Piper and Sky, a couple of L.A. youngsters, have a cool band called Pearl Harbour that’s playing out a bunch!
And now I honestly can’t decide whether they are better, or whether I prefer Pearl Harbor and the Explosions. I think they should play on the same stage. That would be fucking radd.
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Pearl Harbour vs. Pearl Harbor
Posted in Bands, Los Angeles, MySpace Pages, Performers, Punk, Shows, Songwriters on July 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
the eagle never hunts the fly
Posted in Bands, Books, Country Rock, Folk, Garage Rock, Los Angeles, Performers, Personal Shit, Songwriters, Television on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished reading Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll’s Legendary Neighborhood. While it was cool to read about Frank Zappa’s log cabin and Joni Mitchell living with Stephen Stills, I have to admit that in my heart, I still prefer balls-out rockers to any of these hippie fucks. What the fuck can Stephen Stills tell me [...]
Beverly Garland RIP
Posted in Los Angeles, Movies, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Obituaries, Television on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Beverly Garland died this week. The press remembers her mostly for her television work, and as a Roger Corman B-movie actress.
I remember her as both! Who can forget Swamp Diamonds on Mystery Science Theater 3000?
And let’s not be hasty and forget Gunslinger!
where the fuck were you when we needed you?
Posted in Gay and Lesbian stuff, LAist, Los Angeles, Performers, Politics, tagged Gay, horrible injustice, Lesbian on November 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This comment on a recent photo essay in LAist about the No on 8 protest sums up exactly what’s going on in my mind.
What Ross hinted at is that yes, goddam it, where was this mass energy when we needed it? We’ve been living in a conservative, er, cesspool for years, yet for some reason, most people [...]
Goodbye gay marriage!
Posted in Classical Moosic, Los Angeles, Politics, Songwriters on November 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I am ashamed to be Californian today, and perhaps even more so to be an Angeleno. Our people are a mix of economic moderates and social liberals, or so I had thought. Live and let live seems to be the motto for many in Los Angeles, where gays and straights and people of all walks [...]
Prop. 8 supporters compare gays to Nazis
Posted in Gay and Lesbian stuff, Los Angeles, Personal Shit, Politics, tagged California, Gay and Lesbian stuff, nazism, Politics on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Literally. These pro-Prop 8 supporters say that if we allow same-sex marriages to stay legal, we’re just as bad as Germans who allowed Hitler to stay in power.
What is it with conservatives and shitty analogies and bogus metaphors? Obama is somehow a Marxist, and now gays are Nazis. Sure, the Nazis had [...]
McCain loses out at Galco’s Old Time Grocery
Posted in Celebrities, Los Angeles, Obama, Personal Shit, Politics, tagged Galco's, John McCain, Obama, Soda Pop on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Galco’s, the world-famous soda pop stop on York in Highland Park, is my favorite place to get Jolt Cola, Manhattan Specials, and the hottest ginger ale known to man. That’s why I was pretty shocked, and a little hurt, to walk in earlier today and see shelf upon shelf of this soda:
Could it be true? [...]
Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree thingie
Posted in Art, Celebrities, Los Angeles, Other Stuff, Performers, Politics, The Beatles on August 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was eating lunch with coworkers at Il Fornaio in Pasadena, when I realized that Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree exhibit thingie was right there outside the windows in the Old Town courtyard in front of Gordon Biersch.
Apparently once all the wishes from this site and various sites around the world are collected, they’ll be put [...]
California Earthquake
Posted in Celebrities, Folk, Los Angeles, Other Stuff, Performers, Personal Shit on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While a lot of people in the L.A. area are feeling “All Shook Up” today, it could have been a lot worse. If I think about the 1906 or 1989 earthquakes in San Francisco, or of course Northridge a decade ago, the quake we had today was basically just a drill for the big one [...]
Jesse Camp returns!
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Los Angeles, Other Stuff, Personal Shit, Satan's Favorite Bands, Songwriters, Television on July 11, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I hadn’t seen nor heard about former MTV VJ Jesse Camp for years (and even when I did know about him, in the mid-late nineties, it was only because I occasionally passed a television in disgust on my way to my CaseLogic to pick out my favorite punk cassette).
But now suddenly, like within the past two months, [...]
