5 songs, live in studio at a French radio station, from Italian/Icelandic songstress Emiliana Torrini.
If you're more visually-oriented, Ms. Torrini has videos for "Sunny Road" (.wmv) and "Heartstopper" (this one is especially wonderful).
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Friday, May 27, 2005
Kate York : Paste Records
MP3 FRIDAY! Two songs from Kate York, at Paste Records. Good stuff for a summer evening.
Monday, May 23, 2005
Maui Wowee
Your pal MRJEFF has just returned from a much-needed vacation on Maui. (His sister had decided that that was where she was going to have her wedding.) Here we see the just-married bride, enjoying a well-earned beverage. Yum!
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Blogging about blogging
Christopher Guest* blogs about capo gardening, at THE HUFFINGTON POST.
* That's Lord Haden-Guest to you, peon!
* That's Lord Haden-Guest to you, peon!
Airship Ahoy!
The Goodyear Blimp passes over Casa de Señor Jeff.
Goodyear currently has three blimps in operation. (They have erected nearly 350. More history here.) The West Coast blimp is the Spirit of America, based out of an airfield in Carson, near the intersection of I-405 and I-110. You can tell when the blimp is flying over your area by the sound of the propellers, and by the barking dogs. (The dogs in MRJEFF's neighborhood really don't like the blimp.)
Friday, May 06, 2005
Lawsuit mp3s!
Here's how the internet is a beautiful thing:
This morning I read an Ask Metafilter thread about a snoring neighbor. Somebody (perhaps jokingly) suggests, among other courses of action, filing a noise complaint. This reminds me about the old news story from my hometown of Davis, about a woman who was cited for snoring too loud. While looking up the particulars, I come across the Noise Violation page of the Davis Wiki. One of the people commenting on this page is Bev Sykes, mother of several of the members of the band Lawsuit, which was the best local band of the late eighties - early nineties. The band broke up in 1996, and lead singer Paul Sykes died in 1999, but -- miracle of miracles! -- they've put their albums online. (I've had Kind of Brown, Emergency Third Rail Power Trip and the Lawsuit EP ever since they came out, but I'd thought that I would never hear any of the old pre-CD music again.)
And so that's how I rediscovered "Into the Night," "The Disco Song" and "Days of Our Lives" and had a happy Friday.
This morning I read an Ask Metafilter thread about a snoring neighbor. Somebody (perhaps jokingly) suggests, among other courses of action, filing a noise complaint. This reminds me about the old news story from my hometown of Davis, about a woman who was cited for snoring too loud. While looking up the particulars, I come across the Noise Violation page of the Davis Wiki. One of the people commenting on this page is Bev Sykes, mother of several of the members of the band Lawsuit, which was the best local band of the late eighties - early nineties. The band broke up in 1996, and lead singer Paul Sykes died in 1999, but -- miracle of miracles! -- they've put their albums online. (I've had Kind of Brown, Emergency Third Rail Power Trip and the Lawsuit EP ever since they came out, but I'd thought that I would never hear any of the old pre-CD music again.)
And so that's how I rediscovered "Into the Night," "The Disco Song" and "Days of Our Lives" and had a happy Friday.
