SPOILERS BELOW. Tyler: Norman, tonight I saw Disclosure Day. I don’t know where to begin. I’m reeling. Norman: I have had a night to sleep on it. Not so much reeling. Feeling reflective about Spielberg and how this fits into his life’s work. It seems like a distillation of sorts. Tyler: <time lapse> We’re even. Loom […]
“What You Wish For” “Diane” “The Captain” “Look Alive” “Architects & Engineers” “Careful” “Long Night (live)” “Happier” “Jesus On The Radio” “When We Were Stars” “Dear Valentine (live)” “Hard Times” “What You Call Love” “Two Points For Honesty” “The Elevator” “Come Downstairs and Say Hello (live)” Tracks 7, 11, & 16 with the Omaha Symphony
“Everything Is Everything,” Ms. Lauryn Hill “Don’t Let Go,” Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds “Ultra Violet (Light My Way),” U2 “Miss You,” The Rolling Stones “Flaming Red,” Patty Griffin “The Will Song,” Heartless Bastards “The Beast And Dragon, Adored,” Spoon “The Chain (live),” Fleetwood Mac “Border Song,” Elton John “Things Have Changed,” Bob […]
Peaceful Ghosts, Nada Surf feat. Babelsberg Film Orchestra. Tyler: Ages ago, at some point during my unremarkable pair of semesters as a very-early-morning college radio DJ, I took a long look at the station’s copy of Nada Surf’s Let Go. The cover was abstract and understated, hardly what I expected from the “Popular” guys, and […]
“Grandpa Was A Carpenter,” John Prine “Big Exit,” P.J. Harvey “Touch Me, I’m Going To Scream, Part Two,” My Morning Jacket “Mama Werewolf,” Brandi Carlile “The Boys Of Summer,” Don Henley “Hard To Explain,” The Strokes “Run,” Miranda Lambert “Bobby Jean,” Bruce Springsteen “Dry Spell,” Kacey Musgraves “Bluejean Bop,” Paul McCartney “Not Strong Enough,” boygenius […]
“Sea Of Love” “Mr. November” “So Far Around The Bend” “Green Gloves” “Terrible Love” “Day I Die” “Where Is Her Head” “Afraid Of Everyone” “Alphabet City” “Apartment Story” “Once Upon A Poolside” (feat. Sufjan Stevens) “Rylan” “Fake Empire” “England” “Light Years”
Spoilers below. Norman: The opening shot of a movie will sometimes act as a key to what follows. The themes, ideas, and even structure of the film can be embedded in that one opening salvo. In Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, the first thing we see is Charlotte’s (Scarlett Johansson) ass in see-through underwear as […]
“Red Tide” “I Missed The Point” “Pitch Or Honey” “Rusty Mountain” “A Widow’s Toast” “Wild Creatures” “Set Out Running” “Baby, I’m Not (A Werewolf)” “The Needle Has Landed” “Winnie” “Favorite (live)” “People Got A Lotta Nerve” “I’m From Nowhere” “Look For Me (I’ll Be Around)” “Lion’s Jaws” “Where Did I Leave That Fire” “Don’t Forget […]
Tyler: Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States, took office under the specter of death. At his side as he took the oath of office stood, immortally, Jackie Kennedy, adored first lady, sudden and bloodied widow. An American chief executive had been assassinated for the first time in six decades. Johnson was not […]
“You Make My Dreams (Come True),” Hall & Oates “Stand By Me,” Oasis “Shadow Days (live),” John Mayer “Satellite (live),” Guster w/ the Omaha Symphony “America,” Simon & Garfunkel “Falling Slowly (live),” The Swell Season “Loving Cup,” The Rolling Stones “I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues,” Elton John “The Way Young Lovers […]