Some time back, I did an article on the five best songs of the 80’s. Off the back of that, I had two common requests come my way. One was for me to do a best 100 songs of the 80’s. While that would be fun, I really don’t have that kind of time on […]
Lesbian for a day
Valerie had called around many nunneries, hoping to find one that would accept her. Unfortunately, many of them either did not take guests who hadn’t said their vows or came right out and said that they did not sympathise with her position once it had been explained. But she got lucky; one day she drove […]
How Cleggmania was a lot like Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Early-autumn, 1991. Little had changed on the popular music front since the late-80’s, at least if you were living in a semi-post-apocalyptic part of North America at the time. Hair metal and bad synth pop dominated AM radio. It felt like it was going to go on forever, as if pop culture had lost the […]
RDF: the weirdest kids’ band ever constructed
When I was twelve years old, I had a band called RDF. Don’t ask me what the acronym stood for; this was the cause of many fights between band members. Who were: myself on guitar, my brother on vocals and percussion, and a kid who lived down the road named Aram who played sax. There […]
The coolest band of the 1970’s was Kool & the Gang. Read before ye judge
When people hear the name of the band Kool and the Gang, they tend to think of “Celebration”, or perhaps the string of other cheesy disco hits the band produced in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Or they think of that and “Jungle Boogie”, a song that was featured on the “Pulp Fiction” soundtrack, […]
Top five 80’s songs
When it actually was the 1980’s, as in when I was a child during the penultimate ten-year period of the 20th century, I really hated the pop music of the time. In fact, I still loathe a great deal of it. But as the decade recedes ever further from the present, I become more and […]
Carlos Fanta: interview with a Chilean psychopath, reel one
The tape begins to roll. I ask Carlos to speak clearly into the microphone (translated from the original Spanish)…. He was born in Concepcion, just like I was. His pictures adorned my wall as a child. He was, as the Americans like to say, my hero. He virtually created the nation of Chile if you […]
Office Senko, a three-year-old Aryan child, and the back of a convenience store
PREFACE: Although I’m slightly loathe to do this, I feel for many reasons the need to disclose that what you are about to read is complete fiction. Have fun. After I walked out of my job at the meat packing plant following the Snowback incident, I spent most of my unemployed afternoons huddled in […]
The Two Rogers
There once were two gentlemen who shared the same first name: Roger. Despite their disparate upbringings, the two Rogers eventually became the best of friends. Roger Dorrell was the son of a shipping magnate, Dorian Dorrell, a man who was at one time the forty-seventh richest man in Great Britain. Roger One (as we’ll sometimes […]
Aadiat White Man
New York City, sometime in the late 1990’s. Pre-9/11 and all of that. What I’m doing in the Big Apple would take a whole other story – let’s just say I’m there. Staying in a little place just off Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village. Some friends of friends knock on my door one evening, out of […]