Author Archives: olneyce

We’re on a world tour

Posted on June 9, 2013 by olneyce

World Tour (Weezy, Wale, Dre) – Brenton Duvall In the past 16 hours, I’ve had visitors come to the blog from Tehran, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Zagreb, Berlin, Prague, New South Wales, Portugal…all of them looking for a rundown of the best Bruce Springsteen songs. … Continue reading →

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I’ll take the silent treatment

Posted on June 8, 2013 by olneyce

Silent Treatment – The Joy Formidable Some songs are built to pluck every single string in my heart. A pretty double-tracked female voice, backed by a delicate acoustic pluck, rising up and then falling around a single note…yeah, there was … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Carissa’s Wierd songs

Posted on June 7, 2013 by olneyce

My favorite band is The Beatles. There are probably tens (if not hundreds) of millions of people who agree with me there.  But my second favorite band hasn’t even been heard of by a million people. Carissa’s Wierd only released … Continue reading →

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I could kill you with my bare hands if I was free

Posted on June 6, 2013 by olneyce

Song For Zula – Phosphorescent Music can impose order on a feeling, channel it into a narrow band. It can harness a feeling, tame it. Or it can impose disjunctures, rip apart the seemingly clear. It can mislead by providing a … Continue reading →

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Race and gender in Title VII – a strange history

Posted on June 3, 2013 by olneyce

Poison Cup – M. Ward I just finished Gretchen Ritter’s The Constitution As Social Design, which attempts to connect our Constitutional processes to our conceptions of civic membership, often in very interesting ways. I can’t 100% recommend the book, since I … Continue reading →

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Short answers to stupid questions: Court stacking edition

Posted on May 29, 2013 by olneyce

Genius And The Thieves – Eluvium Harold Maass at The Week asks: Is Obama trying to stack the courts with liberals? If by ‘stack’ you mean ‘nominate judges to fill vacancies’ – then yes.  Yes he is. The nefarious plot here is … Continue reading →

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Scandal-mania: some thoughts

Posted on May 24, 2013 by olneyce

Bad News – Eels Okay, so the threshold for what makes a scandal really seems to be falling. Only one of these things strikes me as a legitimate ‘scandal,’ and even there it’s a pretty minor variant. It’s particularly telling to … Continue reading →

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Feel the energy all around me

Posted on May 9, 2013 by olneyce

Brainwash – Cillie Barnes This song answer the question that I never knew I needed to ask: what if Cat Power wanted to combine the smooth lyricism and melodies of late 60s Motown with the liquid feel of modern chilled out … Continue reading →

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It always ends the same

Posted on May 6, 2013 by olneyce

Television – You Won’t So simple, so warm, so great.  There almost couldn’t be less going on here musically.  It’s the same simple refrain sung again and again – wafting above a slow round of handclaps and a line of nine … Continue reading →

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Just Like Any Other Man, Only More So (a short story)

Posted on April 28, 2013 by olneyce

Transistor Radio – Cloud Cult It is a little known fact that intelligent life is, in fact, alive and thriving on several other planets in our very own solar system. The reason scientists have failed to discover them is simply that … Continue reading →

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