Vampire Weekend and fun.

My indie music extravaganza continues on Emusic.  Here are a couple more standouts.
fun.
Yes, that is the name of this band, complete with the period at the end and a lowercase f.  Nothing says indie band like punctuation in the name.  And nothing says 70’s nostalgia throwback like a 7:51 minute song with melodic choruses and [...]

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Shall We Dance? and Strictly Ballroom (and a brief comment on how I, like Phil Collins, can’t dance)

Let’s just get something out of the way.  I can’t dance.  I’m not usually a big fan of watching people dance.  And I tend to get a little uncomfortable at functions where dancing might break out.  We’ve all got our things, and dancing most definitely is not my thing.
Maybe I’m just too self-conscious to let [...]

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John Cusack (and 10 must-see movies according to me)

Flipping through channels last night, I ended up on Grosse Pointe Blank.  We own both of the soundtracks and the DVD for this flick, but I hadn’t seen it in awhile.  So, having no reason not to, my wife and I watched it again.  If you haven’t seen it, kick it to the top of [...]

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Hitting the Wrong Notes with Glee (even though I am pulling for those plucky kids)

So I’ve watched a couple of episodes of Glee.  Mainly because it has been seriously hyped by the entertainment media and the blogosphere.  I understand why.  It’s ever so slightly different than most of what you’ve got on network TV now.  And it was created by Ryan Murphy, whose previous series Nip/Tuck strikes people as [...]

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Miike Snow and Apsci (or welcome back to Emusic)

I’ve written before about Emusic.  Great service for indie music.  I’ve found a lot of good stuff there.  But I tend to run out of things to download after a couple of months.  Anyway, they’ve sucked me back in with 75 free downloads (and you know I can’t resist free downloads), so here’s the result [...]

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Picture of meMichael Landweber writes literary fiction that many find oddly compelling. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife and two children, who tolerate him. His stories have appeared in Pindeldyboz, Fourteen Hills, Barrelhouse, American Literary Review, Fugue and some other places. He is an Associate Editor at the Potomac Review and the Associate Director of a non-profit organization. He likes titles with the word “Associate” in them. He can also be found blogging about TV and other fun stuff at Pop Matters.

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