Category: Music

Some Aphex

This is probably NSFW, because it has real time video of audience faces superimposed on the areola region of various womenfolk.

Mangumific

Hipster cyclone that it was, the little hats and funny vests and fast hair everywhere couldn’t spoil the holy shit that was awesome of Jeff Magnum’s return to touring. Though it was the 1998 music set all over again, this time without the band (except for a couple people that joined in on a few songs), I was just awed at how much presence, sound and skill the man has with only a guitar and his voice. Hopefully the man will tour some more in the coming years and if so, it’s not to be missed.

Comic/Culture blog ’84-’91: the “Copper Age”

As, the so-called “Copper Age” basically encompasses my Junior High School through High School years, I find Very Fine / Near Mint to be entirely engrossing with it’s period comic coverage and music and wrestling videos.  As much as I am a kid of the 70’s and shamefully look back to ALL that stuff with pure unabated nostalgia (even when so much of it was crap), I have an entirely cynical view of anything that even slightly approached crap during the “copper age.”

That said, what happened in ’92 to make the cut off for this period ’91? I certainly remember getting back to college in the fall of ’92 and noticing a distinct change in the kids on campus, clothing, music, attitudes as if the grown ups were suddenly gone. For the focus of this blog especially–Image Comics hit the comic world like the Thing’s knock out punch-a hit we’re still feeling to this day; and of course no one could really look fondly the same way at Poison or Motley Crue videos after Nirvana came around.