September 2010
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#660: coldplay - yellow (2000)
did you know that coldplay’s debut recently turned ten? time flies. i very clearly remember hearing parachutes for the first time, in the mamaroneck hockey rink’s administrative office, which for some reason was where you would go to work safe rides. my really good friend, who was british, popular, a real mamaroneck high school lady killer, and also...
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#656: chuck berry - you can’t catch me (1956)
“but chuck berry isn’t merely the greatest of the rock and rollers, or rather, there’s nothing mere about it. say rather that unless we can somehow recycle the concept of the great artist so that it supports chuck berry as well as it does marcel proust, we might as well trash it altogether… like whitman, berry is excessive...
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#652: tom waits - lord i’ve been changed (2006, dir. phil bebbington)
oh is this sudden and unmistakable onslaught of autumn a beautiful thing. the mercury collapsed, the skies darkened, and fall is here: it makes a man thinks of cobwebs, firewood, flannel-colored leaves on the merritt parkway, and the word musk. what this sudden september season shift means is it’s time to put away...
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