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Hello Vegetables Christmasstravaganza!
7 Songs To Keep Your Yuletide Hella Bright

December 22, 2009

Holy crap, dear hearts! It’s December 22nd! I’d better slide you some top-notch Christmas music to make sure your holidays is filled with those things which are awesome. IN TIME, THE LORD WILL RISE ’Round these parts the greatest contemporary Christmas musician is considered to be Sufjan Stevens, who put out five EPs of Christmas [...]

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Man Thinks About A Little-Bitty Baby Girl — And A Baby Boy [video]

November 30, 2009

I could pretty much look at this guy, like, forever. The Residents: “It’s A Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World” (1984) … and let’s not forget the version Saint Patti recommended.

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Super Doppel-Crazy Fonk Bonus

June 4, 2009

Mind-buggling. Look at that smile on James Brown’s face! If you ever needed an example of the virtues of not getting wasted, just watch Prince. He probably thought he had the night off, and I’d bet anything he wishes he could do it all over again. James Brown, Michael Jackson, and Prince at the Apollo, [...]

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An Old Friend I Happened To See

September 15, 2008

This song was what inspired me to do a Covers Week last week. But then as I started to post it, I realized that it wasn’t really a cover song, since “Tennessee Waltz” is more of a standard. So now you get to hear it on Regular Monday! Anna King made one album (the James [...]

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The Cinema Was Mediocre

December 7, 2007

Hey, you don’t have to tell me the cinema was mediocre. Yesterday brought us back to the Bay Area in 1992, so let’s hang out here for one more year. This tune and graphic brought to you courtesy of a visit to Rap Represented In Mathematical Charts And Graphs, via my man Tee Bizzy and [...]

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It Wouldn’t Be Nothin’ Without A Woman Or A Girl

August 15, 2007

Last night at the Fillmore, Patti Smith said she happened across this performance on the Grammys, and it made her want to do better, and to try harder. That’s a crazy high compliment, and a plenty good enough recommendation for me. So, courtesy of YouTube (or as Ms. Smith calls it, “the computer TV”), here’s [...]

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