Last Friday, during my week-long vacation in Seattle, my friends Joe and Robyn took me to an area of town called Ballard. We ate Thai for dinner, ducked into a used record shop, and peered into the windows of illuminated neighborhood bars before deciding on Hattie’s Hat for a Strongbow and soul music on the … Read more
Oh man, this is a heavy one. I’ll warn you in advance not to listen to this song for the first time in public. You might cry. I definitely did. Mr. Appleby’s poetic dejection is very powerful, and I don’t want to devalue his beautiful words by trying to describe them with my own. Just hit play … Read more
When I was in the 7th grade my best friend at the time came over to my house to spend the night one evening after school. He had been telling me all about this band he just started listening to called Modest Mouse, and he offered to burn me a few CD’s of their music. … Read more