I. Salad Days …without thinking I reached under the grill for a second spatula and pulled my arm back streaked with BBQ sauce. I pulled a folded towel from my back-pocket and wiped away the smear. And the skin on my arm. A waitress shouted an order for two Caesar salads and some Pavlovian part […]
“Don’t put a band together with musicians who are good enough to imitate anyone well.” –Courtney Taylor-Taylor¹ I didn’t know The Dandy Warhols had a new album coming out until the Monday before its Tuesday release. Suddenly there it was; lingering in my peripheral vision, coaxing me out of a lack of cognition. And This […]
Maybe there’s something about northern Europe’s frozen expanses that inspires people to dress themselves up in inexplicable costumes, sit down in front of a vocoder and make some of the best electronic music to date. Whatever weirdness we may claim here in the States, it pales away to nothing when you look at what’s trickled […]
Slapping this book over to read the backside blurbs, I was preemptively skeptical that David F. Dufty’s nonfiction chronicle on the conception, creation and odyssey of Philip K. Dick’s android likeness would appeal to Dick’s reader-base in theory, but find itself in a limbo where it would be heckled or embraced by anyone with enough […]
Office Girl by Joe Meno. 1999, Chicago, winter. Two twenty-somethings – Jack and Odile (Oh-deel) – or Jack and Jill with a diphthong. Jack, a few years out of college and freshly divorced at 25, works at a call center (of sorts), and spends his free time biking around the city catching found sounds with […]
