I don't do reality television. Watching nimrods behaving like nimrods is not entertainment for me. (I work in corporate America) But I couldn't help but be drawn to a commercial for Celebrity Wife Swap . Amidst the flotsam and jetsam of Dee Snider, Flavor Flav and other past-expiration date notables, there was Gary Busey. I shuddered a bit as I realized that, though I have no idea who might reign as America's idol, star dancer, or top chief, the idea of some C-list celebrity handing over his wife to Gary Busey - in [...]
I went through and cataloged all my freaking CDs this weekend (I know how to party!) and to my shock I found two discs that are not only worth a ton of money that I actually am okay with selling. (Usually the only stuff I have that's worth any money is the stuff I never want to get rid of). So if anyone wants a limited edition Day Of The Dead Soundtrack CD (limited to just 3,000 copies) or a gold-pressed copy of Use Your Illusion II by Guns N' Roses, send me an [...]
There have been a spate of celebrity deaths this summer, for which I haven't cared one way or another about. I was too young for Farrah and I lost my interest in Michael Jackson at least 25 years ago. A bunch of lesser-known famous people have also passed in recent weeks, which is a shame, but the one who I'm blogging about is the creator of one of my top 2 or 3 favorite movies ever made, Ferris Bueller's Day Off . In fact, as I sit here writing this in my office, a framed poster of "A John [...]
Super Lumina failed state inspection last Friday because of a safety issue (for a busted indicator and quite possibly the retractable titanium steel ramming spike I mounted on the bumper). Normally this would be the type of thing I'd have fixed on the spot, but because I waited until the last minute, the mechanic didn't have the parts or time to take care of it. I had to settle for a rejection sticker and an appointment to bring it in for repairs and a retest this morning. I originally picked this particular garage (back in 2001) because it [...]
Monday night's show saw the launch of the 2008 edition of the Summer of Guest DJs - and my first guest of the semester was Glenn Peoples of Coolfer.com . Glenn and I met when he moved to Nashville two years ago, and while he doesn't really use his music industry blog as an outlet to discuss the kind of music he likes , he has definitely been recommending great bands to me since he and I became friends. The tentative theme for Monday night's show was "out [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... ... Riverdale High's goth population . A more clean-cut and wholesome coven of children of the night you'd be hard pressed to find. I'm not really seeing a "clique," so much as two Dungeons and Dragons enthusiasts who've purchased black trenchcoats at the local Kohl's in order to impress that one girl in the drama club. You know, the one who swiped her older sister's Best of Bauhaus CD and who writes angsty poetry about how hard it [...]
When I was a moderately wee lad, there was an established hierarchy of humor magazines available to the budding ten year old misanthrope. At the top of the pyramid was MAD Magazine , the gold standard for gross-out jokes and popcult parodies. If the newstand didn't have the current issue of MAD , one could lower one's standards a little and settle for Cracked , which was like MAD , but with the desperate air of a stand up comedian dying onstage. In the unlikely event that all copies of both MAD and [...]
New stuff from Flesh For Lulu of all bands. Actually saw them live, well, let's say a very, very long time ago. Basically candy pop dressed up in 1980's faux-biker style (think George Michael , mid-period Adam Ant , et al. Mostly girls liked them but we were teenage boys and we liked girls so, yeah, we pretended. This new track from a single to be released in August sounds just about like I remember them. Utterly inoffensive, unnecessary lite-garage rock. Not horrible, but faceless and that's ironic because they've been naming The Faces [...]
What's goth but a second-hand musical sub genre which grew out of the punk scene circa 1979 in England? Who really cares...but, I figured after all the mushy stuff around here, everyone could do with brief check-ups from Drs. Jeep and Avalanche. [Those being the drum machines used by the Sisters of Mercy]. Which is long overdue, you know. You realize you've been reading what is essentially a twee, indie-pop music blog named after a line from a SoM track, right? Mp3: Flood II - Sisters of Mercy (6.46) [...]
Barely Awake In Frog Pajamas
The Lost Turntable
VAGUE SPACE
Armagideon Time
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24 hour party pooper
The Roaring Machine
Catcall – ‘The Warmest Place’
This Is Not The End (Gui Boratto 2012 Mix)
Rihanna Gets Nude For Nude
