WHAT I’M DIGGING

musings on music, film, books, art, and pretty things.

2018

December

21 - Home Alone

November

A November playlist : Getting through

Arise - Chevelle
The Sorrow Tree - Moby
Trust - Moby & The Void Pacific Choir
Sleep Apnea - Chevelle
Forever - Chvrches
True Love Way - Kings of Leon
Choking Game - Chevelle
Dark Star - Moby & The Void Pacific Choir
Glimpse of the Con - Chevelle

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March 23 - playlist : alt rock x11 classics

Nara - alt-J
Heartbreaker - the Walkemn
Ive Of The World - the Strokes
The Way Life’s Meant to Be - Electric Light Orchestra
Song for Zula - Phosphorescent
Ran - Future Islands
Families - Neil Young
Two Sisters - the Kinks
Head On - Pixies
Bacardi - Nada Surf
Emergency Trap - Mogwai

February

“Handle first, handle first!” Had to show our kids the scene from Arrested Development where Gob, a little late, frantically reminds his assistant the proper way to hand over a sword to a magician. I am crying every time.

10 - Additional artists to a certain playlist include: Lev Tahor, Chazak!, and Ah Ah Ah. The latter, I’m thinking, is not a cousin to the great power trio a-ha.

03 - A 7-year old adds to his Shabbat and Jewish songs Spotify playlist. New titles include Eishes Chayil, Am Echad, and Hashem Melech #2.0. Again, this is all new to me.

January

Vice Principals. It takes a special kind of comic sensibility to get you caring about the fate of two wretched and entirely incompetent school administrators vying for the top top spot.

18 - A 7-year old begins a new Spotify playlist entitled “Shabbat and Jewish songs.” Tracks include Hava Nagila Medley, Ana Bekoah, and Lecha Dodi. Artists include Bo Yeshua, Sham Israel, and For Zion’s Sake I Will Not Be Silent. I am familiar, before today, with none of these tracks or artists.