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Deep Cuts: Too Much Talking
Marlene wasn’t the first jabber-jaw whose inane rambling caused me anxiety, and she certainly wasn’t the last. You work with these people, too, and even if you don’t you hear them prattling endlessly on fake news and talk radio. In fact, a constant stream of babble seems to be de rigueur in the era of…
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133. I’ll Meet You Any Time You Want in Our Italian Restaurant
I waited a few days to call the number that she gave me. Whether I wanted to seem less eager or simply didn’t want to find out it was a fake number is an even money bet. Regardless, I was ready to take my swings, so I grabbed the phone from the kitchen wall and…
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From the Stacks: Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet (Picture Disc)
Oh, for Christ’s sake let’s just get this over with.
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On My Turntable: Stripmall Architecture – Suburban Reverb
Something very special is happening at San Francisco’s DNA lounge tonight. Stripmall Architecture, the brainchild of partners Rebecca and Ryan Coseboom, officially release their new album this evening, with help from special guests Books on Fate and Return to Mono. Suburban Architecture has been in my power rotation for the last couple of weeks. It’s…
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From The Stacks: Baby Grand – Ancient Medicine and Self-Titled
During the mid-eighties we either enjoyed or suffered a mini-Hooters craze, depending on your fondness for cuts like “All You Zombies” and “And We Danced.” Hooters band mates Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman teamed up earlier than The Hooters, though, and for some reason did not name that previous band Bazilian Hyman. No, they went…
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Deep Cuts: Help Me I Think I’m Falling
The big money moment in this week’s story was our hapless young protagonist slowly sliding toward a splattery demise off the back of a roof, at least for me. After all, I once was that future stain in somebody’s backyard. Falling is scary. When our internal gyroscopes go loopy our lizard brains take over and…
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The Pollen Ultimatum: A Rock Briscoe Mystery
General Rance Templeton burst into the Oval Office like a frantic general bursting into an elliptically-shaped room. “Mr. President,” he growled, his voice thick with whiskey, cigars, and other manly stuff. “It’s bad.” “Give it to me straight, Templeton!” The President said with a tone that conveyed that he was born in America and was…
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132. Out to the Air Above
I wrote the following piece of thinly veiled fiction almost twenty years ago. If I ever submitted it anywhere it was never accepted, and you’ll understand why when you read it. I considered rewriting this as a straight creative non-fiction piece for Why It Matters, as the events described happened at this very point in…
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From the Stacks: Meat the Bruiser Band
Okay, here’s what you need to know:
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From the Stacks: Jane’s Addiction – Classic Girl (Picture Disc)
This is simply a beautiful piece of vinyl. On the front we have Perry Farrell’s controversial assemblage that graced the Ritual de lo Habitual album sleeve, and on the back….
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