The Pelican’s Perch

OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.

Happy New Year everyone.  This should be a great year.  I’m working on getting the blog redone, which should make everything more spiffy around the Perch, and then I’ve got all my Lemondrop 2.0 ventures taking off soon.  Once the website is done, I’ll give you guys a complete rundown on exactly what it is [...]

In case you missed it.  I’m still in shock about what happened and am beyond curious to see where they go with all this next season.  Mad props to the writers on yet another great season, and if you missed this season, by all means get to catching up already.

Downloads over at SG

Mumford & Sons were a random find a while back that falls in the “Thank God I decided to check them out” category.  There’s probably another 30 albums in my inbox that I’ll think are simply amazing, but truth is I probably won’t ever listen to them.  Sad, for sure.  Mumford & Sons caught a [...]

I may be way behind in finally seeing this, but oh well.  This was sort of how Tiffany and I first met (no signs involved though), only our first meeting was in the grand lobby of Union Station in Chicago.  Too long a story to go into here, but it makes me like this video [...]

Cloud Cult – Live at the Triple Door from Jim Beckmann on Vimeo.

In case you missed it.  This happened at some wine company’s warehouse and had something like $150,000 worth of damage.  Makes those “need to get away” commercials look like nothing.

I had intended on reviewing Firekites’ album The Bowery a while ago, but I guess it never got past the point of being just a draft.  I liked what I wrote, but I think I’ll just scrap that draft and write up a quick one that gets right to the point.  Firekites’ album The Bowery [...]

In case you haven’t seen it yet.

Here’s a little Mew for you.  I always enjoyed this band, but had to be in the mood to listen to an album the whole way through.  Today, for whatever reason, was one of those days I was really in the mood to listen to some Mew.  They recently played on AOL’s Interface, and it [...]