Coming out on DVD are two separate compilations of old Hanna-Barbera and Looney Tunes cartoons----one set for the 1960s, the other for the 1970s. Given the obscurity/unlikelihood of some of the shows winding up on their own DVD set (Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles, (ping-ping-piiiing) Ricochet ...

Oh, and speaking of punk being dead , check out the brand spankin' new "virtual tour" of late, lamented CBGB . As mawkishly gimmicky as it is, I have to say that it's fairly well done.  I've swiped this, by the way, from the excellent This Ain't the Summer of Love blo...

As I pushed against the opposing tide down Broadway yesterday afternoon on my way home from work, I passed an individual who could have been my doppelganger. Despite graying at the temples and clearly expanding around the middle, this gent clearly harbored a fondness for the same age-old sartorial a...

  Even before our economy plunged into the toilet, I found myself buying fewer and fewer compact discs. Not to sound melodramatic, but I just can't afford to be blithely spending my money on music these days, especially given the limited amount of listening time my current lifestyle afford...

After class on Tuesday Phil and I rushed out to Riverside to check out Ann Lynn and Slings play at Tuesday Tunes at La Sierra University. It's nice to see a school doing a regular gig like we used to do at Biola. I wish more places did stuff like that. We missed the first two bands but we made it ju...

I have a dear friend, well a few dear friends in Florida but this specific Dear Friend is in Palm Beach. We were chatting about 3 weeks ago about casual shoes.  I told her what I prefer to wear, and she said, no problem, they carry that style at the local dollar store. Palm Beach has Dollar Sto...

Phil and I went to eVocal in Costa Mesa after class on Tuesday to check out Francisco the Man. When we got there it turned out they had broken up or something and weren't going to show. So instead we got to see the headliner, Yellow Red Sparks, who turned out to be quite amazing. They are a three pi...

But as Paul and I proved recently, you still can't take us anywhere. But we'll get to that. First - sorry I am so late with these posts. There have been Things to update about, but there has not been Time. My bad. The Idol thoughts and NYC adventures will be coming, but first, let's do this one. Any...

At my office, there is a series of small conference rooms all inexplicably named after live concert venues and night clubs here in the city. It's not at all out of the ordinary to get an e-mail saying "noon conference in the Roxy" or "bi-annual re-org meeting in the Palladium.&quo...

TITLE: "Tupelo" ARTIST: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds ALBUM: Live Seeds RELEASE: DATE: 1995 A common complaint among tinnitus-sufferers like myself is that the irritating sensation (in my case, a ceaseless ringing in my right ear) seems much worse in the morning just as you're waking u...