• Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On March 14, 2006

  • Filed under Music

  • Comments Off

John Cale, blackAcetate

John Cale is one of a handful of lesser known legends in music today. A founding member of the Velvet Underground, then a year later forced out of the group as the first professional victim of Lou Reed’s prodigious temper, he went on to a career as a producer (Nico, the Stooges, the Modern Lovers, [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On March 14, 2006

  • Filed under Internet

  • Comments Off

Dying slowly

As the Tindersticks once sang, “So this dying slowly… I’m just tired, darling/I just need to lay down.” Oddly enough, when Stuart Staples sang those words he sounded like I feel: so congested I can hardly move my head.
So while I wait for the decongestant-induced colored light trails to vanish, a quick pointer to a [...]