The Auteurs – After Murder Park

This is my latest music review. There are many like it, but this is my latest. WHO? Luke Haines, singer/songwriter: I was in a wheelchair when I wrote this album. I broke both of my ankles. I jumped off a fifteen-foot wall at a particular low point in our touring, in a bid to finish [...]

so tired. can’t promise good quality shit when so tired. it’s for your own good. 24 more hours, please…

Whore D’oeuvres III: The Reckoning

Due to profound and deep psychic, emotional, and physical exhaustion blah blah blah. This is AC/DC’s song “Thunderstruck”, from their album “The Razors (sic) Edge” in 1990. I heard it in a sports bar while the Mets drug a game into 20 innings before winning. It made me regret only knowing AC/DC via Back In [...]

Jimmy Eat World – Futures

As requested by “Slappa da bass mon” on Friday, I am now sinking my considerable teeth into “Jimmy Eat World – Futures”. And to all my readers: feel free to send me any of your own requests as well! Remember, I’ll review it ASAP. Remember, it is all awesome. WHO? When I was a young(er) [...]

Ihsahn – The Adversary

Black metal scream! YEEEEEEAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH WHO? In the early 1990s, a few bands in Norway took the fastest, angriest, loudest guitary-est music of the current day, which came out of a few metal bands of the 1980s, and mixed it with ghoulish face paint and costume, espousal of violence and anti-Christianity, and shrieked throat-tearing vocals, and [...]

Whore D’Oeuvres II

Wow, I really do need to learn to budget my time better. On the plus side, I am still alive, have my health, and am not yet homeless. Beyond that, all is pain. Here’s what’s been on my most-played-of-the-weekend list: This is a song called “Haven’t Met You Yet” by a Canadian named Michael Buble [...]

Television – Adventure

“Do you listen to Television?” asked Adam. I could tell from the context that he wasn’t asking about the lowercase kind. “No, what are they,” I asked. We were stuck like Myrmidons in the Yale Library stacks, disseminating cart after cart as they were disgorged, fully loaded from the basement. “They came out of the [...]

Whore D’Oeuvres

In lieu of the week’s review, which will have to wait until tomorrow evening after a busy day of workshopping and job interviewing and Gossip Girling, have a few of this weekend’s morsels, songs I’ve been listening to a fair amount since the weekend officially began on Thursday at 4:45. This is a song by [...]