Jimmy Fahrenheit’s excellent son stated recently that “The Yankees are for boys, and the Mets are for girls.” True. I recall visiting Shea (once and never again) in ’86 and being stunned at how it resembled a New Kids on the Block concert more than a ballgame (Ron Daaaaarling!!!!). But my three-year old daughter’s a […]
Dig it: Imagine this at the Barnes & Noble table of worthless gift books, with my name on it (or the name of the connected asshole who already got an advance for it). Or imagine it arriving unbidden in your email from your Aunt, who sends you all sorts of stuff that was probably culled […]
I just listened to Girl Talk’s new Feed the Animals. Missy Elliot over Ziggy Stardust, etc. Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams” as a bed doesn’t need a re-use after Hoovertronics curbed that with David Banner six or so years ago. Not too inspired, but nifty just the same. GT is all about the hits and generational signifiers […]
Unprepared for how heartbreaking The Replacements, All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History would be, I read it while rocking my second child this past weekend, reflux-sufferer that she is (but otherwise healthy as an ox in all other respects), and now I will forever associate her infant-hood with tales of Bob Stinson walking […]
http://youtube.com/v/z-5wRviAG5w Watch closely – the lead signer/guitarist sports braces. They were teenagers. I think two are dead now. My life has changed so much that I’d forgotten how much I once prized my vinyl copies of this band. Today it struck me how this song proves Cobain was a pirate of the first order. Even […]
Stop Loving Everything 