Ben is my newest roommate. He moved in on October 1st, but I’ve known him much longer than that. Ben went to college with Nate and Louise and Mark and all those…
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Larry Conklin & Jochen Blum – Jackdaw
“As a fan of acoustic guitar & violin interaction, I find this obscure latter day singer-songwriter album appealing. It’s a pro-sounding affair with well-written songs, good male vocals and a uniform, reflective…
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The 5 Craziest Ways I Met Women
I was flipping through The Frisky today at work — you know, like it was a real live juicy gossip rag, only more-poorly written and filled with imbecilic content — and several…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 231
Feeling slightly better this morning (my fever broke in the middle of the night, which is always a weird feeling — waking up in a pool of your own sweat but cooler…
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Nirvana – The Story Of Simon Simopath
“One of the most entertaining things to do on websites that allow customer reviews of CDs is read the apoplectic fury Kurt Cobain’s fans have for the original Nirvana, the cultily-adored British…
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Jellyfish – Spilt Milk
Of all the records in my collection, I am probably the most surprised by the value of this long out-of-print Jellyfish record on Charisma. As far as I can tell it came…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 230
Another week has ended. If you fellas didn’t get your dicks wet, well that’s unfortunate. If you ladies didn’t go out and hit the bars and settle for less than you deserve,…
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Victor Peraino – Victor Peraino’s Kingdom Come (No Man’s Land)
1975 LP that has been both reissued (with different atwork/tracks) and counterfeited. Victor Peraino was the American keyboard player for Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come, a band often overlooked in the pantheon of…
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The Distinguished Gourmand: Red O
Two celebrity chefs in two nights!? You’d think I was some kind of high roller. This, of course, is not the case. I’m just as poor and poverty-stricken today as I was…
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The Distinguished Gourmand: Jar
I have a long list of restaurants in Los Angeles that I need to try. Actually it’s a Google Document that expands by several rows each week. And the rate at which…