The Worst of 2008, an amazingly shitty list.
Category Archives: Culture
Summer before last…
…the final two Ward Boys died, Roscoe and Lyman. Survived Delbert by a good 9 years. Munnsville, New York is near 50 miles from here, right next door, a world away for some.
Really.
When I hear “John the Fisherman” by Primus or “Blitzkrieg Bop” by the Ramones coming through the walls it gives me hope for freaking future.
Old Men of Moravia
I was reading the latest Glenn Greenwald post at Salon, “Cheney says top congressional Democrats complicit in spying” and I couldn’t help but remember a bit of a rough draft I had hanging around.
It’s back to the battle today.
I'm really digging their tune "Donde Esta La Playa." Last FM requested it be disabled for embedding so click on the link above to watch der youtube.
You know, man, when I was a young man in high school.
The other morning I awoke with the fading memory of a dream. It was a rather odd experience as I rarely remember any of my dreams at all any more. In this dream I was a teenager sitting in my favorite stairwell from high school and playing an acoustic guitar.
If you must…
I don’t usually get down with the whole Christmas music thing, but I may have found some tracks to change my mind a bit–just a bit...
Music is the Answer.
Growing up my musical influences were the Salt Creek Show, Willie Nelson/Johnny Cash, and Sergei Prokofiev. As I grew older and reached what is now called the “tween” age I started listening to the local college station and was subsumed in a deluge of new influences, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, The Pixies, Nirvana, Jane’s Addiction, Dinosaur Jr. and so on and so on.
They can’t write you and me.
I ran across the above video looking for some J Mascis and the Fog video’s on the youtube. Must have been quite the time...
Billy and Jimmy strike back…
Forgive me a moment, this ongoing drama has enraptured me…