Sara Ryan

This is just to say that I have now experienced my first wrock concert, and the Remus Lupins did, indeed, wrock the house. Or rather, library. The funnest part was seeing just how incredibly into it the audience was, complete with Rowling-influenced fashion choices and signs. If you missed them, Portlanders, don’t worry, they’ll be [...]

I didn’t come of age listening to WFMU. As a matter of fact, unless it was on without my knowing it at someone’s place sometime when I was within the range of its signal, I still haven’t listened (a situation I intend to remedy asap). But Best of LCD: the art and writing of WFMU-FM [...]

Actually, different.

It delights me that this exists. Though it’s too bad they had to cut “My God, what have I done?”

I’d never been to an outdoor rock festival before. As far back as the first Lollapalooza, I remember being jealous of friends who went, but somehow, I never got it together to attend one until yesterday. The Sasquatch Festival, at the Gorge.
Steve and I went with friends whose musical knowledge and experience with such events [...]

I recently got a mix CD that included a song called “The Devil Glitch (Short version).” I was intrigued.
Found out that what I had was a condensed version of the officially-designated-by-the-Guiness-Book-of -World-Records World’s Longest Pop Song, aka “Major Glitch” by Chris Butler.
The song also functions as a musical version of the Oblique Strategies, my favorite [...]

Trying to psych myself up and not out. Same coffeeshop, same mix CD. We’ll see how it goes.
P. S. If you’ve been reading me for a while, it will probably not surprise you that I very strongly recommend the latest in the 33 1/3 series, John Darnielle’s Black Sabbath Master of Reality, whether or not [...]

1. Can’t stop listening to Busdriver.

Anyone have some “if you like Busdriver, you’ll like…” suggestions?
2. Love this post from Jonathan Carroll that begins: “Part of creating is letting go.” I needed to hear that. You, too?
3. A chicken with a skull necklace:
4. Been thinking a lot about this quote from Mark Haddon, whose A [...]

Tonight we devoted ourselves to restoring the house to something like order.
Snag hid out while we swept, straightened, sorted paperwork, entered receipts into Quicken, and listened to the entirety of Heretic Pride three times in succession (so far).

While I’m on the subject of matters domestic, does anyone know of a source for a piece of [...]

I learned two new words: bershon, circuitously via YPulse (by which I mean that YPulse linked to something and that linked to something else and somehow I ended up clicking on this, and rickroll, via Jessamyn. I do not anticipate engaging in rickrolling, but I expect I’ll dig up a bershon photo or several one [...]

Veda Hille’s new album, This Riot Life, just came in the mail. She’s been one of my favorite musicians ever since VJ introduced me to her work, gosh, yikes, I guess it’s been about a decade ago. Here’s an article about the album. If you’re not inclined to click, this phrase gives a good summary: [...]