Urban Honking

Jacques Lu Cont on Martin Luther King, Jr.

“They say, ‘ergot, ergot. We have no home, except the one that makes us stop and say this is where the weathered wear lines like armour. And every clock is like another widowed mother born to suffer, so we scream bloody murder! failure playing martyr! and now we wait for the orders.’ We are hostage […]

Outro: in backwards form, forward, backwards, forward or backwards. The end and the beginning overlap. Hale wisdom says to fling it far and strong like a frisbee, not a boomerang, and then, and then, there will be only silence, me, and now. 1. Time to turn off the white noise. It is all right to […]

TV on the Radio (or TiVO, as they are sometimes known ’round these plasmatic wilds) opening for PFunk in the Opera House at Brooklyn Academy of Music, were aglow. They have four very long hits whose climax relies on percussive breakdowns and they played each one, accompanied by four-person brass section and 90 Day Men’s […]

Cause I don’t really feel like talking right now: here is realaudio for one of my favorite songs pretty much ever. (The A side, not the B side.) That is all.

Sir Fennessey scribes on Busdriver, the best weird Los Angeles institution after Harry Perry. I would like to add to mr. fennessey’s busdriver nerd trivia: I am partial to the fact that bus was on blind date and spent the episode mind-warping his poor suitor, starting with the moment she rang the doorbell, and bus […]