This month, in honor of St. Hallmark’s Valentine’s day, it’s a special theme version of Musical Moments To Die For. Love songs! Nothing but love songs! Well, that’s not exactly right: not so much love songs, but songs about love, which is a totally different head. Totally. Ho...

If you have any kind of commute in the Los Angeles area at all, and spend any part of that commute listening to old-school FM radio — and I’m guilty on both counts, especially in the morning, when I want to be plugged into the universe — then you’ve probably noticed Indie 103...

You can talk about genres, artists, albums, or even songs, but sometimes what keeps us coming back to music is the discovery of the transcendent musical moment. For me, “the moment� is the part of the song that fully and utterly engages me; the reason that I keep coming back to it. I’m not nec...

“Ducking the Shoe” is a phrase coined by Daniel Fienberg a couple of days ago on Twitter to mean “escaping even the most minor of punishments for extended errors or misdeeds.” Well, yeah. So in the spirit of George W. Bush’s ninja-like ability to duck a shoe thrown at h...

A few months ago, I wrote a pretty vicious post describing the awful, user-unfriendly makeover that Bravo had foisted on Television Without Pity. Part of the reason for the viciousness was that TWoP was a site that, only a couple of years ago, I had declared as maybe my favorite website ever. Of cou...

A couple of weeks ago, ABC canceled Pushing Daisies, a show about which I could never figure out if it was crazily quirky or quirkily crazy. Either way, it was a show that I never really thought about all that hard about after it was over. It was good, dark fun, but it wasn’t a show that I mis...

Quick! What’s the question that is on everyone’s lips right now? You’d think it would be “Who is going to win the 2008 Presidential Election?” or “Are gas prices ever going to go down?” or “Should I buy one of them cheaper iPhones?” or even ̶...

I could give a rats ass as to when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt reproduce. I don’t care about their personal lives, and I don’t care about their children. Which is why I find the whole to-do surrounding whether or not Angelina gave birth so hilarious. Ladies and gentlemen, a mother givin...

As some of you might know, I’m married to a pretty big fan of all things Joss Whedon. Rox discovered Buffy The Vampire Slayer between the third and fourth seasons as a necessary antidote to my need to watch every inning of every SF Giants game, and has pretty much snapped up everything he has ...

The biggest running joke is all of rock music, of course, has become the imminent release of the next Guns N’ Roses album, Chinese Democracy which is due to come out, either any day now or never. Even Syd Barrett was able to make a couple of solo albums after he went crazy, Axl. However, Neil ...