Holy smokes. The new album by Los Angeles group SILVERSUN PICKUPS, appropriately titled SWOON is fan-fucking-tastic. There’s been a lot of good music coming out recently but this, well, Swoon was the first thing to dislodge the Grand Duchy album from my cd player in two weeks, and once in I’ve found it hard to … Continue reading
Long enough title? I was originally going to go with ‘when the pawn hits the conflict…’ but you know, that was taken. Anyway, recently while reading Comic Shop News I saw a blurb about abc’s (former) show PUSHING DAISIES being picked up by DC as a comic to continue the series. I blogged here before … Continue reading
As most of us keen on observing the music industry know every couple of years something becomes retro and The Spectacle latches onto it and dry humps everyone’s ear drums with it ad nauseam. The 80’s* made an unfortunate comeback a couple years ago – it started when jelly bracelets, fuschia (you know, that disgusting … Continue reading
Mr. Ferrell, Why do you persist sir? You have to know that you are not funny. You have to. How could you not? Does the flower not know of it’s beauty? Does the killer not know what he/she is? In nature the occurrence of perfection is a glistening, powerful accomplishment and to say you are … Continue reading
I have been waiting for the new novel by China Mieville for what feels like forever. Finally last week City and the City came out and I picked it up and WOW! You know how sometimes when it’s been a while since you’ve read an author and you worry that maybe the new book won’t … Continue reading
I know a lot of folks were psyched when Charles Thompson, better known as Frank Black, aka Black Francis reunited with Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering for a bunch of new Pixies shows a couple years ago. I had a couple chances to see them but passed every chance up. Why? You can’t … Continue reading
The title of this blog is taken directly from the dialogue of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie. I went with this title* because I still cannot believe I heard someone in this post-Dark Knight Hollywood exclaim something as laughable as ‘Blow him to Bits!” in a modern movie. But then I guess in the context … Continue reading
Okay, I’m a little bit… no scratch that – I’m really torn here. A couple years ago when I heard Alice in Chains was touring again I did a double take. Wait, I guess I it will help if I take a minute to say that that Layne Staley’s death has been the only ‘rock … Continue reading
Before Richard Kelly’s film Donnie Darko I was not the kind of person who could make a statement such as “blank is my favorite movie’. This kind of declaration seemed absurd and dramatic to me, similar to saying ‘blank is my favorite band’. I simply like too much stuff – and whether it’s music or … Continue reading
So I’ve been hearing about Sunn 0))) for some time. I think I first saw the strange symbols of the name on Warren Ellis’ White Chapel forum (connected to his Freak Angels web comic page) where all manner of cool folk go to talk about interesting stuff and exchange ideas. Following repeated references to the … Continue reading