in Brooklyn
Today I walked down a sidewalk in Brooklyn as the last light left the sky. On one side of the road, a park, with people playing, you know, games with…
Category Archives: Music
A good end
Although yesterday began grimly, it ended well. Jonathan Lethem read at the LA Public Library’s ALOUD series, and answered questions, and was kind enough to hang out for a cocktail…
Oh noes! The bright spot on the LA radio dial just went dark.
Was it just this morning that I was listening to Indie 103.1 on the radio in the car while driving to work? I could have sworn it was. I heard…
Frivolous and childish
If you saw a redhead drive past you today in a ridiculously large silver pickup, and this song was blasting, yes, I admit, it was me. I’m a troublemaker.
Cheap Trick, Beatles signifier
If I were up on my semiotics I’d be able to fully explore the layers of sign and symbol I experienced last night at the Hollywood Bowl. 1. 41st Anniversary…
Have you seen my wig around?
Tod Goldberg posts some fantastic photos of a 1990 Jane’s Addiction show. One really captures the dynamism of Perry Farrell’s movement and the crunch of the crowd into the band….
Also from the annals of proto-hipster Silverlake music scene lore
Stew’s play, the semi-autobiographical Passing Strange, is up for seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The real bigtime Tony Awards for Broadway shows. The real bigtime humdinger of them all,…
Origins of a slacker vampire
Long ago I sat on the floor of a dilapidated craftsman duplex on a dark street that ended abruptly at the precipice of the Hollywood freeway. In the house was…
Liz Phair rocks a book review
Liz Phair reviews Dean Wareham’s memoir in the New York Times this weekend. Flash back to 1994 and tell me that the Exile in Guyville girl would be writing a…
I’ll make this quick
If 800 words is not enough for Heidi Julavitz, its not enough for Mark Sarvas, either. Punk is dead, part 2007: Hilly Kristal, founder of legendary punk club CBGB’s, died…
