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Radiohead with Michael Stipe
Once upon a time, that would’ve been a dream walk-on for me. Reallly hard to imagine Radiohead and R.E.M. together live now. Their forthcoming album, Collapse Into Now, strikes me as the most desperate attempt at relevance since their last. Whatever happened to aging gracefully, guys? I get having Patti Smith and Eddie Vedder aboard, but Peaches?…
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My Musical Comfort Food
Now that I’m not monitoring news feeds across the web for the latest breaking music news, I’ve been settling in with some old favorites. They’re beyond predictable, but I find it so refreshing to tune back in with music I was listening to nonstop when I first started getting interested in music criticism. Let’s just…
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Goodbye Playoff Beard
I started growing this beard the day the Phillies clinched the NL East. Sure, I jumped the gun a little bit, but when I look back on last year’s scraggly playoff beard, I’m glad I did. Now I look like this. Loved the beard, but I’m feeling human again.
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Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
Went to see a recording of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! at the Academy of Music last night here in Philadelphia. If people think that this weekend’s Rally to Restore Sanity is like the Gathering of the Smuggaloes, then they wouldn’t know what to make of this. Let’s just say that Helen and I really love the…
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Rally to Restore Sanity
Feel like this sums up the day pretty well, but hearing Yusuf, Ozzy and the O’Jays pretty much blew my mind. Politics, schmolitics. This served as a friendly reminder that we have a lot more in common with strangers than we think.