Tag: music

  • Ween at the Greek this Friday

    Note to self: get Ween tickets today. Note to self, the second: Sit far enough from the stage to avoid the Poopship Destroyer, if they’ve got it on this tour.

  • Warren Zevon, R.I.P.

    Warren Zevon died Sunday, September 7, at the untimely age of 56. You know one of the things I most admire about the guy is that when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer the first thing he did was hit the studio and record a new fucking album. The man who wrote “I’ll Sleep When…

  • Very, very greasy

    David Lindley’s ’80s band El Rayo-X reunited recently for some shows and I saw them play last night at the Fillmore with Michael Z. and Suki. What a great show! So many highlight, I’m not sure where to start. Perhaps the biggest crowd pleaser was “She Took Off My Romeo” during which Lindley had the…

  • Warren Zevon on Hunter Thompson

    Nice VH-1 interview with Warren Zevon on making music in the face of death, witty observations about Hunter S. Thompson and more: The first exchange we ever had was about 10 years ago, when my daughter and I arrived in Aspen. I said, “Dr. Thompson, I’ve got the most terrible headache you can ever imagine.…

  • His built-in iPod

    Browsing cheesedog (aka, Garret Keogh to those antiwebbers out there reading this), I found a link to the dependable Onion (I have an iPod… in my mind) which cracked me up so hard it inspired this unfortunate urge to post a link to an Onion bit, in lockstep, no doubt, with hundreds of other webloggers.…

  • There is no square

    The only night I had unbooked during my brief New York jaunt tis summer was last night (Friday). That’s probably not surprising, since this whole thing was short notice and that’s the night people were most likely to already have plans. After a nice dinner with my parents at home, I looked through some entertainment…