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Neil - who has written 40 posts on The Contrarian.
Neil Cleary is a musician and songwriter who has toured internationally as a solo artist and a sideman with acts such as The Essex Green, Erin McKeown and Mike Gordon & Ramble Dove. Around the turn of the century, he used to front Hank Williams' Lonesome Cheatin' Hearts Club Band, a New York based all-Hank-Williams outfit. Currently he lives in Cambridge, MA with his girlfriend, two cats, his three solo albums, and the remnants of his broken dreams.
Rolphing
As many close friends have gingerly tried to explain to me over the years, certain things aren’t as funny as I think they are. Sadly, these friends are wrong. Rolphing is an example of something which is fucking hilarious — or totally stupid and annoying, if for some reason your sense of humor is broken. It [...]
Continue reading...I Love This Band
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
As many Contrarian readers can likely understand, I hate music. More specifically, I love music. Which is to say I love music so much that the disappointments are harder to take and as years go by, it’s somehow harder to even like music, which results in a generally reluctant and embittered outlook, see opening sentence. [...]
Continue reading...This Week In Prince
Thursday, July 15, 2010
PRINCE DECLARES, “SMARTPHONES ARE OVER” The Purple One has seen the writing on the wall in the possible recall of iPhone G4s — the smartphone, Prince says, is over. He revealed this insight in an exclusive interview with the Financial Times to promote the packaging of his new album, FUTUREK00L, with every new IBM Selectric typewriter [...]
Continue reading...Addiction. So Addictive!!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Isn’t addiction awesome? The way it destroys your life and the lives of those around you? The way that once it has a toehold in your consciousness, it’s exceptionally hard to not have it define you forever? Ask anyone who’s ever been touched by the ravenous scourge of addiction, and I’m sure they’ll tell you [...]
Continue reading...5 Reasons I Am Not Buying The New iPhone
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
1. I already have an iPhone What is better than that? I can text, phone, email, browse the web, get GPS directions, etc. etc. etc. It does everything but make toast. I was a little bummed at first that I couldn’t hold a drink AND jerk off while watching porn on it, but then the Right [...]
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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