I don’t care who you vote for — okay, that’s not strictly true, but I’m not gonna go through that here — but you seriously need to vote. This is a big, big one, folks, even for redder-than-red Texas. With the right to vote comes the responsibility to actual do it; historically speaking, people who […]
Yeah, yeah — I know this is way, way, way overdue, considering that the event itself happened a few weekends ago, now. I’d been holding off posting anything ’til I could get down thoughts about the whole ball o’ wax, y’know? The whole OCD thing is my downfall, I swear… The tagline there’s a wee […]
This one seems so damn obvious I’m a bit irked at myself for not twigging to it before somebody had to tell me. (Big thank-you to Marshall at life is a thrill for pointing this out, btw…) Yes, Sarah Palin, the much-loathed (and rightfully so, to my mind, for making being ignorant and closed-minded popular […]
…but lo and behold, I find myself nodding in agreement to his Slate pieces not once but twice. Which is somewhat weird, considering the right-turn the guy took six years back, prior to the run-up to the invasion of Iraq; I would’ve sworn then that he was a goner, a convert to the Far Right […]
Jesus, this is getting insane. Every time I think the McCain/Palin campaign and its supporters couldn’t possibly do or say something more insane, mind-melting, or scary, somebody fucking rises to the occasion. If it’s not a right-wing loon stuck in the ’50s comparing Obama to Jim Jones, Mao, & Hitler, it’s a whackjob (from College […]
I’ve been meaning to do a big ol’ rundown of all the cool things other media-ey people here in town have been doing lately, but I know that’s gonna take me a while, and dammit, I just can’t let this one fall through the cracks. The best thing I’ve read lately, locally or otherwise, is […]
Nope, not that Chris Bell, this one. Tonight (Tues., October 22nd) up at ever-excellent The Continental Club, longtime Houston music scene fixture Jesse Dayton will be playing at a benefit for Chris’s Texas Senate run, and it sounds like a good time. Chris Bell is good people, one of the few local Houston politicos whom […]
This is really beginning to get old, not to mention scary. I know the “lib’ruls hate America!” meme is nothing new, but it sure feels like the Republican Party has been dragging it out into the spotlight lately. Now they’re talking about Congress and the media investigating “liberal” Americans and politicians, conservatives being the “real” […]
Anybody who knows me knows, most likely, that I’m a big, big sucker for animals of all types — hell, I don’t even like squishing spiders or ants unless I absolutely need to (mosquitoes are another story, but hey, I’ve gotta draw the line somewhere). So when I heard about Operation Baghdad Pups, it smacked […]
Just a quick one, since the details are already up here; in case you haven’t already blocked out your afternoon this coming Sunday, October 19th, well, BandCamp, over at the Caroline Collective, is where you need to be. At least, if you’ve got any interest in seeing the scene in our fair city thrive & […]
Yes, it’s apparently true. First I hear that the only big-ish and non-local benefit for Ike survivors scheduled will be down at Moody Gardens in Galveston with Dad favorite The Beach Boys (see here for details), and now HandStamp (yep, they’re on a roll, at least with me…) is reporting that at his show here […]
I didn’t think I was going to make it at all, honestly; the wife was out of town all weekend, so it was just me & the midget on our own, which meant that during the day Saturday we spent our time at The Disney Store at the Galleria and watching Beverly Hills Chihuahua (no, […]
Okay, so a while back I got a very nice email from the folks at Nauset Concepts, asking us to list their upcoming “Rock the Vote” show slated for this coming Sunday, October 12th, during the run-up to the election next month. “No prob!,” we said, cheerily adding the show to Ye Olde Grand List […]
Okay, I’ve mostly kept mum on the whole Sarah Palin thing, partly because I haven’t felt like anything needed saying that somebody wasn’t already saying in the news and partly because the sheer volume of insane crap that comes out about her makes my head spin. Now that she’s decided to come out and attack […]
Way, way, way smarter than me, anyway. Not only was I impressed that Jon Stewart was willing to go head-on with the GOP last night on The Daily Show (in front of Peggy Noonan, no less), but he and fellow news-satirist Stephen Colbert made me laugh so hard I wept while reading the joint interview […]
Holy freaking crap. Didn’t I see this in a movie somewhere? It’s horrifying, to be sure, and I feel for the Ukrainian crew of the ship, but damn, it’s somewhat mind-blowing that this shit actually happens. In the Real World, and not just on television or the big screen. Where’s Steven Seagal when you need […]
The fictional, damn-I-wish-Martin-Sheen-really-had-been-President one, that is, offering sage, world-weary advice to the guy who’ll hopefully run the real thing some day soon. Maureen Dowd & Aaron Sorkin, you both rule.
Among the devastation wreaked by that wee hurricane we all just weathered, two local landmarks were hit badly. First off was that (formerly) awesome culinary institution called Brennan’s, which apparently was okay flooding/wind-wise but caught fire and burned to the ground while the staff watched, unable to stop the flames. Under normal circumstances, HFD maybe […]
Damn. I already knew our ‘hood got off lightly, but after seeing pictures here and here, I feel like an utter asshole for even bitching about not having power. The picture of Gilchrist wiped clean but for one solitary house makes me want to weep.
UPDATE 9/24: Damn. Even more bad news, unfortunately — got some more to add to the list. sigh. I also found out that the On Your Feet kids down in Alvin had to cancel all their shows (some of which I missed taking off the shows list) and that Anderson Fair has been w/o electricity […]
Think you’re metal? Think you’re one hard-ass motherfucker? Nope. You’re just a pussy wannabe compared to these guys. I mean, have you ever started a riot because somebody proclaimed that Rob Halford is the best metal singer ever? Didn’t think so. Slayer Mob rules! These guys are like Heavy Metal Parking Lot gone batshit-crazy. Vice, […]
Yeah, I totally get it now. Wow. It’s been barely three days since I got my Jesusphone — er, iPhone — and I completely and totally get the nickname. I feel like a kid who’s been riding a tricycle all his life, only to be abruptly plopped down in the driver’s seat of a fully-loaded […]
I’ve been somewhat out of the political realm the past few years, after diving head-on into it back in 2001 or so; when my daughter came into my life, I simultaneously realized I needed to quit worrying about this shit quite so much and that I really, truly enjoy the music side of things more […]
Okay, not exactly; that’s just what pops into my sugar-addled brain every time the topic of oil comes up (my daughter now thinks it’s hysterically funny to say, btw, particularly w/a silly accent). I’m getting a bit irked about all the pro-drilling stupidity going on, and, well, Daniel Day-Lewis’s insane-yet-still-kinda-right declaration seems appropriate to the […]
Crap. It’s been a long, long, looooong time since I listened to any Seaweed, but the announcement that they’d reformed & were coming through town had me pretty excited — felt like I’d stepped into the Wayback Machine and rewound back to college, all of a sudden. I was rarin’ to get my mid-’90s indie-rock […]
No, she wasn’t in a band (that I know of, anyway), and you’re not likely to have seen or heard of her unless you went to the same college I did, but hearing that she’s left us has hit me hard, all the same. Trust me when I say that when I knew her (too […]
Dammit, dammit, dammit. Yes, it makes total fucking horribly perfect sense that once the Powers That Be (in this case, the Copyright Royalty Board, rather than the RIAA, but they’re all heads of the same terrible beast) took down Muxtape, they’d go after dear, sweet, kind Pandora. And yes, they are. Crap, crap, crap, with […]
Ah, fuck. I knew it was too good to be true for long… Apparently the joy-sucking, soulless, we-drowned-our-inner-child-in-the-bathtub-for-$5 jerks at the RIAA have taken down the very-popular Muxtape site. Ah, yes — another well-placed strike on that dastardly segment of the music-listening population that actually likes music they can’t hear on the similarly soulless radio […]
I’ve sung the guy’s praises before, so it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that I’m happy as heck to see Chris Bell once again running for office. He was my Rep. for a very short time before being redistricted down to the Texas/Mexico border by Tom DeLay and his state legislature cronies as […]
Yes, I definitely live in the digitalized-to-hell online world, it’s true, but that doesn’t mean I don’t still keep warm a quiet, soft spot in my heart/soul for things made of paper. Once upon a time I scoured zine racks at SoundEx & Soundwaves, trying to find the coolest, most intriguing, most eye-opening/mind-blowing zines I […]
I feel almost sacreligeous mentioning this right now, given the bad-bad-bad local news of the day/weekend, but fuck, I need the good to balance out the bad. And the good is that Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby (who happens to be Eric’s wife, as of this past April) are apparently playing September 14th at The […]
In somewhat cheerier news: the awesome-sounding Toypunks documentary will be showing tonight & tomorrow night (August 16th-17th) at the Aurora Picture Show. Showtimes are 8PM tonight & 3PM tomorrow. The film looks at the crazy, Technicolor world of Japanese toys, which these days blend in with fashion, design, and art in general, w/lots of interviews […]
phew. Well, that wasn’t nearly as painful as it could’ve been — as of late-late last night, Space City Rock is officially off Old Crappy Expensive Webhost and on New Smooth-Running Cheap(er) Webhost, and with any luck, most folks won’t have noticed any difference. If you do find something broken/weird on the site, definitely let […]
Sorry for the quiet, folks — we’ve had to undergo some fairly major behind-the-scenes changes of late, site-wise, and things aren’t quite yet working the way I’d like, so I’ve been having to put off the ranting/philosophizing a bit. Basically, Blogger started up with its semi-monthly Bartleby phase again, refusing to post sometimes ’til a […]
No, I’m not talking about those cheesy “we’ll buy your scrap metal and strip your wires for free!” ads on late-night TV, but about the upcoming Rock the Bayou metalliganza that’s coming this Labor Day, August 29th-September 1st, over at what used to be Astro World (S. side of 610 at the Astrodome/Reliant Stadium/etc.) but […]
Yesterday afternoon’s four-hour “off-site team meeting” == “lunch at Mi Luna followed by matinee of The Dark Knight.” I love this place…
I tend to not watch a whole lot of videos these days, partly because I get bored watching some band pretend to Rock Hard while actually just miming at their instruments (sorry, folks, but playing electric instruments in the rain just does not work the way you wish it would) and trying to look Badass […]
UPDATE II: Okay, so I started posting this yesterday at 3PM. When’s it go up? Today, long after at least a third of the listed shows actually happened. Fuck you, Blogger. Every time I think shit’s improved, you folks prove me wrong. UPDATE: I found out just a wee bit too late that yeah, the […]
From ThinkProgress (via life is a thrill; yo, Marshall!), yes, it seems that now pretty much anything can make right-wing nutjob demagogues quiver with outrage, including a movie about a cartoon robot. Who, um, works on cleaning up a polluted planet. And is looking for love. Did I mention this is a cartoon, and not […]
Ah, the wonderfully pungent smell of victory in the War of Online vs. Offline Reviewing-Type Publication Thingys (thanks to Paper Thin Walls/HypeBot for the link). Of course, the survey also says that it’s the opinions of friends & social-networking contacts that really do the job (response for which: duh), but screw it, I’m not gonna […]
