24 February, 2010

West Palm Beach’s Lavola: The Best Band You Don’t Know

South Florida natives make great, big noise
It’s close to midnight, and I’m driving through a deserted commerce park in Jupiter. I’m trying to follow sketchy directions on my phone’s voicemail that end with the phrase, “Call me when you’re lost.” Not an issue: I head towards the wall of sound coming from a unit in [...]

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February 24th, 2010 | Music | , , , | One comment
25 November, 2009

Rammstein Gets Hardcore

Literally.
If you like the combination of black leather, German bands, pornography and the objectification of women (and really, is there a better combo to be had anywhere?) you’ll love the video for “Pussy,” the new single from the German band Rammstein.
I even like the song.  Much of it is sung in German, which I don’t [...]

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November 25th, 2009 | Music, Saw It | , , | 4 comments
1 October, 2009

Psychedelic Furs And Happy Mondays At Revolution

An actual review of sorts.
I have a soft spot in my heart for the Psychedelic Furs.  Back in the early nineties, I was on staff at the recording studio in which they cut “World Outside,” and I thought the lot of them were just peachy.  So when my buddy Alec told me he was friends [...]

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October 1st, 2009 | Music, Saw It | , , , , , | 8 comments
14 August, 2009

Recent Reviews & Other Popular Crap

Because I’m still swamped ’till Monday.
So a bunch of people recently have been asking me about reviews I’ve written outside of all the new Meatist columns I’ve done for New Times.  Since I’ve been on the road with my kids and wife for two weeks (5000 miles of driving – which I fucking love to [...]

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August 14th, 2009 | Thought It | , , | 2 comments
19 June, 2009

Whale Wars on Animal Planet

Making whaling fun again.
When I was like 12, I probably had a Greenpeace shirt.  I’m guessing it was powder blue, with a whale and rainbows or some other equally embarrassing shit on it (no unicorns – I’m quite sure I wasn’t a twelve year old girl).  To my knowledge, no photos of me wearing such [...]

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June 19th, 2009 | Saw It | , , , , | 20 comments
20 May, 2009

Three Vine Reviews

Because I do this thing at amazon….
I think I’ve mentioned that I’m a Vine reviewer at amazon.com (yeah – I totally mentioned it when I posted my review of that horrible Jerry Stahl book) .  Anyway, what all that means is that because I wrote a really popular review once, I have a high reviewer [...]

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May 20th, 2009 | Thought It | , , , , | 7 comments
23 April, 2009

Book Reivew: Pain Killers by Jerry Stahl

A quick note: I don’t usually do straight-ahead reviews, but I’ve got this gig doing reviews on amazon.com for their Vine program, and this book irritated me enough that I wanted to reprint my review (with a few edits) here. So, uh, here it is.
Stahl: hoping for a third option.
There’s a quote from the mighty [...]

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April 23rd, 2009 | Thought It | , , | 6 comments
27 March, 2009

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. WHY?

Because he’s not just ANY simpering penis,
he’s a simpering penis with name recognition.
So apparently, the mighty Conan has served up his last show and been finally (deservedly) moved up into the 11:30PM slot that Leno will be stepping down from shortly.  Hopefully, his show will remain the same quirky, original and usually pretty hilarious broadcast [...]

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March 27th, 2009 | Saw It | , , , | 11 comments
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