Monthly Archives: July 2005

As I told K the other night, so much for pocos pero locos! This is a great piece. You know that whole “Mexican hip-hop takes over” thing? Um, yeah. Anglo crossover? Cultural mingling? The key, as always: songs about ass. … Continue reading →

reading this great old interview with my favorite Marxist theologian/ Punk Planet dun Joel Schalit (now headmaster at tikkun) and if you ignore the overblown intro/annoying conspiratorial questions from the interviewer, you get to the point where Joel, off the … Continue reading →

Mssr. J. Kun has posted mp3s from a record called “Electric Latin Love Machine,” woo woo, and if you listen to “Samba de Victoria” you might be convinced Richard Hayman is acid house’s lost great-uncle, on a record dating back … Continue reading →

p.s. I like Sad Ass Stripah. Partly my autobiographical fascination with fistfights, partly my empirical curiosity for tracks about them (READ ABOUT IT IN HIT IT OR QUIT IT #18!), which are almost always fueled by “get off my man, … Continue reading →

Number of attendees shorter than Lady Sovereign: 0 Articles currently being written about Lady Sovereign’s expressed midgethood as purely gestural: 3 or 4 Best dancer: Nick Sylvester Amount of Lady Sov “as Feminem!” production I don’t like all that much: … Continue reading →

Thoughts on Select Tracks of Disc One of the PDX Pop Now! Comp 2005, in real time: * The Minders‘ plan, to undercut themselves before the haters can, is especially disarming on harmonic thirds. The tune is measured, the vox … Continue reading →

Connie is my full-time homegirl and co-slangspirator (she is the origin of both “B’Dang” and “Beyonce’d.”) Her interest in punk rock is super casj, aside from a semi-regular shakedown to Brody Dalle’s The Distillers. So she calls last night. “I … Continue reading →

i am ovaries-deep in work but I want to ask you a question: I went to the Park Slope Pavilion & saw this movie Dark Water (aka The Ring: Outtakes) perhaps you have heard of it, starring famous Park Slopana … Continue reading →

Couple weeks ago I asked for peoples’ tales about the last time they were in a fistfight. Perhaps cause no one fistfights (good on ya) or perhaps because no one’s dying to display their stories of defeat!, but the only … Continue reading →

Still love you, to all mi Missy-loving comrades: I thought I would change my mind. But after compare/contrasting and realizing this Missy Elliott album is still the self-same missy elliott album I heard three months ago in a godforsaken (yet … Continue reading →