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"A little bit of this. A little bit of that. A pot, a pan, a broom, a hat. . ."—Anatevka, "Fiddler on the Roof." This is a blog about everything and nothing. A little parenting, a little humor, some poetry, news, essays, a lot of music. I don't want to waste your time, just send positive vibes into the blogosphere. Oh, yeah, my name is Sarah Torribio. Enough about me, how are you?
Sunday, December 27, 2020
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Song of the Day: "The Last Time I Saw You (O Christmas)"
"The Last Time I Saw You (O Christmas)" by Porridge Radio—an indie-rock outfit from Brighton, England—is is a splendid, keening, rocking darkwave Christmas tune. It may be a doomed couples' holiday swan song, but it's more cheerful than Judy Garland or Karen Carpenter's heartbreak-beat rendition of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas."
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Song of the Day: "Jane Says" by Jane's Addiction
I can't help it. I'm Gen X, graduated from high school 1992 and attended, as a teen, the first Lollapalooza with headliners Jane's Addiction. I love their tribal, spacey, drugged-out, Dionysian sound.
The sound is complex, quiet and keening and yet elbowing for ever-more space via reverb and a percussive wall of sound, notably the hypnotic use of steel drums.
Perry Farrel —who I had the peak-experience honor of
interviewing a few years back for the Reno Gazette Journal—surfs the aural wave with ease and eccentricity.
"Jane Says," about a drug-addled girl with her feet on the most sordid of streets and her head in the clouds, is not just a song. Forgive my hyperbole, but to my music-addled brain, it's a prayer meeting of the church of rock 'n roll, set in the ancient Greek temple of the Oracle of Delphi.
—Sarah Torribio
Saturday, December 12, 2020
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