Can anyone tell me what happened to the members of Screaming Blue Messiahs? Primarily the singer/guitarist Bill Carter? There is a performer named Bill Carter, but it’s not THAT Bill Carter. I am obsessed with this band and am entirely
Last night on Redeye, we had the great Ariel Pink on the show. If you’re unfamiliar with his work, I’m going to offer you a taste. This song, “Round and Round” is one of my all-time favorites, and it’s from
Dear friends, am now about to review the new F*ck Buttons album, Slow Focus – their third amazing record. Their last one got used in the Britain opening Olympic ceremonies. It was the least offensive part. This record is really,
Today I will briefly review the new Boards of Canada album, which is called Tomorrow’s Harvest. It’s great. Kind regards, Greg
Last week on The Five, I observed that the race card had been replaced by race poker. I see your “Trayvon Martin” and I raise you a “Delbert Belton.” (I don’t dare play poker–I’m too terrified–but I assume this comparison
Re: today’s latest outrage per the NSA. I wonder about those who are upset over thousands of programming errors among hundreds of millions – while being perfectly fine with Stop and Frisk. That level of hypocrisy hasn’t been matched since
We’ve got problems. Serious ones. We’ve heard enough about rates of single parenthood among whites and blacks. For most of us, this is not news. The residue from the feel-good 1970s was more toxic than realized. What we once saw
STEP ONE: Lump all NSA programs under the umbrella “spying on Americans.” STEP TWO: After someone explains exactly what the programs do, from metadata gathering to monitoring international communications, you simply say “Where does it all end?” STEP THREE: Work
One thing I noticed throughout the Martin/Zimmerman story cycle: the “opinion/fact” mutation. As more facts are introduced into the mix, opinions don’t disappear after being proven wrong, they simply mutate. We’ve seen this with other issues and debates: global warming,
As President Obama lines up assorted celebrities to promote health care (if by celebrities, we mean Michael Cera and Kal Penn), it serves to remind us how creepy celebrities can be in their willingness to serve the powers that be.
So I just read the Rolling Stone piece with the shitbag on the cover. It’s long, but i can summarize it for you: “Wow, here’s a really good looking cool kid who loves to smoke weed (a lot — isn’t
Lions on the web, and lambs on the street. So last week some conservative website posted a photo of a beloved conservative. When some readers saw that the picture was doctored, they tweeted an angry alarm (which is what you
Damn, I’m old. It’s been nearly 13 years ago that an album was released by an Australian group, in Australia, that has brought me nothing but pleasure every single day since then. The band was called the Avalanches, and the
Since I am considered by many to be a “little guy,” you’d think I’d always be “looking out” for him–the proverbial little guy. You could not be more wrong. The little guy bugs the crap out of me. But let
Last night I went digging around for season 8 of Peep Show on Hulu, and found it – a splattering of six blissfully evil episodes of this British series that will dig into your brain and stay there. If you’ve
It’s about time America had the intel hearing, and were told about these prevented bomb plots. Fact is, we needed some adults in the room, to clarify exactly what we’ve been arguing about. For the past two weeks, people were
Evil never takes a holiday; in fact, it capitalizes on them. Evil sees a busload of tourists as a piñata it would like to see burst. Evil has no picnics planned, no three-day weekends fishing at the cabin, no trips
Here’s why the government hates the Tea Party: because the Tea Party was the first inspired, spontaneous entity to call the government out on its political agenda. This makes the Tea Party officially cooler than all the biker gangs and clubs
You remember near the end of the Monty Python flick, The Meaning of Life— that scene featuring Mr. Creasote? He’s the morbidly obese freak who gorges on food, until finally, after eating a mint offered by the waiter, completely explodes, sending
I want to personally thank Anthony Weiner for deciding to run for Mayor. Anthony, thank you. Somewhere, Andrew Breitbart is smiling. Perhaps because he knows that there are, in all likelihood, still more pictures floating around somewhere. I just hope,
When I watch that really depressing TV show Intervention, it’s only to feel better about myself. It’s one of the great benefits of television: it’s personal therapy that elevates self-esteem quicker than a pep talk from a noxious life coach.
Look: the Jim Carrey gun control video wasn’t about the second amendment. It was really about Carrey–a waning star embracing sanctioned targets to create the false front of intelligence. Sort of like America’s drone program. So it’s fitting we began
I hate hate. But I also love hate. You could say I have a love-hate relationship with hate. I hate that I feel that way. Which is why I wrote this book. It’s a book I love to hate, and
So as the looting unfolded in England, many talking heads and politicians linked the violence to budget cuts. They painted a grim picture of a forgotten generation left without hopes or dreams. Yeah… About that. It should be no surprise
So Freakanomics tweeted about a research paper linking budget cuts to social unrest in Europe. It claimed, “Once you cut expenditure by more than 2% of GDP, instability increases rapidly … especially in terms of riots and demonstrations.” The conclusion:
