So I recently downloaded the Hold Steady's latest album Stay Positive. And, while there are several songs I like a lot, I found the whole thing a bit disappointing.But I realized I'm being a bit unfair. I mean, it's a pretty good album, and "Slapped Actress" is about as good a song as you're likely to hear all year. The only problem, really, is that The Hold Steady set the bar too high with Boys
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Back in the pre-internet era, I used to ride my pet dinosaur to a job at a high school where I was the youngest person on the staff by a good ten years.One of the older staff members revealed one day, somewhat sheepishly, that he'd been a member of a one-hit psychedelic band back in the 60's. Needless to say, i thought this was unspeakably cool. I looked at the album cover in the store trying to
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I really have missed it here.So, after being a dick about Monterey Pop, I've decided to spend some time writing about the genius of the Kinks. Growing up, I knew the Kinks mostly as the band of "Lola," "You Really Got Me" and "Destroyer." (They were also the concert I was attending when a colossal biker evicted me from a bathroom stall mid-urination, thus engendering a case of publc bathroom stag
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Hey moggers! I missed you! Still tough to find time to mog, but tonight the wife and kids are away, and I'm doing what any married man would do in that situation--staying home alone with the dog and watching TV! Earlier I caught an old episode of MTV Cribs featuring "rock Gods" (most weren't even demigods, but what can you do). Then I watched Cloverfield, which completely kicked my ass, and no
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Last October, I wrote a lot of posts about music that was, in one way or another, horror-related. Yet only recently have I seen straight into the black heart of evil, only recently have my ears burned with the sounds that make Satan himself scream, only recently have I discovered the perfect, hair-raising, sphincter-clenching horror that is the music of Count Smokula.Press the red button---if yo
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So I'm innocently browsing through this week's EW, trying to get the scoop on all the returning TV shows I don't actually watch (Why do I do this? I skip over articles that don't immediately look gripping in the New Yorker, and only rarely discover them weeks later if the issue's been residing on the back of the toilet long enough, whereas I read EW cover to cover every week, even when it's ab...
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Hey there, Mogosphere! I've been away for a while because I've returned to real work, and I've barely even had time to walk the dog, let along Mogify.I've returned to teaching. Not at the high school level, but working with 18-24 year old urban high school grads learning to work in investments and high tech. I'm teaching them how to write better, or as I like to say, more good. I did this for a
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