Back in the day, when I DJ’d at dublab, I was the resident garage rock guy. I spun old Back From the Grave and Pebbles tunes, played rare Warlocks stuff I recorded live when they were just starting out, and had interviews with members of the Raymen and Fuzztones.
I was a far cry from the [...]
Archive for February, 2008
DJ Nobody – L.A. Record interview
Posted in Albums, Electronic Music, Performers, dublab on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shepard Fairey – using his powers for good?
Posted in Art, Politics on February 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m old enough to remember when modern guerilla marketing had yet to be invented, and random posters and stickers wheat-pasted onto billboards and bus benches in the twilight hours for folks to see the next day were still seen as revolutionary “culture jamming.” Leading the pack in visibility were the ubiquitous and hilarious “Andre the [...]
Coney Island Steeplechase
Posted in Movies, The Velvet Underground on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’d always loved the Velvet Underground song “Coney Island Steeplechase” from the Another View rarities CD.
But I never got the significance of the reference to “a sister and brother that cling to each other” until I saw a bit of the great Coney Island: The American Experience documentary last night.
The Steeplechase was the name of an amusement park, [...]
No Country for Old Men – yay for the gay!
Posted in Gay and Lesbian stuff, Ghosts, Movies on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For a lack of anything better to do, my gal and I ended up watching the Oscars tonight. I’m glad No Country for Old Men won for Best Picture, but it was only during the acceptance speech, when producer Scott Rudin thanked his partner, that we realized he was one of “teh gays”–and for whatever [...]
Mysterious haze found on Venus
Posted in Joe Meek, Venus on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Space.com is reporting a weird haze traveling up and down the planet Venus.
Dmitri Titov of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany says it’s probably due to some “internal process of Venus’s atmosphere,” but could it be that Joe Meek was right?
Ambien
Posted in Personal Shit on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve had terrible sleep issues for years, so I saw my new doctor over the weekend, and he prescribed me Ambien. He told me up front that it is habit forming, and probably should be considered a sleep aid ”not for every night,” just for those nights when I need it and have time for a full night’s [...]
John McCain’s wife is a thieving drug addict!
Posted in John McCain, Politics on February 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
..or at least she used to be. Now, I know there’s gotta be some chronic abuse of pharmaceuticals amongst the readers of Nuclear Rays, but I doubt y’all steal from charities to do it.
Cindy’s biggest claim to fame is in 1989 she developed an addiction to percocet and vicodin, two powerful morphine based pain killers. In [...]
Nikki Corvette at Mr. T’s
Posted in Bands, Mr. T's Bowl, Performers, Shows on February 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My main man Danny just blogged about Friday’s Real Boss Hoss celebration at Mr. T’s, over on the L.A. Record. I was there as well, but had seen some of these bands last week already, so it was interesting to get a fresh perspective.
While Danny does give lots of well-deserved praise to the opening band, Some Dudes [that's their real name, [...]
Fidel calls it quits
Posted in Politics on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fidel Castro officially retired today. He’s not dead, but his reports of retiring read like an obit (from Reuters):
“Fidel Castro’s resignation is the end of an era that started with freedom and ended with oppression,” said Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt.
The charismatic Castro led the bearded and cigar-chomping guerrillas who swept down from the mountains [...]
Afri Cola
Posted in Soda Pop, Television on February 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just learned that Galco’s used to carry Afri Cola, until like two years ago!
I discovered this old German cola through a commercial that was in the Monks documentary I saw a couple years back at Don’t Knock the Rock. Designed by Yves Klein protege Charles Wilp, the commercial was originally intended to have Monks [...]
