Jason and I attended the Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings show at the Palladium Ballroom in Dallas Thursday night. We were absolutely blown away by the performance. It was as if we witnessed the female lovechild of Sam Cooke and James Brown on stage. We arrived at the Palladium during the opening band performance. [...]
Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
September 15, 2010
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Andrew Bird at the Guggenheim
By Jason W. Dean in Entertainment, MusicI know I’ve been talking about libraries a lot over the past week or so. I’d like to switch gears a bit and talk about one of mine and Jen’s favorite musical artists: Andrew Bird. We enjoyed his music for a while, but when we went to one of his shows last year and heard [...]
September 10, 2010
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Recently…
By Jason W. Dean in Apple, Entertainment, iPad, Music, Periodicals, Personal, Reading, Technology, The New Yorker, UpdatesIt’s Friday morning, and Jen just dropped me off from taking our cat, Cosby, to the vet. He’s doing fine, he just needed his regular checkup. Dr. Hotchkiss gave him a clean bill of health, but they have to get a sample of his “used water” so Cos is at the vet now. It’s odd [...]
August 20, 2010
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Things to Start Your Day Out Right.
By Jen Dean in Culture, Music, PersonalShake, Rattle and Roll by Big Joe Turner, Mahgeetah by My Morning Jacket, and Something In Common by Free Energy, all heard on the radio immediately following my morning workout. Additionally, a middle-aged Hispanic gentleman on his bicycle turns around behind me in the far right lane to remove a deceased bird from the road. [...]
August 19, 2010
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Rediscovering my “Lost Albums”
By Jason W. Dean in Entertainment, Music, PersonalI think we all have albums from our past that we don’t want to ever recognize that we loved as teenagers. The albums you hear on the radio from time to time – when you hear them you think How did I ever think this was good? Stuff that is so patently bad that for [...]
