“One Hand Will Inculcate unto the Other: A Rumination on a Little Late-1990’s Media Hypocrisy”

* “Rome’s sexual disorientation was great theater, but it led to the collapse of paganism. Pursuit of pleasure belongs on the party circuit, not in the centers of power. Today too, one might like playfulness and spontaneity in a friend, lover, or star, but one wants a different character in people with professional or political … Read more“One Hand Will Inculcate unto the Other: A Rumination on a Little Late-1990’s Media Hypocrisy”

“Gear”

When you don’t make love, you get too stuck in the past. And when all you do is think about someone you’re away from, you get stuck to that person, and you’re actually hurting them too, by not seeing them. Two people elated and disbanded are a mutually destructive situation, though maybe all you’d be … Read more“Gear”

“‘King Ceasar’ by Head Automatica and Critically Unacclaimed Confrontational Sublimation into Zen”

I’m trying to think if there’s anything overtly gay about Head Automatica (the way there is with Franz Ferdinand), because this New Yorker I was talking to not too long ago got sort of fidgety when I brought up the name. Maybe, though, they’re just overtly critically unacclaimed. Just to take you on a walk … Read more“‘King Ceasar’ by Head Automatica and Critically Unacclaimed Confrontational Sublimation into Zen”

“More Dust than Devils: Exposing the Musical Banality and Scourging Depopulation of Sound City”

To Dave Grohl’s credit, in his documentary about the site of Nevermind’s creation called Sound City, he does a great job of mythologizing. The score is peppered with star cameos, from Tom Petty, to the members of Fleetwood Mac, to Neil Young, who does the best job of all of selling the film’s ethos: basically, that the … Read more“More Dust than Devils: Exposing the Musical Banality and Scourging Depopulation of Sound City”

“Live Review: The Go Rounds/Evil Czech Brewery/Mishawaka, IN/09.06.2014”

  * No bass-slapping allowed   The Go Rounds are a BAND in every sense of the word. They’re a quartet, each member tailoring to its own traditional rock planet to make up a solar system of one, and unlike most bands around here, they don’t stand up there doing a bunch of covers. The … Read more“Live Review: The Go Rounds/Evil Czech Brewery/Mishawaka, IN/09.06.2014”

“California as Congenitally Punk via Offspring’s Americana.”

I have a friend used to rip on Offspring, but now he freakin’ loves ‘em. It’s like Kramer on Seinfeld with that girl he dumps and then tries to get back with: “I love you! I’m sorry! I’ll do anything!” I sort of toggle back and forth between thinking and not thinking that every good … Read more“California as Congenitally Punk via Offspring’s Americana.”

“Sandstone”

We have words, We have all this language, . Yet across my carpeted floor Is John Cale sitting motor-tight, Envisioning. . It’s vision that killed Malcolm X, Martin Luther King the Kennedys And Jimi Hendrix . And so they disrupted the flow. We meet again.

“Cats”

Now here Alongside The barren streets . I behold one man Who’s good… . How to celebrate his existence? I just nod and look into his eyes, Nodding, At the bar where he’s served me A Burn ‘em beer from Michigan City and it is great, . I say, That’s all there is in Michigan … Read more“Cats”