After about 17 years of vegetarianism, I've started eating fish. It was a tough decision, and has taken some work in getting my body re-acclimated, but I'm enjoying the new options. The real driver was my lactose intolerance...going out to eat was getting very difficult and repetitive ( Read more... )

For the record, I love reading about conspiracies. Government mind control, Nazi occult UFO super-weapons, secret societies, cover-ups, and all that ( Read more... )

The band I'm opening for tonight, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, is the featured article in the the City Paper's music section ( Read more... )

My mom and I both have holes in our head ( Read more... )

After talking with Jim about Combichrist opening for Rammstein at Madison Square Garden, I've been doing some thinking ( Read more... )

After less than a week, I'm beating the cold that gripped me last Saturday, just in time for the sunshine and warmer temperatures ( Read more... )

We recently watched the original Last House on the Left. And, I hate to say it, I was disappointed. Perhaps it was the ridiculous music used on the soundtrack, along with the slapstick cop comic relief? Wes Craven has often used humor and horror together, but here I think it back-fired, completely neutering the horror of the flick ( Read more... )

Last night proved to be another show, that while seemingly cursed, still managed to be fun. First, Agnes Wired for Sound were unable to play, but they were replaced with the excellent Wreckcreation ( Read more... )

The temperatures have been making me quite happy. Finally, released from this hellishly hot summer. I tend to be pretty cavalier about the seasons (neither winter freeze nor summer scorch dissuades me from going out and doing things), but this one seemed pretty bad ( Read more... )

I was going through my old writings when I came across this old editorial from the very early days of my zine on my love of noise and muddle ( Read more... )