Monthly Archives: March 2013

Gettin’ There…

[Painting by Georgia O’Keefe]

Yankee notes from the intrepid Chad Jennings: here, here, and, for all you Nunez fans: here.

[Photo Via This Isn’t Happiness]

“Dwell” By Linda Christensen.

This is just the fuggin’ greatest.

Via Twisted Sifted.

R.I. P. Harry Reems.

2013: The Big Ouch continues.

Our man Mark Lamster heads off to Big D. He’s The Man.

Via Dust and Grooves: Everybody’s Got a Thing.

Nice long feature on Coco Crisp and the art of stealing bases by Jonah Keri over at Grantland.

[Photo Credit: vanderwal]

I want to be a part of it.

Picture from Magnificent Ruin.

With just a little bit of salt, please.

Feelin’ this today.

[Picture by Susan Hable]

The A.V. Club interviews Mr. Wunnerfulness himself–Prince Paul:

AVC: “A Roller Skating Jam Named ‘Saturdays’” (from 1991’s De La Soul Is Dead for De La Soul)

PP: I remember the big deal about that was having Russell Simmons come in and do the vocal intro at the beginning of the song. Russell was my manager as a producer for a hot second, and he was also a manager for Stetsasonic. And I remember just how hard it was to even get him in a meeting. But after De La Soul did so well, it just took a phone call for him to come down to the studio. He was so eager and everybody wanted to be down so much, it just showed me the power of what a hit record can do for you. That, to me, was the shining moment of that song. It was fun making it. It was uptempo and everything else, and there are a lot of layers and samples. Once again, Pos had the main loop for the song, and it was just us kind of building around that loop, but it was like, “Wow, we got Russell on here.”

AVC: Was it your idea to have Russell on?

PP: I don’t remember whose idea it was, to be honest. I think it came from the guys. Who it came from, I don’t know, but I just remember that he was real happy to be there. I was like, “Wow,” because it was hard enough to get the guy in a meeting but he was on time and ready to record. So that was kind of nice.

Life sure is different under Prince Hal. David Waldstein has more in the Times:

“I’m not trying to beat him,” he said of his father as he sat in the conference room. “I’m not trying to be better than he was, because he was absolutely great at what he did. I can only be what I am, and the things I think are important, I will pursue.”

…“They took their share enough that they thought I didn’t get any worse,” Steinbrenner said of his colleagues. “But I did. The one thing I joke about is that we could have a horrible, horrible day at work here with him, but the one thing they don’t have to deal with is he doesn’t show up at their house to play with their kids that night. We would get home and I’d be like, ‘I love him to death and my kids love him, but not tonight.’ It’s definitely different what I went through than what they did.”

Hal’s got good hair, doesn’t he?

I don’t know what kind of bug hit me but something sure as hell did. I’m home sick today so I won’t be blogging. But I’ll be back soon.

[Photo Via: French Charmed]

Again, this could be a long season.

Coolin’…

[Photo Credit: Elliott Erwitt]

The greatest groove.

[Photo Via: mOrtality]