Radical Transparency

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Encino Man's Retirement Years Filled with Sawdust

That's a headline. Or it will be someday. Apparently.

A few weeks ago, Lauren submitted a story to Patch.com. It's an adaptation of a radio/photo profile she produced last winter on an 85 year old amateur woodworker. In her correspondence with Patch, Lauren called the story Ed's Workshop.

On Friday, she got this email:

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The links don't work. She hasn't been paid yet. But you gotta love a title with (probably) accidental Pauly Shore connotations.

Bird Don't Lie

Not quite a song about gypsies. Close, though.

Thank you, Lauren, for the introduction.

Alabama Chicken is track 4 on Alabama Chicken. I like albums named after songs better than albums named after artists, unless the album named after the artist includes a song named after the artist. Wilco on Wilco by Wilco, for example. The only example?

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Killpecker!

One of the filmmakers explained this project to me a few weeks ago.  Sounded like part Monty Python and the Holy Grail, part Don Quixote, part This Is Spinal Tap, and part The Stupids Step Out. 

Note the exclamation point in the title.  Classy.

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Like Butter Play Toast

March 9, 2009 is the 12th anniversary of Christopher George Latore Wallace's death.  One of my friends told me last night that he'd be paying homage by listening to nothing but Biggie today.

I've always wondered why he named this song Juicy.  The song it samples has something do with it.  But I bet there's more to the story.  Anyone know anything?

Juicy is track 10 on Ready to Die.

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I Don't Think I Would Stop (Even If I Could)

Mentioned Hoots and Hellmouth on this blog yesterday.  Recorded a little video about them a few hours ago.  They're good.

I'm going to dance like a maniac the next time I see them live. 

Rattle These Bones is track 7 on Hoots and Hellmouth. 

I need to figure out what bands are thinking when they do the self titled thing.  It's weird.  Seems to me like a total missed opportunity.

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Caught in the Spotlight

Or, if you want a more hopeful title, He Gets to Sing Just Like a Bird.

I just watched The Last Waltz for the first time.  With my uncle Zach.  Who gave me the album when I was in high school.  And claims to have watched the movie at least 30 times.  But not at all for almost 30 years.

Stage Fright was my first Band love, so it goes on the main stage, but It Makes No Difference, Joni Mitchell's Coyote, and The Weight get links too.