A trip to the Dentists today, but first: May Kevin Dubrow find nothing but zebra-swirl microphone stands where he’s going. I once saw Quiet Riot for free —for free – in a NJ club in 1999 or 2000. They were horrible. But the crowd delivered. There were guys present who hadn’t left their basements since […]
Last night I dreamed musicians in this internet-addled age made albums for reasons they no longer could articulate, but knew they needed this sham, the album, to lay onto their moneyed fans as an object, a thing to own, but deep in their hearts they know the album is an artistic vehicle fading faster than […]
Scott Walker will cover “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” with Kronos Quartet. Although that’s predictable, if mind-blowing. Let’s say Walker will please cover Xiu Xiu’s “I Broke Up (SJ).” Radiohead will cover Roky Erickson’s “I Have Always Been Here Before”I Met Rocky [sic] Erickson – Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair The Drones will cover the Scientists’ “We […]
My daughter’s allowed one cartoon, maybe once a day, usually less. It’s 20 minutes, and has no commercial interruptions* at all. It’s not Gabba Gabba Hey, although that sounds cool, but GGH comes on at 11 am or so, and my kid is a kid who goes outside on adventures after 10 am, and doesn’t […]
Like some, I’ve played records in public for others. Sometimes it’s a blast, especially when in a bar not serving food, with drunks and rock fans, the kind of people who offer to fight you if you play Justice but get blissfully confused if you unleash Aphex Twin’s “Come to Daddy” after Sabbath’s “The Mob […]
1) I dislike people who stand right in front of elevator doors, waiting for them to open, so that when i try to get off, they’re in my way. Where would you like me to go? Oh, I’ll get back on and go with you. You’re going to the proctologist on the 10th floor? Cool, […]
For an hour the moon blocked by a monolithfurther darkens this evening apartment.I’d prefer the cool moon’s full absence.Not to mention a fuller compliancefrom the seasons, be it raw freezein January, or heat made permanentby June, rather than this shibbolethof dust and sunburn we call November. I typed this poem down a search enginelike a […]
Alike to the advent of the automobile spurring a pre-marital sex revolution via newly affordable and portable privacy, today’s cellphone-forced obsolescence of the phonebooth has created a special opportunity for public onanists. Specifically, anyone needing a public phone ought to avoid the two at the southwest corner of Chambers and Broadway. Unless they want to […]
At sub-cd quality (160 kbs), In Rainbows fails to fully flip that final middle finger to major labels and distributors. If it was cd-quality, I’d say Radiohead had made men of themselves. But the fact that they’re putting out a cd in ’08 anyway (not counting the vinyl package; seems to be through them also) […]
Stop Loving Everything 