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Jason Falkner Bedtime With The Beatles Part Two

Album picked on Jun 26, 2008 by 1 other person Delete this pick? yes / no

Kristina Morland Echocharting

from the album Pidgin Music

Song picked on Jun 26, 2008 | LINK Delete this pick? yes / no

Kristina Morland's debut album, Pidgin Music, is an enchanting collection of snapshots, seemingly plucked from a recently rediscovered shoe box filled with poetry and journals. There's a lot of love to be found in her music, although often only in the shadows of an apparent aftermath. The accessibility and initial simplicity of Morland's songs are just a veneer for a much deeper and rewarding work. A delicious balance of over-arching melancholy permeates her work here, not unlike something penned by Ray Davies or Nick Cave, with emphasis on love willfully forsaken than merely caught in limbo, unrequited.

Red Monroe ¡Policia! ¡Policia!

Album picked on Jan 11, 2008 | LINK Delete this pick? yes / no

RM here sounds like T-Rex and Modest Mouse were collaborative contemporaries, sharing a studio next door to the Dolls and some worthy-but-largely-forgot early Mo-Town band down the hall. Eric Steele’s vocals are aggressive and unapologetic, not unlike James Hall’s, spewing lyrics about the ugly-beauty of street scenes one might expect from a more urban setting than the typical Disney-like Dallas landscape.

CocoRosie The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stillborn

Album picked on May 09, 2007 by 4 other people Delete this pick? yes / no

LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver

Album picked on May 09, 2007 by 25 other people Delete this pick? yes / no

Could this be the strongest effort yet?

Andrew Bird Heretics

from the album Armchair Apocrypha

Song picked on May 09, 2007 by 2 other people Delete this pick? yes / no

Voxtrot Voxtrot

Album picked on Apr 23, 2007 by 7 other people | LINK Delete this pick? yes / no

Why have I not to add them before now? Better late than dead, I guess.

The Good Show

Podcast picked on May 30, 2006 | LINK Delete this pick? yes / no

Playlists and news of award-winning radio show in Fort Worth, Texas, featuring new and used under-appreciated music, including those of Texas artists, live in-studio performances. High-quality MP3s of broadcasts posted with playlists.

Annabelle Gurwitch Fired!

Book picked on Mar 22, 2006 Delete this pick? yes / no

Good medicine before, during and after an employment tenure.

To Kill A Mockingbird

Movie picked on Mar 22, 2006 | LINK Delete this pick? yes / no

Still my all-time favorite. As I ponder further the increasing revelations of the Bush Administration's damning response to the Americans forever-changed by the Katrina hurricane disaster and the Republican trend to dismantle civil liberties in the process of the almighty money-grab, apparently in the name of corporate interests [who knew terrorism was already trademarked by Halliburton and Saudi Arabia?], I'm reminded of the sheriff's comments near the end of the story: "Bob Ewell fell on his own knife. He killed himself... " Would it be any less poetic for there to be a similar end to the cruel and indefensible policies of this administration, and perhaps the congress that allowed bold-faced indifference to the will of the people to not just exist but proliferate? I just hope there are enough registered voters still left in America, especially in the next couple years, literate enough to read between the lines.

Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production of Eggs

Album picked on Mar 22, 2006 by 1 other person | LINK Delete this pick? yes / no

My most frequent favorite of 2005.