Review: Time’s Arrow
OnCover of Time’s Arrow Martin Amis‘ Time’s Arrow is a pretty cool little novella. Or maybe it’s a novel, I don’t know. It’s either a long novella, or a really short novel. You can take your pick. It’s about 170 pages, at…
A Failed Entertainment
OnThis year, Columbia University‘s LeRoy Neiman Gallery had an installation of A Failed Entertainment, a collection of videos (and two paintings) based on the work of James O. Incandenza from Infinite Jest. I got to see it on my trip to New…
A Completely Hypothetical Genesis of the Residents’ WB:RMX album
OnCover of Wb: Rmx Picture this scenario: The Residents made up the existence of The Warner Brothers Album as just another piece of their mythology. They did the artwork for the reel box and maybe even threw in a blank reel, or maybe…
Review: The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book
OnCover via Amazon I used to always say that I’m probably the only person who’s a much bigger fan of R. Crumb‘s music than his comics. For what it’s worth, that’s probably still true — I love the Cheap Suit Serenaders —…
Review: Indiscreet
OnImage via Wikipedia Who don’t love Sparks? I suppose the folks who don’t know who Sparks are might not love Sparks, but that’s only because of plum ignorance. But REST EASY, reader — we’re here to set you straight by reviewing ALL…
New Dead Milkmen Songs!
OnI’ve always loved the Dead Milkmen — and they’re back together! Stoney’s Extra Stout (Pig) was their last album (and I thought it was actually pretty good, regardless of the reviews), but it sounds like there’s a new one coming! The Milkmen…
It’s Raining Again
OnImage via Wikipedia Here’s yet another hypothetical Mix CD! Feel free to track these cuts down and burn your own copy! The theme here is “It’s Raining Again”/Fall-Winter/a “Less Light” mix. Some of the tracks I chose were pretty obvious, and others were…
Nixon and Laugh-In
OnImage via Wikipedia The pretty much always-awesome Kliph Nesterhoff posted a new article this morning on the WFMU blog — The Comedy Writer That Helped Elect Richard M. Nixon. It’s all about Paul Keyes — the man who was the head-writer on…
Emitting Piercing Screams Just Like The Real Sun!!!!
OnImage via Wikipedia This is sort of Heaven & Hell Pt. II, so y’all might want to settle in — though I don’t think this one will really be as insanely long. Though I didn’t think that one would be, either, so, there…
Heaven & Hell
OnImage via Wikipedia I’ve pretty much always been an atheist; when I was very small, I asked my mom what religion we were, and she just said “Christian” without really clarifying which franchise (as Emo Philips calls them), and I just sort…