Dear BP’s PR department: First of all, let’s get one thing very, very clear before we go any further: your company has fucked up. Not “made a regrettable error” or “inadvertently” anything. You have caused a massive unnatural disaster. Right now, pretty much everybody on the planet hates your guts. There are guys in caves […]
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Vaguely Mediterranean Vegetarian Barbecue Thingy
Main Ingredients 2 Portobello mushroom caps 1/2 onion (your choice of color) 1 red pepper 1 cup large couscous* 2 cups chicken broth 2 tablespoons real butter 1/4 cup oil (olive or corn will work) 1/2 cup of yogurt, plain Barbecue Sauce 1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce 1 small can tomato paste (not sauce) 1/3 cup […]
Current Status: The New Album
I’ve started writing (which, since I use computers, also means “recording”) the second Red State Soundsystem album, which will probably either be called SPQR or The Big Darkness or possibly Senatus Populus Que Red State Soundsystem. (Probably not, though. But maybe.) As a songwriter, one of the biggest problems I have is getting over my […]
Gallifrey Travel Poster
Here’s something from my new portfolio site, Standard Nerds: a travel poster for the planet of Gallifrey.
120 Minutes and the value of curatorship
I was delighted to find on Metafilter a link to The 120 Minutes Archive, a site dedicated to preserving the history of MTV’s long-defunct underground music show 120 Minutes, which was, back in the early 1990s, my gateway to the world of alternative music. (For example, I recorded this show from the summer of 1992 […]
The Indelicates – Songs For Swinging Lovers
UK group The Indelicates are that most endangered of species — a band with intention. They defy the current notion that rock and roll songs should be about, y’know, whatever you want them to be about. Every song on their first full-length album American Demo was a thesis, a statement of purpose from the band’s […]
Testing WordPress app
Testing the newest version of the WordPress iPhone app.
Things I have discovered in three days of selling my album online
People are willing to buy online music via PayPal from your website. Not all of these people are my mom. Or actually people I know. This is encouraging. Not having a label or distributor means the music goes directly into my PayPal account. No quarterly reports, no sending my boys to the label accounting office […]
Ghosts In A Burning City — available now!
My debut album as Red State Soundsytem, Ghosts In A Burning City, is now available for preview/purchase over at Redstatesoundsystem.com. More when my brain is fully functioning.