Category: TV

Hozier on the Today Show

March 6, 2015

Hozier was on the Today Show this morning performing his breakout hit Take Me To Church and his new single, From Eden, both from his self titled debut CD, Hozier. As noted in the interview before his performance of From Eden, Hozier is indeed, “a tall drink of water.” Watch here:

Hozier performs Take Me To Church on the Today Show: (more…)

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Food For Thought: Online or Offline

November 8, 2014

I’m in the midst of a Reflections on Technology class at UMass Amherst, University Without Walls. One of the objects of the class is to reflect on our relationship with technology. This week’s lesson is specifically about fasting from technology and the implications of that fast. Deeper posed questions brought up in our class reading included a couple of articles on the meanings of being online and offline. Nathan Jurgenson’s, The IRL Fetish, is a great read on the debate over what it means to be online and subsequently offline.

A lot can be said about the benefits of going offline for a time, and Jurgenson points out that more and more people participate in spending time offline. In reality, there is no separation between being online or offline, it is contextual, among other things. (more…)

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A Little Night Music: Sturgill Simpson on the Letterman Show

July 16, 2014

Sturgill Simpson made his late night TV debut the other night on the Letterman Show. I’ve been taken with Sturgill Simpson’s sound since I first heard his song The Promise on the radio a few weeks ago. Rolling Stone reports Simpson’s performance on the Letterman Show prompted Dave Letterman “to herald the barn-burner as one that makes you want to hit the open road. “Every now and then, stop someplace and start a fight,” Letterman riffed. “[Then] get back in the car, keep driving.””

Watch Sturgill Simpson perform Life of Sin on the Letterman Show:

http://youtu.be/_70HJMikcBo

Sturgill Simpson’s new CD Metamodern Sounds in Country Music is evocative of the Outlaw Country Western Music of the late 1960’s and 1970’s made popular by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and others. I was a big fan of the Outlaw music genre back in the day, and I’m swiftly discovering a new affection for it listing to Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. In fact, Sturgill Simpson has a velvety baritone voice that reminds a lot of Waylon Jennings and why I enjoyed his music so much.