The Entroporium

[Soundtrack] The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Spun.mp3 (If you like this track, BJM has posted all of its albums for free at their home page.) Hey, rock n rollers, run don’t walk to your local indie movie palace to check out Dig!, the new documentary comparing and contrasting the incredible, amazingly self-destructive Brian Jonestown Massacre [...]

“So how was the bachelorette party last night?” “Oh my god, we had such a good time. Lower Haight is going to be talking about the devil bride and her angel consorts for a long time. The house is a total mess. Those girls are really messy. It looks like a blackbird flew through the [...]

[Soundtrack] William Shatner – That’s Me Trying (feat. Aimee Mann).mp3 Ben Folds has done the unexpected and made a terrific artist out of William Shatner. Anybody who’s heard his album from the 1960s, "The Transformed Man," seen his ridiculous self-parodying overacting since Star Trek shut down or his bizarre stints as the host of "Iron [...]

[Soundtrack] Super Furry Animals – Hello Sunshine (Freiband mix).mp3 Let’s say you wake up as the sun is rising in the desert. You’re pretty well narcotized from last night’s activities. You still have the glow, the implications haven’t set in yet. Everything seems to be in a haze, like gauze over the lens. Perhaps there’s [...]

The Beta Band – Lion Thief.mp3 It almost passed unnoticed — almost no record company support and no US tour(?) — but the final album from the Beta Band is a great little piece of new century psychedelia. As on their best work (“The Three EPs,” natch), the songs are built up from little snippets [...]

It’s playoff time again and that means a whole lot of TV watching this month and glowers at Susie every time she schedules an evening activity that happens to conflict with one of the better match-ups. As an American League fan (the NL is so very 20th century), I’m forced into checking out the Yankees [...]

Yes, I did it. I joined the blogging age. Just in time for the election to end. Not quite an early adopter, but not quite a senior citizen either. The main triumph was loading the Movable Type software. I spent three hours with this last night trying to get the .cfg file just so. It’s [...]