September 12, 2011

So previously, I was rambling about the state of politics and how I don’t feel you should put much, if any, faith in it.  Kind of in the same spirit of John Lennon’s ”God” when he sings, “I just believe in me / Yoko and me / And that’s reality.”  That’s ultimately where I was going with that except [...]

September 12, 2001

September 11, 2001 wasn’t a very hard thing to grasp for people: it was an act of wholesale indiscriminate murder. 

September 12th was quite another story.  What we did afterwards is really where the story of the last 10 years starts – our reaction.  Unfortunately, it only took a few weeks to tell it [...]

Wuss Music For Wuss People

A while back I went to cover a metal show and my coverage was pretty superficial to be honest. A lot of fans got cheesed at me because I was lightly joking about the band’s stage set-up and it rubbed them the wrong way. (Apparently metal fans are a bit touchy about their music.) But [...]

GaGa Allin

Allin – reduced to the joke he was

Oh yawn, apparently it’s GG Allin’s birth date or death day or some such lame-ass marker. Houston Press did a quick blog on it subtitled “10 SFW Inspirational Quotes From The Poo-Poo Rocker” There is only one problem – none of the quotes are particularly [...]

My exhaustive review of the new Bjork App.

Oh wait, I don’t have an IPad or IPhone.  Well, instead, enjoy this adorable LOL cat.

Hope And Dread In Equal Parts

This long summer moves along at its own pace. I’ve learned a few new chords, started making hesitant rumblings at writing new songs, and biked endlessly around town while one question has hung over my every action with equal parts hope and dread.  Dreams of mountains, snow, and parasols leading to the sea are [...]

Happy 4th of July

What makes this country awesome? People like this:

 

Happy 4th of July from NAP. 

 

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Zombie Social Media and PR People’s Kid Gloves

MYZOMBIE

If today’s sale of Myspace at a fraction of its original sale price tell us how moribund the network is, I don’t know what else could. If you are a musician you know about myspace because at one time it actually was a very good way to connect with fans but the bloated [...]

Word of the day – Synesthesia

Here is a neat neurological disorder – synesthesia.   Wikipedia describes it as “a neurologically-based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.” So, if you have color synesthesia you will see numbers and letters like this…

(from Wikipedia)

Neat.  [...]

People In My Position

Oh man, I get a lot of stuff from PR people some of it decent a lot of it garbage but this one kind of hit a nerve. Check it out:

Charlene Kaye launches a Kickstarter campaign to help fund upcoming LP

Pity Me! (Photo by Shervin Lainez)

Following the release of a [...]