epic: a bunch of teenage English kids, a gauntlet of sex and drugs underneath the [...] I got this off of the Hershey’s unsweetened cocoa powder box. Then the next box I bought didn’t have it, so I figured I should write it down before I forget: Brian and I have a game in the car that involves the bands we need to switch off of the radio the quickest. For me these bands include the Floyd, the Chili Peppers, and, for the love of God, the Doors. I hate the Doors with the white-hot intensity of a thousand blazing suns. I [...] I am one of those people who believe in signs. That somehow all of the universe is connected. I don’t claim to understand it, but I believe it. My husband, however, would put my claims right up there with the Easter Bunny. My mother was also a mystical person. For example, when our family would go [...] Wow, the blog is expanding faster than I can keep up, past radio, past music into the final frontier: food. As you can tell if you know me even slightly, I have no time. Zero. Yet this family of mine keeps demanding to be fed. Especially the male parts of that family. And that is [...] The band, of course, is the Replacements. But what song? After a day of soul-searching, I decided to bypass my usual pick (“Left of the Dial”) and a few other worthy contenders (“Unsatisfied,” “Here Comes a Regular”) in favor of the last track off of the ‘Mats last worthy album. In fact the only song [...] |
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