Archive for March, 2008
You Ain’t Nothing but a Waitress in the Skyway
Paul Westerberg’s guitar sounds like it’s taking the beating of a lifetime. His voice is desperate as he howls, “How do you say goodnight to an answering machine?” Westerberg, singer/guitarist of the seminal 80’s 4-piece The Replacements, is alone. The song is he and his electric guitar as he closes out Let it Be. While [...]
Proof That it Really Existed
The following essay is by my friend Rafael Gaitan.
I’ve always felt that some of the best songs I’ve ever heard are really, really short. Apparently brevity, aside from being the soul of wit, is the lifeblood of pop brilliance. A 2-3 minute song is usually much more focused, clever, and downright enjoyable than the epics [...]
The Juliana Theory Theory . . . Theory
The neon pixels are slicing them open. Well not quite, the graphics prevent any actual dismemberment or disembowelment, but it was all the same to me.
I am playing the Star Wars game Jedi Knight, a game where you take the role of, surprise, a Jedi Knight. While I use my lightsaber to battle remnants of [...]
Avenues Run One Way and Streets They Run the Same, but That Doesn’t Really Matter
I probably make too many mixtapes. Well they’re not really mixtapes, they’re really more mix cds or playlists. Nonetheless the problem is still there. I make them for almost everything, and it really is a bad idea.
It’s a bad idea because I’m using other people’s art to try to create my own identity. Right now, [...]
Hello
Hi,
Welcome to Just a Fan. As you may or may not have wondered, the site’s name is inspired by the Wilco song “The Lonely 1.” This blog is for essays on favorite songs, artists and/or albums. I hope to update this blog every monday. However, this is not just for me.
I’ve decided that this blog [...]
