Visual Coercion

The War on Drugs 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA One more of David Bazan at Bowery Ballroom 10/18/09 another Deerhunter 10_27 lockett-deerhunter-10_27_10 The War on Drugs 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA

Diversion on a Monday

A weekend of halcyon days in the sun gone, a few tunes should be put on. A few songs to put a person through an hour or so, to foment some small rebellion among the androids, to encourage a rising up against the civilized worm.  Give the human race a try, get back to the [...]

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Miniskirts, Fishnets, Sexy Mutants, and the Cleaving Swords of the Ronin Capitalist State

Shoko Nakahara stars in Yoshihiro Nishimura’s 2008 tour-de-abattoir Tokyo Gore Police (Tokyo Zankoku Keisatsu) as the hard-nosed avenger of decency without mercy Ruka.  Preternaturally calm, dangerously certain of her purpose and her use of the katana in the black and white battle between criminal indecency and the directives of the privatized Tokyo Police Corporation, Ruka [...]

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Blonde Redhead Free at Prospect Park Bandshell Tomorrow Night

Details here, via Celebrate Brooklyn.

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You Can Have a Dog.

I held him for the first time after he was born and walked him about.  Beneath the mass of black curls atop his head, his big black eyes reminded me of my own, of photographs of my own, taken in the days and hours after my own birth. He was moving his lips, and I [...]

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