I'm currently 0-2 with seeing Mr Adams live in concert. That's the nature of the beast when it comes to Ryan (sometimes he is on fire, other times you wish you were elsewhere) but somehow he never fails to deliver when he is on Letterman.
He marks his umpteenth appearance on the The Late Show with a cracking version of 'Fix It' from the new album Cardinology:
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
She'll make her way...
Besides being a kick-arse tune, 'Wonder' by Natalie Merchant immediately reminds me of Saturday Night Live in the mid 90s: Will Ferrell and Tim Meadows especially. The reason being, I taped the episode she appeared in as a musical guest (David Schwimmer was the host) and watched it to death thanks to her performance of 'Wonder' and 'Carnival'. The VHS tape is long gone but thanks to some searching I bring you October 21 (hey my birthday!), 1995 all over again.
By the way, the guitarist in her band Jennifer Turner is an absolute talent and it is a shame she never hit the big time. Like Kanye said: A&R's lookin' like "pssh we messed up":
By the way, the guitarist in her band Jennifer Turner is an absolute talent and it is a shame she never hit the big time. Like Kanye said: A&R's lookin' like "pssh we messed up":
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
My Curtains Are Not Fading (A Sun Dance)
The decision to bring forward the start of Daylight Savings in my part of the world is perplexing. We are barely 6 weeks into Spring, what's the hurry? Besides, the first couple of days with an extra hour of light have been so gloomy we haven't had a chance to enjoy it yet.
Well you can't fight city hall that's for damn sure. So in order to help bring a little sunshine into the world and remove the dark skies I offer the following.
Hopefully it will do the trick (it worked for the Summer of '99):
Well you can't fight city hall that's for damn sure. So in order to help bring a little sunshine into the world and remove the dark skies I offer the following.
Hopefully it will do the trick (it worked for the Summer of '99):
Monday, October 6, 2008
25,000 words and a title
Some of you may know that I have been writing fiction on and off for a number of years now. Some of it has been in my former guise as a journalist (I'm half kidding of course) but the bulk has been exposed to only myself and Microsoft Word.
Last Sunday I hit a milestone of 25,000 words, that's about a third of a novel done and dusted. My thinking is, if I get to roughly 70,000 words and send it out to publishers (who will be courteous and tell me to continue whatever it is I do when I'm not wasting their time) then that is the very definition of giving it a shot.
I am spurred on by the words of a much more talented gentleman than I could ever be. Jackson Pollock once said:
"The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and an attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely."
Contemplate being the key word.
The title will be called 'Exit' and I hope that one day you can read it.
Last Sunday I hit a milestone of 25,000 words, that's about a third of a novel done and dusted. My thinking is, if I get to roughly 70,000 words and send it out to publishers (who will be courteous and tell me to continue whatever it is I do when I'm not wasting their time) then that is the very definition of giving it a shot.
I am spurred on by the words of a much more talented gentleman than I could ever be. Jackson Pollock once said:
"The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and an attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely."
Contemplate being the key word.
The title will be called 'Exit' and I hope that one day you can read it.
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