January 2012
2 posts
I made this song a while back for a friend’s...
December 2011
2 posts
October 2011
5 posts
timheidecker:
Taupin Sings John
as promised, a...
“When I pick up the cornflakes box, I want there to be cornflakes inside of it. I...”
– Margaret Atwood, on science fiction and speculative fiction. It’s not totally clear to me, either. But I love the answer.
September 2011
1 post
6 tags
July 2011
2 posts
“I give this book a very strong `no’ for a vast swath of readers, unless...”
– Amazing Amazon reviewer on WILDWOOD, out 8/30. Pre-order HERE if you fit the above description.
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
3 posts
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
4 posts
August 2010
2 posts
“When you think about it, rules for drinking are not so different from rules for...”
– -Geoff Nicholson
Bookavore: E-books article drinking game →
With sincere apologies if this has been done before, but I think this is the only way I can read another one of these. Maybe I might be cranky today!
“Will e-books wipe out/kill/decimate/pulverize/HULKSMASH/angry verb real books?” — one drink
Above question is lede — one drink
Every use of…
June 2010
1 post
In which I haven't posted in a while
In an effort to make this blog au courant, I will now post this photograph I found online of Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journals. It’s a head clearer, a good voice. The sun came through so clear this morning and it lit up our backyard & our garden. Good day to begin another thing.
May 2010
2 posts
(response?)
Thanks, everyone, for your heartfelt and intelligent responses. Very cool. Personally a little surprised to not have more push-back i.e. “you should only be so lucky people give a sh*t about your band” etc. Maybe things are changing; I think musicians should not be so afraid to question youtube, filesharing etc — all the technologies that have made this new era a bizarre (good...
(rant?)
So this thought requires a few more characters than 140, so I’m taking to the blog. I would invite you, gentle reader, casual listener, enthusiast, to for a moment lend me a sympathetic ear.
To be frank: it bums me out from time to time that you just cannot play a new unrecorded song at a show anymore without it being published and released to the world — and likely in the crappiest...
April 2010
2 posts
WatchMeet order girl Corrina Repp, Tu Fawning chanteuse, as she rambles the Decemberists order “warehouse.” I believe Norbert Fucker may be owed something special. A mug, perhaps?
March 2010
3 posts
“Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, because we sense dimly...”
– Umberto Eco
February 2010
4 posts
“Our new album’s gonna be fucking 100 times better than the iPad. With...”
– Gabe Andruzzi, Rapture. The most amazing thing anyone’s ever said about their own record.
January 2010
1 post
December 2009
2 posts
November 2009
4 posts
of books and. . .baffles? bunting?
Sorry I’ve been remiss in contributing anything to this blog in a while. I’m much chagrined to see my tumblarity (whatever that is) literally tumbl. But Carson and I just quickly wanted to set the record straight on these books we’re working on.
As you may or may not know, my lovely wife has spent the last several years carving a tidy career for herself out of illustrating...
September 2009
3 posts
Ghostwrite My Twit
(On the fence as to whether that title is totally ingenious or downright semi-offensive.)
You want to be my ghostwriter for the day? How about tomorrow?
I’ll let you say whatever you want (within reason*) over the course of the day by rebroadcasting your tweets via @colinmeloy (frequency of broadcast will be at my discretion). Plug your band! Advance your agenda! Let the world** know...
“Things get more interesting on *With The Beatles*, particularly for audiences...”
– chuck klosterman on the beatles
August 2009
33 posts
“…it’s critical to the project of the book to note that we can be—as...”
– what he said. (Dayo Olopade, via http://asupposedlyfunblog.wordpress.com/)
inf. sum.
I love this book. I love this book in a weird sort of unconditional way. I love this book like it was a strange, moody sibling with whom I share occasional flashes of real connection, but spend most of my time observing in a kind of dazed bewilderment. My engagement with the characters is pretty unprecedented for me; in that: I’m engaged with them, I adore some of them, am ambivalent about...