One year ago today I posted the first “Why It Matters” pieces. It was the opening volley in an effort to overcome a creative block rooted in anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, […]
Happy Birthday to “Why It Matters”
Deep Cuts: The Bromley Contingent and Then Some
There are a few revered flashpoints in rock and roll history, those moments that sparked the audience to go out and form their own bands — The Beatles appearing on Sullivan, for example. […]
53. Try To Use A Mirror, No Bullet Or Knife
Despite its sprawl Boiling Springs High School was an oversized shotgun shack. An uninterrupted hallway ran like an artery from front to back door, the lettered A-B-C-D wings spreading out to either […]
Why It Matters to Corey Glover (and How to Score Some Cool Stuff)
You’re a music fan, right? Would you jump at the chance to get an autograph? How about rare live tracks or even rarer memorabilia? Shoot, why stop there — what about your own […]
Anomie Belle Live, Chocolate Shakes, and Change
“Hey, you got a haircut.” I’ve known Ryan since his hair was black and his biggest concern was finals. Now his Pierce Brosnan ‘do is cropped short and peppered with the gray […]
52. Devil’s In the House of the Rising Sundae
Highway 11 was the back fence of my small world, the northernmost boundary of my known universe. It wasn’t much to look at — a black two-laner bordered by peach orchards, pine […]
Deep Cuts: Ten Songs To Hate School By
Songs about school date back to the beginning of rock and roll. Throughout the Fifties and Sixties they focused on just how keen and swell school is, and then Alice Cooper happened. […]
51. I Hate the Teachers and the Principal, Don’t Wanna Be Taught to be No Fool
Boiling Springs High School was the newest, cleanest building in town. The sun and rain had yet to dull the red brick; the huge expanse of lawn leading up to Old Furnace Road […]
The Cutout Bin Revisited
Are you still awake? Sweet Dio’s crucifix, I started rambling about junior high school nine months ago and you have sat there the whole time, patiently staring at my record collection while I […]
Anomie Belle Tour Dates
Sometimes I forget that the pipes that make up the intergooglewebtubes extend well past the Sacramento city limits, and for that I apologize. I was in such a rush to spread the […]
