The Entroporium

[Download] Excerpts from The First Family.mp3 Just in time for the election and Halloween, a reason to talk about imitations of politicians. Vaughn Meader is dead. Who? In 1962, 27-year old comic Vaughn Meader was hired by a couple of veteran comedy writers to imitate President Kennedy for a record called “The First Family.” This [...]

[Soundtrack] Tuxedomoon – James Whale.mp3 I’m sure I’ll be posting again before Halloween, but I wanted to give all you Monday-Friday folks a chance to hear the scariest song in my whole collection. This is from San Francisco art-punks Tuxedomoon’s debut album in 1979 and is long out of print in the United States. Turn [...]

[Download] Nick Lowe – Let’s Stay In and Make Love.mp3 More tracks from this excellent record available from Nick Lowe’s site. After posting yesterday’s sad, sad M. Ward track, I started humming it to myself and found myself naturally “medleying” into this warm inviting track from Nick Lowe. It’s got virtually the same chord progression [...]

[Soundtrack] M. Ward — Undertaker.mp3 More Swedish significance today. Last Saturday I attended a wedding at San Francisco’s Swedish American Hall, a bizarre little auditorium over Café Du Nord constructed after the 1906 earthquake with many Scandinavian touches. I’d only been there one other time, to see M. Ward touring behind “Transfiguration Of Vincent,” a [...]

[Soundtrack] Dandy Warhols – Every Day Should Be A Holiday.mp3 Apologies for the slow posting over the weekend. DSL is down at home until tomorrow night. Last week’s most popular download (by far!) was Brian Jonestown Massacre. In the interests of equal time for the Dig! candidates, here’s a track from their more-successful, less-interesting brethren [...]

[Download] Neil Young – Lotta Love.mp3 How will people reply to my irresistible Craig’s List offer? BRIDGE SHOW Sunday – Section 101, Row P – profits to charity I bought this pair for $60/ea and I’m perfectly willing to sell them for face value. If, however, you feel compelled to offer more for them, I [...]

[Soundtrack] Dntel – Umbrella.mp3 The best part of a good rainstorm is the build-up: the sense of foreboding as it gets darker, the birds & animals busily get themselves ready, the people rushing around and sneaking looks up to see When? Will it be now? Will I make it home before it happens? By the [...]

The ALCS is absolutely punishing. Terrible baseball that just won’t end. Blown saves, un-clutch hitting, pitchers that the managers don’t trust. First a four-hour game. The next night, a five-hour game. Well, it can’t get any weirder, right? Tonight: six hours of baseball, 471 pitches, 30 men left on base. Meanwhile, the Cardinals and Astros [...]

[Soundtrack] Bo Kaspers Orkester – Allt ljus på mig.mp3 Yesterday was a day of complete torpor. We got out of the house just long enough for Mexican food and ran back home as fast as the traffic-besmirched Bay Bridge would allow us. I then made the mistake of starting to watch the Red Sox-Yankees game, [...]