Matty Groves by Fairport Convention

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1. Saturday night was Dorian's Parlor, a monthly Steampunk event at the DoubleTree in Philly. Guess what? There were People there (see, there was this one time when Fast, Cheap and Out of Control deceived us...). A nice shindig with a good DJ, dancing, a band, fashionable speculative anachronists, pretty much what you'd expect. I got invited ( Read more... )

1. I totally had a bonus track for the 30/30 entitled "A Gentleman's Guide to Pr0n Store Etiquette" but my internet went down at 11:45pm Friday 30APR2010. You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille.

2. What's so critical about internet access this weekend is that I signed a contract to purchase a Condo on Friday and now I gotta conduct the ( Read more... )

So when I was 19 I was too fucking poor and just kinda not worldly enough to go check out Lollapalooza. This was 1993 and Alice in Chains was going to be on the Main Stage. I didn't go ( Read more... )

Dear Michael O'Hara (version 1984),

I'm looking back at you. You just bought your first two cassette tapes with the paper route money. Twisted Sister's Dee Snider will one day testify in front of the Senate and later become a raio DJ. Quiet Riot will slowly surrender to obscurity.

But know this, in The Future music is free. As I am typing ( Read more... )

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I was young and foolish once

( and listened to music like this )

This year I ( Read more... )