k-bomb dots & words from around the world:
08/08/06:
No Sleep To Idaho, The Perseid Fireballs And The Songs Of Dead Jim Morrisons
08/08/06:
Get yer War Between the States on at Fort Tejon
08/08/06:
Paths to the Perseids
07/27/06:
Fear and Entropy in Los Angeles: Scenes from a gas struggle: Will soul-deadening gridlock andexorbitant fuel prices kill the remnants of SoCal car culture?
06/22/06:
The Tao of the Barbecue Cycle
06/09/06:
Internet Worm Food and Who Killed Mark Twain?
05/19/06:
PT. 1: MS. WELTY & MERLE HAGGARD MAKE STATEMENTS; DYLAN TAKES JACKSON
05/19/06:
PT. 2: PORT GIBSON & THE RUINS OF WINDSOR
05/19/06:
PT. 3: A TREE FALLS IN NATHAN BEDFORD'S FORREST
05/19/06:
PT. 4: BRICE'S CROSSROADS & A DEAD COTTONMOUTH
05/19/06:
PT. 5: THE HORNETS NEST & SHILOH'S BLOODY POND
05/19/06:
PT. 6: OVER THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY
05/19/06:
PT. 7: ANTIETAM, JOHN BROWN'S BODY & THE ROAD 2 HARPERS FERRY
05/19/06:
PT. 8: THE DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON
05/19/06:
PT. 9: THE CRATER EXPLOSION & THE FALL OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
05/19/06:
Dr. Buck's Letters
05/18/06:
Mark E. Smith's platoon system meets its Waterloo
05/12/06:
THE PSYCHEDELIC PELOTONS OF SUMMER
05/06/06:
Naomi, SST and All That...
04/27/06:
Lust in the Dust: Depeche Mode gives it to 'em straight in the Great American Desert
04/10/06:
BUCK OWENS, Top Fuel and the death of the Bakersfield sound
03/23/06:
Before the Flood: Weird prophecies of the ‘mother of all storms' and how New Orleans was gutted way before any home-wrecker named Katrina
03/08/06:
Don Garlits and Black Smoke and Orange Flame
02/23/06:
ECHO AND ECHOLAL(I)A: Hipster gentrification through chaos
02/23/06:
MIXED DRINKS: COOLER THAN CELERY AND CREAM CHEESE?
02/22/06:
Understanding Media with the Ultimate Writing Machine & the Bad News Bears of Drag Strip Journalism
02/02/06:
The World is Your Velodrome
02/01/06:
THE OTHER SIDE OF HOLLYWOOD AND THE COYOTES OF TRASH TRUCK ROAD
01/27/06:
Rethinking Arena Rock: more Mark E. Smith, no Gary Glitter whatsoever
01/22/06:
SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABRATORIES DESTROY ALL MECHANIZED MONSTERS IN CHINATOWN
01/08/06:
A Linear History of Maximum Horsepower in A Forgotten Age of No Limits
01/08/06:
"To further complicate a ravaged landscape..."
11/02/05:
Bowling For Divas, Part 2
10/18/05:
WIRE DONKEY WEEKEND: CYCLING TO THE DEAD MOVIE PALACES OF LOS ANGELES AND WIND-JAMMING THE LONE PINE / DEATH VALLEY HIGHWAY...
10/06/05:
When Everything Was Permitted
10/04/05:
Who Are The MonoPropellants?
09/30/05:
Kerouac and the image of counterculture freedom have been sold
09/10/05:
The Homer of the Old South?
09/07/05:
Scenes from the overture to a modern reconstruction
09/07/05:
DEATH ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND THE WHINE OF BLOWERS OVER THE PACOIMA ARROYO
08/31/05:
BEFORE THE LEVEE BROKE: IN SEARCH OF IGNATIUS REILLY'S PYLORIC VALVE AND THE GHOST OF AL BROUSSARD, THE HUMAN TRUMPET: FROM THE SWAMPS OF MISSISSIPPI TO NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
08/19/05:
Why the great rock'n'roll novel is so elusive
08/11/05:
HE HAD A DREAM ROCK & ROLL COULD BE GIVEN A NEW BRAIN...
08/10/05:
Adventures in Meat–Space: Listen to them, the children of the void! What music they make!
08/09/05:
"I think we were all thankful we live in an age of Top Fuel."
08/09/05:
The Infallible Mark E. Smith: Heads Will Roll, or If You Assume
08/08/05:
“Any beat off remarks, and we soak you with honey and strap you to an anthill.”
08/06/05:
Black day for the blue pencil
08/03/05:
All Roads Lead to Trona: Put Smogtown in Your Rear-View Mirror
08/03/05:
Drag Princess: Mendy Fry, the nitro-burning CPA
07/31/05:
This books is worth picking up for its sexy, nihilistic description of transvestite strippers alone. But as a historical document, it's priceless.
07/21/05:
SHELBY FOOTE: The forces of white-trash alt-country chic fight for the soul of the new Southern Gothic
07/17/05:
No Sympathy
07/17/05:
Pneumatic Symphonies
07/12/05:
CLUTCH DUST VAPORIZES INTO THE ETHER: THE COLE COONCE READER
07/06/05:
Ignore the Smog!
06/29/05:
Mystery Scientology Theater
06/24/05:
the only writer alive to have been accused of being a Stalinist and a Nazi, not to mention a sex maniac and a drunk.
06/14/05:
PERVERTED BY LANGUAGE: THE FALL USED THEIR KEEN SENSE OF POP TO GET AWAY WITH INSANE MUSICAL AND LINGUISTIC EXPERIMENTS
06/08/05:
Frying the Baloneys Off of Danica Patrick at the Smog Cutter
05/26/05:
ARE WE NOT MONKEY'S? Melt-Banana takes up the de-evolution charge
05/20/05:
Melt-Banana in Pomona
05/19/05:
dengue fever, an infectious disease spread by mosquitoes
05/19/05:
Alfred Jarry: a Cyclist on the Wild Side
05/18/05:
TOUR DE SMOG AND BEYOND
05/07/05:
NEW POPE, NEW GOD, NEW ELVIS
05/04/05:
This is Braindead
05/02/05:
CLUB ASTON IN VAN NUYS: FROM GUMP TO GOLDFINGER TO GUV'NOR, WITH A SIDE OF THE SEX PISTOLS
04/28/05:
GIVE 'EM ENOUGH ROPE -- Will the return of New Order be Billy Barty's revenge?
04/25/05:
8 miles in and 8 miles out on virgin springs trail: rock house ruins & the futile search for the ruins of the desert hound mine
04/25/05:
Drifting: Straight Outta Irwindale
04/24/05:
Strivers and visionaries, schemers and dreamers
04/19/05:
DEEP THINKERS, DEAD PIG AND THE CANNONS OF KANSAS CITY
04/07/05:
Guy DeBord hits the sauce
04/05/05:
To Mars and Back in the Mother of all Range Rovers
04/01/05:
I stopped by Richard Hell's apartment in the East Village
03/24/05:
THE FUTURE HAS NO FINISH LINE
03/23/05:
Kylie Minogue is my co-pilot
03/16/05:
It was like a party, a fishing party!
03/15/05:
Throw in a little drug abuse, infidelity, cowboy hats, and technical difficulties and you've got a volatile band on the brink of self-destruction.
03/15/05:
It's one of those theory of relativity deals except no-one called Einstein a sleazebag, not in New York.
03/15/05:
A Girl and Her Hydrometer, Mixing Fuel
03/15/05:
The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E Smith
03/08/05:
In 1984, America was a weird place
03/07/05:
I Am Damo Suzuki
03/07/05:
Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Manson and the sinkholes of Trona
03/02/05:
Mild Things
03/02/05:
The Transatlantic Feedback
03/02/05:
The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time
02/28/05:
Music to Start A Cult By
02/28/05:
How You Rike Drifting Now, Mamason?
02/25/05:
THE RUINS OF RHYOLITE AT NIGHT, ZABRISKIE POINT, BADWATER AND THEN WILDROSE CANYON
02/25/05:
The Minutemen - SArguing with the Fish
02/25/05:
The Minuteman of the Rockies
02/22/05:
A Deviant in New York
02/22/05:
Those Were Different Times
02/22/05:
A Tale of Two Cities: Music from the Death Factory
02/21/05:
It's a Tedious Life
02/21/05:
Stars and their lies
02/13/05:
Oo-er missus
02/08/05:
ON A BUDDHIST BENDER AT 5000 FT. ... OR ... WHO KNEW SIDDHARTHA HUFFS NITRO AND CLIMBS ON A BIKE?
01/28/05:
Men Must Work and Women Must Weep
01/28/05:
madness, celebrity, name-dropping, drugs and sex
01/25/05:
when LSD was the feel-good enhancer of choice
01/13/05:
All things tend toward crapification
01/07/05:
"It's the lack of fucking jokes in literary books that gets me down."
01/07/05:
Failing to Grasp the Magnitude of Death Valley Scotty's Grotto
12/25/04: The Dairy Queen Vote
12/21/04: Wolfe: Bad sex just good irony
12/02/04: I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience -- which is definitely an acquired taste
11/28/04:
Paul Krassner: much of the DNA in our cells is parasitic junk
11/27/04:
places where ambitious and misunderstood kids grow up despising their parents' lives
11/21/04:
"Good evening, I am Mark E Smith. We start tonight with the theme from Sparta F.C., a film yet to be made by the great director Xyralothep, your true God."
11/21/04:
Clairvoyant channels John Peel's tribute fury
11/08/04:
Night of the Hunter: Interview with a gonzo vampire
11/07/04:
Drivers who haven't reconciled themselves to motorized mediocrity are advised to dine elsewhere.
11/07/04:
"Hi there, I'm James Bond, I'm Ringo Starr's cousin!"
11/07/04:
Why not give Mark E Smith something to really cry about?
11/02/04:
Nixon was nothing compared to these bastards
11/02/04:
Robert Johnson picked up a guitar and was just a no-talent mess
11/02/04:
"Not an idiot, just mildly optimistic."
10/31/04:
Something unleashed on the world that would never go back in the bottle
10/30/04:
So! Just who was this Greg Shaw fella, you ask?
10/29/04:
Bedraggled Love reveals her fleshy thighs, flicks lit cigarettes into the audience growling whatever lyrics she actually remembers...
10/29/04:
Stumping across the universe with Merle Haggard for the undecided UFO honky-tonk vote
10/28/04:
Everyone's got a right to get old and fat
10/28/04:
Swell Maps: When The Sky Was Teenage Blue
10/28/04:
Hunter S. Thompson is a broken man...
10/20/04:
Johnny was a fastball pitcher; the speed was his virtuosity
10/14/04: "Put away the bicycle & the punk rock records. You've got work to do."
10/01/04:
A drunken pillhead tends to be more concerned with legend than accuracy
09/25/04:
SMiLE: the collapse and reinvention of the male ego
09/24/04:
There Is Nothing Wrong With Hating Rock Critics
09/23/04:
America condensed into LSD-skewed fragments
09/22/04:
The New Global Cool
09/21/04:
I was flattered and starstruck
09/19/04:
hardly a scrap of asphalt remained on its bomb-cratered, potholed track
08/29/04:
ìGreat smokiní blue gumballs god almighty dog! There goes Junior Johnson!î
08/29/04:
The Curious Fate of Nitro Villechaize
08/26/04:
Spring Break meets Dr. Strangelove
08/25/04:
Sex Frenzies and the Super Bowl
08/23/04:
A Sex Pistol's Bargain with Satan
08/23/04:
Go, Skid Racer, Go!
08/10/04:
Young Tennis Players Make Cranky Singer Sad
08/07/04:
an aging rocker surviving in the MP3 era
07/31/04:
no misty reverence had he not boiled his brain in acid
07/28/04:
The Year of the Monkey (Don't You Dare Cancel Football)
07/28/04:
I never really got Brian Eno
07/24/04:
Let them eat maggots. Only a hypocrite'd say otherwise
07/20/04:
The pop artist who ate himself
07/20/04:
We are looking down the barrel of some very dangerous times
07/11/04:
People would do better with a little more humility, a little less shopping
07/01/04:
The last time he had a top 10 hit I was a little busy, being born
06/26/04:
I put a bag over her head & chained her to the radiator
06/25/04:
Here Comes the Judge
06/25/04:
God's Consolation Price
06/22/04:
Unfairenheit 9/11
06/18/04:
Hey kids, what time is it?
06/10/04:
the more mysterious and premature the death, the better
06/10/04:
has any other generation ever banged on about itself more and with less merit?
06/09/04:
Not Even a Hedgehog: The Stupidity of Ronald Reagan
06/08/04:
Jerry Falwell to Wed
06/06/04:
A Song for Europe: von Trier and Pedro Almodovar; Houellebecq and Kraftwerk (still)
06/05/04:
Oh those kids
06/05/04:
The Marx Brothers: Anarchy in the USA
06/04/04:
Bryan Ferry is not a 25th century spaceship commander
06/01/04:
Bukowski in and out of his cups
05/31/04:
Last Widow of Civil War Veteran Dies
05/31/04:
the ambiguity of fame, the fluidity of character
05/31/04:
indulge the pretentious art student residing in that pretentious indie rocker shell that you have constructed so well
05/28/04:
No Hand Buzzers
05/28/04:
Mark E Smith: "It's more than necessary to carry on"
05/28/04:
Michael Moore: The only thing bigger than his ego is his stomach
05/28/04:
"What's it to ya?" : How Malcolm McLaren fell in love with the New York Dolls
05/23/04:
heat, hostility, mania, and melanoma
05/23/04:
Keith Levene: Looking for Something
05/21/04:
Fuck the FCC
05/20/04:
Why is Bill Drummond travelling the country making people soup?
05/20/04:
HST: I used to be a Lakers fan, but no more
05/20/04:
Damo Suzuki's red velvet jump suit: a flashback of its own
05/16/04:
The Ballad of Che and Charlie
05/10/04:
Mark E Smith: "I have to get going now. See ya"
05/04/04:
The Heartbeat of a Dying Star
05/03/04:
(it) can only mean that, as usual, he hates everything
05/01/04:
Amis: "Lead with your best punch."
04/29/04:
We have power. It just depends on what you do with it.
04/24/04:
Less like Bukowski... More like Camus in hotpantsÖ
04/23/04:
"They used three chords. We used one finger."
04/22/04:
Bring on the machines
04/20/04:
The Buddha is roadkill
04/20/04:
finding solace in NoÎl Coward's flops
04/20/04:
John Ashcroft? Kobe Bryant? J. Edgar Hoover? Is this really the end?
04/16/04:
"There's one born every minute."
04/12/04:
Casanova Being Punished: 1st Teen Tycoon Reconsidered
04/10/04:
zen-pop mindfuck
04/06/04:
don't live sex & violence out thru any kind of fiction
04/06/04:
her backside was magnificent; she revelled in having it patted & stroked
04/06/04:
Dylan was yesterday...
04/01/04:
Important moments in history you'll never see on a stamp
03/28/04:
Didion has a horror of making a point too clearly
03/28/04:
Piper at the gates of dementia
03/26/04:
Re-Germinated
03/26/04:
"We plan to destroy our own myth very efficiently."
03/24/04:
Who were they? What did they want? Where are they now?
03/23/04:
Our time is now and we can do anything
03/22/04:
A magnificent, flamboyant failure
03/21/04:
a bunch of undertakers demonstrating the latest PlayStation console
03/16/04:
I killed Spalding Gray
03/15/04:
that doesn't make it any less depressing...
03/15/04:
The 21st Century guide to selling out
03/13/04:
Never Trust a Hippie
03/09/04:
Witless, dismal, joyless, depressing
03/08/04:
"Who gave Stephen Hawking a drink?"
03/06/04:
Kraftwerk make Stephen Hawking look like Justin Timberlake, and for that we treasure them
03/04/04:
"I am totally and utterly English. And a Brit is always homesick."
03/03/04:
an Internet-friendly, biodiesel-driven, multimedia machine
02/29/04:
24 days with a broken heart
02/25/04:
if you need to call 911, you'd better have a credit card
02/22/04:
Glendale, a veritable city of the dead
02/20/04:
Get out of the plastics business!
02/17/04:
Unpeeling Melt-Banana
02/17/04:
Jandek: pure desolation
02/17/04:
William S. Burroughs and of course, the Daytona 500
02/17/04:
Neiman Marcus knits a leader out of earth and lime
02/16/04:
Why the future doesn't need us...
02/15/04:
the zeitgeist demands I live my rock star job
02/15/04:
"itís not a sexy robot..."
02/13/04:
a septic tank explosion of photography
02/10/04:
Back when we used to sleep around, we really got to know the city
02/09/04:
Einsturzende Neubauten: Music to My Ears
02/08/04:
The destructive element is too neglected in art...
02/08/04:
"So there goes the NEA, thanks a lot..."
02/07/04:
Crap. I get tired thinking about this stuff.
02/07/04:
"Terrorism, itís the new rockíníroll..."
02/07/04:
Nancy Sinatra? A visit to Disneyland, only your father owns all the rides
02/06/04:
It's what an anarchist should do, not play the game & not play by the rules
02/06/04:
Brian Wilson should leave the unfinished masterpiece Smile alone
02/05/04:
"...all I found was this obnoxious, bitter, hateful old creep..."
02/05/04:
the Martin Amis-Julian Barnes emails
02/03/04:
The Great Cat Power Disaster Of 2003
02/03/04:
junk mail, CDs, vagabondage, appliances, life's arbitrariness and wars
02/03/04:
Will Self: it is better to be a ëwriterí than to write well
02/03/04:
"I'd describe myself as a secular anti-humanist."
02/02/04:
Damp mattresses & rotting soya beans: Where's the Beefheart?
02/02/04:
HST: The football season is finally over and good riddance
02/02/04:
"... all he does is take the piss and moan..."
02/02/04:
The soul does not supply solutions. It sends messages.
01/31/04:
Entertainment Tonight may trigger epilepsy and cause terrorism
01/30/04:
'Not bad - for a girl'
01/29/04:
Velvet Underground: "Did you know that I am president because of you?"
01/29/04:
HST: Winners get rich & famous; Losers are treated like scum
01/29/04:
Ballard: People resent the most moral decision is to choose what colour the next car will be
01/28/04:
Will The Last Great R n Roll Band Please Stand & Wave The Flag
01/27/04:
Bernie Goetz & the Unabomber's brother walk into a bar...
01/25/04:
"...the Fall get together every now & then & get pissed in a garage"
01/24/04:
"If I was gay, I would have made one of the great gays of all time."
01/23/04:
Country Teasers: Wise Blood in Wing Tips
01/23/04:
Jethro Tull Member Loses Member
01/22/04:
Lydon: I'm a Val Doonican and Genesis fan: Get Me Out of Here
01/22/04:
Keith Levene: If Paul Simon came along I'd have him on there!
01/22/04:
Alexandro Jodorowsky: In the Heart of the Universe
01/22/04:
We Jam Econo
01/21/04:
The psychiatrist's chair is a very dangerous place to be
01/19/04:
I Always Hated That Flannery O'Connor Bastard
01/19/04:
The Fall: "It was like life or death..."
01/18/04:
Where's the Beefheart?
01/16/04:
"I've never been able to decide which one I'd really like to know."
01/13/04:
Perverted by Language: The Country Teasers get contrary
01/13/04:
"Why isn't my stereo working?"
01/13/04:
Pete Rose will NEVER be voted into baseball's Hall of Fame
01/13/04:
No Dirty Words on TV
01/12/04:
Edward Albee: Whistling in the dark
01/10/04:
Nick Blinko: The Devil is in the Detail
01/07/04:
the humiliating headlock in which Dylan is daily relieved of his lunch money
01/06/04:
Sterling: "Pop will eat itself. I predicted (that) for a long time..."
01/06/04:
What is he hiding?
01/03/04:
His Satanic Majesty's Royal Knight
01/02/04:
Your Favorite Red Band
01/01/04:
"The reds have been stealing my music and ideas for years."
2003