I’ve been watching the Occupy Wall Street protests very closely. For some strange reason, I feel an incredible empathy for the movement, a strong sense of solidarity with the people who have taken to the streets. I say “strange” because I usually ride a line somewhere between apathy and cynicism when it comes to a [...]
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Rebel Music
Nerves Junior
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A couple of weeks ago there was a minor earthquake in New York. It didn’t rate very high on the Richter scale, and most Californians scoffed at the fear and histrionics of their east coast counterparts. That’s because here in California – and the Bay Area in particular – we live with the constant threat [...]
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The R’s
When I was in college I spent a year and a half living in Italy. Ostensibly I was there to study literature and Renaissance Art, as per the standard requirements of a junior year abroad, but mostly I spent my time cavorting with my new Italian friends and learning how to cook the perfect spaghetti [...]
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The Dirty Nil
I just finished reading Sum by David Eagleman. For those who aren’t familiar with his work (or are too lazy to Google him) Eagleman is a genius level neuroscientist who studies the perception of time and other brain-related mysteries at Baylor University. He has published a bunch of books that are fascinating and surprisingly readable, [...]
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Abatis & The Forms
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Big cities are great for a lot of reasons. Compared with small towns and rural areas, they have better restaurants, more diversions and a wider variety of people with whom you can mingle. I may be a little biased because I grew up in a major metropolitan area, but I don’t think it’s too much [...]
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tUnE-YarDs
I have mixed feelings about a lot of the musical genres that fall under the far-flung retro/derivative/throwback/classic style banner. In some cases, I really like the original stuff (old school metal, golden era hip-hop) so when I hear a new artist aping that style, it’s pretty easy for me to like them too – especially [...]
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Radiation City
I’ve always envied my easy-going friends. They seem to move through life without stress, regardless of looming responsibilities and the ever-present prospects of tragedy, failure and natural disasters. That is not me. I worry about everything. What if my work isn’t good enough? What if I don’t make the right choices? What if there’s a [...]
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Heypenny
New York and LA are the entertainment capitals of the world. Regardless of what your personal feelings are for those two cities, there’s no denying that they are responsible for the vast majority of blockbuster movies and successful rock bands. They also churn out a sizeable portion of the the country’s rappers, visual artists and [...]
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Lost In The Inbox
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According to my own very unscientific studies, there are hundreds of thousands of music-related websites online. Possibly millions. Some of them have big budget advertising accounts and site traffic that rivals The New York Times. Others provide hourly coverage of popular bands and employ a dedicated staff of contributors. Most of them are run by [...]
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Adebisi Shank
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People these days. They don’t ever think of the future. Or maybe they just stopped dreaming about it. Perhaps it’s because there’s too much bullshit going on in the present to be concerned with the future. Or it could be that technology is now so advanced that our predictions about the future are too accurate? [...]
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Ava Luna
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As the holidays descend upon us, I feel like I might as well chime in with my thoughts. Everybody else with a blog does it, so why not me? I won’t bore you with the details of my extended family and all of their charming quirks. Rather, I will give you a rough outline of [...]
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SORRY ABOUT THIS! ====>
Yes, I know these ads turn on automatically, have a strange echo effect and can’t be shut off. We have a crack team of computer nerds working on it as you read this.It will be fixed ASAP.Thanks for your patience.-TC
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Hollerado
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As you’ve no doubt heard by now, the record industry is dying. You can blame the internet, iPods, or mainstream radio. It doesn’t really matter. Either way you get a story about plummeting revenue and the end of the glory days for the music industry.The thing is, I mostly associate these tales with a bunch [...]
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J Roddy Walston & The Business
I recently watched the movie The Invention of Lying. While it wasn’t a very good movie, I have to admit that it’s an interesting conceit. So much of how our world operates is based on some kind of lie. In the movie the joke is that romantic love and Hollywood movies don’t [...]
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The Preservation
Bowery Girls by The Preservation from mermade film on Vimeo.I just got back from Mexico. It was one the best vacations I have ever taken. I spent a week in the town of Tulum (on the east coast of the Yucatan peninsula) doing nothing but reading, eating, sleeping and drinking beer.After about the third day [...]
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The Lions Rampant
There are a lot of great things about being a rock star. First and foremost is the fact that your only real responsibility is playing music for thousands of adoring fans. Other than that, you pretty much get to spend all of your time getting drunk, banging groupies and throwing TVs [...]
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The Sword
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One of my favorite day dreams revolves around time travel. Not the kind of time travel where you are magically transported 100 years into the future so you can finally get that jet pack you’ve always wanted. And not the kind of time travel where you go back to the 16th century and blow everyone’s [...]
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Icarus Himself
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I’ve been in a strangely contemplative mood lately. All of a sudden it seems like everything is more important than it used to be. Or maybe it’s not. Either way, I find myself taking more time than usual trying to figure it out. The world seems to be speeding up while I [...]
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Spesus Christ
I was talking to my friend Josh the other night. Josh was mad because he had just come back from visiting an artists’ retreat in the Marin Headlands, and he felt that the space and opportunity were being wasted on a lot of the artists in residence up there. Apparently artists are [...]
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