I went to London and all I got my parents was this nonexistent T-shirt — my dad’s been to London a few times, mostly on Navy business (the Navy over here regarding the UK as generally speaking a brilliant if tragically immobile aircraft c[…]

“KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!!!” — last night was the first night I ever saw Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in a theater, thanks to some bemusing local weekly film fest. Every other film I caught onscreen shortly after its […]

SECTION 25
From the Hip
I’ve had Section 25 CDs for a while now but it was only with the purchase of the Deus Ex Machina collection that I felt properly prompted to give everything an ear, disc by disc (at least the way LTM has them released). […]

Evil under the sun — I’ve been reading Donald Rayfield’s Stalin and His Hangmen for the past few days. Good read, not quite as well-written perhaps as the recent similar study of Hitler’s inner coterie The Devil’s Disci[…]

Hearty English cuisine — one of the first things I’ve also noticed ever since visiting London for the first time in 1992 is the places what sell food. In that hey! they’re the places that sell food in America! So seeing all sorts […]

SABALON GLITZ
Ufonic
Or, whatever happened to that one guy that was supposedly going to be famous, 1341541564th in a series.
For the first time, I’m getting around to listening to the (I think) one album by Chicago group Sabalon Glitz from ba[…]

It means nothing without Zone 6 — my first impression of London whenever I’ve visited isn’t of London per se. Or maybe it is but I’ll let the hair splitters decide whether Heathrow is part of London or not.
So what for those […]

Whistle while you drink — the Snow White Cafe in Hollywood was chosen as a meeting spot by a number of us in LA on Saturday pre-disco movie madness across the street at the Egyptian. The selling point is that ol’ Walt himself started the[…]

“BITE THE APPLE!”
Oh dear dear, dear me. I had heard about it. I knew it existed. I read a review here and there but I had happily forgotten what I had learned. And the reason why it was happy was that, years after I had been aware of[…]

STAND AND DELIVER!
I actually sorta think that the last few years in particular have been a bit of a golden age when it comes to what I increasingly think is ‘my’ (borrowed) era of music, seen through a distorting lens of time and from th[…]