Mclusky – To Hell With Good Intentions

Jesus-fucking-C. With Modern Times, Bob Dylan has inadvertently made a Leon Redbone album.

Dig it: In my previous post’s comments section, a debate rages about J Mascis and Evan Dando’s new Lemonheads’ single, “No Backbone.” What can I say? It’s raining out. While I enjoy Mr. Mascis’s work up through Green Mind, after which he lost his way and mind, I feel his soloing through Mr. Dando’s new […]

Rain. Makes me sleepy. And crankier than usual. X (the Aussie one) – I Don’t Wanna Go Out And violent, especially about the traffic I faced yesterday getting in and out of NJ for a (good) wedding. I’m staying inside, wearing an old WFMU t-shirt with a picture of a mole on it.Hammerhead – Mole […]

I haven’t hated as much stuff as usual, lately, but I know it’s coming, what with the usual, late Aug & Sept-onward flotilla of releases by every label under the sun. I promise: more spite in the new world. But from the Dept of :et’s Get It Out of The Way: I’d like to say […]

I am not a Red Sox fan in any sense, but I appreciate any baseball situation, if it’s good, and sometimes even if it’s in Fenway. I also like it when the sick android who replaced Mel Gibson, following The Road Warrior, gets a Denis Leary-wielded bat planted up his splinter-sect-Christian sphincter. In other news, […]

Back in the day, J Frank was a champion time waster. Not just lazy – he entered actual time wasting competitions, where he won prizes for his behavior, over a span of two weeks, as monitored by a panel of time-waste judges and professionals. This morning, I relived some of those competitions (held mostly at […]

Soapbox:Someone please tell me they saw or heard or read someone, anyone, anywhere, mentioning that the liquid-bomb-airplane plot, interrupted with arrests in Britain, was probably timed to occur just before American congressional elections that, without an attack, were/are/hopefully will replace our current government with one that will not engage terrorists in the way they’d like […]

Things fall apart: Service interruptus on the internet hookups. And the Deadly Snakes have broken up. Sad, but inevitable. Their comments on the split remind me of all those times I watched a great band play to no one, and realizing they probably never would play to a packed house except in a town of […]

Arthur Lee, great of Love, passed away this weekend. No news there. But I can’t let today go without a comment or two: I came late to Love, like many 1980s teens who saw the Damned’s video (btw – did Alex Cox direct that? heard a rumor) for their wonderful cover of “Alone Again Or.” […]