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this will be where i will post some reflections on my visit to the most bodacious town of portland oregon.
it may be a paraphrase but i think our hosts steve and erin quoted dave hickey speaking of their home town : "i hate portland --it feels like it was made for eight year olds." perhaps they can correct the record if thats too far off, but what i think he was getting after is just how utterly inner-child friendly and nurturing the topography is. light rails, bike lanes, flowerbeds, container plantings, terrible but climbable public sculpture, waterfronts, public water parks, skateboard parks. no litter. no fucking liter at all. even the entrance ramps to the highways are filled in with all sorts of flowering plants and well groomed green lawn. ...but i suspect hickeys quote goes even deeper.
rat rod pick of the week
You don’t hear coughing on the radio. You just don’t. So when the coughing goes on … and on and on and on and on -- on a loop for something over five minutes -- you can hardy make sense of it. Infact, you can hardy do anything but try and restrain the cramping in your stomach. No one expects that of radio (even the Howard Stern fans), and no one turns to their computer and actively types in w w w dot w f m u dot org and calls up a live stream for a show called “Anal Magic with Kenny G”. Because that’s absurd and seemingly shouldn’t exist in any sort of reality.
ex fmu'er douglas wolk chatting up audio blogging in the la times via tofu hut who happens to get a big mention
As recently as a year ago, there were perhaps two dozen music blogs. Now there are well over 50, with more appearing every day from all over the world, specializing in everything from hard-core punk to pre-World War II gospel.
Music blogging has developed into a subculture with its own unofficial leaders and unwritten rules, and it's becoming a significant force in the music industry, which mostly seems to be smiling on the phenomenon.
There's a relatively standard format for MP3 blogs that's unofficially evolved: one or two songs a day, each one accompanied by a paragraph or two about the song or the artist. Some bloggers also include photographs or links to places where their readers can buy the CD on which each song appears.
Most focus on little-known musicians or rare and out-of-print recordings; few will post something that's already a huge radio hit or by a very famous artist, and it's frowned upon to post more than a single song from a given album.