Month: July 2013

RIP JJ Cale Turns out Eric Clapton ripped off a couple of white blues musicians too.

Can’t believe they named their invention that, but the GrabOpener doesn’t capture the imagination like a trip to second base. Or being President of these United States. I don’t think your buddies are going to be very impressed.

Elvis Costello seems to just fit in any genre or time period. Life is unfair.

This has been out for a couple of days now, in case you hadn’t heard it already here it is. Looks like another album with another sonic identity for Pearl Jam. It’s been a long time since Ten begat a departure to Vs., Vitalogy, No Code, and then Yield. Their most recent effort Backspacer does…

This is only a modern history of the skyline, post-fire and basically shows the “new” skyscrapers since 1958. I did some searching for an Seattle skyline photo that was before the “Great Fire” in 1889. I remember seeing it years agon in a book whose title I can no longer recall. Really striking architecture, can’t…

Team of total scrubs getting schooled by “The Princess Layups” gets Gary Payton subbing on in the second half. You get lead, start to show off, get complacent, and then a HOFer shows up and beats you. http://youtu.be/6OccOvmjShk Well, it’s not as contrived as Storage Wars and I wish it would have happened to me.…

A lot of people don’t know that 2Pac was with Digital Underground back in the day. I don’t think that he actually raps on the album “Sex Packets”, it’s been a few years since I listened to the whole thing. Pac is on one of the more mainstream DU songs, “Same Song”, done for a…