I love the Internet – it has made my life richer, it has found me friends, it has put me into in-real-life conversations with my heroes… and it has people on YouTube doing covers (I’ve expressed a love of this once before on this blog). Whereas the proper band‘s Galaxie 500 cover of choice seems [...]
A Head Full of Wishes
Dec 132011
Dean Wareham Plays Galaxie 500 – 8originally uploaded by Araakii Long, long time since I gave this series a kick but Dean’s shiny shoes with yellow laces as worn at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle last weekend deserve getting shown off – particularly as this lovely picture by Araakii shows them off so beautifully.
I think the whole show is on YouTube – but here's Temperature's Rising as it's the song from where my blog gets its title… December seems so very far away… Posted via email from Supplemental
A discussion has struck up on the Galaxie 500 Mailing List about whether Dean should be doing these "…plays Galaxie 500 shows" or getting on with new material – here's my defence of the Galaxie 500 shows (as posted to the list)… OK – here's a dissenting voice – although I'll qualify my defence by [...]
Damon & Naomi @ Cafe OTOoriginally uploaded by grange85 I’m beginning to think that this series could be saved for Naomi and her footwear – this is her 3rd or 4th appearance (although sadly the pic of her in her wellies has gone astray from flickr). #22 Naomi Yang – Another lovely pair of boots.
Last Thursday Dean & Britta performed a set for radio station KCRW‘s show Morning Becomes Eclectic. The set mostly featured tracks from 13 Most Beautiful, but slipped in near the end was a cover of Galaxie 500′s Snowstorm. Now Snowstorm is my favourite song, no question. It entered my life at a very important time [...]
Jan 152009
I have a Google blog search set up to track down bloggers posting about Luna, unfortunately most of what it catches are splogs – which should piss me off but they make me smile so I can’t really hate them too much! Here’s a selection of my faves. Note… the constant use of Lee Wall [...]
I’ve been having a scary amount of fun with the lovely Wordle -here’s the last month of A Head Full of Wishes as a beautiful tag cloud… More of my idlings.
Damon & Naomi posteroriginally uploaded by grange85 Lovely new Damon & Naomi poster = £10Nice frame for the said poster = £40 How sad am I? The answer is very.
Jun 122008
Massachusetts Route 128 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia… Cultural references Route 128 has been mentioned in several other rock and roll songs such as “Blue Thunder” by Galaxie 500. Your search – “route 128″ “galaxie 500″ site:britannica.com – did not match any documents.
