A-Rod and Phelps: A Tale Of Two Drugs
[Amy Bass, Morphizm] Let’s just get this first part out of the way: I hate Alex Rodriguez. Always have. It’s partially a Red Sox fan thing, and partially a, well, […]
Month: February 2009
Vetiver’s Dream Folk Grows On You
Call if freak folk, call it nu-folk or just call it whatever the folk you want. But mellowed, measured folk is back with a vengeance. Andy Cabic’s Vetiver is one […]
J.J. Cale Still Has It
This laid-back guitarist gave Eric Clapton “Cocaine,” and he gave it to him “After Midnight.” But can he still roll the rock now that he’s in his ’70s and the […]
A Heart-to-Heart With Heartless Bastards
Back to Socal from snowy NorCal at last. Found some killer road and snowboarding music. This rocker from Dayton named Erika Wennerstrom and her band the Heartless Bastards. She is […]
Climate Change’s Firestorms and Deep Freezes
Those who would argue that these are isolated events do so at their own peril. The more time passes, the more both examples of extreme weather resemble two sides of the same fearsome coin known as catastrophic climate change.
New York Times Bites My Watchmen Rhyme, CNN Bites Something Else
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen is definitely a visionary comic. But is Watchmen director Zack Snyder a visionary filmmaker, just because he’s adaptating the seminal graphic novel for the […]
The Clone Wars: Most Action-Packed Series on Television
You have what follows below in a nutshell.
Coraline’s Dazzling, Terrifying Stop-Motion Animation
It takes nerve to craft a horror story about children in this day and age.
Happy Birthday, Sofie!
Time sure flies when your life is changed. Thank the Big Bang for my daughter. Happy two years on Earth, my angel. Your mother and I love you forever.
All Of Them Must Go
[Naomi Klein, The Nation] Watching the crowds in Iceland banging pots and pans until their government fell reminded me of a chant popular in anti-capitalist circles back in 2002: “You […]
Did Paul McCartney Ride The Colbert Bump To Coachella?
Coincidence? Let’s weigh the evidence.
Crappy Music, Not Iran, Is Our Enemy
Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran? What the hell for? Because it makes awesome space rock? Seriously, what has this band ever done to us? Other than turn out one […]
You Should Already Know: Mercury Rev
A trip down Mercury Rev’s memory lane proves to be an uneven romp.