And another steps up to the plate:
Monday, March 31, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Harmonizin': Take Your Hat Off, Boy
Some Belly from back in the day.
1. "Gepetto," performed on the old John Stewart Show back in 1993:
2. "Feed the Tree":
3. A video for "Super-Connected," off of their second album:
4. And a video for my favorite Belly song, "Now They'll Sleep":
Friday, March 28, 2008
Thursday Walk
Usual Thursday walk. Kind of a short one yesterday, since I needed to get over the the MMOCA screening.
And here's lake monster head a few weeks ago:
And here it is now:
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Obligatory Motherhood
The Mother & Child statue outside the Chazen (nee Elvehjem):
Not to go all Eisenstein, but in the second photo, it looks like the kid's looking at the dude in the hat.
Then you get a reaction shot of the kid, thinking: "How I wish I had that hat."
Then the mother turns and looks, thinking: "Screw the hat, I want that goddamn coat."
Or maybe in all of the shots, they're keeping an eye out for Devil Bunnies, the little bastards.
Public Service Announcement: Watch Out For...
... THE DEVIL BUNNY!
Sure, he looks cute ...
... but he's nosing around ...
... looking for a fresh soul ...
... to nibble on ... 
... you may be next!
He's the Devil Bunny ...
... cute as a button ...
... a button from Hell!
Monday, March 24, 2008
Obligatory MMOCA
Taken yesterday. Always makes me think of a ship docking on State Street, like something out of the Terry Gilliam bit in The Meaning of Life.
Context:
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Harmonizin': Something to Swoon Over
So, one of my favorite musicians, both for her voice and her songwriting, is a woman named Tanya Donelly. She helped found Throwing Muses and The Breeders before forming Belly, way back in the dark and distant nineties. Belly broke up after two fine albums, and since then, Donelly's been putting out the occasional solo album. For me, she's up there with Tom Petty and Hem and old Rush and Tom Waits and so on and so forth. Some of her songs are a vital part of that personal soundtrack that's never far from the front of my mind.
Anyhoo, she has a website here, called "Slumberland." One cool thing, or two cool things are some songs she's put up there.
First there's some demos for songs from Belly's first album, Star. Apparently, some of these were originally meant for The Breeder's second LP (Donelly was still part of the band for the first album and the first EP), and Kim Deal plays on a couple of tracks, including "Feed the Tree," which ended up being one of Belly's bigger hits. (It's the one that goes "So take your hat off when you're talking to me, and be there when I feed the tree.")
Second there's a live gig recorded at the Windham Hotel in Vermont in 2004. (Her most recent LP was a set of new songs called "This Hungry Life," recorded at the same venue.) If you only sample one or two, grab a song called "Swoon" or one called "Manna," both originally off of her "Lovesongs for Underdogs" album. Or grab "Keeping You," originally off of "Beautysleep."
(There apparently used to be demos from "Lovesongs" and "Beautysleep," but those seem to no longer be up.)
Anyhoo, yeah, Tanya Donelly. Good stuff.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Obligatory Miss Forward
Progressive ol' Miss Forward. Or a reasonable facsimile, anyway:
Details about the statue here.
Hope she managed to stay warm this past winter:
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