Markadelphia
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Posts by Markadelphia
I Still Really Really Love You…
The sweat is pouring off of me even though the air conditioner is humming away right above my head. It’s the end of July and I’m in Southern Illinois. Murphysboro to be exact. I’m sprawled out on my dad’s couch watching MTV. As the videos roll before my entranced eyes, music in the year 1984 [...]
But My Good Friends Is All I Need
December 13, 2009 - 12:45 pm
Tags: Asher Roth, getting older
Posted in Hip Hop | 1 comment
For the past few years, I have received many comments which basically come down to one central theme: It’s about time I started acting my age.
I am 42 years old. But even when I was in my late thirties, many people around my age and even younger were surprised to hear that I still like [...]
Slayed by the Percussion Gun: White Rabbits in Minneapolis
November 11, 2009 - 12:09 am
Tags: Review, White Rabbits
Posted in Indie, Rock | 4 comments
My uncle Jamie is a vocational therapist out in Salem, Oregon. A while back, he related to me the concept of risk and how it relates to developmental wellness. If someone is regularly taking emotional, mental, physical and spiritual risks, generally speaking, they are healthier people on a number of levels.
This doesn’t mean necessarily that [...]
So Much World Outside The Door…
October 25, 2009 - 11:04 pm
Tags: Andy Dunlap, Fran Healy, Review, Travis
Posted in Rock | No comments
“I’m going to die.”
This is what I was thinking as I drove, barely 40 mph, east on Interstate 94 from my home in the Twin Cities to the party capital of the world.
It was last Friday afternoon, October 23rd, and I was on my way to hang out with my friend George. He had called [...]
A Bloody Rager: Arctic Monkeys at First Avenue
September 28, 2009 - 9:21 pm
Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Review
Posted in Rock | 1 comment
A few years back, a couple of guys on my tennis team were talking. Let’s call them Jim and John. Jim, the older brother of John, was talking about a party that John had recently while their parents were away. Jim was in his 20s and John had just finished his first year at UW-Madison.
“Mark, [...]
Shining Still…To Give Us The Will
September 16, 2009 - 8:49 pm
Tags: Review, Todd Rundgren, Utopia
Posted in Rock | 8 comments
In the summer of 1980, my father pulled into our driveway. My mom and he had been divorced for just over a year. I had spent the last year missing him terribly. He was living over a half hour away in a different city. I had just turned 13 only a few months before and [...]
Those Three Words: Snow Patrol at the State Theater in Minneapolis
September 13, 2009 - 11:49 am
Tags: Review, Snow Patrol
Posted in Rock | No comments
In April of 2004, I walked the cold, snow/rain soaked streets of downtown Minneapolis towards the now defunct music venue The Quest. I was a man obsessed. For the few weeks before this, I had been incessantly playing what has become THE ultimate break up song of all time…”Run” by Ireland’s Snow Patrol.
The band was [...]
Simply Gorgeous
August 6, 2009 - 9:31 pm
Tags: Karen O, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Posted in Indie | No comments
“Their songs start off OK but then it’s all…..ARRRHHHDDDAHHHHHHHRRRRRRARAR.”
So says my wife regarding the New York based band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Back in 2003, I dragged her to their first show at First Avenue when they were touring in support of the first CD, Fever To Tell. The reaction on her face (nausea) when [...]
Something like that, right? Is that what you want?
July 19, 2009 - 3:57 pm
Tags: Fatlip, Karen O, N.A.S.A., Ol' Dirty Bastard
Posted in Hip Hop, Indie | 4 comments
“Daddy, what’s stream of consciousness?”
My nine year old daughter was in the back seat of our minivan as we were heading home from summer day camp and laid yet another way beyond her age question on me. For a moment, my thoughts went back to when she was four years old and asked me if [...]
North South East and West: The Church @ the Varsity in Minneapolis
June 23, 2009 - 9:00 pm
Tags: Minneapolis, Review, The Church
Posted in Rock | 1 comment
The Church
Varsity Theater in Minneapolis
June 21st
“I’m ready!” my friend Steve exclaimed loudly after taking a bong hit whilst standing on his head. It was the dead of winter in Minnesota in early 1988. Steve, my roommate Matt and I were about to listen to the new album by the Church entitled Starfish- purchased only hours [...]
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