Weird stuff today! Download covers of Bob Dylan, xkcd, Gorillaz, 'Eraserhead,' and R. Kelly.

A few days ago I started reading "In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre," by Josh Frank and Charlie Buckholtz (Free Press, $25). I had read something a couple of weeks ago that piqued my interest about Ivers and this book, although admittedly, I really knew nothing about him other than being peripherally aware of New Wave Theatre. There are a couple of things that so far have really made an impression on me: First is the [...]
For one night only, Stuart Shapiro, the captain behind Night Flight —the late-night rock 'n' roll/trash film/and beyond! program that was the beating heart of cable television during the eighties—is taking over Cinefamily . He speaks here with Nolan Knight on how Otis Redding and the Circle Jerks helped launch television into another galaxy.

That story from the other day ( here ) about the boy who swapped his iPod for a Walkman for a week had me thinking back to all my old compilation tapes I've still got in a box. I used to listen to the John Peel show religiously and sit with my finger poised over the pause button of the cassette deck on my music centre (as they were called, in my house at least, between 1983 and 1990, until CD first came into my life) waiting for something good to pop up inbetween the anarcho-punk, dub reggae, Ivor Cutler [...]
Peter Ivers : In Heaven Everything Is Fine [ purchase ] Peter Ivers was an amazing artist in many mediums - as an university student, he worked for the Harvard Lampoon, where he befriended actors Stockard Channing, John Lithgow and future National Lampoon founder, Doug Kenney. In 1983, he created and hosted LA's New Wave Theatre , which merged stand-up comedy, performance art, and Punk/New Wave. It also featured the earliest televised performances of Fear, The Dead Kennedys, 45 Grave, The Angry [...]