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Did you know that former NAPster Doug Dillaman has a new blog? It’s called Circle of Quality. What is the Circle of Quality? Image copyright Barbara A. Butz Ohh my god I think I just had an aneurysm from sheer boredom. Damn Doug, what the hell happened to you? You used to [...] Spring Cleaning is in the air and I caught it. I’m sick of shit, crap lying all over the place. A random sock in a walkway has me looking for a trash can. Stuff piled in closets, stacked in corners, shoved under beds. And I don’t care about any of it. My uncaring is [...] Just finished reading Kristin Hersh‘s book Rat Girl (or, for our European readership, Paradoxical Undressing. Apparently Penguin couldn’t deal with the word “undressing” or something?). (crop of a photo by Steve Asenjo) It’s a memoir, though spanning a time of only of about a year, before and during the recording of Throwing Muses’s [...] I’m the youngest current NAP signatory by at least six or seven years. That means I’m the only member who was born in the ’80s. It also means I’m the only one who was young enough to be into ska. And when I say “into ska,” I’m not talking about Fishbone or [...] You know how they say it’s all about the journey? It is. Sometimes the journey is long and full of wonder; sometimes short and sad. In the case of the former it may still be ultimately boring (I give you the Lord of the Rings Trilogy –which unfortunately wasn’t long and boring enough so [...] I’m currently watching the French miniseries about the Chilean terrorist, Carlos the Jackal. Generally speaking, this was the guy who ushered in the modern era of international terrorist activity on a grand scale. The show is fantastic, I highly recommend it. But the thing I want to write about is a bit disturbing to [...] In 2005, Oakland indie-rock band The Heavenly States travelled to Libya in an attempt to be the first Western band to play in the country. In the first week of February, Oakland’s Heavenly States arrived in Libya, determined to be the first American rock band to play public concerts there since Moammar Khadafy took [...]
OK so Tuesday I went to the Rodeo to see Kiss. The thing is I’m not that much of a Kiss fan. Sure there are some good songs – Detroit Rock City, Rock and Roll All Night, Strutter, and the utterly ridiculous Love Gun. That stuff is all fun but Kiss never ever [...] As NAP’s outpost in the Live Music Capital TM, I suppose I have an obligation to say something about this here citywide festival that is currently raging. Unfortunately I’ve been something of a SXSW/ Live Music Capital TM skeptic for a while now. But here goes. - STOP RUNNING IN FRONT OF MY CAR [...] Western culture is being subverted from mind-control forces on the Indian continent. I mean Dharmic culture has finally been completely dominated. My daughter is addicted to Indian manufactured nursery rhyme videos on YouTube. She’ll sit in one place forever, her face in the iPod, looking at these. The mega reverb drives me nuts, but [...] |
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