Lorde, for those of you who live under rocks different than the ones I live under, is a teen pop music sensation from New Zealand. Her song “Royals” topped the Alternative Music charts awhile back,…
Date Archives 2013
Nelson Mandela’s Death Makes Me Think of That One Time I Got an A+
I was sitting right here cracking my knuckles, rolling my shoulders, licking my chops, and generally getting ready to write what was no doubt going to be a witty and incisive response to Lorde Sounds…
Arbitrary Number of Reasons Jason Isbell’s ‘Southeastern’ is My Favorite Record of 2013
For the first time in very many years, I could probably make a Top 10 list of Favorite Albums of 2013 and not only would it actually have ten albums on it, they’d all be…
It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: I Dreamt of Animatronic Breasts Edition
It took me one whole day of not speaking at all, plus two more days of not speaking so much to fully recover from Sister #4’s Thanksgiving visit. Also, it should be noted, that most…
A Hug & A Merit Badge
Last night as the clock raced toward one a.m. I wanted to pull a Fred Flintstone, propping up my heavy eyelids with a couple of toothpicks. I was so close. A mere forty-thirty-twenty pages from…
The Saddest Issue of Tiger Beat
If Rob Lowe’s memoir is the biggest, best issue of Tiger Beat ever, then Gavin Edward’s Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind is the saddest. River Phoenix…