Genius

Warren Zevon‘s last appearance on Late Night with David Letterman, performing his “modestly titled” song “Genius” from the album My Ride’s Here. Enjoy every sandwich. I’ve got a bitter pot of je ne sais quoi Guess what-I’m stirring it with a monkey’s paw Since I saw you coming out of my barber’s shop In that [...]

Digital McCarthyism

The United States Congress is currently considering a bill (the Combatting Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) that would severely undermine the independence and unity of the internet as we know it. In short, it would lead to two blacklists – one list of “banned” web sites approved by the US Government, and one list [...]

Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha.

Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha. You never listened to a word that I said You only seen me For the clothes that I wear Or did the interest go so much deeper It must have been The colour of my hair. Public Image. What you wanted was never made [...]

Classic Rock Alert!

On this day in 1965, the Who released the single My Generation in the United Kingdom, and changed rock and roll forever. 45 years since the unleashing of the song famous for the line “Hope I die before I get old“…sadly, Keith Moon fulfilled that part by checking out at 32 and John Entwistle only [...]

Super Harvest Moon Twilight Show

Image via Wikipedia No nothing to do with that vampire crap or anything…just a cool phenomenon occurring tonight… From gizmodo: Prepare for the Super Harvest Moon! For the first time in two decades, the Sun will sink as the full Moon rises exactly opposite to it on the day the summer ends, creating in a [...]

Arrrrrrrr

Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day! According to the Official Source of All Factual Information on the Internets: International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap’n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon,[1] U.S., who proclaimed 19th September each year as the [...]

Flashback Alert: Backwater

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The Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980, in Phoenix, Arizona. The group’s original lineup was Curt Kirkwood (guitar/vocals), his brother Cris Kirkwood (bass guitar), and Derrick Bostrom (drums). The Kirkwood brothers met Bostrom while attending Brophy Prep High School in Phoenix. The three then moved to Tempe, Arizona (a Phoenix [...]

Roger Waters on The Wall: 30 Years Later

Cover of Pink Floyd The Wall The following is an excerpt of an article from the Sept. 30 issue of Rolling Stone. This issue is available Wednesday on newsstands and Friday, Oct. 1, online via Rolling Stone’s premium subscription plan. Roger Waters is about to launch a tour where a 36-foot-high wall will rise up [...]

Avoid trends and cliches

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The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as The Hip by radio, is a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie (lead vocals and guitar), Paul Langlois (guitar), Rob Baker (guitar, known as Bobby Baker until 1994), Gord Sinclair (bass) and Johnny Fay  (drums). Since their formation in 1983 they have released [...]

Can Digg Dig Any Lower?

So I already hated the “new and improved” Digg…prior to the PR disaster of Digg version 4.0, the site was already becoming more and more of a corporate shill, with embedded ads, sponsored “news” articles, links to “Special unrated content” from movie trailers, and other forms of digital herpes. Then the superhappyfun release of version [...]