Archives for January 2008
Tollywood Soundtracks
29 January 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
1/29/08
When I first started posting in my blog in September of 2005 my first request was for anyone with any info on Telugu and Tamil film songs to please hit me up. Much thanks to Kumari and Toddhu and Jacques for forwarding me some items of interest. I have been obsessed with finding [...]
Persepolis (Spoilers, methinks)
26 January 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
1/26/08
I bought Anjali the Persepolis books by Marjane Satrapi several years ago. I’m always eager to get her hooked on comics, and I don’t expect her to develop a Grant Morrison fascination any time soon. Despite my curiosity, I only looked at them a bit, and never committed to reading them all the [...]
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Sedotta e abbandonata / Seduced and Abandoned
26 January 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
1/26/08
Anjali and I saw Sedotta e abbandonata, Pietro Germi’s follow-up to Divorzio all’italiana, at the NW Film Center last night. We were a few minutes late, and I can only imagine how much we missed, because in Divorzio all’italiana the main character presents all the characters and the entire set-up in the first few [...]
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Divorzio all’italiana
23 January 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
1/20/08
Anjali and I saw the brilliant Divorzio all’italiana AKA Divorce Italian Style by Pietro Germi this weekend. I am largely ignorant of Italian cinema outside of a college viewing of Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief). Anjali had the interest when she saw that the Northwest Film Center was showing the film and [...]
Andy Palacio is dead. Long live the Garinagu!
23 January 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
1/22/08
I found out yesterday that Andy Palacio had died. The man who did more than anyone else to bring Garifuna language, culture, and music to the international stage had “a massive and extensive stroke to the brain, a heart attack and respiratory failure” which caused his death on January, 18th 2008. Andy’s music [...]
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Crumb Speaks
18 January 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
1/17/08
I remember being spooked when I looked at Jeremy Pinkham’s collection of Robert Crumb’s Weirdo comics back in high school. At the time I was a full-on superhero comic fan, and the “dirty” Robert Crumb comics seemed redolent of fire and brimstone to my young Christian sensibilities. Once I got some college in [...]
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
7 January 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
I finally got around to reading Can’t Stop Won’t Stop by Jeff Chang. When it came out everyone hailed it as the greatest hip-hop history book ever, but I had read so many different hip-hop histories by that point, I felt like, what can be in here that I haven’t already read dozens of [...]
Want Bollywood Vinyl?
7 January 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Eric over at
Mississippi Records
4007 N Mississippi Ave
Portland, OR 97227
(503) 282-2990
got in a bunch of Bollywood vinyl last week from a Toronto warehouse buy. Lots of sealed copies. There will be plenty more coming as well apparently. Anjali and I got there a week late (thanks for the grapevine tip, Monkeytek) and still [...]