Slumberlord
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Sixty months of Sundays
Once-lauded indie band The Chamber Strings have resurfaced after five years away.
Parts of this story are familiar from the lives of so many other troubled musicians, although the parts about singing soul in prison and the Japanese magazine cover make it pretty well worth reading. I was more stricken by the passage of time. I recently had a birthday, and it didn’t make me feel older at all. It’s never those big, reliable, yardstick events that age people.
I heard the Chamber Strings record five years ago. As I remember, it’s nice, far too mannered for my tastes, but accomplished in its way. I’m sure I haven’t listened to it in four years or thought of the band in close to that long. But reading about everything that happened to Junior and the Strings in the interim put the passage of time in context far better than an anniversary could.
Once-lauded indie band The Chamber Strings have resurfaced after five years away.
Parts of this story are familiar from the lives of so many other troubled musicians, although the parts about singing soul in prison and the Japanese magazine cover make it pretty well worth reading. I was more stricken by the passage of time. I recently had a birthday, and it didn’t make me feel older at all. It’s never those big, reliable, yardstick events that age people.
I heard the Chamber Strings record five years ago. As I remember, it’s nice, far too mannered for my tastes, but accomplished in its way. I’m sure I haven’t listened to it in four years or thought of the band in close to that long. But reading about everything that happened to Junior and the Strings in the interim put the passage of time in context far better than an anniversary could.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
We use every part of the vegetable buffalo
Post-barbecue improvised recipe:
Kaiser bun
One slice cheddar cheese
Three grilled banana slices
Copious Jalapeno pepper slices
Barbeque sauce
One Morningstar veggie-burger patty
Postmortem: One grilled banana slice goes a long way. Wow, those things have a powerfully sweet taste to them.
Post-barbecue improvised recipe:
Kaiser bun
One slice cheddar cheese
Three grilled banana slices
Copious Jalapeno pepper slices
Barbeque sauce
One Morningstar veggie-burger patty
Postmortem: One grilled banana slice goes a long way. Wow, those things have a powerfully sweet taste to them.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Joker's request easier than he realized
Someone who is not lazy, look this up and tell me it is actually legal:
legal money with dumb crap in place of George's face
So I could get a whole lot of Hitler $1 made and businesses would have to honor them?
And, as a side note, wait, what the fuck, Silverchair, you see that too, right?
Someone who is not lazy, look this up and tell me it is actually legal:
legal money with dumb crap in place of George's face
So I could get a whole lot of Hitler $1 made and businesses would have to honor them?
And, as a side note, wait, what the fuck, Silverchair, you see that too, right?
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
B-Grade Blogger
A year ago I decided to try to blog once a week during 2006. "At least 52 updates in 2006 should not be difficult."
Well, I was right and I was wrong. I made 43 posts out of a possible 52. That's about 83%. It's not great, but it passes. On the pro side, I think that cautiously positive real-life things kept me away from the Internet for a lot of that time. And if I missed a few "I'm in your ____, ___ing your ____" Photoshops, well, glass half full.
A year ago I decided to try to blog once a week during 2006. "At least 52 updates in 2006 should not be difficult."
Well, I was right and I was wrong. I made 43 posts out of a possible 52. That's about 83%. It's not great, but it passes. On the pro side, I think that cautiously positive real-life things kept me away from the Internet for a lot of that time. And if I missed a few "I'm in your ____, ___ing your ____" Photoshops, well, glass half full.
