http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ Mike Doughty's Blog en-us md@mikedoughty.com 2009-06-17T11:34:38-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000790.html These were recorded by listener Izumi Kamo, at Club Goodman in the Akihabara section of Tokyo, otherwise known as Otaku central, and home of the famous Maid Cafés, where beautiful women in maid costumes serve you tea and are extremely... 790@http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ 2009-06-17T11:34:38-05:00 http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000789.html I just piled 17 identical navy blue t-shirts into a suitcase, and that can mean only one thing--we're flying out to do a couple weeks of shows on the West Coast! A few of the shows have sold out--maybe... 789@http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ 2009-04-30T12:25:48-05:00 http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000788.html The spectacle of the Hipster Grifter is pure candy to me, and I've sought out dozens of stories about her, even though they're all the same: Korean girl with ultra-Williamsburg-irony tattoo that says "I Love Beards," stole money in... 788@http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ 2009-04-18T11:45:11-05:00 http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000787.html 787@http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ 2009-04-08T18:10:44-05:00 http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000786.html I realized that I was flakey flakey when I initially announced I got a Twitter going, then dropped the ball, but I'm really seriously Twittering of late, I'm on somewhat of a roll: Twitter.com/MikeDoughtyYeah These are pix of an... 786@http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ 2009-03-29T11:16:45-05:00 http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000785.html My cello player Scrap and I are barnstorming through Germany. We've played in Berlin, Hamburg, Köln (Cologne), and a few other cities; we've got Munich and Dresden and a few others left, then we fly to Portugal for three... 785@http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ 2009-03-23T17:04:46-05:00 http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000784.html 784@http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ 2009-03-22T09:59:08-05:00 http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000783.html It's true, it's true. Check out: IFC.com where there's lots of links. Or! A direct link to the vid: here Or! A link to an article I wrote for IFC about the Top 12 Cheap Videos of All Time.... 783@http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ 2009-02-26T18:08:59-05:00 http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000782.html I'm spending February way out in the snow-covered woods, at an artists' colony in Upstate New York. They've given me a tiny cabin with a piano in it where I've been writing songs and recording some electronic music. I... 782@http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ 2009-02-15T14:48:06-05:00 http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000781.html 781@http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ 2009-01-29T07:45:36-05:00 http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000780.html The cab drivers are talking to each other. All night, every night, all through the night, driving around with their earpieces on, talking in Ebo, Igbo, Yoruba, Spanish, Creyol, Gujarati, Bengali. Sometimes I get in the cab and I... 780@http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ 2009-01-26T20:38:32-05:00 http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000779.html twitter.com/MikeDoughtyYeah... 779@http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ 2009-01-20T14:31:12-05:00 http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000778.html I got up and went out to buy snacks for the inauguration party I'm throwing. The bodega lady looking mildly baffled that I'm buying Newman-Os at 8:15 am. Now I'm glued to the TV, waiting with Tom Brokaw and... 778@http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ 2009-01-20T09:12:52-05:00 http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000777.html Belatedly, I'm thinking about Top 10 Albums of 20__ lists. I think they're bunk. I don't listen to albums, really--I listen to songs. In the past, when asked to come up with a top 10 album list, I'll ask... 777@http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ 2009-01-19T08:44:08-05:00 http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000776.html Young Jean Lee, an Obie and ZKB award winning playwright and director (though those two titles don't really describe her uncanny magic-making) and I are working on a musical. It's gonna take a long time to write, so don't... 776@http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ 2009-01-12T09:48:51-05:00