
It's still the stupid season (or "silly season" if you're a purist). This means lots of parties and EVENTS, and exhaustion because you are getting old. And you can't party too much anyway because your nosy neighbour wants your tree trimmed but you still feel like you are too busy having FUN! And in the end your idea of fun is settling for marathons of Revenge and Parenthood because there's not much hard hitting drama lately. And while you haphazardly try to clutch at the crumbling remains of your youth, all of the female musos are modelling. Lana Del [...]
This will most likely be my only post for the week. Barring any further disruption (...long story) I will be heading to Miami this Thursday for the Ultra Music Festival to see Duran Duran, Underworld, Hybrid, Pendulum, Erasure, Royksopp, Ed Rush & Optical, The Chemical Brothers and about a billion other electronic acts. I'm getting to South Beach on Thursday afternoon. The concert, however, does not start until Friday afternoon, so if anyone out there has any entertainment recommendations for someone who does not like to go to clubs, get shitfaced and have creepy anonymous sex [...]

I've stated previously that I really don't laugh that much. It's not that I don't find anything amusing, but that my inner WASPiness tends to preclude uninhibited displays of emotion. As one of the 'bots once quipped on MST3K: "Emotions are for ethnic people." (An observation reinforced by many a holiday spent in the company of my wild Hibernian in-laws.) Haughty indignation is easy, laughter is hard. Consequently, my standard response to humor is a throaty, muted chuckle that sounds like I'm channeling either Muttley from the Wacky Racers cartoon or Sebastian from Josie and [...]

Intro: Of course the new Rapture album is mighty fine. people have been constantly reproaching me the fact that we have not blogged about it and what the fuck is with fluokids? get on to the hype machine and/or elbows and you’ll find tremendous amounts of blogs willing to talk you through it k. The Rapture â€" Get Myself Into It (Serge Santiago Edit) Brighton darling Serge Santiago edits this track with [...]