Monthly Archives: August 2006

New Metallica song!

There’s a video on Youtube out there of a new Metal­lica song being per­formed live. It sucks. I’m not post­ing it on my site. Here’s Exo­dus at Stu­dio 54 back in 1985:

Tortoise — A Lazarus Taxon

I have wanted to write about Tor­toise for a long time. The release of their new 3 CD + 1 DVD boxed set (priced afford­ably at 19 dol­lars and enti­tled A Lazarus Taxon) seemed like a good occa­sion to talk about them. I just pur­chased A Lazarus Taxon (a title which I inter­pret as hav­ing to

Governor’s School For The Arts ’06 — ’07

I had said once before that I didn’t think I would teach there again, but I got a call yes­ter­day and was informed that I would be teach­ing a combo this next year at the Governor’s School for the Arts. Since there is not a bass stu­dent for this par­tic­u­lar band, I am also play­ing

Lips Napalm: A “Dudes Only” Post

Some shit­head call­ing him­self “Shin-Blade” was unin­vit­edly caress­ing my bet­ter half while she attended a friend’s wed­ding yes­ter­day. In an effort to sur­press my rage at the news of another man “rub­bing my rhubarb” (so to speak), I calmed myself by tak­ing a stab (sic) at the [body part] + [weapon] = [gay name] for­mula