Isn’t It Fun?

Posts from June 2009

Captain EO!

More MJ. And it feels almost wrong to be posting this here. Without the benefit of massive surround sound, actual lasers, smoke machines, and, of course, 3D, some of the magic of Captain EO gets a little lost.
That is, of course, unless you saw it as a child and having been dying to see it [...]


MJ

I won’t go on and on about this but I loved Michael. When we were younger, my brother was a far bigger fan than I was, but I was always trying to wrap my head around the fact that people would literally faint at the sight of him. And as I began to understand pop [...]


The Worst Music in the World

Back when I worked in Center City Philadelphia, I frequented a pizza joint that inexplicably switched their lunchtime musical accompaniment from top 40 to WJJZ, Philadelphia’s smooth jazz station. It was truly unbearable. And I got the sense that WJJZ understood that most people can’t bear to listen to this stuff; instead of filling [...]


Mew, “Introducing Palace Players”

Perhaps I’ve been living under a rock and everyone in the world already knows about these guys, but I have a feeling Mew’s new record will pleasantly surprise a lot of people. This is the first single:


Happy Bitte Orca Day!

What was certainly the most anticipated record of my 2009 is finally here. But because we live in the future, I’ve had a chance to spend a lot of time with Bitte Orca over the past few weeks and it’s been an interesting experience.
My initial reaction went something like this: “WHY ISN’T THIS EXACTLY [...]