My pal Jeff Weiss (who runs the finely-wrought and utterly hilarious Passion Of The Weiss blog) also moonlights with the good folks at Stylus Magazine, and you should read his latest opus for them: Back To The Future vs. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure . It's just as awesome as it sounds. Weiss pits two of the most excellent '80s films against each other on several battles: Better Protagonist, Better Villain, Better Historical Time-Travel Interaction, Better Time-Traveling Helper, Better Time-Traveling Vehicle, Better Token [...]
"I will whip your child." -- Tom on his new, The Ghostface Killer-inspired business venture ($10/whip; belt not provided) "See, I can do this art stuff." -- Tom, looking for an NEA grant for his anti-commercialism Snickers installation "I guess what I'm trying to say is, if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change." -- Rocky Balboa in the inspirational Rocky IV "You missed school for four stitches?" -- Tom, expressing doubt about Petey's excuse for his Opening Day absence "Anything [...]

File Under: How the f*ck did I overlook this for so long. Cruising through my mp3 library this afternoon, I came across this scorcher of a track: "That's A Drag" by Spencer Dickinson. Spencer Dickinson is the collaboration between John Spencer of The Blues Explosion and Luther and Cody Dickinson of The North Missippi All-Stars and the result is pure, raucous, and riff heavy rock and roll. Spencer Dickinson - That's a Drag.mp3 [...]
Jim Dickinson - the man who produced classic albums like Big Star's Third/Sister Lovers, The Replacements' Pleased To Meet Me, Toots Hibbert's Toots In Memphis and many other great records is back behind the dials for Spencer Dickinson a crazy, awesome collaboration between Jim Dickinson's kids Luther and Cody (also members of the North Mississippi All-Stars) and Jon Spencer, the whitest man with
My boy, Jon Spencer, tag-teamed with some guys, Luther & Cody Dickinson, and rocked out on a collaborative effort which will see its domestic release, like...tomorrow. Spencer Dickinson looks to rump shake it into high gear with a generous amount of Spencer's high potency vocal juju, but in all fairness, though I shy away [...]