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So a couple months ago some of you no doubt remember I flew home to Chicago to see The Jesus Lizard's first show in ten years. Well, the other night I caught them in downtown LA and again, I've just got to marvel at these guys. They still hit on all four… Continue reading
I've been meaning to pick up some old Sinead O'Connor records for quite a few years now. Some time around the turn of the century (sounds funny saying that, right?) I had dug out an old VHS that I'd videotaped the 1990 episode of SNL Kyle McLaughlin hosted… Continue reading
I've mentioned here before how I get my comics shipped to me every month from back at my favorite comic shop Amazing Fantasy* in Chicago (Tinley Park technically). Yesterday my stash from September arrived. I read the essentials first, and had planned on… Continue reading
Now, I know that's a pretty incendiary title for a blog. And let me assure you all, I will one day visit Switzerland. I'm not saying ‘fuck you' to the Swiss people, who like any other country of people are probably, for the most part, a great people. I… Continue reading
I have a bad habit. I look at books and make judgments based on their covers. Now, I am not a racist. Nor am I, I hope, a moron. But for some reason I do this judging thing to books despite knowing, colloquially, what a bad idea it is. Hell, there's even a… Continue reading
The first time I heard the band Brand New's 2006 album The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me I was not prepared to be bowled over the way I was. I'd heard a little bit of the band before and had dismissed them as ‘Scream-O'. In retrospect the group's… Continue reading
in Kanye West's mouth. No, not just a rag, a rag soaked in ether. Yeah, yeah, that way he'll keel over in grogginess and then it'll be easier to flip a match at him from a safe distance and watch him go up in flames. Really, I hate to give celebrity jack… Continue reading
I am so sick and tired of the following scenario: I am in a bar with friends. Black Sabbath comes up. I go on my soapbox about how unbelievable the Ozzy years were, peaking with the mind-boggling ‘SABOTAGE' from 1975. An older guy, often sporting a… Continue reading
Has anyone else seen this yet? http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/07/discovery-species-papua-new-guinea Basically a GI JOE-like multi national collaboration of scientists from Britain, America and Papua New Guinea entered the 200,00 year-extinct… Continue reading
I have no idea why it has taken me this long to read Alex Garland's novels. Everything he's done with Danny Boyle that I've seen I've loved. Couple this with the fact that it seems like every time someone finds out I'm an Irvine Welsh fan they rave and… Continue reading
It's funny. I've been a fiction/lit guy for well over a year now. Other than the latest China Mieville book I've been unable to read anything that breaches into the Sci-Fi/Fantasy realm at all. Which makes sense to some degree, because I've always had a hard… Continue reading
Is Rob Zombie's next movie for the Weinstein's a remake of the Blob? What the fuck happened to T. Rex? Anyone else starting to feel like that, what was it, seven picture deal for the W brothers is going to turn out being all remakes? I'd imagine the… Continue reading
