Pulp It Bob Mizer is a good photographer, an interesting formal experimenter,a master at the boring, the sexual, the banal, the aspirational, thejoyous and the all American. He isn’t really a pornographer, though his work has mostly to do with […]
Hole–I’m Dying. When Ms Love sings I’m Dying, Please on this track, one thinks that she is begging god and her self just to let it happen…It’s sad and its tragic, Celebrity Skin is all about (among other thing[…]
Yukari Fresh and Low IQ 101–Anarchy in the UK (available here) Everyone assumes that Anarchy is all about nihilism, and its all Sid viscous fault. There is none of the freedom, the collective nature, the joy or fun that anarchy can provide in T[…]
I saw a show of fairly typical Himalayan mountain crafts today, and they didn’t really move me in any way, they were nice, and there was something to be said against aesthiciasing functional objects, but nothing that hasn’t been said b[…]
Big and Rich Save A Horse, Ride a Cowboy. This is not country–it is on country radio, country music television,the country station on Yahoo Launch, and reviewed as country by Chuck Eddy in the Village Voice. I am glad that it[…]
Vice Photo Issue. With all of the good things that I have said about McGinley, he is sure a shitty editor–one of the good things about Vice used to be the imagery and this time he has almost failed to deliver. Of the 75 examples of what are su[…]
Early Music Reviews (it’s long, I’m sorry) I got this site off of Last Plane to Jakarta, and have been listening to it all morning. The idea of historic sound being only 100 years old, the idea of John Phillip Sousa to John Cage seems so […]
American Soldier–Toby Keith I do not agree with what Toby Keith has to say, I do not like the idea of soldiers in general–of killing at , really, but leftists never give him enough credit, as a performer and as a politician. The idea of[…]
White Pride. Ryman before he discovered white on white Robert Ryman is known as white on white, 30 years of painting nothing but white on white, the pure minimalist who concentrates not on the artists hand but on the nature of pigment and what that p[…]
Sonic Youth-Tunic i’m writing this story about anorexics for the local daily, and have been listening to this song as a way towards thearpy, except its not really working…see the thing is that all of what i believe about anorexia is in t[…]