Month: May 2003

Zappa in Guitar Player Mag, January ’77: “At it’s worst, the guitarism of the Sixties brought us amateur strummery; several swift kicks at the Fender Twin Reverb springs; the archtype of folk-rock 12-string swill (the predecessor of the horrible fake-sensitivity music we have today with the laid-back sensitive-type artist/singer/songwriter suffering person, posed against the wooden fence provided by the Warner Brothers Records art department, graciously rented to all the other record companies who needed it for *their* version of the same crap); and the first examples of the “psychedelic guitar solo” not to mention _Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida_-ism.”

Holy crap, I’ve just gotten confirmation that our band Moonbug is the opening act for a Eugene Chadbourne gig, taking place next June. This guy has played with people like John Zorn, Jimmy Carl Black and Don Preston. ‘Scuse me while I spend the rest of the day breathing in a paper bag!

It’s Friday, it’s time for Boston Part Two!

BuffRanger: SexySara – what are u waering?
Copterd00d: a/s/l
BuffRanger: wearing
SexySarah14f: 14 (duh!)/f/3rd Infantry
Chat Logs of the Iraqi War

“Will Young and Gareth Gates’s 2002 debut, a rendition of The Long and Winding Road, was today named one of the worst Beatles covers of all time. But how much do you know about the others.

I’m bookmarking this: “I hate cooking. It makes me nervous and I am lazy, but I want to eat something besides crackers. This is my quest to find a month of meals.“

Were the Grateful Dead Freemason Satanists?

I haven’t seen The Matrix Reloaded yet, but this review seems to be right on the money.

Whatever happened to Essra Mohawk? She’s apparently, big in Japan.

“They can’t take it. If you play it for 24 hours, your brain and body functions start to slide, your train of thought slows down and your will is broken. That’s when we come in and talk to them.” James Hetfield must be so proud of himself right now (and perhaps also a tad bit worried about copyright violations).

“Stop snickering. Laqueur’s 501-page tome, “Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation”, released in March, is a high-minded academic study of how, since the 1700s, masturbation has been seen as a medical condition to be “cured” or a moral failing to be avoided.” (via BA)

“We have compiled a few outtakes from a variety of celebrities who have dropped their phony masks and exposed the flawed, imperfect and surprisingly angry, individual trapped inside. Enjoy!” (Their hall of shame is pretty funny too)

What constitutes beauty? Not just the ol’ eye of the beholder.

If you search for k.u.r. pages using Google with the “Safe Search” filter on, you will be presented with only 38% of this site’s content. I had no idea we were being such a mental hygiene hazard.

The Mystery Box version has these liner notes: “Space Boy” is the rarest track in this entire box. It was recorded for the Curtis Harrington film, Queen of Blood.”