Evan O’Television

These last two Summer Pop mixes have been marinating since the winter and are both essentially new to the world.  And this one is really pretty, lovely fun and great– if I do say so myself.  It’s got a little bit of everything in there jingle, jangle, riffs, hooks and choruses galore. Truly, if this [...]

(ROUGHLY CHRONOLOGICAL) 1. World War Z I kept stopping myself in the midst of reading Max Brooks‘ Studs Terkel-inspired novel, thinking, “This was supposed to be a silly fun, summer, beach-read about Zombies but damn, this shit is seriously deep.” 2.Wall-E Perfection? I don’t know if it is or not, because each time I watch [...]

Okay…. So, I originally finished this mix a few years back and it definitely has a sadder more rainy summer feel to it …  Perhaps that makes it more appropiate for the vibe of this summer so far? I think I recognized it had a more melancholy flavor when I completed it, and that accounts [...]

1.  Mulatu Astatke is back with a new LP collaboration. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics – Inspiration Information 3 2.  Rewatched Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday.  Gal is funnier by the minute. 3.  This Matt Taibbi article I missed from January- still blisteringly funny! FLAT N ALL THAT – Matt Taibbi (New York Press) When [...]

Haircuts, beaches, robots, rainbows, Kodak pictures and polyester brides… Sunshine, we are ready to rock, if you ever decide to return to the East Coast. (Complete playlist is below the fold.) Summer Pop Vol. 2

Hey Folks, For the next 5 Fridays I will be posting podcasts of my Summer Pop mixes.   I began making these mixes back in the late 90′s, to feed my romanticized imaginings of which tunes might provide the ideal soundtrack to a beach vacation, backyard barbecue, block party, or top-down-convertible-joyride along a coast. The eras [...]