Hit the sack Monday at 6:30pm, a combination of a long Sunday night and an overdose of sweltering L.A. summer heat today. Woke up about an hour ago in an overlsept haze. Now here I am riding the free internets at Nova Express, watching all the collegiates hob nob beneath black lights while Barbarella unspools on the wall behind them. God, L.A. ( Read more... )

"Spree."

I never post memes, but I'm actually interested in seeing what people come up with for this one. Because I have this belief I'm always espousing to any sucker who will listen, see: that if record companies and (especially) radio programmers ever had a chance to actually peer into people's digital music libraries -- the libraries we've amassed ( Read more... )

Ska great Desmond Dekker died today of "an unknown illness." He was 64 ( Read more... )

Are the best thing in the world. And here is why, rock 'n' roll angels!

1.) They were Finland's entry in this weekend's Eurovision song contest -- an annual Europe-wide battle of the bland known for super-lame top 40 ululation-pop, not armored D&D VIKING-METAL!

2.) When the Finns voted Lordi as their Eurovision representatives, Finnish squares ( Read more... )

... has The Best Fucking Job In The World.

Goddamn it. I want to fucking kill him and then BE him.

How many big drippy spoonfuls of almond butter can YOU eat before feeling like you've poisoned yourself?

I just found out my threshold is ten.

One ( Read more... )

...were the best thing in the world ( Read more... )

So what's it like to work in immigrant-rich downtown Los Angeles on a day when immigrants have been encouraged, en masse, to boycott work and gather together in rallies ( Read more... )