- P.B.H. • February 22, 2005
Swooning Music for a Revolting World: Enter Ted Leo + the Pharmacists
-P.B.H. • January 13, 2005
To 51% of America's voting public, A Thank You from New York...
- P.C.S. • November 5, 2004
XY wonders why you haven't seen Wilco live? You know who you are...
-P.B.H. • October 28, 2004
Dispatches from Oahu... "Smile at home for me". It's one of those things that you'll understand when you live here. When you fly an extra 5 hours past Los Angeles ...
-M.L.C. • October 5, 2004 (originally submitted Thu, 12 Aug 2004 04:46:26 -0700 (PDT))
Brian Wilson's "Smile" Grins! The lore & hype of Brian Wilson as uber-composer, sonic auteur, loon and bedridden beach boy...
- P.B.H. • October 5, 2004
Gonzo War Blues Project: this is a fiction in progress about the quagmire dynamics of politics, press, industry, and the French. (I know, easy targets.) Loosely based on events as they happen, *or not actually based on them at all. - P.B.H. • September 14, 2004 • to be continued...
"Ass Party: Dispatches from the Bowels of the DNC" ...-brought to you by GG, XYR's man inside the Boston Fleet Center. Stay tuned to this page for the latest on the ground and in the muck.
- G.G.. • July 26, 2004 • developing...
Travel: A Weekend in CNY: ...wineries, lakes, waterfalls, at least one graduation party/barbecue, bars full of townies. (I long to be a townie, seriously)...
- P.B.H. • July 16, 2004 • to be continued...
Recent Reviews: A Ghost Is Born...go to a concert and you'll know...
- P.B.H. • July 16, 2004 •
Eulogy for Everyone.
- P.B.H. • June 25, 2004 •
Mind your IPAs.
...Spring has finally broken the back of a bitterly cold Boston Winter, which means the time has come for pale ales brimming with hops to find their way back in to our beer drinking regimen...
- Andrew Hearin • May 25, 2004 •
Thank Frank Black Francis, The Pixies are
Back! On the Reanimation of the Pixies
& related ephemera...- P.B.H. • May 21, 2004 •
On Malkmus, Cryptological Concerns...
- P.B.H. • May 13, 2004 •
Some Summer Reading on Yo La Tengo No band captures the duofold rapture & anomie of Summer like Yo La Tengo...
- P.B.H. • May 12, 2004 •
Recent Reviews: Envy...this movie is not funny. All the humor is flat and unsure of itself. Never have I seen so many actors I truly appreciate combine to make a horrible whole. I want my money back...
- P.B.H. • May 12, 2004 •
New Orleans Triptych: Part III. The Transitory or: Cayenne Heat.
...the city bore as much torpor and grit as replendent hedonism, I felt a sense of calm overlap anything new about the New Orleans environment. As I liked to tell my friend, A---, my New Orleans was no longer in a hurry...
- P.B.H. • May 11, 2004 •
Ward to the Wise: A Clip N' Save Letter to the parents of a somewhat sorrowful 20-something
- Mike Ward. • May 4, 2004 • nuff said, I suspect.
New Orleans Triptych: Part II. The raptures in a city's dark belly, New Orleans romanticized...
- P.B.H. • May 4, 2004 •
New Orleans Triptych: Part I. The raptures in a city's dark belly, New Orleans romanticized...
- P.B.H. • May 4, 2004 •
New Orleans Triptych: Introduction: The raptures in a city's dark belly, New Orleans romanticized...
- P.B.H. • April 29, 2004 •
Recent Reviews:
Kill Bill
Vol. 2
...enthusiasm
binds and unifies the frantic...- P.B.H. • April 21, 2004 •
Mancino on the Cusp: ale-sipping grooves which gradually stirred up into a toe-tapping simmer, splashed minor key guitar hooks reverbertating with an audacious skronk, and the foaming whirl of keys, all spun into a lather of rock...
- P.B.H. • April 15, 2004 •
A Meditation Upon Death, The Devil, and Music Though we care to think otherwise, I feel that these artists each conducted their own demise, purposely and definitively..
-Phineas Paraplix • April 9, 2004 •
dead at 27,
ditto Cobain, Joplin.Dispatches From... Agriculture Co-opted: from the Pol-Cog.
A pernicious glimpse into partisan footballing...
• April 5, 2004 •
Recent Reviews: Dawn of the Dead Zombie renaissance?
-P.B.H • March 30, 2004 •
Recent Reviews: Jersey Girl is being hyped as the sort of thoughtful romantic comedy that naturally comes to a maturing director who is looking to shed the wacky, juvenile tone of his previous films...
GG • March 29, 2004 •
Flesh and Fire: A Year Passed. ..a 2,000-lb. smart bomb silently twitches its fins before plowing into a bunker. A dusty, gloved finger squeezes the trigger, rounds tumbling into concrete walls and soft flesh. The fire rains down another city, the people scatter for cover and watch the tanks roll. Tune in for the latest...
GG • March 29, 2004 • .
Featured Link: John
Ogden's
Poetry Page -everyone should
have a quilt; Odgen does one
better with
his
words. •
March 26,
2004 •Dispatches From CNY: Prelude - The Librarian
... he shows up at the library right next door to my apartment every morning by 6:30 AM, a puff of white hair on a wrinkled, wrankled jaw, this man goes zero-to-cantankerous in a split second....
-P.B.H. • March 25, 2004 •
Starsky & Hutch, Revisited and, uh, Reviewed Too.
"Starsky & Hutch" is the sort of knee-jerk Hollywood creation whereby some visionary reacts to a revived aesthetic. In this case, it's the 70s...
-P.B.H. • March 16, 2004 •
Dispatches From... The Eastern Bloc Dating Scene in NYC.
-Michael English • March 12, 2004 •
NYC: why you should go there, if you haven't already.
Why sit on a long plane flight to the Far East when all you have to do is ride the infamous 7 train to Queens and see a kaleidescope of people...
-Michael English • March 11, 2004 •
Recent Reviews: Dinosaur BBQ
-P.B.H. • March 11, 2004 •
To the Karma Police: Charlie Don't Surf. (Part I)
That rock bands wax political is no big news. Some can't resist the messianic impulse of lending their status to third world causes, (Bono comes to mind)...
-P.B.H. • March 11, 2004 •
Abandonment Issues: Crumbling of the Temple that Dog built.
Circa December 1991 I asked for two things for Christmas: A CD player and a copy of Pearl Jam's Ten...
-P.B.H • March 10, 2004 •
Confessions of a Sonic Youth & Radiohead Fan: Woe to the Plebes!
To confess: I have, at times, felt marginalized by my favorite bands. Sure, some of them enjoy a certain marquee-chic from niche crowds of hipsters and alienated teenagers...
-P.B.H • March 9, 2004 •
Madonna vs. Britney vs. Christina ....enter Janet! Culture Wars.
Ugh. No one wants to look at roadkill or a bad accident, but invariably everyone slows down for both. Writing about the pop music divas-du-jour is a similar experience; these are women overexposed in print journalism and every other medium imaginable. I risk adding my voice to the critic-pool.
-P.B.H • March 8, 2004 •
Ward to the Wise: Go and Ghetto'em!
There
are two groups of college graduates. We’ll call the first one Group
‘A.’ After college they jettison around the globe with a cosmopolitan
in one hand and daddy’s credit card in the other. Their post- graduate
work includes doing blow at the portapotties at Carnival and reading
“The DaVinci Code” on a street café in gay Paris.
by Mike Ward • March 1, 2004 •
Dispatches From CNY: Folked Over!
It’s March, in Cortland, NY. This town is a sleepy ‘burg that specializes in college bars for college kids. It is miles between Syracuse and Binghamton, and backroads’ highways lead to Ithaca as a beacon of... hilly winter bleakness, as opposed to flat winter bleakness. Winter is charmless and unromantic in Central New York. There are 14 different types of snow that fall and only the first two are any good...
-P.B.H. • March 1, 2004 •
Coming Soon....
EggersWatch '04
Terry
Smith covers Eggers' covering politics, culled from the Salon.com
frontier, the serialized novel-cum-styleheaping of a Scion of Our
Times!