http://blog.gw-1.com Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:13:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With only one night in London, we had to make the most of it. Shooting straight to the top of the pops, blasting past all of the Mammas & Mias and Les'es & Mis'es, ditching the Wicked Witches and Masked Phantoms and Lion Kings, we grabbed the last two standing-room-only tickets ... http://blog.gw-1.com/2010/06/03/so-we-went-with-a-little-bohemian-rhapsody/ Caught the Cracker Acoustic World Tour the other day. Still feeling new in town, curiosity got the best of me to go out and see what the Gen X'rs are up to on a Tuesday in the Great White North.  Turns out my kin are still alive and kicking.  It was ... http://blog.gw-1.com/2010/03/25/cracker-still-strummin/ You ask me how I can like this band of phonies.  And I ask you:  How can I not? I grew up on Graceland.  I was a boy in a bubble and that bubble was mercifully, occasionally, popped by missives shot off from the head-tops of East Coast sons of privilege ... http://blog.gw-1.com/2010/02/26/vampire-weekend-contra/ Well, actually it's the impostor Tommy Thayer who's all gussied up in the Spaceman's galactic get up on a recent issue of Guitar Player.  But that's beside the point. KISS really used to scare me.  There I was, a sweet little guy, about 9-years old, watching a perfectly innocent episode of ... http://blog.gw-1.com/2009/11/24/ace-wilds-mah-axe/ But what to do with it all?  I once saw an interview with the author whence he noted the improbability that those who reviewed his book had read it.  "Do the math," he said, "there's too many pages to read it all in that amount of time."  So true.  It ... http://blog.gw-1.com/2009/11/06/infinite-jest-it-is-finished-part-2/ I find this record comforting.  It takes the edge off of life like Bob Marley used to, back a few years ago when I didn't have any real responsibilities to wig-out about.  Unfortunately, "Don't worry about a thing 'cause everything's gonna be alright," just doesn't cut the cheese anymore. Those sorts ... http://blog.gw-1.com/2009/11/05/art-brut-vs-satan/ This book has been on my shelf for about 10 years.  Since the late nineties, it's been skulking there in the corner.  Bright-oranged and baby-blued, unmissable in girth and shelf-sagging heft.  (Can't find it?  Look for the low spot on Shelf "W".)  This year marked my third attempt at getting ... http://blog.gw-1.com/2009/09/25/infinte-jest-it-is-finished-part-1/ This post has been clogging up the blog for the last week.  I just can't seem to get it right, and now I know why. I like to write about things that I like.  I try to stay positive, to be a thumbs-up, glass-is-half-full fella.  But even when trying my best ... http://blog.gw-1.com/2009/09/21/matisyahu-light/ Sometimes I'm a little slow to catch on. Despite having been told by numerous good-eared friends that I should buy this, and despite the fact the I've seen them live and know first-hand that they've got the stuff to really rip it up, it still took me a year or so ... http://blog.gw-1.com/2009/09/04/house-of-heroes-the-end-is-not-the-end/ This summer, I finally made it to a show. The first time Perry came to my town was with the original Lollapalooza line-up at the idyllic Blossom Music Center.  I was invited by a gal I was kinda dating.  Hindsight being 20/20, I think I wish I had been dating her ... http://blog.gw-1.com/2009/09/03/janes-addiction-in-pittsburgh/