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To sit down and read Grant Morrison's entire run on Batman in one shot is something of a larger-than-life, consciousness-expanding experience, for the reader and for a character that gets a lot of grit and darkness but still usually remains within the common… Continue reading
Ass. And apparently in keeping with this she's released some appropriate press photos. I'm hearing a catch phrase like… ‘Putting the Ass Back in Suck Ass Fuck Face…' or something like that. How did I happen to know Lita Ford had a new album?… Continue reading
Wow. I lived in Chicago for the first thirty years of my life and thought that I knew most of its musical history but let me tell you, I didn't know shit. Joe Losurdo and Christina Tillman's documentary ‘You Weren't There: A History of Chicago Punk 1977… Continue reading
Last week I stumbled across the music of Krowne. It is dark, percolating electronic mood and I fell immediately under its spell. This led me to contact the man behind the music and inquire whether I could ask him some questions. He said yes, so here's our… Continue reading
I decided to title my first post on new music in a while in honor of the band that only days ago captured my heart. We Have Band, a three-piece electro/pop/rock/whateveryoucallitcallitgreat group from London whose debut album surfaced sometime in the last few… Continue reading
GIJOE: COBRA II. This book has consistently been gaining on, dare I say it, The Walking Dead as my favorite monthly. I know, I can't believe it either. My initial reaction to my comic shop dealer Mike telling me I should be reading this was, ‘ah, yeah,… Continue reading
Yeah, I know. It was really hard to bring myself to fess up to, but a fact is a fact. Up until about four nights ago when my wife and I watched The Runaways, which I had a really bad attitude about going into, I could not stand the Stewart. Media darlings… Continue reading
Well, in a real fight I have my sense of who would win here but there's plenty of room for both these guys in the world, when they're not doing shitty movies (hmmmph… Mr. Cage I am looking at you here). It's a bit surprising that I find myself even… Continue reading
A couple of months ago the infamous Mr. Brown sent me a copy of The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night and after falling head over heels in love with it I made the bold statement (for May) that it was going to be the best rock album I heard all year. I'm not… Continue reading
This morning I cracked out a Rhino edition Wilson Pickett Greatest Hits and headed out onto the 110 Freeway with it cranked to full volume. It was quite a recognition of a summer that has, thankfully, been slow to get either warm or sunny here in South Bay… Continue reading
One magical night in the mid-nineties some friends and I stumbled into Chicago's Smart Bar (under the world famous Metro) for some Monday night drinking. The crowd was thin that night and we were early. To our surprise upon taking a booth against the wall we… Continue reading
Wow. I had waited almost a year to see the sequel to Rob Zombie's Halloween because I was fairly certain I would not like it. And believe it or not that idea bothered me. I've staunchly defended the man's films for years: In my book House of 1000 Corpses and… Continue reading
