The Dependent Clause
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"There is no more dangerous gift to posterity than a few cleverly turned platitudes." - F Scott Fitzgerald |
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| Located: | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Tags: | music, Northeast Minneapolis, Minneapolis music, music scene, photography, arts |
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Book Review: Bill Bruford, The Autobiography on Nov 20, 2009 in Music autobiography Bill Bruford books drumming King Crimson memoir Yes So I just finished Bill Bruford’s autobiography (unofficial subtitle: Tea & Drumpets) and I can report that I loved it for all the reasons you might expect, along with some wholly unanticipated ones. I suspected the book would be full of j...
Two Days Before She Set Herself On Fire on Nov 19, 2009 in General bands Iowa City John Svec Music nostalgia Racecar Radar Speed Of Sauce Shuffling through an iTunes library containing 105 days of music means that I will occasionally land upon a long-forgotten item so obscure that, were I still storing music on plastic media, would remained consigned to the backs of my closest for year...
Nightmare Scenarios: A Personal Timeline on Nov 18, 2009 in General The themes of nightmares, however, seem to be surprisingly universal. In the few studies that have been done across different cultures, the most common scenario involves the dreamer being pursued or attacked. … Some other common subjects are fi...
The Dependent Clause Movie Club: 2012 on Nov 16, 2009 in Film 2012 blockbuster Chiwetel Ejiofor Danny Glover disaster movies Hollywood John Cusack movie reviews movies Oliver Platt Roland Emmerich Woody Harrelson Over the weekend my special ladyfriend and I took in a modest, small-budget, indie film documentary called 2012. If you live in a major metropolitan area or college town you should seek out a small art-house theater that, with any luck, might be scre...
My Blog is Seven Years Old? on Nov 13, 2009 in General anniversaries blogging blogs This is about a month overdue, but this year marks my seventh as a blogger. I took the self-indulgent time to self-indulgently browse my self-indulgent blog entries from the past self-indulgent year and self-indulgent pick the ones that I self-indulg...
The Rest of My Decade on Nov 12, 2009 in Music Absinthe Blind Air Alias Alto Heceta And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Andrew Bird Archer Prewitt Battles Beck Beyonce Blackalicious Brian Eno Broken Social Scene Channels Cheer-Accident cLOUDDEAD Cyne Daedalus David Bazan David Byrne David Sylvian Dosh Ed Harcourt Eels Elbow Fiona Apple Flying Lotus Foreign Exchange Fountains of Wayne Four Tet Grandaddy Grizzly Bear Groove Armada Gwen Stefani Halloween Alaska Hatchback Hood Ian Ball John Mayer John Vanderslice Jose Gonzalez Josh Rouse Kaki King Kanye West Kings of Convenience Lansing-Dreiden LCD Soundsystem Lisa Germano Loose Fur Low Ma Dita Matthew Dear Mike Ladd Mouse On Mars Mr. Hudson My Decade My Morning Jacket Mylo Neil Finn NewSense Of Montreal Outkast Pete Yorn Phoenix Prefuse 73 Radiohead Royksopp Rufus Wainwright Saint Etienne School of Language School Of Seven Bels Seal Secret Machines Spank Rock St. Vincent Stars Stars Of The Lid Subtle Sufjan Stevens Sun Kil Moon Sunfold Super Furry Animals The 1900s The Belles The Books The Dears The Field The Hold Steady The Long Winters The Notwist The Pernice Brothers The Shins The Standard The Thrills The Ting Tings The Whigs Timo Maas Tom Vek Tortoise Travis Morrison TV On The Radio Wilco Working For A Nuclear Free City Yoni Wolf These are the rest of the songs on my Best of the Decade list, about which I would have something insightful to say, were I less busy and/or lazy. Ed Harcourt, “Beneath the Heart of Darkness” Kings of Convenience, “Failure” N*...
