The opening plinking tones, the gently kneaded sample of Hugh Masekela’s version of the R&B song “Stop,” the easygoing urgency of Black Thought’s rapping: there’s so much about “No Gold Teeth” that commands attention. Presented as an introduction to a … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Black Thought and Danger Mouse, “No Gold Teeth”
This series of posts is dedicated to the many, many six packs, pony kegs and pints that have sauntered into my life at one point or another. Thanks to the miracles and the wonder of digital conduits for broadcast technologies, … Continue reading Beers I Have Known — District 1 Brewing Company Pointer: Then and Now
Side Street (Anthony Mann, 1950). This sweaty film noir casts the ever-wooden Farley Granger as Joe Norson, a down-on-his-luck postal worker who decides to steal some cash from a law office on his route. What he believes to be a … Continue reading Then Playing — Side Street; Smithereens; The Batman
It’s been a little more than five years since Marvel’s master of the mystic arts took center frame in a film bearing his name. He’s hardly been absent in that span. Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) has been the Billie … Continue reading Now Playing — Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. What George Pérez really wanted to do was draw the Justice … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — The New Teen Titans #4 by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez
200. Los Lobos, By the Light of the Moon (1987) “We were trying to take it somewhere else — a step further or something, just to not repeat what we’d done,” David Hidalgo, guitarist and vocalist of Los Lobos, later … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #200 to #198
It’s been a rough, infuriating, disheartening week. There are a multitude of individuals far more qualified than me to explain why, so I will cede my digital floor to a few of them. Fuck You, I’m Done by Jessica Valenti … Continue reading Outside Reading — Abortion Is Health Care edition
This is exactly the sort of breezy melancholy I’m looking for in my summer jams. Set against a shuffling indie-rock rhythm and lithe synth and guitars, the track expresses that sense of stasis that twentysomething scufflers have been humming about … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Sunflower Bean, “In Flight”
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. I think it’s reasonable to conclude that a lot of creative … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — Marvel Premiere by Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner
ROKIA KONÉ AND JACKNIFE LEE, Bamanan (Real World) — You don’t have to understand the language Rokia Koné sings in on Bamanan to feel the power of her words. A gifted performer from Mali, Koné expresses herself with resonant intensity, the … Continue reading Medium Rotation — Bamanan; Angel in Real Time; Squeeze
