Run-DMSteve

  • Jingle most of the way

    Greetings, Honorable Ones! It’s Christmas, so naturally I’m thinking about Pearl Jam. They have a new album, Lightning Bolt. Do I have to listen to more of their repetitious, snoozy arena rock? I haven’t liked a Pearl Jam album since their debut, Ten, and that was in 1991, before we…

  • Let me count the ways: Enough is enough!

    I thought I had finished listening to and saying stupid things about every band with a number in its name that we collectively thought up, but I was wrong, as I so often am. Loyal reader and Southern industrialist corncobb has unearthed two bands that I’d overlooked: 8-Ball and Infinity.…

  • Let me count the ways: Brought to you by the numbers 500-infinity

    Mathematicians, please do not come after me for my misuse of infinity. This is it! Big finish! Let’s go…500! Galaxie 500 A band from the end of the 1980s that I like a lot, though to my ears they’re just variations on The Dream Syndicate and The Velvet Underground. But…

  • Let me count the ways: Brought to you by the numbers 83-182

    I hope all of you reading this in the United States are enjoying the end of the Labor Day weekend and not freaking too much over the resumption of gainful employment tomorrow. We had dinner with touring relatives at our favorite Italian restaurant, Portofino, to which I bestow my highest…

  • Let me count the ways: Brought to you by the numbers 47-80

    Today was Day 1 of the Labor Day three-day weekend. I’m explaining that for the benefit of my readers residing outside the USA, particularly the person who dropped by yesterday from Hungary. (Sorry, you don’t get your money back.) So although I did a lot today, most of it was…