At my invention, She stands and gives, Arms hanging, hands hanging So as to spur off light from the known All reality, At its inception, Was stupor, so tell The bearded recluse to cool the tea As night Vibrates with Its thighs shining, And the tea cleanses.
The woman’s face on the screen, that’s poison You can’t see who you were before her, She’s wetting your anomaly from cerebellum to BVD You went to backbreak mountain for her, Only To find the television on and no one to watch it Befriend what you can, forget yourself Amidst the dust going raw deal
16159 itmes, 44.4 days, 122.04 GB Apparently somewhere up in the sky, somewhere, there are stars aligning, lil balls o’ energy, but down here in the land of the monkeys-with-a-brain, my iTunes still opens up at “A” every time I click on it. A.C. Newman, get bent, Annuals, get bent, Antlers, get bent, Animals, … Read more“The Animals: Saving the “A”‘s on my iTunes”
God, talk about being cursed… The Constantines’ first album came out four weeks after 9/11. For proof of the cursed aspect of this happenstance you need only look to the fact that Michael Jackson’s Invincible likewise dropped right around then. Of course, record sales and image are hugely contingent on promotion, and while it’s obviously … Read more“The Constantines: Survival Runs Through the Early ’00’s”
Two men waited in front of a store. Or, one would think it was a store. There was actually no sign, no indication of the edifice’s rudiments. Either way, the outside seemed to be more happening than the inside. One of the men was black and one was white. But they seemed on an equal … Read more“A Space for a Dog”
Many years ago, the jackals made their way west across the terrain of the United States. Some of us move back East, and we are terrified into situations of getting our neck pulled back, like might happen to a stray, mangy cat. I talked to this girl the other night from Oregon, and it was … Read more“PBR Face”
Damn, my favorite bar here in West Asheville is closed for three nights, and I’m sure the eventual results are going to be glorious: they’re building some sort of annexation on the front, either expanding the stage area or changing the outdoor dining experience, but boy did it make for a barrel-scraping night last night. … Read more“On the Catastrophic First Night of Three of the Westville Pub’s Closing”
*R.I.P. Touch and Go 10 Domino Recording Company Four Tet – There is Love in You and Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca are so original, seminal, well-crafted and irreplaceable that it’s impossible to question the relevance of the label that released them. Also, give these bands credit for belying what is seemingly Domino’s true DNA … Read more“Ranking and Diagramming the 10 Best Record Labels”
When I was younger, my sister relayed this story to me of one of my Dad’s friends developing a fake band name, a fake album name, and an entire listing of fake track names for said fake album. “Punk” and “Hip-hop” are no longer terms that to me have any bearing. I performed hip-hop music … Read more“Punk of Today: Lashing out against the Weather Mongers”
I keep talking to people in bars, and I keep going OFF, arguing, making whatever point pops into my head, which’ll probly be different tomorrow. In the meantime, I see a man who turns me on, in the non-sexual way, his body perfectly arched while he rides on a bike in front of a girlfriend … Read more“Defending Single Serving Friends”