After two weeks of listening to countless uninteresting Islamophobic rants from not-a-few tea-loving patriots, I figured I may as well try to counter the negative energy with some positive coverage of Muslims via this fine web site. So here’s some equally fine Muslim bands & musical artists for you to enjoy.
The Kominas : Sharia Law [...]
Below are five songs that just nail it. How do you they nail it? Who knows, but they do. You could also say that they simply get it right. You hear it and are immediately feeling something, whether those feelings be joyful ones, sad ones, or a mash-up of both. “Viva La Revolucion!” you’ll cry, [...]
1. O Valencia by The Decemberists
I could probably have simplified things for myself by just putting together ten of my favorite Decemberists videos featuring dead people, but I wanted to challenge myself. That said, any list of videos featuring death would be incomplete without them. I’m not sure if I’m a pale teenage girl covered [...]
On July 12th, 2010, the world lost an original voice. I was on my way home, passing through the cell-phone wormholes of Vermont’s mountains, when my wife, Kristin, called to deliver the news. I almost had to pull over.
In my life, few “famous” peoples’ passings have affected me. Last year when Michael Jackson passed, sure [...]
Man puppets are hideous. I was watching the classic horror film Puppetmaster tonight and now feel like some weirdo-freaky puppet is staring at me through the window. Boy would that be horrible. Anyways, as creepy as puppets are, there is something sort of magical and carnivalesque about them. There are also a good many music [...]
Ah, the wonderful world of heavy metal. Derided by many as a genre with no substance, it is often left
in the dustbin of history, deemed culturally irrelevant. Well, we aren’t here to prove this sentiment
wrong. On the contrary, we are here to prove that correct. As much as it pains me to do this, as [...]
Everyday life is enclosed by art: we are all aware of that. I am not talking about nature and life and all that other junk, but genuine ART. Picasso, Da Vinci, and Dali, to name a few, all dominate the art world. Gibran, Tolstoy and Wilde still dominate the literary world. Fidel Castro, Adolf Hitler, [...]
Here are some delicious, somewhat nutritious, and affordable recipes to make. Best ate while listening to your favorite music on your favorite porch with your favorite friends. Eat up and wash down with, you guessed it, delicious alcohol.
Dan Nordyke’s Famous “Headbanger Beermosa”
“I can’t take credit for making it up, but it is delicious.
You’re welcome.”
1 [...]
In the summer of 1986, when I was but a wee 6 year old, I set my eyes upon a shoebox full of cassette tapes sitting on a green-metal foldup table in the corner of the porch of my Aunt & Uncles summer cabin. Some of the tapes included The Miami Vice Soundtrack, Bon Jovi’s [...]
Clinton was president. Mainstream radio and MTV played a lot of great music. People dressed like a bunch of slobs and still looked kinda cool. Kurt Cobain struck it big, French-kissed his bandmates on Saturday Night Live, felt his guitar crash land on his head several times, then blew his brains out. Mainstream rap & [...]