Time Travel Weekend Party
In many ways this past weekend in Austin has felt like a stop on the time travel train. I’m convinced that sometime in the future, time travel is a functional thing, much the way...
Category: music
Live life now — don’t waste it taking pictures
You’ve heard the one about how a picture says a thousand words? This week’s $1 billion acquisition of the mobile phone picture-sharing service Instagram by social media giant Facebook says even more. It tells...
Being There with Wilco
Once upon a time (in the early 1990’s) a dude I was smitten with took me to see a band called Uncle Tupelo at Liberty Lunch in Austin, Texas. My date was always broke...
CMJ: Someday I am Going to be Inside You.
After going to SXSW for the last 10,000 years, I’ve sometimes thought about going to the CMJ Music Marathon in NYC. Since I’m usually double-booked in October, my going to CMJ is more a...
ACL: I’m Excited About Seeing Twin Shadow Again!
Twin Shadow is one of the acts that I’ll totally be seeing at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, 2011
Someone Really “Sampled The Dog”
One of the things I find very curious about music is how stratified it is. If you are 20 something you listen to one kind of music. If you are older, you listen to...
Reading the Book “One Day” Moments Before the Movie Came Out!
On my way back to Austin from my summer adventures, I read the novel One Day by David Nicholls. I read it in pretty much one giant gulp. While I had toyed with the...
Hanging Out With Keith Richards…the Don Draper of Rock ‘n’ Roll
While I was sick with post SXSW-crud, I spent a lot of the time in my cough-medicine haze sucking down the 547 pages of Keith Richards very readable autobiography, Life. Nearly every publication on...
At SXSW, love of Duran Duran was still going strong
When I was in junior high school, I could have told you anything about the band Duran Duran. With crucial information gleaned from Tiger Beat and Rolling Stone, I could have explained how the...
Latvia: The Land of 24 Hour Party People…that I met at SXSW.
Riga graffiti. It’s strange the impact that South By Southwest can have on our lives, in ways that sometimes go far beyond the music. View of Riga. In 2006, I did a story for...
