Another year. Remarkable. And this still lives? I've been reading my old witterings, going back to the very beginning. I was certainly a wordy bastard back then. Looking at my friends' 'page now, most of the people I used to spend time batnering with just don't post anymore. It's all communities and icons and banners and twitter this and that. I ( Read more... )

Hello, I'll be updating properly soon enough...

But now I just want to say ...

Flower Travellin' Band's "Satori" is so, so good.

I'm eager to leave, as usual, but I just had a thought that I wanted to set down and even solicit comments from the reading gallery (there's a reading gallery ( Read more... )

Another thing I've wanted to mention is that Angel and I recently watched "The Mother of Tears", the third in Dario Argento's "Three Mothers" series of films, and the first one made since 1980's "Inferno". This is a fairly different film from its predecssors in some ways: much "louder", bigger; maybe even more of a typical horror film .. but in ( Read more... )

Well, ok then. Here's a missive from the quarantine zone ( Read more... )

It started when I played a Tom Waits record for her, and she asked me who it was. Then I discovered she didn't know about Charles Bukowski, who was already selling hundreds of thousands of books in Europe and was making quite a splash in Yugoslavia, with more and more of my new contributors imitating his style. Waits and Bukowski were so important ( Read more... )

Two eminently stupid statements about metal bands that baffle me so much that I wonder if people just downloaded incorrectly labelled mp3s ( Read more... )

Working is an impossible proposition today. Ed and Martin are cohorts in mischief and messing up everyone's desk areaas: stealing phones, re-locating/lowering/removing the backs of chairs, disconnecting keyboards .. it's marvelously inappropriate tomfoolery for the birth of Jesus ( Read more... )

Saturday's show was pretty amazing, not so much because of the bands (although they were all pretty good, especially Bastardator and Rammer), but because of the attitude behind it. NO bar, no restrictions, just "good, friendly violent fun" in a big necrotic loft. Bastardator gets better and better each time I see them, and even sloppy-as-a-tit- ( Read more... )

SO, as a quick adendum to last post ... apparently a lot of christians are really upset about this "Golden Compass" movie. They should be! It is, after all, an attack on the institutions most of them hold dear. In fact, the books are an attack on the very concept of deity. I remember reading them in 2002 and thinking that it was remarkable such a ( Read more... )