Lost Lyrics: The Raincoats, “Off-Duty Trip” and Delta 5, “Make Up”
I’ve had no trouble locating reliable lyrics transcriptions for any of the songs in my course, “The Social Politics of Indie” — until we got to the class on all-female bands, of course. Here are two transcriptions for songs that no one else on the internet has bothered with. As Simon Reynolds writ..
A Tale of Two Fishes: Thoughts on an Index
The final stages of a big project are satisfyingly boring. There is not much thinking left to do. Any opportunity for brilliance has expired. Your job now is to spot typos, double-check bibliographical details, scrutinize fonts, and look out for embarrassing factual errors. Occasionally, there is ..
2015: A Summer in Baseball
I was obsessed with baseball as a kid. I think the reason baseball hooked me, and not some other sport (like hockey, which I was expected to be obsessed with, as a good Canadian) was all the stats. A certain type of pre-nerd just can’t resist comparing favourite players by batting average, generat..