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  • Sacramento Braces for Aftershock

    Sacramento, California is the sleepiest little metropolitan region of 2.5 million people you’re bound to come across.  It’s not like Sacramentans are sitting on their front porches whittling and playing harmonicas, but with the Bay Area just a short drive away, California’s capitol rarely gets the big shows. September’s Aftershock Festival ought to wake them…

  • 141. Daddy Rabbit

    We went to the movies.  I can’t remember which one, but there was lots of neon, smoke, and keytars and some stupid drug dealer plot.  Let’s just call it Eighties Movie, since that covers 99.9% of Hollywood films released during that decade. The drug lord, likely played by a white guy with a ponytail and…

  • From the Stacks: Molly Hatchet (Self-Titled)

    All right, I’ve busted out the Nazareth and Herman’s Hermits Frank Frazetta album covers, now it’s time to bust out the big guns.

  • From the Stacks: Madhouse – 16

    I’m pretty sure Prince didn’t sleep between 1978 and 1990.  I’m not even sure that he sleeps now.  Eighties radio was dominated by the unholy alliance of Michael, Bruce, Madonna, and the Minneapolis Genius, but of that gang of four nobody made more hay during the decade than Prince.

  • Deep Cuts: Draw, Partner

    I don’t draw as much as I used to, at least not right now. When The Hum clicks in I go a little overboard, and next thing you know nothing else is getting done but lots of paper is getting marked up. Right now I prefer to mark up pages with squiggly little words and…

  • 140. Headin’ Into Twilight

    I enrolled in Life Drawing.  The professor could have been the prototype for Stephen Colbert: tall, thin, black hair and glasses; handsome and funny.  The big differences between the two were which Carolina each was born in and how their shared first name was spelled.  Steven, like Stephen, was the kind of guy who filled…

  • Are You the New Serial Killer Target?

    This week on The Good Men Project I tell you just how afraid of sensational headlines (like mine) you really need to be.  Here we go: http://goodmenproject.com/guy-talk/brand-are-you-the-new-serial-killer-target/

  • From the Stacks: Bauhaus – Bela Legosi’s Dead (12″ Single)

    I feel like I owe you a capes and makeup palate cleanser after exposing you to Classix Nouveaux, and nobody ever made that combo work like Peter Murphy and Bauhaus.

  • Rock Briscoe: The Web Comic!

    A couple of months ago I wrote a dumb little story about allergy season, and the great Michael Dorman is slowly but surely illustrating it.  I don’t know what we’ll do with it when it’s done, but it cracks me up.  More to come!

  • From the Stacks: Classix Nouveaux -Night People

    Classix Nouveaux was the one of those bands that were either hysterically funny or really bad.  Or neither.  Or both.