Just earlier I was mowing the lawn and got to thinking how we’re really lacking (spared?) a true, unifying “hit single,” in Summer 2020. Now, the cheesy, throwaway hit of the summer is something time-honored, in America, a tradition seemingly as hard to phase as sunburns and sand in uncomfortable areas of the body. I […]
One time in what must have been like late fall 2003, I’d gotten some Taco Bell from the drive thru and for some reason didn’t want to eat in the parking lot, so I rolled to some side street like a mile away, sat there and started to eat. As it happened, I’d pulled up […]
Most of us have heard of the Bermuda Triangle and many have perhaps glimpsed that Onion headline of 20 years ago something like “Five Years of Man’s Life Lost in Mysterious Kansas Rectangle”. And about three years ago or so I was attempting to listen to the first disc of Phish’s new boxed set St. […]
Rap seems like something we keep coming back to, as a culture. Fresh off a decade of women’s yoga pants populating in workplaces and a pop zeitgeist that siphoned rap beats but came across as generally more readymade than ever, we as a music listening collective are almost undeniably lacking in identity. But rap will […]
Arthur Conan Doyle once wrote in one of the great Sherlock Holmes stories something about how the detective character could spot a lie, or human fabrication, as differentiated from reality, on the basis of a complexity quality. That is, the man-made bits of fiction were differentiable from truths in that, ironically, they were not more […]
She’s got an English degree. I can’t believe she’s saying this. I can’t believe she doesn’t seem to grasp the satiric disposition of “Run for Your Life.” She’s acting like the song is an endorsement of violence against women, joking that she knows what Beatles song is Charles Manson’s second favorite. Rock bands have taken […]
2020, for all its pitfalls, woes, tribulations and precipitation of self-chainsawing sessions, does have one undeniable feather in its cap: there hasn’t been a single whisper about Star Wars issued by the film industry, at least that I’ve heard. Actually I don’t really know because without sports my TV only gets turned on for Saturday […]
Now, please let me preface by saying that I obviously realize it’s not within people’s control in what time of year they’re born, and I’m not deliberately attempting to disparage a group of people for the purpose of propagating my blog. It’s also my intention, within my already perhaps questionable practice of actually believing in […]
I think it’s safe to say we live in an age of music videos today analgous to a tree falling in the middle of the forest: with no major cable TV station playing them, do they really make a sound? Something’s got to give, here, anyway, because bands still make them. OLP, for instance, have […]
Something in particular made me want to write a brief little post about Orange County’s The Ziggens, fellow Orange County harbingers with Sublime, denizens of the latter’s record label Skunk, cited golden boys of Sublime’s celebratory album track “Greatest Hits” and benefactor’s of a sample in Sublime’s “Smoke Two Joints.” And this specific thing would […]