Just Don’t Go Back To Big Sur* |
*for those of you unfamiliar with the work of seminal Irish rock outfit The Thrills this is not a slur on the good name of Big Sur or any sort of currently topical travel advice but rather a line from...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:19:00 GMT |
How We Got Here and Why We Aren’t Leaving- Drums |
This one-armed kid's been sitting on the corner of our street all week. He wears red sweatpants and flip flops. I guess he has a problem with shoelaces.Every morning I pass him on my way to work. Ever...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:38:00 GMT |
How We Got Here and Why We Aren’t Leaving- Roads and Cars |
We built ourselves into the car. You fastened your seatbelt. Then I sealed you in: pillows and comforters stuffed down the inside of your door, an entire wetsuit wedged under your shoeless feet. I clo...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:25:00 GMT |
How We Got Here: Part One- Graham Greene |
It starts on a bedroom bookshelf where those dolmens of her early days once shook hands for an open door. Kerouac, marking time with Woolf, asks only one square inch of the melting space between her t...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:15:00 GMT |
Mister Lonely: Thoughts |
Harmony Korine's latest cinematic offering "Mister Lonely" comes hot on the bizarro heels of such oddball and often time disturbing offerings, as "Kids", "Gummo" and "Julien Donkey Boy". "Mister Lonel...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:12:00 GMT |
Tales from the Homeland: Installment Four |
"Nouveau fresh in Berlin."Being in Berlin is like being captured on the front cover of a Wilco record and forced to remain there, blissfully high on the artistic lighting and the seamless amalgamation...
Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 08:40:00 GMT |
Tales from the Homeland: Installment Three |
"In which I introduce Caleb to Wilco and in a miraculous event comparable to the water/wine deal, receive yet another Bruce Springsteen ticket."It's uncharacteristically hot for early May in Belfast. ...
Posted by on Sun, 18 May 2008 13:39:00 GMT |
Tales from the Homeland: Installment Two |
"In Which I Receive Linear Sunburn and Spread the Gospel of Fleet Foxes."Having arrived in Edinburgh, hauled my suitcase, (thankfully mounted on two little nobbly wheels,) for some ninety minutes up a...
Posted by on Sat, 10 May 2008 15:41:00 GMT |
Tales From The Homeland: Installment One |
"I flew half way round the world with Aer Lingus and all I got was this complimentary toothbrush."It's ten past nine on a Tuesday morning. Somewhere six thousand miles West, the rest of my little worl...
Posted by on Tue, 06 May 2008 17:49:00 GMT |
"All These Things That Weve Done:" RIP Paul Barger |
Some things are inevitable- Texas is in your teeth, pulling like magnetic South. On Tuesday morning you'll pack two entire years into the trunk of your car, furnish yourself with four days of Ryan Ada...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:10:00 GMT |
