Here’s what I played on this week’s Taste the Floor Show: Bickenhall featuring Camille Marsh: Chasing the Rain Meg Birch: I’m Not in Love Annexe The Moon: Bring You Down Fleshtones: Love My Lover Esme Patterson: We Were Wild Joanna Gruesome: Occult Bookshop Alexa Madrid: Other...
I Have No Regrets About My Ralph Nader Vote, Work
posted by Tony
While everyone is deciding what to do with their votes this year, let me share some thoughts about the Ralph Nader 2000 campaign effort and what it meant to me. I’m mainly throwing this together for two reasons: 1) While I no longer get threats or nasty emails about my work for Nader...
Long songs …
posted by Tony
As can sometimes happen, life got in the way and I had to throw together a show tonight. So I did, featuring some of my favorite long songs, LOL. 🙂 The Dandy Warhols: It’s a Fast-Driving Rave-Up with the Dandy Warhols Sixteen Minutes … Isaac Hayes: Walk on By The Velvet...
Top D Songs Plus New Stuff
posted by Tony
Here’s what I played this week on the Taste the Floor Show: Sophie B. Hawkins: Damn, I Wish I was Your Lover The Rolling Stones: Dance (Part 1) Led Zeppelin: Dancing Days Azure Ray: Dancing Ghosts The Dandy Warhols: The Dandy Warhols TV Theme Song The Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Date with a Knife...
Dallas Police Used Robot with Bomb to Kill Shooter
posted by Tony
I’m glad this is starting to get out there a bit: Legal Experts Raise Alarm over Shocking Use of ‘Killer Robot’ in Dallas The Dallas Police force essentially executed an alleged guilty party by using a remote operated vehicle armed with a bomb. Stop and think about that for...
I’m as Old as Mr. Howell
posted by Tony
“Lovey!” While watching “Gilligan’s Island” on MeTV for a few minutes tonight, I realized that I’m as old as Jim Backus was when he appeared on the show as the character, “Mr. Howell.” This simply stuns me right now…
You’re Just Seeing Authoritarianism Now?
posted by Tony
Where have you been? This morning, a well-known media critic who I respect and admire – although differ often – wrote on Facebook that he “never felt more depressed and paralyzed about what’s going on in our country than I do right now. I fear that we’re sliding...
Songs in the Key of C
posted by Tony
Here’s the Taste the Floor playlist for July 6, 2016, my most played songs beginning with the letter C, according to iTunes. The Replacements: Can’t Hardly Wait The Knack: Can’t Put a Price on Love The Rolling Stones: Can’t You Hear Me Knocking Iggy Pop (with Kate Pierson): Candy The...