“Caught in a spiral of need Act without the choice Choose not to act Caught in a spiral of need Desperate and alone in a whole Striving for higher ground Carrying someone else’s fears for tomorrow Stay behind the line Or eat from the bowels of reality Grind the thorns to stardust Gliding slowly across [...]
I wasn’t supposed to be here. My summer in LA was supposed to end in August; but I was having so much fun pretending to be an LA resident that I extended it two months. The problem with that is that I missed out on buying tickets to some of Rocktober’s big shows, and Foo [...]
I entered The Whisky in a daze, having already seen four bands down the road, knowing that I was about to enter the heavy curtain of technical death metal. But there’s something about seamlessly going from one show to the other that’s exhilarating. Fleshgod Apocalypse are onstage. They are Italian, as I am informed by [...]
I stood in LACMA staring at Andy Warhol’s Rorschach. What do I see? A guitar! It made no sense for me to drive home and then to the Sunset Strip, where’d I’d be seeing two shows that evening. So I did something I hadn’t done in a long time….I changed clothes in my car! Safely [...]
I can remember hearing about Rob Zombie’s curated Halloween scares for a long time, and finally I was able to go to Universal Studios to check it out. Halloween Horror Nights is not cheap, especially because there is no way in hell I would recommend anyone go without purchasing the Front of Line pass. You [...]
It’s 3pm on a Sunday. I imagine that most of America is doing something religious or family or sports-centric. We are dressed in black, jetting down Sunset on our way to a metal show. This is our religion, it is our sport, and we are surrounded by our family. I had been wanting to experience [...]
As I made my way to pick up my copilot to venture to the outskirts of LA, I passed something very fitting: “Exhale”…oh green pharmacies and their clever names. Pomona is a world away from LA; it was my first time out there and in typical small town fashion there was a street fair going [...]
It’s a time of intense personal reflection for me. There are times in life when you are busy just ‘doing’. You’ve got things to do, and you do them, and you wake up the next day and do it again. Then there are times when there’s a shake up, a shut down, a finish line. [...]
The films of David Lynch have fascinated, entertained, and inspired me since I was 12 years old. A part of this has been the way music works in his films; from the scores of Angelo Badalamenti to the soundtracks featuring Trent Reznor to casting musicians such as David Bowie, Sting, Chris Isaac, Henry Rollins, and [...]
“Descending! Into madness Sanity falling away Nothing remains from the world you have known Enter the realms beyond the gate” For as long as I can remember I’ve been really into genealogy and the idea of nature versus nurture. Before the internet and Ancestry.com, I used libraries to do research on where I came from. [...]
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{ Now, as always, and esp now that Ray Manzarek is with us no more....:(:( RIP, man......I welcome bands like BA because they keep the TRUE... } – May 21, 1:57 AM
{ I have always wanted to see the Stones but their age and prices have always scared me away. I remember my dad asking me to... } – May 15, 4:01 PM
{ "Zeppelin was the new kid that showed up on the first day and changed the way the entire school thought, dressed and behaved." - Amen,... } – May 14, 6:04 PM { So sad to see Jeff go so young. I was born in '58 and to see people younger than me go first saddens me lots....esp... } – May 06, 1:10 AM