I’m thinking about opening a record store with my friend, though he doesn’t know it yet. We’ll be using his funds. I’ll just sit there and run it, and I’ll only need like $15,000 a year. The store will have fresh coffee on at all times for customers to drink, and it will sell beer, […]
Yo La Tengo on Fade sound like a band that wakes up at noon, brews gourmet coffee on a French press while fetching the New York Times, pours coffee adding a little cardamom, walks down to an ethnic market, maybe talking to a relative on the phone. They’ve got it made, and they make it. […]
These puppies do exist, and it’s nice. “Black Water” by the Doobie Brothers. Sedates a whole belligerent bar, all in a single bound. “Not Even the Trees” by Hootie & the Blowfish. Great emotion to volume ratio. Track 10 on Cracked Rear View, it somehow has a harder edge than the rest of the tracks, […]
There’s something about the north. I was just looking at this thing my friend had put on facebook about how gas prices are expensive up here in the Chicago area, some of the most expensive in the nation, and EVERYONE was grasping at straws for a reason why this is. How about the north just […]
Nowadays Lester Bangs is really catching on, a trend having started with Almost Famous, which came out I think about 20 years after the rock critic’s death, and continually apparent with his book Mainlines, Blood Feasts and Bad Taste occupying a spot in our public library now. Ziggy Stardust, denounced by Mr. Bangs, was one […]
Lacy was super mutual and cool. We’d been hanging out since 6, and then came the showing of Hello, Dolly. Real chill vibe of course, nothing like our performance last week. Eamon was there though from overseas and I was so nervous speaking to him that I spilled my wine glass! The other people around […]
Sshhhh… -haaaamphh! I see you Looking at me You’re nothing for self-worth either, Charlie Maybe you’re an old crook Sure, I’ll look for ya My old man’s got a new lawn mower Y-yup He’s gonna su-prise you when he say Either ya eat it or it eats you We’re worse in this life that’s somethin’ […]
Emily returned from having coffee with a friend early, before 9. She’d given him a small, dry kiss on the lips. Somehow she wanted solitude here on this night. After pulling her mom’s car into their numbered spot, she stared for a second at the front door lock, as if it were rueful or owed […]
I’d always found “Drops of Jupiter” by Train to be one of those songs that you make fun of like it’s your job, but that you really don’t mind hearing, at the end of the day or the beginning. I mean who would get that wound up over a girl? The answer? No one. I […]
I’m a firm believer that good writing will necessarily at some point become too depressing to finish. So that discussion emerges as in order. Sort of like if there were a black hole that were the opposite of the sun, and you stared at this too long, it causes your mind to unravel from too […]