a poem

we were two of six in the audience
and two were this chinese old lady
and her daughter who talked loudly
a lot
but did know the music very well
then i came home to put life
together, particularly the san fran
hotelling
i found a burnt pepperoni in the
oven. a perfect pepperoni shape,
just black.
many colors of black
but still a round pepperoni.
and that's why my smoke detector
went off earlier today when i was
cooking dinner.

"Part of dressing, particularly for men..."

"Part of dressing, particularly for men, is to humble yourself, even if you are a Prince, by asserting that the custom of the whole is as important as your personal choices. This is why we wear business dress"..."it is an assertion that we’re all in the same boat, all respect the importance of the situation, and we’ve chosen ceremonial clothing to reflect that fact."

(via Putthison)

Rachel Kiel! Yes!

This face is all "I diiid that"

The Kickstarter page says: "THIS PROJECT WILL BE FUNDED ON FRIDAY APR 15, 12:01AM EDT."

Ohhh yessss

Rachel Kickstarter Update: Almost $9K!

The last days of hustle are coming--just one more grand to raise. We're excited 'cause it's so close but the whole thing is nerve-racking too.

To get you excited about it too, here she is with an animal


So go pledge!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/532510090/rachel-kiel-makes-a-great-studio-album
Get a copy of the first album, and the new to-be=recorded second album, or pledge more and get SO MUCH MORE oh GOODNESS YES

A Musical Opinion I've Turned Back On: Tom Waits

"Tom Waits has several great albums."

No...he is an inconsistent artist capable of great highs on a song-by-song basis. In the past fifteen years or so, he's seemed to write about five of every song and releases all of them. For every "Take It With Me" there are three to four songs like it, most of them on "Orphans," that I surprise me when they pop up on shuffle because I don't remember them at all but they sound just like some other song of his that I like more. That, or they sound like three other songs I kind of remember also being somewhere but I'm not sure where and I don't want to go finding out.

If he or Kathleen Brennan are actually choosing the best songs for the albums, I shudder to think how much more of the same stuff is out there. Listening to his records, you get numbed by the Tom Waits Melody Zone where nothing moves too much, nothing surprises too much, and you get the vague sense this is the same as the last one but God, let's not go back and make sure.

Cat Power

Yep OK I get it it only took me like seven years or something.
She's good. Really good.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqTIxgpF3RE

Rachel's Kickstarter Update

This has been kind of a thrill ride and it's only five days in. It turns out that Rachel has lot of shockingly generous friends, and a few of these pledges have just made her day. But the project has a long way to go.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/532510090/rachel-kiel-makes-a-great-studio-album