Yearly Archives: 2003

This is from Stephen King’s column he writes in Entertainment Weekly.

So what happened in the ’90s? I think we’re seeing an entire generation — my generation, the baby-boom generation — turning off the lights upstairs and putting a sign on the door: SORRY, BUT I’M TAKING A NAP. MIND CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Pretty much the same deal is going on with music sales. Piracy and illegal downloads, although covered to a fare-thee-well in the press, account for only a fraction of the drop in $$. I think what’s happening is all too clear: We baby boomers are just too pooped to party. Oh, we do buy some records — you may have heard that we love the Beatles, Rod Stewart, and those funksters the Rolling Stones. Just don’t try to get us to listen to anyone who isn’t registered with AARP! Bob Seger was probably correct when he told us rock & roll never forgets, but it sure gets tired.

Nostalgia will be the death of us all.

[via boingboing]

It must be the holiday season because dw/England writer Steve Miller has given us two great live reviews in one week. This time out he reviews Mew, a band I’ve never heard anything about. But let me tell you, after reading Steven’s column I want to own everything from this band. Here’s a highlight of the live review:

At ULU, Mew are treated as if they are returning kings. They?re a football team on a lap of honour, a Hollywood star at a celebrity wedding. The jittery shuddering power-pop of “Am I Wry? No” is received with rapture and it builds from there. Halfway through the set, the crowd applause has become replaced by a crowd roar. Jonas speaks in between a couple of songs but I can?t hear a word that he says. The band look so young, so pretty; if I was fifteen years younger I?d worship them with all the conviction the teenage me could muster. (full review)

We currently use Yahoo! for the donewaiting.com newsletter group, but it continues to give me trouble. If anyone can recommend something better that is free (or cheap), ad free and has some good behind the scene controls, please e-mail me and I’ll be your friend for life.

Throughout the entire month of December we’ll be giving you year end lists from all nine writers of donewaiting.com. Starting things off is David Cobb, writer of the donewaiting.com Houston TX column. Check out David’s list here! It’s a good one. David’s family surely will be proud.

22 JANUARY: VANCOUVER, BC. Orpheum Theatre.
23 JANUARY: SEATTLE, WA. Moore Theatre
25 JANUARY: SAN FRANCISCO, CA The Warfield
27 JANUARY: LAS VEGAS, NV The Joint
29 + 30 JANUARY: LOS ANGELES, CA The Wiltern
31 JANUARY: SAN DIEGO, CA Spreckles Theatre
03 FEBRUARY: AUSTIN, TX Austin Music Hall
04 FEBRUARY: HOUSTON, TX Verizon Wireless Theatre
05 FEBRUARY: DALLAS, TX Granada Theatre
07 FEBRUARY: MEXICO CITY, MEX Sports Palace

Starting Thursday we’re going to start releasing all of the donewaiting.com writers favorite albums of 2003 lists. We’ll spread them out through the whole month of December to keep it interesting. (Psst, David Cobb is gonna kick it off).

This radio displays the song info as well as station info. Seems like a long time coming.

[via gizmodo]

Two things:

Seriously, is it time for me to finally buy an iPod?