SOUNDTRACK: BOB MOULD-Tiny Desk Concert #381 (August 11, 2014).
Man, I leave the Tiny Desk concert area for a little while and they have loaded up ten shows already! How will I ever catch up? But more importantly, one of them is with Bob Mould! How about that? Mould has a new album out which I have been enjoying, but it’s really fun to see him in this Tiny Desk setting–just him and his electric guitar, bashing out four songs in 13 minutes and still playing in that low-slung style.
His voice still sounds great (even if it is a little disconcerting to see the bald, gray-bearded man with glasses who replaced the bratty punk Mould of old).
He plays two new songs from Beauty and Ruin “The War” and “Hey Mr. Grey.” He also plays an older solo song: “I Don’t Know You Anymore.” And since he’s playing them all from his fuzzy amp, they sound great together (even if the new stuff isn’t quite as catchy). After some chatting, he ends the set with a classic Hüsker Dü song, “Makes No Sense At All.”
It’s great to see him being funny and charming. And it’s even better to have him back and rocking.
[READ: August 1, 2014] Bone: Quest for the Spark 1
Many years ago I read and loved the Bone series. I have all of the books and even bought the individual issues (back when I collected comic books…they must be worth half of face value by now!). C. even started reading the Bone books a while back (we love saying “Stupid Stupid Rat Creatures” to each other).
But I honestly haven’t thought much about the series since then. So I was shocked to see this “new” book at the library. And even more shocked to see Shiegoski’s name on it (instead of Jeff Smith’s (which is there, fear not)). And then triply shocked to see that it is a novel with a few pictures and not a graphic novel at all. Whoa, consider my mind blown.
So this story takes place years after the events of the Bone series. Gran’ma Ben is still around and Thorn is queen now. But as the Prologue states, Queen Thorn is unwell. She is in a deep sleep and is ice cold. And Gran’ma Ben has the gitchy feeling that things are not okay. if none of that makes sense to you it’s because you’ve never read Bone. So, in a nutshell, most of the characters are people, but the Bone family are small, white, ghost-like creatures, very cartoony in a human world. They’re adorable and funny. (more…)
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