2020/01/06 • You’re driving on a long-distance road trip all through the night. You want to get where you’re going. You want to go to bed. Everyone else in the car is sleeping. Three o’clock in the morning is the time when normal people want to sleep. But you’re not normal. Even though your body […]
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Parallel Lines Is Not A Disco Album
2020/01/03 • Parallel Lines was the first New Wave album I ever owned, except that my mother bought it because she thought it was a disco album. And it wasn’t, and she didn’t like it, and I played it and played it and played it. Because it is brilliant. It is not a disco album. […]
55 Hours of Nick Lowe: My Year in Spotify!
2020/01/02 • 2019 was a pretty dark year and I’m actually grateful to Spotify for reminding me I listened to some amazing music. In March my father was diagnosed with bile duct cancer, he had surgery on May 22 and spent six weeks in the hospital. He came home on July 2 and died on […]
Wig On, Bye-Bye: You Just Don’t Break Into a Convoy
2020/01/01 • My highway comfort zone is 70. The Mass Pike is two lanes from the New York line to the I-84 interchange at Exit 9, so I’m usually in the right lane most of the time and that’s fine. I pass slow trucks and people who are more anxious than I am. New Year’s […]
Ross McManus: If I Had a Hammer
Ross McManus: If I Had a Hammer This video of Elvis Costello’s father rocking out with his band has become my go-to when I feel glum. I’ve been playing it a lot this past week. Clearly, middle-class white British men were among the world’s least-oppressed peoples in the early 1960s but this is so joyous. […]