Archive | March, 2005

The revolution starts now

08 Mar
The revolution starts now

Armed with his dad’s jacket, his dad’s poem “Save It” and two noisemakers, Noah Nattell offered a joyful tribute to his father at last weekend’s “Memorial Circus” celebrating the late Albany poet-activist Tom Nattell. The event took place at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Center Square. At the end of the evening, I joined Michael […]

On the plate, of late

03 Mar
On the plate, of late

I know the listing on the “Shows” page is a little slim. As in no nada nuthin’. But there’s a lot going on behind the scenes. Here’s what I’ll be working on the next few weeks: Recording the final two songs for the “Spy Love Box” EP; Inventing some songs to layer on top of […]

Real? Compared to What?

03 Mar

PS: That article also mentioned Common, and oh, don’t get me started. Common disappointed me big time a couple-few moons ago. While I understand that pimping product is just about the only way for major-label artists to actually see green these days, you don’t have to sell out by bastardizing genius VietNam-era protest songs to […]

The new positivity plan

02 Mar
The new positivity plan

Lightweight articles on pop culture trends are annoying in general. But nothing is more annoying or consistently as ill-informed as the stupid article on trends in hip-hop “positivity” that’s been written and re-written every six months since Arrested Development appeared on the scene in the early 90s. But in a long line of such bad […]