lizistwentythree:

defendneworleans:

Tonight

These are mah friends. Go see them.

FWIW, I’ve got a review of the record in the next Filter Good Music Guide, available at Urban Outfitters and Landmark Cinemas everywhere!

Pistol Pete Maravich plays HORSE – And The Valley Shook
Awesome.  Geaux Tigers.

David Foster Wallace – Commencement Speech at Kenyon College
I’m not one to say things like “voice of a generation,” but DFW knew what he was saying.  

We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all— by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians— be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.

Wendell Berry (via friendmaterial)

Wendell Berry = king of Calvin College.  Or at least, he should be.  Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community is on my summer reading list.

I’m not ashamed to admit I miss the casual insanity of Louisiana.

Comment on ABR. (via lizistwentythree)  

Nor am I.  

Another new reason to get excited.

The more I sit still, the more I love Leonard Cohen.  With that big a back catalogue, this could get ugly.  I keep trying to upload “Tower of Song,” but to no avail.  Seek it out on your own.  And by “on your own,” I mean right here:

http://swill-merchant.blogspot.com/2009/03/coachella-artist-day-leonard-cohen-37.html

I’m looking at you, too, Nick Cave.

Oh, also, I’m back.