January 2011
6 posts
Music, Rhesus Monkeys, Eddie Vedder
Hear a song during your formative years, and it sticks with you for life. For me, for better or worse, that was between my 12th and 15th birthdays, 1993 through 1997.
(This means much of the strong tail-end of the alternative/grunge music scene is on call in my mental replay collection whenever I want. That’s the good. The bad: I hold a special place in my heart everything Smashing...
For those interested in the various names on this year’s Celebrity Death Pool, head to The Awl.
Closing Night of the “Monsters of Accordion 2010”...
When I approached friends to see if anyone would go with me to see a concert called the “Monsters of Accordion” they were, rightfully, hesitant.
Mention of accordion-based entertainment, especially on a rain-soaked Los Angeles night, tends to persuade people to catch up on their DVR’d programming, or maybe even get a jump start on their taxes. Fighting traffic in a city inhabited by those who...