Archive for April, 2007
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Cinderella Sweeping Up
Mary and I had just split up and I was a drunken, zombified wreck, beyond misery, when Ned casually slipped Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice” into a Nightmares rehearsal. At the time, things were strained between me and Ned, and we could barely stand to be in the same room together.
I learned the song, but [...]
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
You Should Be Here
Lord only knows what this song’s about. Being present in your own life? Maybe. But then who’s on the receiving end of all the invective in the verse? I couldn’t tell you if my life depended on it.
Don’t get me wrong — I liked this song when it first showed up, and I always figured [...]
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Puppies
“Harold” was a term we used as shorthand for appreciating those all-too-common situations that betray the handiwork of a sadistically ironic god. “That’s so Harold,” we might say, shaking our heads over our cocktail glasses. Or simply, “Uh-oh, Harold!”
I say “we,” but really there were only three people I know who used the term [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Studio, The Nightmares by Philip
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Dead Like Me
How many singers have covered the song “Lonesome Town”? Dylan does it sometimes. Paul McCartney. Jerry Garcia. It must have really touched a nerve back there in 1958, when all those guys were still teenagers and Ricky Nelson’s hit version was blaring out of car radios and juke boxes everywhere. Still, of all those cover [...]
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Sunday, April 1st, 2007
If She’s Listening
This weekend I saw the movie “Music and Lyrics” with Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore as a songwriting duo whose artistic collaboration eventually blossoms into — spoiler alert! — love. (I know — what could I possibly relate to in that premise?)
We saw the movie in the “whatever’s playing at 7 o’clock” spirit, but [...]
