It’s called introspection, sports fans. We all feel it every once in awhile and I have been under its spell for the past week and the result has been a total lack of perspective and thus, no cohesive idea for a column. I don’t know why it happens but I do know that it is indiscriminate, that it is sometimes a struggle to even look at the blank page without it beating you to a mental pulp. For myself, the one thing I fear beyond misspelling a musician’s name is the inability to write at all and we are all under deadline, the scourge of any supposed journalist. In the movies, the reporter is always able to crank out a barnburner of an article at the last second, saving his/her job and possibly the future of the newspaper itself. Well, that’s Hollywood, folks, but it does give you an idea of what it is like to produce under pressure.
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Frank Gutch Jr: A Video Retrospective…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Dala, DBAWIS, dixie bee-liners, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Green Pajamas, Greg Laswell, hymn for her, Incurables, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jon Gomm, Laurie Biagini, Lisbee Stainton, Mark Haney, Maxi Dunn, music, Neko Case, No Small Children, Ophelia Hope, Paige Anderson & the Fearless Kin, Records, Research Turtles, Rita Hosking, The Luck of Eden Hall, Vinnie Zummo, Violet Archers on October 8, 2013 by segariniFrank Gutch Jr: The Best of the First Half of 2013,
Posted in Opinion with tags Chris Taylor, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eric Lichter, Frank Gutch Jr., Gileah Taylor, Incurables, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jeff Finlin, Jim of Seattle, Laurie Biagini, Linda Draper, Maxi Dunn, Might Get Up Slow, Morning Ritual, music, No Small Children, Norrish Reaction, Records, Rita Hosking, Terri Tarantula, The Shook Twins, Transmissionary Six on May 21, 2013 by segarini
Jesus, is 2013 great or what? I’m dancing, crying, thinking, sweating, burping and bopping thanks to a handful of musicians who have me freaking out, they’re so good. I know I said 2012 was good. And it was! Hell, it still is, musically. Musicians put out some of the best music I’d heard last year, but goddamn it, 2013 is smokin’ hot! Seriously! And excuse me for a sec whilst I dance the happy dance. You see, No Small Children‘s anthemic Might Get Up Slow is playing right now and will for a few times more because I need some uppers! Shee-it, this is good! In another time, this would be topping the charts and rocking kids out! Even famed ex-radio disc jockey Robert W. Walker sez “Fuh-reeking great!” Jeez, I’m sounding like Barnum & Bailey here, but sometimes you have to let loose, you know?
