A Patient Boy

Sarah Vowell's Sound Salvation Column

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:50:51 -0500

From Stop the violins!: “I know what you were thinking. You were thinking that we had that little bimbo-shaped, entrail-strung toy box whupped, weren’t you? You were thinking that monarchies and their toady instruments of enslavement were the laughingstock of the free world. You were thinking that we made the world safe (sort of) for democracy and electric guitars.”

“Hard To Break” - Michael McDermott and Kate York

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:10:00 -0500

“Hard To Break” - Michael McDermott and Kate York

"You came all the way from Chicago to find a good artist?"

Sun, 17 May 2009 04:43:43 -0400

“You came all the way from Chicago to find a good artist?”

- Peg, in Junebug

Lou Reed - Caroline Says II

Sun, 17 May 2009 04:20:49 -0400

Lou Reed - Caroline Says II

via The Royal Art Lodge

Sun, 17 May 2009 04:16:36 -0400

via The Royal Art Lodge

The Replacements - Bastards of Young

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:19:28 -0400

The Replacements - Bastards of Young

"I find that the world starts fucking with you the minute you open your eyes."

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:00:43 -0400

“I find that the world starts fucking with you the minute you open your eyes.”

- Will Oldham in BlackBook

Jessica Lea Mayfield - Bible Days

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:51:33 -0400

Jessica Lea Mayfield - Bible Days

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - You Can’t Hurt Me Now

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:24:24 -0400

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - You Can’t Hurt Me Now

My new 4-track was born the same year I was.

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:25:47 -0400

My new 4-track was born the same year I was.

via Ewen Spencer

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:31:26 -0400

via Ewen Spencer

"Every day that Keith Richards still walks this earth is a validation of my workout regimen."

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:53:00 -0400

“Every day that Keith Richards still walks this earth is a validation of my workout regimen.”

- Anthony Bourdain

Elliott Smith’s band when he was 19. Here’s the big...

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:35:52 -0400

Elliott Smith’s band when he was 19. Here’s the big version.

"Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed."

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:05:14 -0400

“Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.”

- Erica Jong

Lisa Hannigan - Teeth

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:38:00 -0400

Lisa Hannigan - Teeth

My sister Leah and niece Taylor.

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:27:00 -0400

My sister Leah and niece Taylor.

annamarie: Fiona Apple - I Know This song does almost everything...

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:51:03 -0400

annamarie:

Fiona Apple - I Know

This song does almost everything a song needs to do to me.

Before Sunset

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:32:19 -0400

Celine: Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.
Jesse: I know.

"I don’t see how Henry, pried open for all the world to see, survived."

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:15:23 -0400

“I don’t see how Henry, pried
open for all the world to see, survived.”

- John Berryman, part of Dream Song 1

The music engineer bible, folks.

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:51:00 -0400

Recording The Beatles

From the Mother Nature’s Son sample page:

“Paul was listening to playback of the song while holding a copy of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha in his lap. Paul began tapping along on the cover and decided that the sound of the book, in fact, would make a nice addition. Ken Scott then carefully positioned a microphone over Longfellow’s epic poem and recorded Paul tapping out a rhythm on the book’s hardcover.”

In case anyone’s wondering, my birthday is January 7th.