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 […]
Articles by Morphizm
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.
I Apologize, Juana Molina
If Molina continues to impress like this, she’s going to demand her own terminology.
Dalek’s Industrial-Hop Tactics Takes Brains
People these days don’t seem to understand that hip-hop is much more diverse than the stoopid shit you see on MTV, when it’s showing music videos, that is. Its palette […]
Who? The Guggenheim Grotto
Looking for some earnest, digital folk from Ireland? Check out these tender-hearted troubadours I review for Metromix. They make the ladies weep like Joyce would have if he wasn’t a […]
Franz Ferdinand Parties Tonight. And Every Other Night Too, To Be Honest
Back to the grind, folks. And the grind always needs an endgame, usually one occurring on the weekend with its own dance soundtrack. Speaking of, Franz Ferdinand is all about […]
Why An Asshole Is Always In Charge
[Greg Palast] John Thain is the guy that looks like a Clark Kent doll you saw grinning from page one of your paper Friday morning. Thain was just fired by […]
Welcome, Obama!
[Optimism as rendered in all caps, by Viggo — ST] [Viggo Mortensen, Perceval Press] WELCOME, PRESIDENT OBAMA! LET’S HOPE THAT THE DAYS WHEN CRIMINAL U.S. ADMINISTRATIONS ARE REPACKAGED AND REHABILITATED […]
R.I.P. Patrick McGoohan, Television Visionary
Be seeing you.
The Prisoner Reboots the Panopticon
I spent last week chatting up actors Jim Caviezel, Ian McKellen and other principals behind the reboot of Patrick McGoohan’s culturally influential sci-fi allegory The Prisoner — and it was […]
Show Obama The Money
[Scott Thill, Morphizm] UPDATE: My fine fellow journos at the Huffington Post have syndicated this post there. Hop on, stir it up, spread the noise. “This disaster is not set […]
Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction
[Naomi Klein, Morphizm] It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement […]
R.I.P. Ron Asheton, Rock Influential
Shining lights of the world are leaving us at what feels like an exponential rate. It seems like I’ve been covering a death or burial almost every day. Today I […]
Bill Richardson, Kissinger-American
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] Bill Richardson is out: Caught with his hand, if not exactly in the cookie jar, at least you could say his sticky finger was near it. I’m […]
Sorry, Bill Richardson. My Bad.
I feel like a jerk. I wrote a hopeful piece about Bill Richardson, president-elect Barack Obama’s selection for the Department of Commerce, for AlterNet. Sure, it was also about Richardson’s […]
First Lady of Star Trek, Memorialized On Earth
Still feeling strange tremors from my grandmother’s passing, especially today. I reported on the burial of Star Trek‘s Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, wife of creator Gene Roddenberry for Wired, which felt weird […]