Kill Your Radio: An Update

A summer cover by the Local Natives. Xylophone solo? Always tremendous.

So I know I'm preaching to the choir but really, truly, people need to turn that radio off. There is NOT-A-THING good on it anymore. Have you listened to a radio station lately? Blech. The gap between corporate music and indie is so wide now there is nothing that even resembles goodness. If I hear that Kelly Clarkson song one more time, I will throw a rock.

The other thing that I love about indie music is the continued dedication to the music video. The music video is now the realm of the independent artist since MTV gave it up for more Real World and Sweet Sixteen stuff. Here's some music videos for your enjoyment that I like. The first one is just a cover but the other two are pretty great. And there's a little Michael Jackson tribute in one of them.



UPDATES

I haven't posted in a while. A few things in my life are on the cusp and that is frustrating. It begins to feel like nothing is happening because everything is just on the verge of happening. Sometimes I need to learn to just keep going when I'm waiting on the Big Stuff.

Valerie and I aren't really doing any improv proper right now but we have started a new recorded series of improvved debates called the JV Debate Club. J for James, V for Val. They'll be posted on the American Nobody show website as soon as we start putting up new episodes with Jon. But I'll post some longer versions here.

Other updates:

I still have three poems coming out in Sow's Ear Poetry Review, and The South Carolina Review.

I'm reading at the I Had It Bad reading series next week. I'm reading some poems and essays about unrequited love.

I have a new old desk chair from the abandoned Catholic High School they just gutted across the street. Valerie got it for me. It rules.

I'm back to writing plays and I'm working on some sketch.

I just saw the movie Moon and I highly recommend it. I don't even want to hint at what's going on in the movie.

Your mother and I went on a date.