http://www.theowler.com Life, Music and Owls. Fri, 07 May 2010 16:50:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en That's right. Playboy is launching a new site called TheSmokingJacket.com that is 100% safe for consumption in public, including work (according to All Things Digital). I'm sure that we've all taken that precarious risk of going to our favorite porn site at work just to shake up the system or ... http://www.theowler.com/?p=450 It was August 1999 and we were in Texas. Houston to be exact and the "we" I refer to is my early 20s musical outlet slash band called Sleepover. The other guys in the band were both from there and had set up a couple dates for us to play ... http://www.theowler.com/?p=423 This story is actually going to take us wayyyyy back. I won't be racking up the cool points by being able to say that this record was the first configuration in which I had ownership, however the journey there totally worth it. This story begins in the latter half of 1988, ... http://www.theowler.com/?p=373 I was chatting with a couple friends in the corporate kitchen yesterday about this new album; they thought that MGMT has let down a legion of fans that spent 2008 jumping up and down to alternative anthems like "Kids." I agree that the band has taken one giant step backward....into ... http://www.theowler.com/?p=369 The funny thing is I don't really even like this record. The ship that carried all the VW commercial converts sailed without me, I guess. I've only listened to Pink Moon twice, but it never stuck, which is weird, because I am in my 30s after all, and I've been ... http://www.theowler.com/?p=343 Hi there. So, I've been thinking (and procrastinating) about getting this project off the ground. At first I wanted to develop a separate blog dedicated to this series, but that seemed a little ambitious as my blogging is so sporadic and I just didn't want to have another failure in the blogosphere, ... http://www.theowler.com/?p=321 If you're like me, you can't wait to SPRING FORWARD this weekend and rejoice in the gift of later sunlight given to us by the benevolent minds of Ben Franklin and the more obscure New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson. According to legend, while Franklin was an envoy to France ... http://www.theowler.com/?p=314 By now, many of us have seen the "Epic Beard Man" video of a 67-year-old white dude bringing the pain on a drunk black man on a crowded AC Transit bus. I've been on one of those buses, they would make anyone angry. Nevertheless, had to repost this, best thing ... http://www.theowler.com/?p=309 Japanese owl video with French subject line--worldwide owling. A good find from reader Francois. Le hibou n'aime pas les surprises - Koreus -A http://www.theowler.com/?p=305 70s prog rock Deutsch-style my friends. When I first picked up Eloy's album Ocean where this song is from, the guy behind the counter told me the band was "poor man's Pink Floyd." Dead wrong, but what did he care? He was working at an all-metal record shop in Providence. ... http://www.theowler.com/?p=297