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I'm rockin the M-I-C…

09 Sep
diznee

Why? Because I’m in the mother effin’ H-O-U-S-E. So, apropos of this week’s adventures in TV propaganda, the Bootleg Blog now offers Diznee for download, written and recorded in 2000 for the previously unreleased Tele Sessions. Photo: Jesus’ General.

Black Crow

01 Sep
Black Crow

I’m a little black boy crying in a blue sky… This cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Black Crow” is also from Wafers and Wine, but it was originally recorded on a cassette 4-track for 1997’s A Tape of You, a collection of covers by Joni’s Internet fans. Legend has it that a copy of it made […]

Bootlegs, studios, news and kids

01 Aug
the new studio

Reporting from the still-in-progress basement studio on: THE STATE OF THE BOOTLEG BLOG: From 1998’s Wafers and Wine EP, I offer downloads of Apartment D and Seachange. Both songs were written for Carl Liss’ first feature-length film. THE STATE OF THE STUDIO: I spent most of my vacation last week fine tuning bryanthomas.com and thehiddencity.com, […]

Amusement Park Musings

19 Jul
Amusement Park Musings

TUESDAY: I mention to a co-worker that as a child I was terrified of much of that Lake George attraction then known as Storytown. The menacing gorilla at the entrance to the Jungle Land section was bad enough (not to mention the racist imagery), but I’m still working out the psychological trauma I experienced watching […]

Powhida, Buell, Tyler

18 Jul
John Powhida Bebe Buell Live Tyler

Speaking of celebrities and their babies (Bebes?): Yes, that’s our man John Powhida in the pages of People Magazine. The copy reads: FEMALE BONDING Liv Tyler cozies up to mom Bebe Buell (dad is rocker Stephen Tyler) at a birthday bash Wednesday for the elder former model at New York City club the Cutting Room. […]