The Pelican’s Perch

Someone just sent me this link to Stereogum’s amazingly addictive post and I just had to share it.  I don’t know how many of you saw the finale of the Soprano’s recently, but the controversial ending left many angry or confused.  I haven’t had HBO for the last four years being in college and all, [...]

I’ve been a fan of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, aka Owen Ashworth, for quite some time.  I always enjoyed his lo-fi style playing everything on his little Casiotone keyboard.  Drumbeats and all.  Then, his newest album found him expanding a little adding real drums, but keeping the Casiotone keyboard the main instrument.  For his [...]

It was sort of weird this year with Bonnaroo.  Most of my friends went last year and caught Radiohead (sigh) while I was in Seattle doing the Sub Pop thing, so I couldn’t make it last year and swore I’d make it this year.  Then, the day they released the artist list for this summer’s festival, almost [...]

I’ve been writing and ultimately tweaking this song for a couple weeks now and it’s been one of the more frustrating songs I’ve ever written.  The original melody was much slower to match the opening riff, which I was too stubborn to get rid of so that’s why it’s just there in the beginning then [...]

…Well, maybe my favorite album of the moment, but an album of this caliber deserved a deceiving title to get you interested immediately.  As I usually do with my stack of promos, I pick one and put it in start to finish.  No matter how bad it is.  I figure even on the bad ones there’s [...]

Tin Cup Prophette is Amanda Kapousouz and she is from Athens, Georgia.  Her sound consists mainly of minimalistic looping of her violin accompanied by other interesting instruments.  When I read her bio and description of her music, I became almost too excited to listen to the album hoping that she might be the female equivalent [...]

Our modem died today.  Yep, literally just up and died.  That’s unfortunate because my studies have shown that Mondays are my best days as far as hits on the site go.  Everyone’s back at work, bored, and ready to check what the Perch has to say.  “Nothing!  How dare he!”  Well, what can I do.  [...]

I’m kind of limited here being at home, since all my music is on my computer at home, but I’ll make due with the few songs I’ve gotten since moving back home and the songs that were already on this computer.  So, here’s what the Perch has been spinning lately.  Enjoy!

Cloud Cult – Lucky Today
 
Bishop [...]

Hostel II
Score: Pure Crap

I watched most of this online (and yes, I don’t feel bad at all about Eli Roth losing money b/c of that).  But once it loaded all the way in the player I just clicked forward and watched a few seconds of each scene until I got to the end of the movie.  [...]

Bug
Score: 7/10
“One of the most disturbing horror movies imaginable…”
This single quote, printed front and center on the posters and said on the trailer, single-handedly ruined the movie for me initially.  I was expecting a good horror film that made me jump and kept me on the edge of my seat similar to The Descent or [...]