Archive for the 'biography' Category
So Nice, I Posted It Twice
Call me vain, egotistical, arrogant, what you will.
I make no apologies for the fact that I look great when I am hard at rock.
Stubborn
Sam has been visiting this past week, and with Thanksgiving on top, it was a weekend of light blogging. It’s amazing how much he’s developed in the past two months, and a long two months it’s been: although I didn’t blog about it at the time, sometime in October, I had a really bad [...]
Read More..>>Dishwashing Memories
When I was 17, I worked as a dishwasher at Salve Regina College in Newport with my friends Derek and John. It was a pretty cool gig: since it was a university, the pay was better than average for dishdogs, and the shift was always over by 8:00 PM. The best part was [...]
Read More..>>36th Birthday
I hit the big 36 tomorrow.
I realize I’m a little old for birthday presents, but I still like ‘em.
Especially if those presents include an ignition coil for a 2000 Chevy Astro 6 cylinder, AWD. Or spark plugs and cables for the same.
Just sayin’…
It’s Always Something
Honestly, what the fuck is it with me and computers? Everytime I have to deal with signing up for something, fixing something, customer service, what-have-you, inevitably something stupid happens that makes the whole process take twice as long as it needs to. And frankly, I would say more than 70% percent of the [...]
Read More..>>Someone Made a Movie About My Life
Tim Kelly sent me the trailer for “American Hardcore”.
Someone made a movie about my teenaged years. I cannot WAIT to see this flick.
“Normal people did NOT listen to hardcore, and we liked it that way.”
“If you’re looking for radicalism in the 1980s, you should look at hardcore.”
Read More..>>Meat is Murder
From 1992 until about 2000, I was a vegetarian. Eggs, milk, and cheese were all part of my diet, but red meat, poultry, and fish were out. That all changed when I moved to Philadelphia, or to be more specific when I was at the Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival with Jim and Jennie. [...]
Read More..>>Personal Thoughts on Mark Foley
First and foremost, I want to say that Mark Foley deserves everything he has coming to him, and that had better be a lot.
Second of all, the House Republican Leadership, which seems to have nothing about this, is despicable. These pompous, strutting bullshit artists and their proclamations about “protecting the children of America blah [...]
More on Hardcore and Political Consciousness
In 1983 I was an angry, lonely, and misunderstood 13-year-old. Most of this was rooted in what was going on at home: my mother had surrendered to her alcoholism and spent half of her time in a staggering, unpredictable drunken rage, and the other half in her room with the door locked, recuperating from [...]
Read More..>>Verbal Assault
Verbal Assault
I grew up on this music, and in fact went to high school with these guys. Good retrospective, and a great essay, “More Than Music” by Chris Jones.
I’ll write more about this later.
But in reference to my first hardcore show, here’s the flyer:
Good times. If you manage to get your paws on the [...]
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