I love hip hop. It is a language that speaks to me, with the complexity of the beats, the dexterity of the rhymes, the posture and pride of rappers that makes me swoon. It is like opera to me, with all the sturm und drang of Wagnerian proportions, but with modern values and transformative knowledge. […]
Psychological terrorism is the name of the game. There is not a moment that goes by where I am not told to be afraid of something, as this is how the government/media/powers that be would have it. The level of alert raising daily at random, the constant reminiscences of 9/11 in “terror-porn” on the numerous […]
Here in South Beach, we are staying at a rapper/supermodel hotel. Various Run DMC members are kicking it on the white couches, and we rode the elevator with Paris Hilton. She turned to me and said “I like your outfit.” And it was as if Mother Theresa said “You know, you are a really nice […]
Too bad about Robert Palmer. He died and he was only 54. The best thing I remember about him was his whole involvement with Powerstation, the side project of John and Andy Taylor of Duran Duran. What an amazing band. It was the mullet crew of the boy band of all time, and then Nile […]
Have you ever seen an ugly person with a beautiful person? I mean really really really ugly and really really really beautiful. We can let go, for the moment, of the political hot button qualifications of beauty – such as thinness, blondeness, whiteness, youth, as we can ignore the usual ‘seemingly synonymous’ with ugly, like […]
I missed the Koreatown parade. Fuck! I knew I forgot some shit but I couldn’t place what it was, like I knew there was something I had wanted to get done, but I did not write it down and my memory is not what it was. Now that makes me mad that I was not […]
In the Colombian Parliament, MP Luis Eduardo Diaz was suspended for bringing out a rubber dildo during a parliamentary debate. He was using it as a prop, to demonstrate the need for mandatory sterilization to control the birth rate of the poor population of Bogota. After offending many members of Parliament, he lost his temper […]
New Zealand, land of the best band ever – Split Enz and the birthplace of music’s finest auteur, Neil Finn, has been seeing a bit of controversy over the name of a particular clothing line. Fairydown, a label that has been around for generations, is changing the name of the Australian division, claiming that many […]
The Bible just got a makeover! There is a new teen magazine called Revolve, which is actually the New Testament disguised as a girl’s fashion publication. So instead of JANE, it’s MARY. It’s not TEEN PEOPLE, it’s TEEN DISCIPLE. It’s choc-a-block full of sidebars of top ten tips like where to go on a date […]
Sorry I have been late on the blogs. I am going into the studio to lay down vocals for my new record, which is about to drop – uh – whenever. I am MC MC and the record is “I’m Your MD” and the raps are all about health care and listening to your body’s […]
In the Heartland, where in the daily paper there is a section called “FAITH,” there is a big feature on the Christian comedy movement. There is one man describing himself as a “Christian with an Attitude.” Right on. This comic is the main event at numerous Promise Keeper conventions. He rages against the illogically ‘politically […]
The eleventh of September is not a holiday, but something like Kristallnacht, Pearl Harbor, Columbine. It is a marked day, not observed in celebration or the giving of gifts, search for eggs, decoration of a tree, a journey through the neighborhood collecting candy door to door, a parade, fireworks, a turkey, a groundhog’s shadow. For […]
