Urban Honking

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, bitch” territorial authority–but are particularly more intriguing when they involve crews and turf and aggression […]

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: “9 to 5” Percentage “9 to 5” grew on me after I watched the video: […]

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 reigned in, but I can see them pounding 17 Pabsts each at a bar in […]

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 went with Funk to this super exclusive all-day concert in West Linn. It was being […]

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 Jennifer Connolly, who votes at the same jr. high school as I do, but surely […]

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 people I know who took me up on my offer were my best friend Jessica, […]