My Presidential To-Do List

A Singing Telegram From You In Tibet

Sure, there are many pressing problems facing this country.

But if I were President, one of the things I'd do in my first 100 days would be to declare a National Day of Celebration for Don Dixon and Marti Jones.

So... This Exists

And lives at the corner of Horrible and Awesome



And it's a two-CD set (released with little fanfare in 2011).




Tremble in fear, my friends, tremble in fear.

Compare and Contrast (And Then Some)

Lather.



Rinse.



Repeat.

New Sigur Ros

Fresh from their cameo in the Simpsons season finale (and their reworking of the Simpsons end-credit music), here's something new from Sigur Ros.

Moonscape, fjords, elves, and magic not included.

No, Mr. Bond, I Expect Your Dreams To Die

Announcing...

I'm very happy to announce that my book of essays No, Mr. Bond, I Expect Your Dreams to Die will be available later this month (as both a paperback and an ebook).



For more information on the book, click here. And if you're on Facebook, please "Like" the book page here.

Without A Reason Why

From the Department of Wonderfully Bad Mid-1970s Videos

Start with a song from a martial-arts exploitation movie.

Starring George Lazenby, the guy who stepped in as James Bond in the movie Sean Connery thought was too sappy.

Then recruit a former prog-rock band whose first album featured a slightly rocking version of Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring."

Then film a video where the band is inexplicably playing in front of a desert highway. And intercut with scenes from what seems like the worst Holiday Inn gig ever.

And add a scenes where the band boards a stairway that should lead to a plane (that isn't there) from a company called Pariah Airlines.

Oh, and drown the whole thing with tons of echo & reverb.

What's not to love? (And, not surprisingly, this was huge in Japan.)

In the Middle of Our Street

From the days where gloves with the fingers cut off were all the rage...

Hopes and dreams, kids. Hopes and dreams.