Yonder Mountain String Band

January 31, 2007 in Music

Woohoo! I just bought tickets to see Yonder Mountain String Band at City Hall in downtown Nashville. This is in addition to the TV On the Radio show I bought tickets for a few days ago.
Unfortunately, I had to use Ticketmaster. So, for $40 worth of tickets, I ended up paying $62.50. That’s more than [...]

Max It Out

January 28, 2007 in General

Nick Bradbury, of Homesite, TopStyle, and FeedDemon fame, is asking folks in Nashville to spread the word about Max It Out. This is a worthwhile charity event, and though I’ve not attended it (I’m new to Nashville), you can read more about it from Nick.
The charity is involved in raising money to study and hopefully, [...]

TV on the Radio

January 27, 2007 in Music

I’m finally going to get to see TV on the Radio live. They are playing at the Mercy Lounge in Nashville in March. I’ve already ordered the tickets. I really up they live up to the hype in my head.

Buying a Car

January 19, 2007 in General

I just bought a new car. It’s a 2005 Kia Spectra5 with 19,000 miles. I have pretty bad credit because of some dumb decisions when I was right out of college.
With that, the credit companies feel free to rake me over the coals. It’s their perogative in the free market, I suppose.
For all the recent [...]

Media Blackout or Cover Up in Greece?

January 12, 2007 in Politics

I came home this afternoon expecting a lot of news about the bombing in Greece. Instead, there is nothing on the cable news shows and nothing on the major news outlets online. This is a screenshot from CNN.com as of 4:40pm CST. There is nothing about Greece and certainly nothing “above the fold.”
FoxNews.com is [...]

Has It Begun?

January 11, 2007 in Politics

On CNN at this second: “Explosion rips through U.S. Embassy compound in Athens, Greece.”
Is this the beginning of the end? Will there be a worldwide about-face against the U.S.? Perhaps there already is and this is the result of that downturn.
Let’s hope it was just a gas leak. Of course it’s not. I am beside [...]

Bush’s “Sorry” Means Nothing

January 10, 2007 in Politics

President Bush has decided to send 20,000 more troops to Iraq. He takes responsibility for the mistakes that have been made. In effect, he apologized for what he has gotten us into.
This apology is meaningless. Bush says that failure in Iraq means that “Radical Islamic extremists would grow in strength and gain new recruits.” He [...]

Children of Men Intensely Haunting

January 5, 2007 in Movies

Dually published here: Fylmic Glory at Fylmz.com
There is already a chorus of great criticism for Children of Men. Metacritic is showing a score of 85. RottenTomatoes is showing a score of 93. I will add my voice to that chorus after seeing the film this evening. Alfonso Cuaron’s take on the P.D. James novel is [...]