Category: music
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I’m keeping this one short because it’s Sunday and you probably have better things to do than reading my blog. Like listening to Bing Crosby sing “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”, for example.
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As is the case with most historical figures who lived so long ago, we don’t know that much about Saint Nicholas, and most of we do think we know was probably made up.
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Is it really Krampusnacht already? Why, yes. Yes, it is. At the risk of sounding like a holiday hipster, but I was into this dude before anybody.
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I’m not going to promise that this is the last stop-motion animated video I will post, because I can virtually guarantee that it won’t be. But at least this one isn’t paying homage to Rankin/Bass Productions.
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I was very happy to randomly discover a few years ago, on YouTube, a 1957 episode of The Frank Sinatra Show in which Bing Crosby pops by and the two crooners either do a very good job at acting shitfaced or actually are not just pretending to drink wassail.
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Okay, let’s keep that retro stop-motion vibe going, this time with some local content from Mr. Christmas himself, Michael Bublé. As it turns out, “White Christmas” is the pivotal song in Bublé’s singing career.
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There’s just something about stop-motion animation that evokes that Christmas feeling. And when I say “something”, I of course mean “memories of Rankin/Bass TV specials from the 1960s and ’70s”.
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Here’s what I’ve been up to lately. Mostly writing for Stir, but there are other exciting things in the works.
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On this day 15 years ago (November 16, 2010), American indie label capture Tracks released the self-titled debut album by the Soft Moon, which was actually a solo project by L.A.-based musician Luis Vazquez. In 2013, I interviewed Vazquez during my stint as the “Sound Check” columnist for Concrete Skateboarding magazine. Vazquez and I discussed…
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What has tongues wagging these days is sex. First there was the interview with European gay-lifestyle magazine GUS, in which Furtado said she believes all people are inherently bisexual…
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