We usually wait until we have a mid-week lull to watch Flight of the Conchords (On Demand, baby!) but we're going to watch it as soon as we're done writing this post just so we can see the "Garfunkeling" in better quality. Also, why is it that Jemaine is the only one ever ge...

“Prime Minister” March 1st, 2009 There are two stories in “Prime Minister,” and each of them is absolutely perfect for this surrealist world we’ve created. The show has leaned heavily this season on the humour to be found in New Zealand’s low level of cultural awa...

Lyrics: 1964-2008 By Paul Simon Simon & Schuster, 408 pages, $35 "It was a slow day and the sun was beating on the soldiers by the side of the road. There was a bright light, a shattering of shopwindows; the bomb in the baby carriage was wired to the radio.� These are the opening lines, t...

I may have missed the boat on This Is Ivy League, but now I’m swimming to catch up with that dinghy. It’s never too late to get on board. I’d previously seen the video for London Bridges. It didn’t wow me, so that was as far as my Ivy League education went (get it!!!). That i...

…I was born a wrangler and a rambler and I guess I always will” “Heard It In A Love Song” - The Marshall Tucker Band No Depression columnist Grant Alden has a great post up on his site about America’s long-running romance with the open road and some of the great literat...

Aya Matsuura - Scarborough Fair (Simon & Garfunkel cover) Beat Crusaders - Against All Odds (Phil Collins cover) Beat Crusaders - I Can See Clearly Now (Johnny Nash cover) Charm - Come (Namie Amuro cover) Charm - Cometa (Houki Boshi) (Younha cover) Charm - Mirame Solo A Mi (Eyes On Me) (Faye Wong co...

The Divinyls - I Touch Myself I know it's awful, I know... but it oozes the sort of obvious desperate sexuality that gets you when you're a teenage boy and after that, well, you kind of forgive... C'mon, when you're 12 or 13 that's enough to make any song great :( Moving on... Art Garfunkel - Bright...

I'll tell you Starbucks knows their audience when it comes to putting out music. Their latest in-store exclusive album will be a live compilation culled from Simon & Garfunkel's November 1969 tour - to be aptly titled Live 1969. The tour was the last for the duo for over a decade and featured se...

I am a hard core Blue Moon fan. I get annoyed when there is no orange. My second choice is usually Yuengling or sometimes Heifewiesen. The only beers I will never drink are Guiness and the Scottish one that tastes like food. However, I tend to get Blue Moon or Yuengling. The other day though, probab...

As you may know if you know me, or if you’re a regular reader of this blog, I am a compulsive about some things such as filing my recorded music. I've likely mentioned that I’m also obsessive about playing music I own. I figure that if I own it, I should play it. If I don’t play it, I should p...