10.14.07

For those of you who are about to rock

Posted in a little bit rock and roll, cricket spazzes, hot live action - October 14th, 2007 at 1:05 pm by Cricket

Hi guys! I’m fresh back from Philadelphia which I loved so much I think y’all should move it to the top of your lists of places to visit. In line with our jet setting lifestyles, Mimi is now in LA, leaving Daisy and I to prove we can have fun without her. Left to our own devices we did the only thing we could do that would 100% guarantee fun, we went to a Cory Branan show. [Cory Branan: A guaranteed Good Time—Daisy]

10.13.07

The Wright time is now

Posted in hot live action, some albums we done liked others we ain't - October 13th, 2007 at 3:40 pm by Mimi

Music comes to us in a myriad of ways. Some people send us their CDs in the mail. Sometimes we stumble across MySpaces that blow us away. Our friends shove CDs into our hands and mp3s into our inboxes.

Brian Wright and the Waco Tragedies came to me through a friend effusing over him.

“Who?” I said.

“What do you mean?” She said.

“I don’t know this dude.” I said.

“AHAHAHA! Awesome!” She said.

What she meant was “I know a band that you don’t!” People love to gloat over that, as you can well imagine. But I didn’t take it to heart since she immediately hooked me up and gave me detailed play-by-play about how totes awes he was and so on. (That’s me being funny, she’s actually quite articulate.)

10.01.07

A podcast after the bomb

Posted in podcast - October 1st, 2007 at 7:56 pm by Cricket

Once again it’s podcasting time! This go ’round Tommy Womack came to spend part of his afternoon talking to us and singing for us. He’s been in bands you might have heard of, Government Cheese and the bis-quits. He plays amazing solo shows, recently bringing spoken word into his sets to great effect. He’s written a couple books, The Cheese Chronicles and The Lavender Boys and Elsie (which isn’t yet available, so after you listen to this call your favorite publisher and beg them to make this book available to you, though you can read parts of it here, on Tommy’s site).

His new album, There I Said It! is available now and full of songs he might describe as being full of middle-aged anxiety, politics and not a little joy. They are surprisingly universally applicable, given the subject matter.

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