January 23, 2007

Apparently they never heard ‘She-Bop’…please, please, somebody add the DiVinyls to this list

According to these guys, the following music is SAFE for your kids:

Safe Music:

Cyndi Lauper
Falling Up
Flyleaf
THE TURNING
Disciple
P.O.D
By The Tree
Scott Reed
Michael W. Smith
Jars of Clay
DC Talk
Danielson

As an aside, when did Oscar Wilde ever ‘reform’?
By the way, these are the bands that will make you go ‘gay’.
Should I tell my wife I’m a big, gasp, Wilco fan?

FT: NIT [...]

January 23, 2007

Oscar-lated..the nominees are…

For Best Picture: Babel, The Departed, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen
I enjoyed Babel a lot more than at least one other person, even though ‘enjoy’ is probably not the right word. Haven’t seen ‘Iwo Jima’ or ‘The Queen’ (is that about Elton John?), but ‘Little Miss Sunshine is certainly [...]

January 23, 2007

A cat story (not mine), with keystone cops, rappelling and of course, the fire department

One of the best friends in my life (literally friends since the first grade way back in the late 50s and who is also the brother of the playwright) has a really wonderful step-daughter who pretty much schooled me on the current music scene when I visited them over the New Year’s Holiday. She’s [...]