grow your own food & make a record? that’s exactly what Matt Ahern has in mind. he is the owner/purveyor of FARM, Central Texas’ best venue to taste/create/grow-your-own delicious organic goodies this side of the Mississippi. (well, maybe not the best, but he’s trying & he gets kudos for that.) yes, taco town is getting [...]
Entries from September 2008
September 27, 2008
the loved ones
Philly’s the loved ones came into town last night & i played the good girl and missed ‘em. see, at work Thursday night, Jonathan and i decided that one of us should call in so at least SOMEONE would get to see them on Friday. i passed on the opportunity and said it should definitely be him. after work, i met the boys [...]
September 18, 2008
prototypal Mould, as only he could tell it
in 1979, three Minneapolis teens formed a punk band and named it for a Swedish board game no one would have heard of sans Husker Du. and although they never made heaps of money, their influence far outlasted their musical lifespan…
September 9, 2008
sweet Jenny
when Rilo Kiley maven Jenny Lewis, one of indie-pop’s most endearing female marauders, came out with her solo album, 2006’s Rabbit Fur Coat, (with the Watson Twins,) i thought be still my beating heart. you see, Lewis is a little bit country, a little bit rock n’ roll. (my favorite) she’s like the love child [...]
September 9, 2008
killing yourself to live
i’m in a rambling kind of mood, so if you don’t mind, i’m just going to ramble on… i was re-reading Chuck Klosterman’s “Killing Yourself to Live,” when something struck a chord with me. Klosterman goes on about the relevance (err, unimportance) of being a rock journalist and questions “how important this job really is?” [...]
