Ok, there are a lot of people who are not fans of Bob Dylan. While I don’t dislike Dylan, I never owned any of his music save for his greatest hits album. I was never into the folk music scene. What I heard from Bob and enjoyed were songs that were accessible to me; songs like Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, Subterranean…

Released in 1988, the sophomore album from Jane’s Addiction, Nothing’s Shocking, was an outlier from the Los Angeles music scene. At the time, LA was the epicenter for overproduced, uninspired, and banal heavy metal. Aside from GnR’s Appetite for Destruction, MTV and the radio were dominated by the likes of Bon Jovi,…

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The NBA, in its infinite wisdom, changed the matrix of their lottery. This was done, in theory, to prevent teams from purposely tanking in order to secure a better percentage chance of getting the top draft slot. However, last night this failed spectacularly. The Pelicans (THE FUCKING PELICANS) got the top pick, even…

As you know, Pink Floyd is arguably the greatest band in music history. Their catalog of albums dates from 1967 to 2014. I have written two very well received and incredibly accurate articles about PF, the first ranked their 26 best songs while the second was a much more lighthearted and humorous piece. However, the…

Recently, imitation human being Betsy DeVos introduced, for the third time, legislation to defund the Special Olympics as a part of the Orange Idiot’s budget proposal. Say what you will about DeVos, but up until this point she hadn’t really done anything that I’d consider evil. I guess I was proven wrong. My god, how…

Hello again. It’s been a while since I wrote for the ol’ Gawrker. The reason I’m writing again is that lately I’ve got some replies to my absolutely correct and factual article about how much I hate Phil Collins and why you should as well. The commenters have essentially said I’m full of shit (possibly true) and that…

Well folks, I’m taking my leave of you. I’ve been recruited to write for another blog and I agreed to do it. I may occasionally contribute to our beloved Gawrker (neé Sidespin) but my focus will be elsewhere. So I’d like to say thanks for reading and I hope people keep writing and contributing to Gawrker.

We’ve all had that awful experience of greeting coworkers and colleagues in the hallway. I hate small talk. I, for the most part, genuinely dislike the majority of people in the world. However common courtesy dictates that we must at least acknowledge people as we pass them. So other than “hello,” “good morning,” or…

For the better part of the past two years, I have asked (on Twitter) various celebrities if they like Pink Floyd. There’s neither rhyme nor reason as to why I asked these people. There is no specific order to them either. It’s a credit to my ADHD as much as it is just seeing their names on my Twitter feed. The…

America is a fucked up, frightening place these days. It’s as if each new day brings a worse atrocity, as if the administration just wants to keep one-upping itself. I need something to make me smile. We all need something to make us smile. Here are some songs to make you smile. Please know that this can’t possibly…

There have been some teacher strikes in the news of late. I don’t think people realize just why teachers are striking, regardless if it’s legal or illegal in their states. What the uninitiated don’t realize is that striking is the absolute last resort for teachers. There is not one teacher who wants to deprive any…

For the uninitiated, or for the willfully ignorant, Cypress Hill’s Black Sunday is a paean to smoking weed. This album is so much more than that. Released in 1993, the band’s sophomore effort is a lodestone which stands alongside NWA’s Straight Outta Compton as an inner city voice that the majority of America hadn’t…

Frank Sinatra. The name evokes such imagery - dimmed lights, smoky air, a glass of bourbon, the smell of cigarettes, a cool flow of inside jokes and laughter. However in 1955 there was little of these to be found with regard to Frank. He was long past his bobby-soxer days, for the teenage girls who once screamed at…

I have come to the conclusion that 1985's Fletch, starring Chevy Chase in the title role, is the most quotable movie of all time. There will be those of you who may disagree, but you are wrong. While many movies have memorable quotes, Fletch is the most quotable movie of all time. Some quotes are subtle and…

In 1988, Queensryche was a little known band. They had recorded and released two solid, yet unspectacular albums, The Warning and Rage for Order. Their third album, however, would go on to both define them and set them up for long-term failure. Operation: Mindcrime was an anomaly - a concept album from a heavy metal…

The film Logan was released on March 3, 2017. In case you haven’t seen it, Logan is the story of Old Man Logan, Wolverine, in the year 2029. No mutant has been born in 25 years, and the adamantium which was fused to his skeleton has taken a toll. It’s poisoning him from the inside out. Where once the Wolverine was…

There are a few things in this world that I have an (arguably) irrational hatred towards. I hate maple syrup. I hate Norman Rockwell paintings. I hate people who pronounce eggs as “ayygs,” and those who pronounce milk as “melk.” However one hatred looms larger over them all - I hate Phil Collins. It’s become a running…