I usually sleep at night.  It’s just one of those things that I’m used to doing.  The sun goes down, I wile away a few hours with a book or a television or the local reprobates at my neighborhood opium den and I tuck myself into bed.  Seven consecutive (or so) hours of sleep is [...]

(Editor’s note: Did you know that they’re messing with the penny?  The wise old souls a the U.S. Mint are totally cocking up the back of that thing. Given that our reader demographics department tells me that there’s a 72% chance that you’re an American, this seems to be an appropriate forum to start a [...]

I’ve been watching a lot of Olympic curling.  A lot.  I’m sending text messages about the uniform choices of Canadian women’s skip Cheryl Bernard.  I’m peppering my daily speech with curling terms (as in: referring to the last cup of coffee in the pot as “the hammer”).  I’m seriously considering joining a league and making [...]

I had this byzantine diatribe on covers planned for today.  (The argument, essentially is this:  it’s fine for Limp Bizkit to cover George Michael, because, on the scale of artistic integrity, the former is a four and the latter is, at best, a six.  It is not, however, okay for Dave Matthews (at best a [...]

Step-by-step guide to baby care:
1. Change diaper
2. Provide food
3. Hope baby sleeps for more than four minutes.
4. Try to perform all non-baby related tasks while baby is asleep.
5. Repeat without pause for three to four years.
So, not a lot of time for Lazy Saturday today.  Just three rhetorical questions and related content.  Cheers.
Q. 1: Remember [...]

Hello internet.  I’m just popping in midweek with a couple of things that are too excellent to hang onto until the weekend.  (This of course implies that I have excellent content for Saturday in my back pocket, that my cup overfloweth.  Let’s assume that to be true.)
First, the good folks at Sub Pop have made [...]

Kevin mentioned yesterday that I recently had a kid.  He’s the bee’s knees (my baby, not Kevin), but he certainly has thrown a ratchet in the old sleep cycle.  For those of you yet to embark on the journey of parenthood (which I’m imagining is the vast majority of the expensive-jean clad, indie rock blog [...]

Austin based quintet Balmorhea makes really good instrumental music; that’s maybe an overly simple way to start a review, but it is totally true.  More erudite reviewers would cite a slew of modern composers that the band draws influence and inspiration from. (A review of their 2008 effort, River Arms, on P4K referenced Stravinsky, Keith [...]

(Editor’s note: I got lazy with today’s photograph.  The inimitable Paul Lukas linked to it the other day at Uniwatch.  My extreme sloth is explained below.)
Here’s the breakdown:
(1) I write Lazy Saturdays on Fridays.  (Makes sense, right?)
(2) This Friday (yesterday for you folks) was particularly shitty.
and
(3) Robert and I will be seeing the Retribution Gospel [...]

(Editor’s note: Those dudes above built the Hoover Dam.  Sometimes I wish I lived in a tent and poured concrete in a desert.  Those cats up there didn’t have the internet or cell phones or laser beams, but they look happy, content in their knowledge that they’re building something they can stand on.  I probably [...]

(Editor’s note: The picture above is the view from my bedroom window.  Winter has hit Cleveland hard.  It is cold.  It is snowing.  I know that I’ve written this before, but I like seasons.  I like shovelling.  I like wearing gloves and boots.  If you’re somewhere that the sun is shining, where folks are strolling [...]

We’ve been enjoying the holidays here at Citizen Dick, tending to the homefires and (for the most part) neglecting the blogosphere.  You, faithful reader, probably have been doing the same, making the jaunt from hearth to hearth, exchanging the gifts, roasting the Yule log and so forth.  Tomorrow, we kick our Best of 2009 retrospective [...]

(Editor’s note: I’m tipsy.  Blame the folks at the Great Lakes Brewing Company for pumping out the ambrosia that is Christmas Ale (or Christmas Jail or Christmas Crack or whatever moniker fits your mood or personage or whatever.)  I’ve had a few.  A few is too many, much like with martinis or breasts.  As in, [...]

I might argue that, in large part, we listen to music because it allows us to connect with something larger than ourselves.  Music is about forging bonds with other people, with the world, with art, with ideas.  Sharing love for an artist or an album or a song with another person gives you something to [...]

(Editor’s note:  I like seasons.  I like being able to understand the passing of time through changes in temperature and foliage.  This is one of the reasons I still live in Cleveland.  Move to Florida and you lose sight of the fact that time is moving forward; how can your primordial brain measure temporal progress [...]

(Editor’s note:  I know that it is Wednesday.  For all intents and purposes, however, it is the BEST SATURDAY OF THE YEAR.  Thanksgiving Eve is, essentially, the greatest Eve that we have.  Nobody works tomorrow.  Everyone you know is home.  Nobody has to do anything until noon at the earliest on Thursday.  New Year’s Eve [...]

(Editor’s note: My father and I went to New York City to see a Mets game in the fall.  While there, we toured a submarine.  It was his idea.  I am a vegetarian and, obviously, a pacifist.  I took pictures of  everything on the sub that was circular.  The picture above ties in with today’s [...]

“Masters of War” is the truth.  Bob Dylan’s 1963 screed against Johnson’s military-industrial complex closes with  (I’d argue) the most powerful eight lines in popular music: “And I hope that you die/and your death will come soon/and I’ll follow your casket/by the pale afternoon/and I’ll watch while you’re lowered/down to your deathbed/and I’ll stand over [...]

(Editor’s Note: I’m all over the map today.  I feel like there’s been a kind of fallow period for me; work and school have been a bit more intense lately, so I’ve been listening to old music that I know I love instead of plumbing the depths for new music to wrap my brain around.  [...]

Before we dive into tunes today, I wanted to pass along two wildly unrelated (and potentially , but hopefully not actually, uninteresting) things that happened today.
1. It was a great mail day, the kind of day that makes up for Columbus Day, when I received no mail.  I got two things in the mail that [...]