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Karl

That's like hating N.W.A. because of 'Anaconda'

My Interests

Music:

Scared of Chaka, Slint, Buzzcocks, Minutemen, The Marked Men, Sultans, David Pajo (Papa M, etc.), Mastodon, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Stars of the Lid, Flying Saucer Attack, Wire, early GG Allin, Sweet, Guns 'n' Wankers, Dinosaur Jr., Gastr del Sol, Karp, The Figgs, MOTO, Fugazi, Descendents, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Stereolab, Smoking Popes, Naked Raygun, Big Black, Pegboy, Hot Snakes, boy this could go on for a long time....

Movies:

Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Hudsucker Proxy, Evil Dead 2, Waking Life, Office Space, The Jerk, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Three Kings, Amelie, Princess Bride, Simple Men

Television:

Pretty much The Wire and Lost right now.

Books:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Infinite Jest, Breakfast of Champions, 50 Stories (Donald Barthelme), Labyrinths (Borges), Our Band Could Be Your Life, Endurance,

My Blog

OK, so that just happened...

For them what don't know, I went in for open heart surgery this past Monday to repair my leaky mitral valve. All went well, and I have been recovering speedily enough that I was sent home yesterday. ...
Posted by Karl on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:37:00 PST

Yargh.

To the cool person who broke into my car last night at the practice space:I hope you enjoy the $25 portable CD player you got. I'll be thinking fondly of you whilst I go through the bullshit of havin...
Posted by Karl on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:22:00 PST

Craziness

I was at the Cubs/Rockies game last night, having a good ol' time whilst we were leading by at least three runs throughout the game as of the bottom of the first.  As some of you may know, w...
Posted by Karl on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:47:00 PST

Seriously?

I believe T.S. Eliot said it best - "April is like a dead strumpet with maggots streaming out of her cooze." Oh, wait - that was Steven King in "It" - someone describing the town of Derry, ME. Actua...
Posted by Karl on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:22:00 PST

Taste of Chaos

As I drove home tonight after having witnessed American Draft's "Deep Kutz" performance at Phyllis' (I'm not sure I'll see a better concert this year, but if I do, then I'll be happy that I've seen at...
Posted by Karl on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:52:00 PST

I love my dead gay son.

Among many other reasons, I'm glad that I didn't die while I was in high school because I had told many of my friends that if I did, I wanted Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" played at my funeral (th...
Posted by Karl on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 05:33:00 PST

Again with the comics.


Posted by Karl on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:45:00 PST

Captain's Blog: Peanutty and Painful

Oh, lordy, I been blog tagged!Blogging Tag Game Once you have been tagged, you are to write a blog including 6 things you do that are weird or habitual, and/or an interesting fact about yourself. In t...
Posted by Karl on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:45:00 PST

Rude awakening

Our clock radio alarm is set to WZZN FM, Chicago's 94.7. This morning when the alarm went off, I noticed their tagline as if for the first time - "The True Oldies Channel". The reality of this phras...
Posted by Karl on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:54:00 PST

Needn't be so vicious, pal.

It had been quite some time since I'd listened to Karp, but the other day I downloaded both "Suplex" and the self-titled LP from emusic (I have the s/t on vinyl, but figured it'd be easier to download...
Posted by Karl on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 06:24:00 PST