Remember the episode of The Wire from the first season where you see Wallace’s living situation? It’s in that brutal building with all the extended wires coming off the telephone poles, and…
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Do Make Say Think – Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead
I saw another apartment this morning, over in the Franklin Village area. It was a bit on the small side but not terrible. It was the first ray of hope I’ve felt…
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Amalgamated Sons Of Rest – Amalgamated Sons Of Rest
Hey everybody. I hope your weekends were swell. Mine was…it was okay. I’ve been ramping up the search for my own place recently so I’ve been busy before and after work most…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 366
Todd – “With Love From Me To You” LP Re-Issue Updates: Someone emailed me earlier this week asking if there were still copies available for sale. Yes, I still have a few…
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Belle And Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress
I don’t like Belle and Sebastian. There, I’m just going to go ahead and say it. I happen to think it is wussy music for wussy kids, and I say that as…
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A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory
This is what makes these An Album A Day posts so much fun for me. This, right here, today’s post. Because what’s better than an obscure reference to our national pastime on…
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Kowloon Walled City – Container Ships
I’m not having a good day. Or week. Or month. Here’s hoping for some levity, however brief, in what appears to be an unending string of shitty days. So I’ve been driving…
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Shellac – At Action Park
Steve Albini and baseball go together like…Steve Albini and poker. He’s appeared on the Baseball Prospectus podcast, he speaks about it often in interviews (sometimes using it as a metaphor or analogy,…
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Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers – Rockin’ And Romance
Guys, baseball season is half over. Technically, it’s more than half over. The Mets have played…92 games I think? Yeah, they still suck so I don’t want to look at the exact…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 365
Todd – “With Love From Me To You” LP Re-Issue Updates: Someone emailed me earlier this week asking if there were still copies available for sale. Yes, I still have a few…