10 The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses I put this one 10th, because it’s actually a punk album, if you listen to it, the drum beats juxtaposed with enough closeness and meaningful presence so as to carry the music’s kinetic energy such as would be the case with a Clash or Buzzcocks. But … Read more“Dolby’s 10 POPPY Pop Albums of All Time”
Alcohol. “Liquor store liquor store / Church church liquor store / Gas station Coney Island that’s where all the ni**az go / Only thing you never see is cleaner streets and bigger homes / On the street all I see is church church liquor store / Man it’s pitiful / But I made it through … Read more“A Bit on the Feminist and Alcohol Spectrum”
*In the advanced liner notes of the Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain reissue, the “Elevate Me Later” portion begins: “Elevate Me Later” / An Anti-PC Song Ah, Pavement. Also known as Cave-ment. They’re kinda like donuts, and I’m Homer Simpson. I was just listening to Cave, the former’s Sunday of 2010 Pitchfork colleague, and one … Read more“‘Gold Soundz’: A PC Song”
The last time I was in Chicago, this poster hung on the wall of a train station for something, depicting a “Jazz Festival” that was to take place somewhere around town in a big park, was to cost something like $40, at least, and the poster featured a picture of this colored guy probably close … Read more“Chicago Music, and Other Things”
Schoolboy Q, for all the stardom and accolades he’s received, rightfully so, has a relatively simple point: he does not hate his fellow men. Life for him is not a machinelike battle for pu**y, it’s more than that. I think a lot is said by the tie-died t shirt he dons on the iTunes photograph. … Read more“Schoolboy Q’s ‘Gangsta’: An Ironically Candid Cry”
I once knew this girl out west who was typically dismissive of Modest Mouse, true to hipster form (you either love them or you love yourself too much), and she was all, Yeah, I loved Lonesome Crowded West… in that holier than thou voice… and dammit she was right. The reigning Mouse LP. I know … Read more“Identifying The Lonesome Crowded West Amidst the Larger Discography”
If zen means anything at all, it has directly to do with perceiving everything clearly, and successfully understanding what everything and everyone is, without error. Now, obviously, there’s an ethos flowing through left-wing/rock-and-roll/post-hippie zeitgeist that says, We are all equal, and jiving on the same level, we all have something to offer. I’ll discuss this … Read more“Zen, Toward a Quantifiable Vanquishment of Belligerence”
And I don’t know what that means, But I find everyone all color binded, And there are color binds The face is massaged, And a party’s taken place The martinis are in good stock and, We sleep to tea The super bowl’s happened
Bukowski has a novel called Hollywood. It’s probably my favorite “novel” by him, though anyone who even remotely knows his work knows that he’s a poem and short story guy. Hollywood is basically the story of the making of the film Barfly, a “semi-autobiographical” story of the writer’s life. The guy just had a lot … Read more“Born into This: A Condescending Cake Walk for a Once Fearless Articulator”
“Think of all the places that get it crazy. Who plays tonight? Ohio St. and Michigan St. Pph. Hell yeah. Ohio, comin’ through with the crazy Wio-Wio. Even Wichita St. This dude in Denver said Wichita was smaller than Denver, and also rougher.” “Hmm.” “Ohio, isn’t Youngstown all crazy?” “Oh yeah, like in that Cam’ron … Read more“Life, or the Shot, is a Matter of a Bent Whisker”