
If you haven't heard, Matthew Specktor wrote a semi-autobiographical novel called That Summertime Sound about a nameless Los Angeles protagonist who spends a between-college summer in Columbus in the mid '80s. The book is chock-full of thinly veiled references to Columbus locales and figures past and present (e.g. Mick Divvens/Boys from Nowhere become Nic Devine/Lords of Oblivion, Ron House becomes Gary Hauser, Used Kids Records becomes School Daze Records, and on and on). The book is getting mixed reviews on the message board, but I imagine there will be a [...]

Things are crumbling a bit this morning, I could blame the booze last night (which mightn't have helped any), but I know better than to think that's why. Near everything I listen to sounds off somehow, words & thoughts drift away on a dusty, frustrating breeze, and nothing really captures my imagination; so after four odd hours I've packed it in for a while & gone for some personal crowd-pleasers to see if they'll lift things a bit. A long way from Don't Fear The Reaper, this is my fave BOC track by far, that and OD'd On [...]

Things are crumbling a bit this morning, I could blame the booze last night (which mightn't have helped any), but I know better than to think that's why. Near everything I listen to sounds off somehow, words & thoughts drift away on a dusty, frustrating breeze, and nothing really captures my imagination; so after four odd hours I've packed it in for a while & gone for some personal crowd-pleasers to see if they'll lift things a bit. A long way from Don't Fear The Reaper, this is my fave BOC track by far, that and OD'd On [...]
"It's barf-inducing." -- Spike, contemplating the horrors of an Old Man/That Woman regime "Sick. That's sick. Those hillbillies. Come on hillbillies! Do the right thing, you weird mountain people." -- Tom, summoning the Virginia mutants to erase an early Good Guy deficit "He would start crying -- like bad crying, not happy crying. Sad crying." -- Tom, imagining an exhausted Sen. John McLame's reaction to becoming President "Oh. Really ? You might be sorry! But that's okay." -- Julie from Cincinnati, getting [...]
Song: Time Is Now Artist: The Godfathers Album: Orange Comments: "I'm Your Busy Man"... The opening of this song sounds an awful lot like Jeff "Monoman" Connelly's DMZ classic-- "Busy Man". What's interesting about this song though is that the main part of the song almost sounds like a Murphy's Law song. Just can't place that one. Song: Mersey Beach Artist: Jumbo Shrimp Album: Thingie Comments: Jello- Lard, No Means No, The Melvins, and a spoken word career. [...]