- The Arcade Fire album is growing on me.
- Can’t say it’s my favorite music right now, though. I really like Aloha’s Here Comes Everyone, though it’s a little less spaced out than their earlier albums. It’s well written music, with interesting instrumentation, even when it occasionally veers into neo-prog rock. Check out “You’ve Escaped” if you can find it online.
- Tom Adelman’s The Long Ball is a dramatized retelling of the seminal 1975 baseball season. He chronicles the birth of free agency, the decline of the Oakland A’s dynasty, and of course the “best world series ever.” Sure he plays hard and loose with the facts, but it’s a kind of creative non-fiction, almost “New Journalism,” that we rarely see in sports writing, and I like it. It’s a compulsive read.
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November 19th, 2004 at 12:27 pm
I told you so! Sometimes there is truth to the hype. You should read Uncle Grambo’s glowing report of their live show over at whatevs.org. I’m a little peeved that they’re only coming as far south as LA so I won’t be able to catch them this go around. The live recordings I’ve heard so far will have to do.
November 19th, 2004 at 3:13 pm
I have to admit, that live cover of “This Must be the Place” on Bradley’s Almanac is pretty cool.
November 19th, 2004 at 3:33 pm
I picked up the Arcade Fire the other week and I’m really into it now. Didn’t figure I would like it as much as I do.
Ooh, KEXP just started playing Jim O’Rourke’s “Memory Lame!”
November 19th, 2004 at 3:42 pm
Cool! Ever hear the Loose Fur album that he did with Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche?
November 20th, 2004 at 1:36 pm
No, I still haven’t. It’s on my large list of things to get. Large, large list. :)
November 22nd, 2004 at 11:16 am
That Loose Fur album has some really good songs on it. May be a hard pill for some people, but then again, you can hear a lot of the “new” Wilco sound in it.