January 2009
11 posts
This is a few months old, but when Ted Leo + Pharmacists played Indie Rock Karaoke in Brooklyn last November, me and my man Todd hijacked the set (sort of) by signing up to perform The Who’s “My Generation,” then asking Mr. Leo really nicely if he’d let us do one of his own songs.
Being as awesome as he is, he let us. This is the result.
Very few times in my life have I...
What Red Ink? Wall St. Paid Fat Bonuses →
Despite warnings back in the Fall when this whole mess started, when the Fed thought it was a great idea to bail out these banks:
You’ve been robbed.
Throw these idiots in the clink, and recover the money. That’s public money. It’s our money. That’s the money that was supposed to go to help ease the credit crunch for normal people. Money that could instead be going toward...
Wall Street’s Socialist Jet-Setters →
Sing it, Ms. Dowd. Sing-Sing for the crooks.
COTE Tales - THIS SUNDAY! 1-18-09
I’ll be acting this Sunday in a series of readings produced by my theatre company…
cooptheatreeast:
Hello, Friends! Co-Op Theatre East invites you to the inaugural production of COTE Tales, our new monthly play reading series, taking place this Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 7:00 pm. at Kaffe 1668, 275 Greenwich Street (directions via HopStop) in Tribeca, Manhattan! Come enjoy brand...
The more serious you are as a writer, the more you feel yourself an outsider —...
– William Kennedy
Tercer Impacto: Hispanacea (via Vimeo)
The latest from Fulana.
Very good stuff.
And you’ll be singing love songs to Mr. T for days.
New Bob Nanna & Damon Atkinson Project →
This news has nothing to do with me as an artist (except for the fact that Nanna has been a huge inspiration for me), but it’s so awesome I have to re-blog it…
Not to sound like a complete fanboy or anything, but this is the most exciting news of the first week of 2009.
Bob Nanna is without a doubt one of the best songwriters of my generation. And he’s working on new material...