Urban Honking

SPESH TO TRAV, and everyone else: For all the stinginess I feel towards the Boroughs, I’m disinclined to fault Beasties for their lack of wringing, hard-hitting, life-altering protest/anti-Bush verse, verse that conduits our generation to saving itself (from convenience, death, misinformation, ignorance or otherwise). I might just be underscoring their Spin interview, but the Beasties […]

Why I now like Macaulay Culkin, v.1. Quoted in Spin: “You’re always trying to figure out what other people think of you. Some people think I sit in a closet eating peoples’ souls while doing heroin and pissing on Christmas trees.” But I always liked Black Peppercorns (who will soon enter fifth grade): their webpage […]

To the Five Boroughs is currently the top-selling record in US, Canada and Europe. * “There are silly songs such as ‘Something in My Shoe,’ which includes fun sound effects; ‘Ducks Like Rain,’ which has an uncanny way of sticking in your brain and causing you to sing aloud ‘Ducks go splishing-splashing in the rain’ […]

I am such a bitch: my moving is more about me than here. it’s sunny and i spent the afternoon at Mirah’s house interviewing her about maple-syrup farming and drinking Yogi tea. Is this not a fantasy wonderland? I have no idea where I will purchase organic Kombucha enzyme drink when I move, so there […]

You could probably say that, for the myriad reasons I’m leaving Portland—its deadening easiness; its isle-like monoculture; the clouds and fucking rain, man—mixtapes are one of them. Across the board, the street-tape trade in Portland ranks slightly under transgendered/fat-rights fanzine sales* as viable economic and cultural force. YEsss, I know I can order that shit […]

Without knowing for sure, I’m wild-guessing that Guy Debord is resting peacefully in academia’s “out” column. But Middle America doesn’t give a dialectical crap on that. For all my money: the prime example of spectacle (now wrapped uncomfortably in capital excess’ gilded foil), is currently trolling America’s reaches in a tour bus w/heisted Alabama plates—dippitying, […]

Excerpt from a letter I received for “Crashing the hardcore sausage party,” an interview with Martyr AD bassist Sheer Tara I did for AP magazine, about being one of the only hi-profile women in a heavily male-dominated genre (metal/hardcore): “Your interview with bassist Tara Anderson (in issue #192) was excellent, and way too true. AP […]

We are the Bears Shufflin’ Crew. Slightly less annoying than the WNBA’s BEP, cutesifying our hoops hoops ladies down to lesser-threat size.

It is no secret that I love and respect the Tiny Punky Bassplayer but last night, with her band, felt like physical evidence she’s changing the world. It’s not just cause our charter plans were drafted by the same ombudsman; I could see her presence affecting the cool girls in the front row, who took […]

1. I am totally down with 50% hateration-shots on my court if it’s a barometer of honesty (mine own, others’). Sheed, ever-passionate, doesn’t try to be anyone he’s not; my father, Pistons coach Larry Brown, calls him “one of the most misunderstood people in the NBA.” 2. Andrew WK, one of the most misunderstood people […]