
Guess which reclusive music and pop culture blogger turned 35 today? Funny, I don't feel older. A few of my peers have a pathological fear of aging and fight tooth and nail with the process, leading to a series of increasingly ludicrous gestures calculated to fend off the encroachment of the long, gray twilight minute by precious minute. It seems kind of futile to me, this massive expenditure of energy in order to delay the inevitable. My mother spent her thirties engaged in such a struggle, and it killed her in the end. She was 37 when she [...]
The Chameleons were my roomates favorite band in college. And since we shared a 10 by 10 foot room they quickly became mine as well. The thing about The Chameleons is that they played kind of sappy music, yet their frontman was like 6' 2" and 220lbs (not sure how many stones that is but let's say 12!?). When I saw them in concert it was hard to keep your eyes off the guy. I never saw Henry Rollins but I expect it's the same experience. So besides the fact that the music was [...]