Random Articles

• Tuesday’s Triple Play - Songs About Things Going South  For your listening pleasure, here’s 3 songs with the same “things are about to get much worse” vibe. Apocalypse Now - from The Transplants’ Haunted Cities Banditos - from The Refreshments’ Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy Beijing - from Melissa Ferrick’s The Other Side
• Tuesday’s Triple Play - Let’s Go Shopping  The day after Thanksgiving (or Halloween, or Arbor Day, or St. Patrick’s Day) marks the start of the holiday shopping season. This week’s Tuesday Triple Play is dedicated to the entertainment of retail. High at Home Depot from Minneapolis’ Diesel Jenny IKEA from Jonathan Coulton’s Smoking Monkey Sandbox [real] from Too Much Joy’s Cereal Killers Money from Michael Koppelman
• The Better Beatles Over the weekend, we picked up a little stuffed IKEA octopus (technically a pentapus) for C. On the drive back, I remembered of working the strawberry fields listening to the Beatles on a cassette Walkman over and over and over again (an irony I only now see). Discovering and rediscovering each album. As I tried
• Transplants Not Unlike GWAR  Take Blink 182’s drummer, Rancid’s lead, a roadie, a weekend of b-grade end-of-the-world horror flicks, and mix with a case of cheap beer - like Grain Belt non-Premium. I know, I know, that’s almost the same recipe for GWAR. But this time, you end up with Transplants’ Haunted Cities. I picked it up a while
• Gentle Readers’ Hihoney Review  I picked up the (now defunct) Gentle Readers’ album Hihoney via Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles’ Stuff package. I’ve never been one to listen to an album all the way through. On the rare occassions that I have a CD, I rip it into iTunes and wait for the individual tracks to come up on