Category: music
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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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The bassist will allow that working with the notoriously obstinate J Mascis is considerably easier now than in the ’80s, when it was, he says, “a mind fuck, to say the least”.
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I guess I’m making this a monthly thing? In any case, here’s a roundup of some of the writing I have done recently, including freelance pieces and a couple of things I wrote just for fun.
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The coming of the Halloween season put me in mind of Dead Man’s Bones. I interviewed the duo back in 2009 and their self-titled album has been an October staple for me ever since.
John Lucas 