Carbs In Carbs: Pasta in a bread bowl. That is all. Astrologer Eric Francis explains why the news media freak-out regarding Swine Flu feels so weird. Mark Taylor makes a big hippie wish in the NYTimes for the end of the university as we know it. Which I think you can do once you have [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘music’
May 2, 2008
Boy Crisis Having Vote Crisis, Please Help
A former student of mine, Victor Vazquez, soon to be appearing in a video from MGMT, is in a band of his own, called Boy Crisis. When he first told me, I was, I’ll admit, so skeptical, though inside I knew that was a cool name for a band. Victor, to be clear, as a [...]
February 24, 2008
Hello Canada, I Miss You
I’m not really sure how to blog anymore. It seems like perhaps I’ve never really known. Blogging confounds many literary writers I know, rightly, I think, because it is something that is written casually, and then it lasts forever. It’s counterintuitive. I still think of it sort of like writing letters to the world that [...]
June 26, 2007
once
I stood with the soundtrack in my hand at Newbury Comics and the saleswoman said, Yes, people just come down the street after the film gets out and buy it right away. I nodded and handed her my money. Have you seen it yet? I asked her. She shrugged and shook her head no. The [...]
June 7, 2007
bROKe in Korea
The star of this week’s Google Image-search Custom Header is an anonymous Korean punk rocker found through bROKe In Korea, a message board for Korean punk rockers. I’m researching Korean speed metal bands for my third novel. If anyone can help or wants to help, leave me a message here or email me at emperor [...]
May 26, 2007
“I’m so tired of America”
“I’m definitely a fan of juxtaposition,” he explains. “Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing — I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody. It’s got to be done very delicately because both elements are somewhat explosive, and all of a [...]
