Shorties- July 6, 2008 The Toronto Star handicaps a trio of debut novels: Ed Park's Personal Days, Nathaniel Rich's The Mayor's Tongue, and Keith Gessen's All the Sad Young Literary Men. The next quarter-mile (next 100 pages) is crucial, and Gessen could still recover, while Park might succumb to the cutesy and pointless narrative trickery typical of the Eggersards and blow his considerable lead. As for wondercolt Rich, well, simply finishing the race in one piece should be reward enough, as his sire, New York Times.http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/07/shorties_1523.html Daily Downloads (Long Winters, Hamell on Trial, and more)- July 6, 2008 Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Camper Van Beethoven: 2008-06-28, San Francisco mp3,ogg,flac "The Humid Press of Days" mp3 other Camper Van Beethoven music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Hamell on Trial: "When You Are Young" mp3 from Rant & Roll (out July 8th) other Hamell on Trial music blog posts at Largehearted Boy The Long Winters: 2006-07-25, Seattle (Sonic Boom in-store) mp3,ogg,flac "Ultimatum" mp3 other Long Winters music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Low: 1999-06-11, Duluth.http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/07/daily_downloads_1608.html Shorties- July 5, 2008 The New York Times reviews James Frey's novel, Bright Shiny Morning. Frey is lazy about his lazy prose so lazy, in fact, that some readers will be tempted to rationalize away his neglect and carelessness so as not to feel abused. When Frey presents Parkers agent as incredibly smart, incredibly savvy, incredibly smooth, incredibly successful and incredibly rich, its possible if one is used to being demeaned and has grown practiced in denial to think that Frey is being bad on purpose; that...http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/07/shorties_1522.html Daily Downloads (Ryan Adams, Drive-By Truckers, and more)- July 5, 2008 Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Drive-By Truckers: 2008-07-22, Minneapolis mp3,ogg,flac "Love Like This" mp3 other Drive-By Truckers music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Laura Reed: 2008-06-28, Asheville mp3,ogg,flac "Train" mp3 other Laura Reed music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Menck: "Hey war Pigs" mp3 from Hey War Pigs other Menck music blog posts at Largehearted Boy North Mississippi Allstars: 2007-08-04, Newport mp3,ogg,flac "Slow Train Coming (Bob Dylan cover)" mp3 other...http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/07/daily_downloads_1607.html Shorties- July 4, 2008 Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear talks about the band's next album with Billboard. The Schenectady Daily Gazette offers its summer reading suggestions. see also: my list of summer reading lists At the Penguin blog, author Nick Hornby weighs in on the current state of e-books. Attempting to sell people something for four hundred pounds that merely enables them to read something that they wont buy at one hundredth of the price seems to me a thankless task. (A member of staff at Borders told me...http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/07/shorties_1521.html Daily Downloads (Low, Robyn Hitchcock, and more)- July 4, 2008 Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Acid Mothers Temple: 2008-06-18, San Francisco mp3,ogg,flac other Acid Mothers Temple music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Jonathan Segel: 2008-06-29, San Francisco mp3,ogg,flac "Angels" mp3 other Jonathan Segel music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Local H: 2008-06-21, Milwaukee mp3,ogg,flac "BMW Man" mp3 Local H: 2008-05-08, Chicago mp3,ogg,flac "Lovey Dovey" mp3 other Local H music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Low: 1999-03-25, Radio K...http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/07/daily_downloads_1606.html Shorties- July 3, 2008 The 2008 Bonnaroo music download page has been updated with a direct mp3 download of the Bonnaroo Superjam as well as a bittorrent lossless download of that same performance. The New York Times reviews the first Feelies show in 17 years. 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Personal Days is the.http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/07/book_notes_ed_p.html Shorties- July 2, 2008 The Guardian's music blog makes a point that more bands should split up sooner. Just imagine if Oasis had split in 1996. We'd be able to wistfully look back (without anger, naturally) at that band who went from The Water Rats to Knebworth in two years without having our memories tainted by images of Liam writing daft songs about kids. Or indeed every record Oasis released this decade. Time Out New York examines the trend of more indie rock acts showing up as late night television...http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/07/shorties_1519.html |