John Vanderslice’s puttanesca. I may have to try making this some day. The rest of this site is pretty nifty, too.
Month: January 2005
Arcade Fire
There’s some Arcade Fire live MP3s at this site. I’m just starting to get into these guys.
San Diego hotel stuff
This article has a good write-up on the San Diego con hotel situation. Interesting quote: “The fact of the matter is that Comic-Con International is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, annual convention to hit San Diego.” No kidding. Attendance last year was counted at 87,000. There’s more hotel news here.
NPR: All Songs Considered: Best Music of 2004
NPR’s Best Music of 2004 — yet another best of 2004 list.
Stan Freberg
Here’s an old Mark Evanier column about Stan Freberg.
Comic-Con
Today is the first day that Comic-Con hotel reservations can be made. I managed to snag a room in a decent hotel not too far from the convention center, but it wasn’t in my first, second, third, or fourth choice! It looks like there’s been a mad rush on hotel space for the con. I think anyone looking for a hotel room past the end of this week is probably going to be out of luck. (Either that, or there’s something wrong with the hotel reservation site, and they’re just not showing all the available rooms.)
On a related note, only a couple of more weeks until National Gorilla Suit Day.
Mixtaper
Yet more best of 2004 lists! (I don’t know why I’m so interested in “best of” lists this year, but I am.)
WIll Eisner
Will Eisner passed away a couple of days ago. He was one of my favorite comics creators. I loved all his stuff, from his old Spirit comics from the 40’s, through to his more recent graphic novels.
Drive-By Truckers
I was poking around at Amazon today, and I noticed that Gangstabilly, the Drive-By Truckers album with “The Living Bubba”, and a few other classics, is being re-released on January 25, re-mastered and with new liner notes. Mark your calendar!
Hoover’s G-String
These guys are fun. Any band that writes a song about Tommy Keene has got to be OK. They’ve got a song called “Jersey Turnpike” too.