Tithing the band

“There is a heavenly account with your name on it…Every seed of faith you have ever planted has been deposited in a heavenly account with your name on it…As you would receive a corresponding ‘receipt’ from a bank here on earth when you make a deposit, you are the holder of [...]

Farewell 2011

2011 was kind of a banner year of awfulness – everyone has one of those sooner or later – so I’m kind of looking forward to 2012 myself.  It’s easy to complain and drone on when you have one of those years (believe me, I have)  but then you run into something that puts things into [...]

Holy Crap – Kim and Thurston break up? The 80′s really are dead!

 

Wow, so first REM breaks up and now this news item, “Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore Announce Split.”

Now, obviously the reasons for their split-up is their business and their business alone.  To the rest of us, it’s about them as an abstraction – what they represent to us through [...]

Who did I nominate for the Houston Press Music Awards?

The Houston Press Music Awards are happening again this year. Unfortunately, I stopped caring once the free food and drinks ended at the Rice Hotel.  Still, I vote every year and here is who I nominated this year. 

 

4. Best LP/CD/EP – Rusted Shut

5. Best Mixtape – Rusted Shut

6. Best Song [...]

I’ll tell you who I am rooting for this Sunday.

Who am I rooting for on Sunday?  No, not a football team, but Fauja Singh, a 100 old dude who is running the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon on Sunday.  Here is the story on the CBC (link).

Cool Olds of the week – Fauja Singh (image from the CBC)

 I mention him becasue his [...]

Jobs

Curious that today, as Houston joins in with its own Occupy Wall Street protest, one of the big captains of industry, Steve Jobs typed “/sbin/shutdown” yesterday.

I think we all have a relationship with Apple products. I personally remember my old Apple IIc. That was the first computer I [...]

Welcome To The Occupation

Well, it seems the Wall Street Protests are finally getting some traction and there is going to be a march and “occupation” here in Houston (http://occupyhouston.org/). It’s an interesting amorphous grass roots movement that’s inspired by the Arab Spring demonstrations with a worthwhile target.

For some reason the movement does get portrayed as [...]

The Gibson Firebird X – Satan’s guitar for rich stupid people who don’t play guitar

Satan clearly has been working overtime at Gibson. If you need further proof, look at this abomination – The Gibson Firebird X. Patches, third party apps, robo tuners, on-board effects, a fucking battery pack???!!!! What the fuck!!!!  What assbag at Gibson greenlighted the development on this piece of shit?!!!!

I mean, it takes nearly [...]

I’ve still got half a beer left so…let me ramble about REM

…I got done with my work here at Black Hole early (I come in on Wednesdays to do my weekend preview for the Free Press) and I still have half a beer so I’m gonna ramble on REM…

First off let me say that, for me, REM really ended when Bill Berry left the [...]

What’s 40,000 brown people’s lives – I deserve my bump

 Let’s get a few things out of the way.  First, I am for legalization of drugs: regulate it, tax the shit out of it, and impose stiff penalties for dangerous use.   I also have a message for pot heads – think local, buy quality USA grown pot!  As for the [...]