In Bill's Humble Opinion

ALL POINTS WEST 2009, Part 1: the rain

2009-08-03T04:56:00.001-07:00

"Come, let me see what task I have to do. You heavy people, circle me about."

- Titus Andronicus

"So foul a sky clears not without a storm; Pour down thy weather: how goes all in France?"

-King John

"The sun will not be seen to-day; The sky doth frown and lour upon our army. I would these dewy tears were from the ground."

-Richard III

"Do any thing but this thou doest. Empty old receptacles, or common shores, of filth; Serve by indenture to the common hangman: Any of these ways are yet better than this."

- Pericles, Prince of Tyre

"The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard; The fold stands empty in the drowned field, and the nine men's morris is fill's up with mud."

-A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Our hap is loss, our hope but sad despair; Our ranks are broke, and ruin follows us: What counsel give you? Whither shall we fly?"

-King Henry VI

"What torch is yond, that vainly lends light to grubs and eyeless skulls?"

-Romeo and Juliet

"And why, I pray you? Who might be your mother, that you insult, exult, and all at once, over the wretched?"

-As You Like It

"Strong as a tower in hope, I cry amen."

-King Richard II

ALL POINTS WEST 2009, Part 2: Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jay-Z, MSTRKRFT

2009-08-03T04:48:00.000-07:00

"I am as melancholy as a gib cat or a lugged bear."

-King Henry IV

"Here I can sit alone, unseen of any, and to the nightingale's complaining notes tune my distress and record my woes."

-Two Gentlemen of Verona

"Thy eye Jove's lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful thunder!"

- Love's Labours Lost

"O, poor Gloucester! Lost he his other eye?"

-King Lear

"I do not desire you to please me; I do desire you to sing. Come, more; another stanzo: call you 'em stanzos?"

-As You Like It

"Through the house give gathering light... every elf and fairy sprite hop as light as bird from brier. Sing, and dance it trippingly!"

-A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Sing no more ditties, sing no moe, of dumps dull and heavy!"

-Much Ado About Nothing

THE FIERY FURNACES: I'm Going Away and TINY MASTERS OF TODAY: Skeletons

2009-07-28T15:23:00.000-07:00

"These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse, and fight for bitten apples; that no audience, but their dear siblings, are able to endure."

-adapted from King Henry VIII

MOBY: Wait For Me

2009-07-28T06:40:00.001-07:00

"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility."

-King Henry V

THE DEAD WEATHER: Horehound

2009-07-17T08:57:00.000-07:00

"Such war of White and red within her cheeks!"

-The Taming of the Shrew

MAJOR LAZER: Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do

2009-06-29T15:47:00.000-07:00

"A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements."

-Othello

MICHAEL JACKSON, R.I.P.

2009-06-29T07:30:00.001-07:00

"I would fain see the man, that has but two legs, that shall find himself aggrieved at this glove."

-King Henry V

JAY-Z: D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)

2009-06-26T06:53:00.000-07:00

"If the true concord of well-tuned sounds... do offend thine ear, they do but sweetly chide thee."

-Sonnet 8

SPINAL TAP: Back From the Dead

2009-06-26T06:50:00.000-07:00

"Ay, to eleven, and brought them down again."

-Pericles, Prince of Tyre

ELVIS COSTELLO: Sacred, Profane & Sugarcane

2009-06-16T08:43:00.001-07:00

"When he performs, astronomers foretell it; it is prodigious, there will come some change; the sun borrows of the moon."

- Troilus and Cressida

DIRTY PROJECTORS: Bitte Orca

2009-06-15T16:53:00.001-07:00

"Hum! A fine pate full of fine dirt."

-Hamlet

IGGY POP: Preliminaires, and PHOENIX: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

2009-06-09T12:10:00.000-07:00

"Coward of France! How much he wrongs his fame."

-King Henry IV Part 1

"Ay, so please your majesty. The French is gone off, look you, and there is most gallant and prave passages."

-King Henry V

GRIZZLY BEAR: Veckatimest

2009-05-29T08:23:00.000-07:00

"Where should this music be? I' the air or the earth?"

-Coriolanus

MARILYN MANSON: The High End of Low

2009-05-27T14:34:00.000-07:00

"Let's have that, good sir. Come on, sit down. Come on, and do your best to fright me with your sprites."

The Winter's Tale

PASSION PIT: Manners

2009-05-22T05:06:00.001-07:00

"As full of spirit as the month of May."

King Henry IV, Part 1

EMINEM: Relapse

2009-05-20T11:47:00.001-07:00

"What, in ill thoughts again?"

-King Lear

GREEN DAY: 21st Century Breakdown

2009-05-18T16:57:00.001-07:00

"When ones so great begin to rage, they're hunted even to falling. Make boot of their distraction: never anger made good guard for itself."

-(adapted from) Antony and Cleopatra

DEPECHE MODE: Sounds of the Universe

2009-05-15T08:50:00.001-07:00

"To bitter sauces do they frame their feeding."

-Sonnet 118

ST. VINCENT: Actor

2009-05-13T06:54:00.000-07:00

"Look thou but sweet.... Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords."

-(adapted from) Romeo and Juliet

BOB DYLAN: Together Through Life

2009-05-08T07:34:00.000-07:00

"When rank [Bob] opens his mastic jaws we shall hear music, wit, and oracle."

-Troilus and Cressida

ASHER ROTH: Asleep in the Bread Aisle

2009-05-06T08:29:00.000-07:00

"Nor shall proud [Asher] usurp my right, nor hold the sceptre in his childish fist."

-King Henry VI Part ii

NEKO CASE: Middle Cyclone

2009-05-05T08:30:00.000-07:00

"Patience, good sir; do not assist the storm. Be manly, and take comfort."

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

LILY ALLEN: It's Not Me, It's You

2009-05-05T08:22:00.000-07:00

"Fell banning hag, enchantress, hold thy tongue!"

King Henry VI, Part i

NEIL YOUNG: Fork in the Road

2009-04-25T22:38:00.000-07:00

"Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it."

-King Lear

PRINCE: 1) MPLSound, 2) Lotus Flow3r, and 3) Elixer (by Bria Valente)

2009-04-23T16:46:00.000-07:00

"Had I three ears, I'd hear thee."

-Macbeth

U2: No Line On the Horizon

2009-04-23T16:19:00.000-07:00

"Sir, you have wrestled well, and overthrown

More than your enemies."

-As You Like It

FEVER RAY: Fever Ray

2009-04-21T16:22:00.001-07:00

"Didst hear her speak? Is she shrill-tongued or low?"

-Antony and Cleopatra