Since hearing Pissed Jeans’ first EP early in 2005, I had seen photos and videos of their performances. Aside from the music being some of the moist poignant confrontation within punk and hardcore in the 2000’s, something about Matt Korvette’s stage presence had its own gravitas. As a performer, Korvette’s delivery warbles violently between Calvin […]
1. City Water Light & Power is the first novel by writer Matt Pine. Peripherally, it’s a coming-of-age novel, and, yes, ‘coming-of-age novel,’ in most cases, can bring to mind the image of an hours-long navel gaze. City Water Light & Power is not that. It’s sympathetic without being pandering. It’s nostalgic without being contrived. It’s attractive in a […]
1. Ian F. Svenonius’s Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘N’ Roll Group (Akashic Books, 2012) has an excellent and clever concept, and it plays off the (now antiquated) idea that rock ‘n’ roll is the Devil’s music. For sake of that, the book might be about thirty years too late. Now, the Devil is […]
On “page 1 of 1” of David A. Hernandez’s 2011 Amazon.com Order History, one can view a $52.04 purchase made on January 4, 2011 including Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. The Jorge Luis Borges anthology, Labyrinths, Hernandez notes, completed the order, an insignificant one, to be sure. My spoof of Borges, however tactless, conveys […]
This editor’s mug: “You may speak now.” Dale Cooper’s mug: “Fire, walk with me.” A mug of one’s own. Your mom’s mug. Fill those mugs with nothing but the best: David Lynch Signature Cup. It’s all in the beans, and he’s full of beans.
