Our Comment Policy, and the Future of Dullblog

By |2016-02-19T21:46:12-08:00June 1, 2012|Housekeeping, Uncategorized|

Flower Power. Hi folks! We're getting a LOT of comments these days, which we love. Hologram Sam just sent a yawp of protest over a couple of his comments not appearing, so I wanted to set down what our guidelines are, because I realized that we haven't ever done that. 1) We love comments. Love 'em. 2) We approve 99% of readers' comments. 3) The only comments we don't approve are ones which we feel a) don't add anything substantive to the discussion, and b) are uncivil, e.g., "Yoko is a beeyotch." Ms. Ono-Lennon may or may not be a [...]

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Two things

By |2015-09-19T00:05:38-07:00May 24, 2012|Uncategorized|

1. There's a whole blog devoted to Pattie Boyd: Swingin' Pattie. [Update Dec 2014: Sorry, there USED to be. It's defunct.]   2. From an interview with Fred Armisen by Damian Rogers (on the Believer tumblr): FA: I had to take all these tests with questions like, Do you see animals other people don’t seem to see? Do you feel a tight band wrapped around your head? It was very embarrassing for me, you know what I mean? No kid wants to go into some room with a psychologist while everyone else is having their day at school. It made me feel very alone. [...]

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"All This And World War II"

By |2015-09-19T00:06:05-07:00May 8, 2012|Uncategorized|

"If you thought the movie version of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was bad, here’s something that will really curl the toes of your Beatle boots."All This And World War ll mashes up archival WW2 film footage with gung-ho Hollywood war epics and then tosses in a weird mix of rock stars covering Beatle tunes for its soundtrack. It’s a hit or miss affair that manages to achieve a soul-deflating awfulness while occasionally allowing little wormike glimmerings of brilliance to ooze through the sprocket holes. Had it not been produced by 20th Century Fox, it might be mistaken for a long [...]

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Isn’t it good?

By |2015-09-19T00:13:55-07:00December 7, 2011|Uncategorized|

I should (clone myself and) reread Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood, possibly my favorite of his books. The blog Night RPM (Linden Park) translates, in two parts (1 and 2), Murakami's afterword to the book. Here's a nice bit: The first part of Norwegian Wood was written in Greece, the second part, in Sicily, and the final part, in Rome. There weren’t tables or chairs in the cheap hotel room that I rented in Athens. So I went to a taberu (* bar) every day, repeatedly listened to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on my Walkman about 120 times, and wrote [...]

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"All Together Now"

By |2015-09-19T00:14:19-07:00November 28, 2011|Uncategorized|

Via WFMU's Twitter feed: Every Beatles song played at once, the longest starting first, all of them ending at the same time. [Update Dec 2014: somebody took down the track, probably Apple. But here's the same sort of thing, courtesy of YouTube.] http://youtu.be/uPbU46DkQOo

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Holes

By |2015-09-18T23:59:58-07:00April 11, 2011|Uncategorized|

The title of John Luther Adams's concerto Four Thousand Holes, and Alex Ross's praise of it, make me curious...Some description here: In spite of this skepticism, Four Thousand Holes is my own effort to re-appropriate and reclaim for myself something of my own musical past. For the first time since my days as a rocker, I’ve chosen to restrict myself to major and minor triads—those most basic elements of Western music (both pop and classical). But I’ve tried to assimilate them fully into my own musical world. Approaching these simple chords as found objects, I’ve superimposed them in multiple streams of tempo, [...]

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