Word Of The Day

gloaming\GLOH-ming\

DEFINITION
noun

: twilight, dusk

EXAMPLES
Crickets were chirping in the gloaming as the newlyweds walked home holding hands.

"Nighttime, not the late hours but the gloaming, when the sun was setting and dinner must be prepared and the long evening stretched out before her -- that's when the loneliness settled in like the ache in her hip on a rainy day, when the regrets, the bad memories, sometimes came to call." -- From Lisa Unger's 2010 novel Fragile

DID YOU KNOW?

If "gloaming" makes you think of tartans and bagpipes, well lads and lasses, you've got a good ear and a good eye; we picked up "gloaming" from the Scottish dialects of English back in the Middle Ages. The roots of the word trace to the Old English word for twilight, "glōm," which is akin to "glōwan," an Old English verb meaning "to glow." In the early 1800s, English speakers looked to Scotland again and borrowed the now-archaic verb "gloam," meaning "to become twilight" or "to grow dark

A BAND AND ALBUM YOU NEED TO CHECK OUT

Another album that has been in my player for quite a while now is from L.A. band Warpaint. Their album The Fool is simply AMAZING!!! Warpaint are signed to indie Brit label Rough Trade Records. The album is haunting, dark, intoxicating. Once you play it I gaurentee that you will be playing it again and again. Check out Warpaint's The Fool, you will not regret it!!

A BAND AND ALBUM YOU NEED TO CHECK OUT

The last couple of months or so, I have been playing this album non stop. The band's name is Las Robertas. The funny thing is that this band is not from England nor from the U.S. They are from Costa Rica. Their album Cry Out Loud has caused quite a stir in the U.S. and England. The band is comprised of four women and they rock out! They fall into the genre of punk and garage. Their sound is reminiscent of bands like Vivian Girls and Dum Dum Girls. They sing in English. I highly recommend you check this band and album out.

Phrase of The Day

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

Word Of The Day

ossify\AH-suh-fye\

1: to become or change into bone or bony tissue
2: to become or make hardened or set in one's ways

EXAMPLES: When a baby is born, many of the bones in its body have yet to ossify.

"But too many businesses are surviving because credit costs nothing, and bankers care little whether their borrowers are profitable or not. That has two damaging consequences: it ossifies corporate culture, and it drags down productivity." -- From an article in The Economist, November 18, 2010

DID YOU KNOW?
The skeletons of mammals originate as soft cartilage that gradually transforms into hard bone (in humans, the process begins in the womb and continues until late adolescence). English speakers have referred to this bone-building process as "ossification" since the late 17th century, and the verb "ossify" arrived soon after the noun. English speakers began to use "ossification" and "ossify" for more figurative types of hardening (such as that of the heart, mind, or soul) in the 19th century. Both words descend from the Latin root "os," meaning "bone." "Os" is also an English word that appears in scientific contexts as a synonym of "bone," and the Latin term is an ancestor of the word "osseous," which means "consisting of or resembling bone."

Born On This Day: Paul Webb, January 16, 1962

The bass player for Talk Talk celebrates his birthday today. PAul was bornm in Essex, England.

WHAT IS IN A NAME: ALT-ROCKER STAGE NAMES (AND THE REAL ONES)

"Handsome " Dick Manitoba (Richard Blum)

The Discreet Charm of Morrissey

"To me The Smiths are great be definition. Once they stop being great, they'll cease to exist."

SUNDAY'S TOP 5: JANUARY 16, 2011

MY TOP 5 ALBUMS FOR THIS SUNDAY ARE:

1. BROADCAST - THE NOISE MADE BY PEOPLE

2. BROADCAST - HAHA SOUND

3. BRITISH SEA POWER - VALHALLA DANCEHALL

4. SEAPONY - SEAPONY (EP)

5. THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN - UPSIDE DOWN: THE BEST OF THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN

SOME VERY SAD NEWS

Trish Keenan, the lead singer for Broacast died today from complications of pneumonia after battling the disease for two weeks. Trish contracted the H1N1 flu while the band was on tour in Australia in December. This is such a tragic loss to the music world. RIP Trish.