Music
On Letterman in 2005, playing "Jumpers": On Letterman in 2015 playing "A New Wave". On Conan in 2002 playing "Step Aside": On Conan in 2015 playing "Surface Envy" (Better quality here): At Coachella in 2006 playing "Sympathy": In San Francisco
Advice
I get asked a lot for tips on how to "break into the biz" as a tennis writer or tennis journalist. As I have always considered myself more of the former than the latter, I usually pass on questions about the latter. But I got the question again
Tuesday Tunes
As the story goes, The Go! Team really were never meant to exist. Ian Parton was just a dude who wanted to sample songs and create these DJ'd soundscapes. He released their first album in September 2004 and people liked it so much that they wanted the band
Raves
Anita Sarkeesian's remarks during the All About Women conference in Sydney, Australia are a must-watch. She hammers home the effects of online harassment in her life and though she has had to deal with it on a far more intense and destructive level, I found myself nodding my
Raves
I love podcasts. I really believe they are the next new creative medium to explode, even more than they already have in the post-Serial world. The very weird thing is, I just assumed everyone loved podcasts. Not necessarily that everyone listened to them -- they can be a time consuming
Tuesday Tunes
I LOVED this band. Still do. Sadly, I have never meet another person who is even remotely aware of Sons and Daughters. I can't even remember how I stumbled onto them. Possibly at a music festival or as an opening band for Franz Ferdinand. Basically, if you have
Music
Have you seen some of these "Best Love Song" lists that are being drudged up for Valentine's Day? They are laughable. Any list that includes Celine Dion's "Power of Love" on it is not understanding the purpose of this exercise. That is
Movies
So yeah. I've read 50 Shades of Grey. I've read the whole 50 Shades trilogy. It happened during that one year where it rained buckets nearly every day at the Aegon Classic in Birmingham, England and there comes a point when you just run out of
Tuesday Tunes
I read this great interview with Kathleen Hanna over at The A.V. Club and it was so great. She's is a badass icon and a woman you don't want to mess with. Not only did she inspire Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit&
Other Sports
* No surprise. This is a US team that barely beat TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. They lost to Brazil in December. They can't settle on a formation or a style. They are beset by injuries and the continuing saga of Hope Solo. The World Cup is four months away and
Tuesday Tunes
Here's what I was listening to during my three weeks in Melbourne. Sorry for the lack of dispatches. I had these grand plans that were completely derailed by that shitty flu/cold thing that was going around. Heard this in a store. I actually Shazam'd it.
Lists
What is not to love about Australia? The people are incredibly friendly, chatty, and chill. They are basically Americans if Americans were chill. And why not? We are both countries formed out of shady Brits, the only difference is that Americans were like "OOHHHH RELIGION!" and Australians were