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Todd

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My Interests

Rock and roll music.

Music:

The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Black Crowes, Oasis, Wilco, Neil Young, Weezer, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Vines, Holly Golightly, Warren Zevon, The Hives, G. Love and Special Sauce, The Kinks, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Hard Lessons, Brendan Benson, The Stands, 22-20s, Faces, Sarah Silverman, Nic Armstrong and the Thieves, The Band, Chuck Berry, David Bowie, Jet, Loose Fur, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Raconteurs, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Stands, T.Rex, The Traveling Wilburys, The Velvet Underground, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Devendra Banhart.

Movies:

The Godfather, The Godfather II, A Clockwork Orange, On The Waterfront, Citizen Kane, The Big Lebowski, Magnolia, Fargo, Eyes Wide Shut, Apocalypse Now, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita, Full Metal Jacket, Masked and Anonymous, Miller's Crossing, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Reservoir Dogs,...And Now For Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, A Hard Day's Night, The Thin Red Line, Sleepers, Snatch, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Casino, What About Bob?, Wonder Boys, Short Cuts, Familiar to Millions, No Direction Home, Don't Look Back, Eat the Document, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic, The Libertine, The New World, The Aristocrats, Annie Hall.

Television:

The Sopranos, Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mr. Show with Bob & David, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Moral Orel

Books:

In His Own Write by John Lennon, Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky, The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, Why I Am Not a Christian and other essays by Bertrand Russell, The Path to Power; Means of Ascent; and Master of the Senate, all by Robert Caro, Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

Heroes:

John Lennon, Robert Kennedy, Bob Dylan, Noel Gallagher

My Blog

Mick Taylor/Stones Separation

Found this on a Black Crowes message board that likened Mick Taylor's 1975 departure from the Stones to Marc Ford's 2005 exit from the Crowes.  It is a version of the Mick Taylor resignation...
Posted by Todd on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:04:00 PST

A Heartwarming Tale

In 1986, Mikele Mebembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air...
Posted by Todd on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:24:00 PST

David Cross v. Larry the Cable Guy

nothing like a good ol' fashioned David Cross rant to soothe the soul:  http://www.bobanddavid.com/2007/10/an_open_letter_to_larry_t he_ca.html...
Posted by Todd on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:24:00 PST

Help!

In the news: "The Beatles' classic 1965 film Help! will finally get the deluxe-DVD treatment on October 29th. The digitally restored film will come complete with a second disc featuring a documentary,...
Posted by Todd on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:57:00 PST

The Final Four

4. "Within You Without You"  The Beatles, from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967): George Harrison was often overshadowed by the Lennon-McCartney songwriting juggernaut, but on the Beatles'...
Posted by Todd on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:17:00 PST

I Just Cant Make No Connection

12. "Connection"  The Rolling Stones, from Between The Buttons (1967): "Connection" is a fun little stomper of a song.  It's fueled mostly by Charlie Watts thumping of the skins and interjected ...
Posted by Todd on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:21:00 PST

I Ain't Superstitious

18.  "Either Way"  Wilco, from Sky Blue Sky (2007): "Either Way" is the leadoff track from the new Wilco disc, released this past May.  A gently finger-picked delicate acoustic riff precede...
Posted by Todd on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:12:00 PST

The list continues...

22. "Perfect Day"  Lou Reed, from Transformer (1972): Lou Reed, under the production guidance and collaboration of David Bowie and bolstered by the guitar of Bowie's talented guitarist Mick Ronson, h...
Posted by Todd on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:01:00 PST

According To My i-Pod...

...the first installment of the top twenty-five most listened-to songs: 25. "What Light"  Wilco, from Sky Blue Sky (2007): The great thing about Wilco is that just as soon as  you think you've p...
Posted by Todd on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:25:00 PST

Tonight's The Night

Uncle Tupelo (and later on, the first Wilco album, A.M.) are highly indebted to Neil Young's dark 1975 release, "Tonight's The Night."  Recorded in 1973 in the wake of the death by heroin ov...
Posted by Todd on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:07:00 PST