FISTFULAYEN

I’m not exactly sure how I stumbled onto Pretty Girls Make Graves. None of my main musical influences (Jay Babcock, Rob Lord, etc) liked them (and still don’t). I think somehow I picked them out of the lot on KXLU. I don’t listen to KXLU so much, but they kept getting played while I was [...]

Woah. Look what I found on Waxy.org: http://www.pez.ca/~mashton/movies/kidshow2.wmv More info on what it is and where it came from on Waxy. Melissa Roberts, Beat Kids, is my new hero. “Why are you asking me these kinds of questions?” asks the old man. Without missing a beat, Melissa responds, “Because I’m a reporter.” And a damn [...]

This just in via Mary Chen: DC is getting a punk rock kids show featuring Bob Mould, Kathy Wilcox, and Ian McKaye. Watch the opening theme, a performance from Vic Chesnutt that in no way rivals Stevie Wonder’s Sesame Street performance, and a video for “Vowel Movement” by Ian McKaye’s “We’re really doing it for [...]

Kudos to whomever at Rock The Vote pulled this together: http://www.rockthevote.com/multimedia/candidates/clark.artv.affl.150k.mov They clearly have love for eachother. They don’t really even have creative differences. Just different paths. Andre produced Ghetto Music for Big Boi. Big Boi dropped the verse on Roses. They’re sticking together for the time being. Wesley, I feel you. I’m not a [...]

John Perry Barlow (self-described “Junior Varsity Grateful Dead Lyricist” and co-founder of the EFF) on This American Life: “NeXT was one of the only computers I’ve ever been around where elegance of design was really important to the product, and it attracted the strangest kind of hybrid which was kind of like ‘Unix Weenies by [...]