Category Archives: Consumed

2009 Music roundup

I can hardly believe that it’s time to make another one of these bloody lists again, but here we are. Some good records out this year. Album of a year by a country mile for me is: Travels With Myself And Another / Future Of The Left Only half an hour long, but what a …

December 18, 2009 – 6:20 pm | By tismey | Posted in Consumed | Comments (7)

If it’s December, it must be time to make a list.

I listened to fewer new albums this year, it seems. It also seems that I haven’t updated my list of ‘Current Distractions’ much at all this year. Anyway, for what it’s worth (as usual, in no particular order), the albums I’ve enjoyed most this year: The Gutter Twins / Saturnalia Bon Iver / For Emma, …

December 5, 2008 – 3:01 pm | By tismey | Posted in Consumed | Comments (11)

Charlie Crews knows What Jail Is Like.

Someone in the production team for the quirky crime drama ‘Life’ is a Greg Dulli fan. In Episode 4, Captain Tidwell prescribed “Tullamore Dew, The Afghan Whigs and strippers. Lots and lots of strippers” as a remedy for being left by one’s first wife. This week, ‘God’s Children’ by The Gutter Twins was needle-dropped under …

November 8, 2008 – 4:43 pm | By tismey | Posted in Consumed, Small screen | Comments (0)

He was drunk and exhausted but he was critically acclaimed and respected

The best rock ‘n’ roll bar band ever to be fronted by a rambling Spielberg lookalike have their new album in its entirety streaming from their MySpace. It’s missing a bit on my MacBook speakers, but so far sounds a worthy successor to ‘Boys & Girls…’

June 12, 2008 – 5:19 pm | By tismey | Posted in Consumed, Webslinging | Comments Off