Today as I’m leaving work, I started getting a couple of weird emails and text alerts about some voicemail I had on Google Voice, Google’s voice inbox. Part of the beauty of Google Voice is that it’ll email you transcripts of your voice mail. Here’s one such transcript I got today: Hi Scott, This is [...]
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January 19, 2009
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Strange Days Indeed
By Scott Cederlund in musicFor some reason, the John Lennon song “Nobody Told Me” just popped into my head. Most peculiar Mama. There’s a little yellow idol to the north of Katmandu Everybody’s flying and no one leaves the ground Everybody’s crying and no one makes a sound There’s a place for us in the movies you just gotta [...]
December 5, 2008
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Strange but not a stranger
By Scott Cederlund in musicThe Talking Head’s BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE is one of those songs and videos that I’ll always remember and love. It may actually be one of the first videos on MTV that really stood out to me as something other than a performance piece. The image of David Byrne’s projected head on the street pavement [...]
Tags: Talking Heads, The Cardigans, Tom Jones
November 28, 2008
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Concrete Blonde– A Long Time Ago (and more on The Shield)
By Scott Cederlund in music, television, videoOne of the best things about the final episode of The Shield was the montage of scenes that accompanied the closing credits with the use of Concrete Blondes’ “A Long Time Ago” used as the song. As much as the line “I’ve done worse” and the images of Shane and his family from the last [...]
Tags: Concrete Blonde, The Shield
November 21, 2008
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I want my WHTV– The Police Synchronicity 2
By Scott Cederlund in musicSo I picked up the new Police dvd/cd set CERTIFIABLE the other day. The music isn’t bad but that’s got to be one of the most boring concert videos I’ve ever watched. There can be an art to these things but CERTIFIABLE seems like it was shot on video cameras purchased at Walmart. I’ve seen [...]
Tags: Certifiable, Synchonicity, The Police
July 18, 2008
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Wonder if Donald Fagen knows about this moonlighting?
By Scott Cederlund in comics, musicO.k. For a moment, I got really excited about a Boom! Studio press release talking about a new celebrity comic book creator. This would have actually put yesterday’s Stephen Baldwin news to shame. BOOM! Studios is proud to announce LAST REIGN: KINGS OF WAR, a new four-issue mini-series created by director Walt Becker and written [...]
May 23, 2008
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Matthew Sweet’s “I’ve Been Waiting”
By Scott Cederlund in music, videoYour video of the weekend:
Tags: I've Been Waiting, Matthew Sweet
February 20, 2008
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U2 wants to deliver a masterpiece?
By Scott Cederlund in musicBrad sent me this link to Billboard: U2 has hit the studio in Dublin to continue work on its next album with longtime collaborators Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. “We’re going to try and break new sonic ground and deliver a masterpiece,” Lanois tells Billboard.com. So what were they trying to do with How to [...]
November 2, 2007
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I don’t want to be Iggy Pop, but if that’s what it takes…
By Scott Cederlund in musicFrom R.E.M. Live.
November 1, 2007
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Yes, Lyle, life is so uncertain.
By Scott Cederlund in musicI really wanted to put in this video but embedding is disabled. Instead, I have to go with this song which is great as well. Happy Birthday, Lyle.