I’ll start by asking you as a personal favor to read this whole thing. I know that the Internet is TL;DR, but it’s important to me that everyone read this. Thanks. This is about my friend Peter Brayman. Pete grew up in a small rural town in New York. He was a New York State [...]
I started to write this thing and did it all wrong. There was a long-winded history of how “indie rock” happened, an examination of my own part in that, and then a whole list of reasons why “indie” gives me a headache. Dumped. I know what I can’t stand “indie,” and it’s because “indie” is [...]
I drove all around Southern California tonight. Notable: I was nearly knocked off the road by the Spanish-language Bush Beans promotional truck, a full-sized pickup truck covered with bean inducements. I passed a store called PEANUT DUDES which had a banner advertising peanutdudes.com. Unfortunately the domain doesn’t work. The Los Angeles/Long Beach harbor at night [...]
The Santa Ana winds parch me and cause wildfires, but wow, the LIGHT we get when they blow. The whole town is glowing and yellowy and clear and sharp. I love it.
I got out of the house and went to a social event! Woo. Nice time at xtreme_pr0k‘s house. Good to see maineiac_eric and others I hadn’t seen in forever, plus a new and fun girl who punched me in the stomach. Anyway, it was good to do something other than be at home or at [...]
Tonight I drove my mother and her friend to South Coast Rep to see a play, and had a beer at Karl Strauss. I talked to the bartender and the guy next to me at the bar and they made sense about politics, which was refreshing. In particular they were both against the anti-gay marriage [...]
I love this song. I first heard it while at the Miller’s Outpost jeans store on 17th Street in Costa Mesa, California. I was probably shopping for back-to-school jeans or something. I can still see the whole store in my mind, the shelves full of jeans against the back wall in every color in variety [...]
I ride the train to Los Angeles once a week now. It’s a good deal in a number of ways. It costs $17 round trip in pre-tax dollars. It’s less stressful and less wasteful than driving, and safer. The train goes backstage in Southern California. The path goes through infrastructure, industry, and poverty. Huge warehouses [...]
As long as I live, the sight of a long line of eucalyptus with a palm tree or two in the distance will make me feel at home. I’m glad the builders left those. This war in Georgia terrifies me.