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What ever happened to Bush’s exuberant Mars policy? I was so fucking JACKED to finally realize my lifelong dream of seeing Man’s footprints on the surface of Mars. Somebody seriously needs to get a copy of the screenplay of Capricorn One to Karl Rove, stat. Honestly, though, if the administration actually did pull the Capricorn One ruse, no one would hardly bat an eyelash. That would be about the sixth craziest thing they’ve done since they’ve embarked on their planetary ruination crusade. God sure works in mysterious ways! :) A [...]

Shit vulgar slang n. 1. Excrement; feces. 2. The act or an instance of defecating. 3a. Something considered disgusting, of poor quality, foolish, or otherwise totally unacceptable. 3b. A mean or contemptible person. 5. A narcotic or intoxicant, such as marijuana or heroin. 6. Things; items. 7. Foolish, deceitful, or boastful language. 8. Insolent talk or behavior. 9. Trouble or difficulty. 10. A small or worthless amount: He doesn’t know shit. The word has existed in English for many centuries, for [...]

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“I think art should be a bomb. It doesn’t matter if its a cheap comic book or a seven-inch single, as long as it does something to you.” Those are the words of comic book legend Alan Moore. I couldn’t agree more. The Jam is a band I know little about. I’d never heard a complete song start to finish until last weekend when I was sampling the Tomorrow with Tom Snyder DVD and came across a live performance of a song titled “Pretty Green.” Before the song was half over, I knew I loved it and [...]

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1. Of all the bands & artists in your collection, which one do you own the most albums by? R.E.M. 2. What was the last song you listened to? “Real World” by Hüsker Dü. 3. What’s on the stereo right now? Portastatic â€" Summer of the Shark . 4. What’s your favorite local band? The Frogs. 5. What was the last show you attended? Neko Case at the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee [...]

Timedoor Data Sheet Name: Chaka Home: Andersonville, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth Last Book Read: The War For Civilization , Robert Fisk Favorite Dylan Album: Desire Turn-ons: Japanese food, Belgian beer, music DVDs, the screen pass, public transportation, audio verite, civil disobedience, illegal art. Turn-offs: capitalism, restaurants that surreptitiously substitute Diet Pepsi for Diet Coke, depleted uranium, armies of occupation, tobacco users, running on second and 10 after an incompletion, cake. Heroes: Harry Dean Stanton, Ray [...]

The Church today released its nineteenth album in twenty-five years, Uninvited, Like the Clouds . First, a note about the artwork: the cover, painted by singer Steve Kilbey and derided by some Church diehards, immediately reminded me of the cover of the Talking Heads’ Little Creatures . I like the cover. I much prefer it to the Forget Yourself cover, which was simply a field of red with the band’s name and album title in the center. I’m guessing the critics are turned off by the folk art aspect of Kilbey’s painting. [...]

Simon Reynolds, author of Blissed Out and co-author of The Sex Revolts (two of my favorite books about music), recently published Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 . The Timedoor staff will be reading the book and commenting on it and spotlighting music covered in the book over the next several months. Here’s a blurb from the official book site : “Punk’s raw power rejuvenated rock, but by summer 1977 it had become a parody of itself. Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84 [...]

Sufjan Stevens fans, rejoice! On July 25, Asthmatic Kitty will release The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album . The disc collects material originally written for Sufjan Stevens’ much-ballyhooed tribute to the Land of Lincoln. Here is the track listing: 01 The Avalanche 02 Dear Mr Supercomputer 03 Adlai Stevenson 04 The Vivian Girls Are Visited in the Night by Saint Dargarius and His Squadron of Benevolent Butterflies 05 Chicago (Acoustic Version) 06 The Henney Buggy Band 07 Saul Bellow 08 Carlyle Lake [...]

The new Flaming Lips album, At War With the Mystics , was released today. The first time I heard the band was on the 1989 Neil Young tribute album, The Bridge . They did a rendition of “After the Gold Rush.” I next heard the band when “She Don’t Use Jelly” became a minor hit in the mid 90’s. Soon after, I saw the band live for the first and only time at a 1995 radio fest at the Marcus Amphitheatre here in Milwaukee. Like many a radio fest, the lineup was diverse to a fault: that day [...]