April 2009
Things that need to see the light of day
During the sessions for The Man Who Sold The World, the trio of Ronson, Visconti, and Woodmansey - still under The Hype moniker - signed to Vertigo Records. The group recruited Benny Marshall from The Rats as vocalist, and entered the studio to record an album. By the time a single appeared, The Hype had been re-christened Ronno. “The Fourth Hour of My Sleep” was released on Vertigo to...
March 2009
I know this has been posted a billion time but it...
Captain Beefheart’s 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing
1. Listen to the birds. That’s where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren’t going anywhere.
2. Your guitar is not really a guitar Your guitar is a divining rod. Use it to...
WatchChange traffic lights with a tv remote.
What? Theres no way this works
One Art The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster, Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will...
SAVED BY THE BELL: THE GRAD SCHOOL YEARS.
BY TEDDY WAYNE
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INT. THE BOYS’ HOUSE—DAY
(SLATER enters the living room of the perpetually dark three-bedroom house he sublets with ZACK andSCREECH. He wears flared warm-up pants, a neon spandex tank top, and horn-rimmed glasses, and his hair is tied in a ponytail.)
SLATER: Did you do the Milton reading for our Early Modern seminar, preppy?
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