Category Archives: music
an irish turk and a bangla exchange emails on the topic of chinese democracy, an album by guns n' roses
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:59:01 -0500 Subject: Dude Chinese Democracy From: Arafat Kazi To: Jarett Kobek I’m really fuckin’ rocking out here. – Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:29:54 -0800 From: Jarett Kobek To: Arafat Kazi Subject: Re: Dude … Continue reading
jesus, he was evil
Darcy Clay, Ten Years On — New Zealand Sunday Star Times, April 23 2008: Darcy Clay was the outsized alter ego unleashed on the music industry by 24-year-old unknown Daniel Robert Bolton, when he emerged from the bedroom of his … Continue reading
in which we forgive puff daddy his many crimes for a single reason: janelle monáe
We’ve been rocking Janelle Monáe’s Metropolis Suite I of IV ever since her show last May at the Key Club. Being deeply opposed, as our pal Jason Tallon would say, both in principle and in practice to attending live music … Continue reading
Bangladesh.
Courtesy our pal, Arafat Kazi: – A rough English translation is: I will poot, I will poot Once I poot, you will be destroyed You will cook from beyond the grave When I see a beautiful girl, my chest cries … Continue reading
Jibone Kicchu Pabona Re by Azam Khan
The first Bangladeshi rock star was a fellow by the name of Azam Khan. One of the things in which Arafat Kazi held school was appreciation of Khan’s astounding “Jibone Kicchu Pabona Re.” There was a time, long ago, when … Continue reading
I Laughed at The Great God Pan!
Special thanks to Dave for supplying the following pages from Tales to Astonish #6 (1959), a Jack Kirby 4-page story entitled, “I Laughed at the Great God, Pan!” I’m fascinated by early representations of mythology in American cartoons and comics– … Continue reading
jinx dawson of coven interviewed by andrew god damned harrison
Coven is one of the more obscure bands of the 1960s; a Chicago based outfit of quasi-Satanic occultists best known for a stage show incorporating wild antics, crucifixion, Black Masses and, one supposes, music. Their debut album, Witchcraft Destroys Minds … Continue reading
Moment of Ultra Weird / I Can't Believe It, I Can't Believe I'm Alive
Sitting one seat behind Roky Erickson at a screening of Creature With The Atom Brain, watching him watch the movie. And having the crowd’s laughter remind me of the rising tides of angst and embarrassment of Anthology Film Archives days. … Continue reading
Lilith and the Starman
1972: Bowie is a Soul Brother Warrior Hipster from Outer Space and Marianne Faithful is a junky just back from Egypt and the Black Forest of Germany, where she’d played the role of Lilith in Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising:
A lad insane
Three years earlier he was a space alien with a gender-identity issue:
Lyrics to Bob Dylan's "I'm Not There (1956)"
Each of the last few years has had a strange cycle of Bob Dylan frenzy, generally culminating in a Significant Fall release. 2007 is no different and November offers Todd Haynes’s gimmicky biopic I’m Not There. It’s hard to imagine … Continue reading
do you want to make a deal?
For reasons that I hope will become eventually obvious, for about six months I’ve had Bob Dylan’s song “Like a Rolling Stone” on the brain. In itself, Dylan on the brain is not unusual, but the song choice is odd– … Continue reading
and what exactly is a joke? and what exactly is a dream?
There’s something sad about having been to Twin Towers & Central Arraignment enough to know the way without having to consult Google Maps– but LA always sucks one into its weird world of law enforcement. Way back in ’05, on … Continue reading
tangled up in blues
Throughout the Kingdom, it has been long contended that the apogee of American songwriting is found in 4 of the cuts from Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks. While arguments are had as to which make the list, at least … Continue reading
Glenn Danzig has Bob Dylan's Disease
Amongst those who dubiously self-identify as Dylanologists (a stupid term coined by the vile A.J. Weberman, arguably the most loathsome of all 60s counter-culture figures) it has been long recognized that Bob Dylan suffers from a rare form of mental … Continue reading