music, reclaiming broadcast radio one weekly show at a time, humor, intelligence; making my young daughter laugh, making her mom laugh even more; editorial cartooning, graphic design and print production, writing, rambling tangents; live music, making music, good food, good wine, a good cigar, spinach, pizza, garlic butter, the darkest chocolate imaginable, good beer, single-malt Scotch [the closer to Cromarty, the better], maybe a little Knob Creek Bourbon too, big-bold cups of coffee; New Orleans, Michigan, Texas, Oregon, Memphis, Boston, Chicago, D.C., Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Key West, Scotland, London, Paris, Amsterdam; colors that defy description; social and political satire, making fun of powerful people and celebrities; imaginary and prime numbers, theories on metaphysics, and The Good Show, of course!
Music
Elvis Costello, The Ponys, Von Bondies, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Otis Redding, Red Animal War, The Oranges Band, Skeemin' NoGoods, Earlimart, CoCoRosie, Spoon, Earl Harvin, centro-matic, Little Grizzly, Man Factory, Pleasure Club, Yello, The Clash, PJ Harvey, Lamb, Shearwater, LCC, Blur, Junior Brown, Burden Brothers, Fugazi, Pixies, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Jam, Thee Shams, Baboon, Red Monroe, Baptist Generals, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Franz Ferdinand, Hopewell, Household Names, Joe Strummer, Pulp, I Am Kloot, Muse, Guadalcanal Diary, The Roots, Say Hi To Your Mom, Jet, Neko Case, Johnny Cash, Greenhornes, Nick Cave, T-Bone Burnett, Starlight Mints, Belle and Sebastian, Yatsura, Let's Active, R.E.M. [the earlier the better], Fauré, Puccini, Public Enemy, Negativland, Redd Kross, Pleasant Grove, Jega, Kissinger, Lamb, The Zombies, The Legends, Cut Copy, Andrew Bird, The Fall, Until They Arrive, DJ Shadow, James Brown, Napoleon Complex, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Mclusky, PPT, The Mountain Goats, Adventures of Jet, Danger Mouse, Alan, Chopin, Eaton Lake Tonics, Ashburne Glen, Telefon Tel Aviv, The Pets, Gogol Bordelo, Sun Ra, Cornelius, Maxïmo Park, Bauhaus, Baboon, Wire, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Benway, Blueprint Sea, Brendan Benson, Billy Bragg, Bring in The Satellites, Black Tie Dynasty, The Browsers, The Chemistry Set, Chomsky, Kinski, Cut Chemist, Cosmic Slut, Outkast, Sleater-Kinney, Le Tigre, The Cut*Off, Dirt Blazers, Silversun Pickups, The Danes, [DARYL], The Four Tops, The Kinks, Mos Def, Compay Segundo, Deadman, Dead Can Dance, The Dead Kennedys, The Dead Milkmen, Throwing Muses, The Knife, Jeff Buckley, The Dead, The Deathray Davies, Band of Horses, Broken Social Scene, The Delgados, Doosu, Steve Earl, Hogpig, Brasco, Engine of The Ocean, Henry Holt, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Jason Falkner, Sex Pistols, P.I.L., The Flaming Lips, Stumptone, Sufjan Stevens, The Stooges, MC5, Badly Drawn Boy, Frank Jordan, Nick Drake, Chainsaw Kittens, Goodwin, Diana Kroll, The Lo-Fi Chorus, Head Automatica, Nic Armstrong & The Thieves, Mr. Bungle, TV on The Radio, Destination Venus, Guided By Voices, Happy Bullets, Heaven is a Hotel, Idlewild, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, The Jam, Jet Screamer, Smile Smile, Bright Eyes, The Black Keys, The Redskins, Kissinger, Kings of Leon, Knife in The Water, Ultravox, Skinny Puppy, Meat Beat Manifesto, Love and Rockets, Television, British Sea Power, Little Jack Melody, Edith Frost, The Lonelies, Aimee Mann, Alicia Keys, The Hives, The Mars Volta, Macha, Sebadoah, Metric, Mur, The Pogues, My Legendary Girlfriend, Marvin Gaye, My Morning Jacket, Negativland, Neutral Milk Hotel, Album Leaf, The New Year, Of Normandy, Mum, Ohno, Old 97s, The Reverend Horton Heat, the pAperchAse, Albert King, B.B. King, Pleasant Grove, The House of Love, Book of Love, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The English Beat, The Octopus Project, James Reimer, Most of the members of Polyphonic Spree when they're playing with their own bands and not actively part of The Spree, Brendan Benson, Peter Schmidt and His Gentlemen Scholars, Junior Boys, The Toadies, Talib Kweli, Sara Radle, Record Hop, Regal Dime, Faceless Werewolves, The Replacements, The Breeders, Louis XIV, Save The Radio, Air, Shibboleth, The Shins, Pavement, The Stills, Brassy, The Fags, Gift Culture, Sleepy Atlantis, Sleepy Jackson, Slobberbone, Slow Roosevelt, Snowdonnas, Sorta, Boards of Canada, The Southern Sea, Spector 45, Spoonfed Tribe, Super Love Attack, The Tah-Dahs, New Order [the earlier the better], Joy Division, Radiohead, Templo Diez, Orchestra Baobab, Ornette Coleman, Treewave, The Theater Fire, They Might Be Giants, Raconteurs, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, DEVO, The Dears, Mel Torme, Breggett Rideau, Valve, Front 242, John Vanderslice, Echo and The Bunnymen, Ornette Coleman, Subset, The Van
ished, Voxtrot, Velvet Love Box, Liz Phair, Bob Marley, Lee Scratch Perry, Vibrolux, The Bellakun, XTC, Wellwisher, Wesley Willis, Coma Rally, Wilco, Elliott Smith, Leonard Cohen, 7% Solution, Xymox, Deerhoof, Dogs Die in Hot Cars, James Hinkle, Joey Carter, Dire Straits, Artic Monkeys, Plaid, The Magnetic Fields, Tokyo Police Club, Frank Sinatra, Shreikback, The Magic Numbers, Daniel Johnston, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, Kristy Krüger, Bobby Knight, Tom Waits, Sparrows, Jesus and Mary Chain, THe BAcksliders, Sons and Daughters, Burnt Sienna, Beirut, The Detroit Cobras, Blackeyed Peas, The Greenhornes, Beastie Boys, Social Distortion, Violent Femmes, The Myrmidons, Horses, Madlib, Jellyfish, Catherine Wheel, Lee Harvey Deutschendorf, Book of Love, Cocteau Twins, 50 Ft. Wave, The Smiths, Hank Williams Sr., Roy Orbison, In Living Color, Prize Money, David Garza, Ten Hands, The Murder City Devils, TTC, Scritti Politti, Course of Empire, This Damn Town, The Helio Sequence, Sun, Salim Nourallah, Sparta, Secret Machines, Primus, Jack's Mannequin, Squarepusher, Simple Kid, We Talked About Murder, Broose, The Henchmen, Lauren Fine, Chatterton, The Arcade Fire, The Who, Buffalo Tom, Camper Van Beethoven, David Bowie, MC Hawking, Wally Pleasant, The Rutles, The Goulet Destroyers [of course!] and so... many... more...
Movies
Some highlights: To Kill a Mockingbird, Donnie Darko, A Room with a View, Being There, Momento, Clay Pigeons, Gallipoli, Wild at Heart, Bob Roberts, Shallow Grave, Happy Texas, Happy Accidents, The Last Supper, Edward Sissorhands, The Tall Guy, Princess Bride, Scotland PA, Videodrome, Bulworth, Lost in Translation, Like Water for Chocolate, Mystic River, City of Lost Children, Farenheit 911, Braveheart, Babette's Feast, Pi, Wild at Heart, BASEketball, Nightmare Before Christmas, Frankenweinie, Old School; Hitchcock films, even "The Man Who Knew Too Much" featuring the relentless showcasing of Doris Day's performance of "Que Sera, Sera"; and various forms of hardcore muppet porn.
Television
Not much time to watch, but here a few I'll look for when I turn on the DVR: Current.tv, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Daily Show, The Soup, The Colbert Report, Dallas Mavs games, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Flight of The Conchords, Perfect Hair Forever, Harvey Birdman, Robot Chicken, Squidbillies, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Venture Brothers, Sealab 2021, Aqua Teenage Hunger Force, Scrubs, Rescue Me; I like these too: BBC-America shows like My Family, reruns of The Prisoner, The Avengers and The Saint; Six Feet Under, Face The Nation, Meet The Press, The Family Guy, Curb Your Enthusiasm. Most everything else is on DVD.
Books
Just a few highlights, again: A Room With A View, Letters From the Earth, Critical Path, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Democracy Matters, Blinded by The Right; essays by Emerson, The People's History of the United States of America, Still Life with Woodpecker, Breakfast of Champions, Le Miserable, Setting Free the Bears, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, pretty much anything Joe Bob Briggs writes, The Giving Tree [stupid kids' book makes me tear up every time], Adobe Type Guide
Heroes
Elvis Costello, Albert Einstein, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Abigail Adams; anyone that has enough guts to start a band; most of my friends, often at the most unlikely times. They keep me on my toes.
tom u.'s Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Hometown:
Fort Worth
Religion:
Other
Zodiac Sign:
Pisces
Education:
Grad / professional school
Occupation:
The Last Straight Republican
tom u.'s Schools
Texas Christian University
Ft Worth, TEXAS
Graduated: 1999
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Journalism
Clubs: KTCU, Student Publications, SPJ, Ad Club, Campaigns
1997 to 1999
The University Of Texas At Arlington
Arlington, TX
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Major: Pre-Med/Psychology
Minor: Biology
Clubs: Student Publications, The Shorthorn, Trombone Ensemble, Jazz, Student Activities Committee
Greek:
Psi Chi
1984 to 1988
Arlington Heights H S
Fort Worth, TEXAS
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Clubs: band, student council, honor society, math club, who's who, journalism, basketball, track
SUBMISSIONS FOR CONSIDERATION on THE GOOD SHOW
should be sent to the following address:
The Good Show
Attn: Tom Urquhart
FM 88.7-KTCU
Box 298020
Fort Worth, Texas 76129
Who I'd like to meet: Smart people with a sense of humor.
Folks who want to hear great music not often heard on commercial radio and, of course, quick-witted globe-trotting super models with the capacity to deeply appreciate a decent game of backgammon or maybe even Spades.
No crypto-fascist political talking-point repeaters, please.
I can listen to Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly or one their wannabees, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, most morning network news shows, or one of the last half-dozen State of The Union addresses for the latest propaganda.
Besides, for a real news program, you should be watching Keith Olbermann's show, Countdown. It's the only weeknight news show on MSNBC worth watching. Really.
Actually, I enjoy discussing politics, just tired of hearing the same false info or red herring repeated, ping-ponging from one pundit to another, to the point even Pavlov would get annoyed.
Fantasy dinner guests: Elvis Costello, Polly Jean Harvey, Cornel West, Ashley Judd, Christiane Amanpour, Jon Stewart, Tina Fey, William Wesley, Keith Olbermann, Al Franken, Howard Zinn, Alice Cooper, Barack Obama, Siouxsie Sioux, Joe Bob Briggs, Bill Moyers, Muhammad Ali, Bill Schaeffer, Walter Cronkite, Ben Kweller, Diane Lane, Angie Dickinson; and if they were still alive: Albert Einstein, Francis Crick, Dorothy Parker, E.M. Forster, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Twain, Marlon Brando, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Abigail Adams, Frank Zappa, Leo Tolstoy, Buckminster Fuller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Edward R. Murrow, Will Rogers, Martin Luther King, Ben Franklin, Nikola Tesla, Guglielmo Marconi, Charlie Parker, Cole Porter, John Lennon, Joe Strummer, Charles Mingus, Mile Davis, Femi Kuti, Nick Drake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Shakespeare, Charles Bukowski, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, Jessie Owens, Carter Albrecht, my ancestral namesake, Emily Dickinson.
This is our first full length episode and features all three members of D³! This is actually the story concept that started it all. Be sure to leave us feedback and a comment/rating over at youtube is always appreciated.
I have a new newsletter filled with great information about shows, fan contests, featured artists, etc. and don’t have your email address to include in the mailing. If you send your email to me at newsletter@LiTaLjourneyback.com along with the title of one of my songs that you would like, I will send you a link to download the song for FREE.
Thanks for all the support.
LiTaL
P.S. Pass this on to your friends and if they request a MySpace friendship (www. myspace. com/LiTaLsjourney) and send me their email and song choice, I will send them a FREE download as well.
It’s been far too long since I last said hello and so much has happened I thought it about time we said hello.
We’ve changed a lot, now we are an “UltraModern, post-electro rock, post-nu rave behemoth where Muse and Mansun meet a Massive Attack with Duran Duran pop sensibilities, louder guitars, and a stunning female front person/guitar virtuoso”, or so we have been told.
I’d love to know what you’ve been up to since we disappeared into the dark damp studio cave, let us know how it’s going, I’m always up for a chat!
Hope you like the tunes. Come celebrate with us at our next show Feb 21st (We got signed) . We’re playing at the Vampire Lounge 11311 Harry Hines Blvd Dallas, TX . Write back =)
Notre nouveau clip, entièrement fait à la main... PIG MONSTER.
Déjanté, hors normes, expérimental, décalé, théâtral, déglingué.
Our new music video, entirely handstitched .... PIG MONSTER.
Crazy, non-standard, out of norme, unusual, experimental, out of phase, theatrical, delirious.
Pig Monster
BONNE ANNÉE, GROSSES BISES et VIVE le ROCK...
The second release in the Archaic Fetishism series is a four way split cassingle featuring bizzaro carnival pop songs by Eskimeaux, Raindrops Falling From Heaven, The New Heaven And The New Earth, and Snow Caps.
Eskimeaux is Gabrielle Smith, also known for her work as a member of Br'er. Eskimeaux starts the set with the aptly named "Dreamy Pop Song II," an icy, distant song that embodies the bittersweet loneliness and overwhelming temptation of unobtainable love.
Raindrops Falling From Heaven is the solo work of Ugh God percussionist Dan Angel. Side A closes with Angel's debut track "Old Lady Love," an infectious piece of electronic pop.
The New Heaven and the New Earth is the latest from Roger Martinez, also known as a member of Br'er and a founding member of The Private Sea. Side B opens with "I Live in The Trees," an ode to alienation in the form of an acid-soaked carousel waltz.
Snow Caps is the brainchild of Andrew Keller, who also plays in Hermit Thrushes. Snow Caps closes the set with "Winter Pop Song", a summation of the diverse range of sounds heard on Archaic Fetishism 2 that simulatenously bears Keller's unmistakable songwriting fingerprint.
Archaic Fetishism 2 is a limited release of 100 cassingles packaged in handmade felt pouches, assembled by hot glue
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excerpt from the Fort worth weekly's best of 2008 issue Best Local Music Show in Last 12 Months Critic’s choice: Bertha Coolidge, Lola’s Saloon, April 16 Mainly because bassist Aden Bubeck plays in the band of Grammy-winning Nashville star Miranda Lambert and drummer Rick Stitzel lives in Chi-town, Bertha plays a show, oh, once every blue moon. The fusion jazz band’s weekday set at Lola’s was by far the best we’ve ever seen from the quartet and easily the best of the year, cooking from beginning to end. Even the musicians themselves said they were amazed at the synergy that seemed to form effortlessly.
Lost watching party at Lola's on 6th street starting @ 8pm-10pm On a 108" HD projection screen with sound run through the house audio system Drink specials see below
Following their highest profile year to date, which contained their fourth tour of Europe and performances at Lincoln Center, Newport Jazz Festival, a Guinness Jazz Award, and much more, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey returns to Denton,TX on Sat. Jan. 17th w/Snarky Puppy! Tell your friends & family! See you there!
Thank you for your friendship! If you like Lucinda Williams you will probably like Rosy Nolan. Will you come check out my music and leave me a comment?
we are proud to announce, that our debut album “The Land Sleeps” is released as CD on CD-Baby and CDeal as well as Mp3 on diverse online stores with more online stores coming up soon. The linkz will be updated on our myspace regulary.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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Guido Vortex
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