i "discovered" the first 3 Wire albums in 2009 technically, but they were still among my most listened to music this year. Pink Flag has only a few songs i really love, but Chairs Missing is full of awesome and 154 is mostly solid too. this year i also ventured into their hit-and-miss 80's music. some pretty good…

Totally Crushed Out was one of my favorite albums back in the 90's. i had a total crush on the Haden sisters. still kicking myself for never seeing them play live during their all-too-brief run. i was living in SoCal at the time so i really have no excuse. i guess i just took for granted that they'd be around for…

"Here in my car, i feel safest of all…"
- Randy Numan

Wrongfully Accused > Spyhard

"OK, but, I dare you to name an instance when a major automaker's car with an internal combustion engine burst into flames while sitting in a warehouse, as opposed to being in a high-speed collision on the interstate. Maybe there is one, but I doubt it."

tired of cocaine/80's jokes
i'm old enough to remember the 80's very well, and honestly i didn't know anyone who used coke back then. i'm sure people did, just nobody i knew. and i hung around a pretty wild crowd. i remember people experimenting with ecstacy, LSD, and the occasional joint being passed around. but coke…

meh, who cares. that was just her stage name anyway. her real name was Hedwig Kiesler. Her stage name was so much more fitting. i can't imagine someone as pretty as her ever being called Hedwig.

end-of-career Buster Keaton
although i love Buster Keaton's silent films, i was first introduced to him via the 1960's beach movies he appeared in when he was much older, particularly 'Pajama Party' and 'How to Stuff a Wild Bikini'. I thought he had some really funny moments in those, and somehow he lucked into…

i'm getting sick of katie to be honest. i was secretly hoping Britt would bring her to the roof to tell her that he was leaving her because he fell in love with a tranny.

itemized account of Paranormal Activity 2

well its been a long time since i gave Unplugged a listen so my memory is fuzzy, but i remember my first impression was "this doesn't rock." my second was "why does this remind me of REM?" what i''m saying is Nirvana ain't Nirvana to me unless it is loud and buried in guitar noise.

"classic rock" format has always been "what do 45-year-old white dudes want to hear?". the answer of course is whatever was popular when they were young adults 15-25 years ago. i'm old enough to remember when "classic rock" stations played lots of '60's-era stuff from The Who and The Stones. Then gradually it evolved…

i was a 20-year-old college kid in 1991, totally into British indie/alt rock (Cranes, Charlatans, Ride, Curve, Lush, MBV et al, plus the occasional US band like Breeders, Blake Babies, Throwing Muses and Sonic Youth). Metal and Seattle grunge was way off my radar, it just wasn't what i was into, so i didn't give 2…

I Ozufied my pics and now every photo has the same handful of people doing the same things, and my father looks like he wants my oldest sister to hurry up and get married already before it is too late.

saw 'The Box'.
enjoyed it more than i expected to. nice mindfuck kind of movie.

i'd be running as fast as i could while ducking and shielding my ears, but i suppose that wouldn't work that well in action films because it might make the action star seem wimpy.

February in Japan can get pretty cold, and the Japanese treat heaters like they are a precious resource (spot heaters such as under-table heaters are common, central heating less so, and usually the thermostat is turned down way low), so bring plenty of warm clothes.

my first impression of France was those trippy Inspector Clousseau cartoons of the late '60's/early 70's. To this day, even after being exposed to much more accurate depictions of France, that is still the first thing that springs to mind when i think of the country.

i really hated that gwen stefani solo stuff that was all over the radio back then. though i must admit that her version of 'Its My Life' (officially a No Doubt song but recorded the same time as her solo pop crap) is a guilty pleasure of mine. a good example of how to cover a classic song and not make it worse than…

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