I have to admit that over the last couple of years I have developed a bit of a fascination with the early-to-mid seventies. Part of this I believe has stemmed from the many thrift store runs my wife and I make. I always find myself drawn to things from about the time just before my … Continue reading
I need some new Mike Patton. Really, it’s been too long. I’ve been playing Peeping Tom over and over again, re-absorbing the whole amazing album and all it’s amalgamations of music, wrapped around the best goddamn voice in the business. But I need more… A Perfect Place is awesome (movie and score incidentally) but it … Continue reading
I know it’s fairly popular to dis Johnny Depp these days. I myself posted something within the last 6 months or so that, while not necessarily a dis was a venting of disappointment in the man for being in yet another Tim Burton make-up remake extravaganza. It wouldn’t bother me if these gratuitous Burton-ims didn’t … Continue reading
I have always loved David Lee Roth. He is the absolute epitome of everything I hate about glam rock from the 80’s but somehow I love it on him. The ripped, multi-coloured jeans, the feathered hair, scarves, coquettish staring into mirrors, etc – these are the associations that weighed down rock during the Sunset-strip infusion … Continue reading
… I miss it. Recently I broke out my House of Pain* albums, all two of them, and took a trip back to when hip hop was cool. I was really into Ice-T when I was in Jr. High. This was of course partially because I was a chode, as most guys are at 14, … Continue reading
Hot Damn I love The Rolling Stones!!! Oh, I don’t mean The Rolling Stones we have touring the world on a seemingly continuous basis now a days. No, I don’t hate that corporate monstrosity, but I have no interest in it either. To me it doesn’t exist, meaning it doesn’t detract from the 70’s Stones … Continue reading
Two weeks ago tomorrow I was in Chicago for the Jesus Lizard’s first show in ten years*. I pretty much flew home just for the event. Not that I don’t go home every year to see my friends and family, but I never go in fucking July, that is for sure. I moved to get … Continue reading
Okay, admission: I know GIJOE is going to be bad. I wish I could say otherswise, but really? I know it, I know it, I know it. ‘Nuff said, right? Wrong. I have, quite literally, waited for this movie for most of my life. I can remember being in first or second grade, which would … Continue reading
If you would like to hear dialogue like this delivered whole-heartedly from people dressed like el debarge rejects I strongly suggest going back and reacquainting yourself (or maybe for the first time) with Miami Vice. No, not the movie update Michael Mann did a couple of years ago (not that it was bad – I … Continue reading
Far more scholarly discussions about the absolute genius of Peter Sellers are accessible for you to read. I’m not about to waste your time trying to analyze his many roles or his life. What I do want to go on the record as saying is my own opinion, which is that he was a marvelous … Continue reading