“Heart Shaped Box” by Nirvana

Day 5 of NaPoWriMo and I’m a bit behind on my challenges. To catch up, I need to add or annotate two songs on Rock Genius. Today being the 20 year anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s suicide, I thought I’d see if any Nirvana lyrics were left unannotated. Of course not. Certainly not “Heart-Shaped Box.” While […]

National Poetry Month 2014

You know the week is going to be bad when Monday feels like Friday. So fuck it, I’m writing a free form entry about this month’s writing goals. April is National Poetry Month. Determined never to waste another one of these again, I will submit three poems for publication. It’s so weird that my first ever attempt landed me […]

No Ice Cream-Maker Honey Whiskey Ice Cream

It’s the easiest thing ever, requiring only four basic ingredients (none of which are sugar or milk) and no specialized ice-cream-making gadget. But an electric beater does help. A winning entry from BBC’s “MasterChef” series in 1995, I assume it was created by that year’s winner, Marion Macfarlane. I can’t be sure as I found […]

Chevelle – “Take Out the Gunman” Lyric Video

I haven’t been paying attention to any of the making-of news for La Gárgola like I should’ve been, but I did notice an article from Loudwire on how the new single is rocking some serious cowbell. Behold! No joke. Christopher Walken’s prime directive. Right here. This song has such a bad-ass, suspenseful swagger that I can see […]

Adios, Lou Reed

Ever since I read my first Internet encyclopedia articles on Soundgarden back in the dial-up days, I’ve been meaning to check out The Velvet Underground, who were frequently cited as influences to these and other amazing artists. That means I’ve procrastinated on right-clicking those links for fifteen years. Today I finally read an article that […]