“The font of the movie’s title on promotional posters has been copied on most albums and associated promotional materials released by Glenn Danzig’s musical acts Samhain and Danzig.” -Wikipedia Read More »
Adventures In Modern Music
In Search Of Hanni El Khatib
Garage-rock revivalism holds a certain amount of sway over me, especially the type Hanni El Khatib has assembled on Will The Guns Come Out (Innovative Leisure). Most likely my interest has something to do with an adolescence steeped in power-chord worship. Or, maybe not. Whatever the case, there’s an undeniable amount of cheese to some of Khatib’s lyrics, and the arrangements aren’t strikingly original. But he triumphs in his execution, and gets high style points as a result. Hopefully time and experience will further temper the sound he’s searching for. Read More »
Cultural Notebook
Railyard Dispatches: BuZ Blurr’s Diversion From Boredom
BuZ Blurr and the "Colossus of Roads." (Photo: Bill Daniel)
“I’m a retired railroad man who indulged in the folk art tradition of making chalk drawings on the railcars as an announcement of presence, and diversion from boredom. Although against the rules of the railroad, it was a common enough practice by the employees and hobos, by ignoring enforcement it was de facto tacit approval, for I dispatched drawings for 32 years of my 41 years of employment without interference. The initial purpose of this blog is to record the language used in my frequent boxcar icon dispatches.” -Buz Blurr Read More »
memorandum
Call For Submissions: Death Of A Good Job
In June of 2009, while on vacation in the Pennsylvania mountains with my wife and three-year-old son, I received a phone call from my employer informing me that I no longer had a job. Earlier this year, I wrote about my experience in a three-part essay series titled “Death of a Good Job” for Thought Catalog. I’m currently at work collecting the essays into a zine/micro memoir, and I want to do so in a way that contrasts my individual experience with those of others who have lost jobs in recent years.
Call for submissions: Looking for personal stories from individuals who lost a job in the months and/or years following the stock market crash of 2008. The submissions will be edited and published in the epilogue to Death of a Good Job, a zine/micro memoir that will be independently published sometime in 2012.
Made You Look
The Most Dangerous Breakfast in America
Breakfast death game: Bacon vs. Gun. Read More »
