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First, let me say that the title of this post probably doesn’t really work in French, as the French probably don’t refer to really cool things as being “the shit.” Is shit masculine or feminine? That said, Neil Young’s new album “Le Noise” is fucking amazing, and Neil Young is a genius. It’s one of [...]

Filed under: Music, Reviews on January 3rd, 2011 | 2 Comments »

So I’m poking around on Facebook one night and find one of those little sidebars about Rufus Wainwright playing someplace in New Jersey. I click, it leads me to a tour schedule and lo and behold, the concert the Queen of my Universe and I have been waiting for was coming to Buffalo! So we [...]

Filed under: Music, Reviews on June 25th, 2010 | Add Comment! »

Here they are, in no particular order. The Jane Does – You Bring the Devil This is perhaps my most obscure pick of the decade, and my freakiest find. The Queen of My Universe was showing me the tremendous hoax of a video blog called Lonely Girl or something, and she had a Jane Does [...]

Filed under: Music, Reviews on January 4th, 2010 | Add Comment! »

I’ve seen some pretty funny movies this summer. I finally watched “Walk Hard:The Dewey Cox Story” and loved every minute of it. A couple weeks ago I saw “Pineapple Express” and love at least 9 out of 10 minutes of it. But today we saw “Tropic Thunder” and it far overshadowed all of them. I [...]

Filed under: Reviews on September 6th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Steve Earle The first time I heard Steve Earle was a song he did a video for in the 80′s called Copperhead Road. It’s a cool song about meeting your maker and stuff. He looked really scruffy back then. Check out the totally 80′s video if you have a minute. Then Steve Earle disappeared from [...]

Filed under: Reviews on April 21st, 2008 | 2 Comments »

After a very depressing week or so of reading, I’ve finally finished American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by Kevin Philips. It was a tough book, but someone had to read it, and I think everyone who’s not aware of how messed up should [...]

Filed under: Politics, Reviews on January 21st, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I wasn’t sure what I was expecting from the Eagles’ new release “Long Road Out of Eden.” I was reasonably sure from the title that I would get a good dose of anti-imperialism from Don Henley, my favorite angry white California Muslim. I wanted at least a glimpse of greatness that is “Hotel California” and [...]

Filed under: Music, Politics, Reviews on November 23rd, 2007 | Add Comment! »

Songs of Mass Destruction – Annie Lennox I looked at the title and I thought this was an Anti-War album. It’s not. I guess it could be metaphorically, but it’s not. Once I got past the disappointment and expectations of that, the rest of the CD was okay. The title is apt though; it has [...]

Filed under: Music, Reviews on November 10th, 2007 | Add Comment! »

In my Social Studies Teacher school, they made me take Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. The problem is that I took both courses during my sophomore year. I don’t remember most of what happened my sophomore year. All I remember about Macroeconomics was that my professor was a blind Pakistani guy, and that somehow I managed to [...]

Filed under: Politics, Reviews on November 8th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Medium turned ten and wanted an MP3 player for her birthday. So my choices are the Zen Nano 1G and the I-Pod Shuffle 1G. Both comparably priced, both come in pink. As you probably have discerned from the title, I’m not an I-Pod guy. I’m also not a Mac Guy. Her stepfather is a Mac [...]

Filed under: Music, Reviews on August 30th, 2007 | 3 Comments »