Monthly Archives: November 2009

Douglas Coupland is the Bee’s Knees

Generation A by Douglas Coupland

Therefore, if bees were to become extinct as they do in Generation A (which is not out of the realm of real life possibility,) Douglas Coupland would cease to exist. Then who would we go to for such insightful and witty satire?

Find out more about Coupland and disappearing bees in my review of the author’s latest- Generation A- fresh from the oven and all hot n’ crusty over at ChuckPalahniuk.net.

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God Is Dead (Slash rapes my childhood in the butt)

Thank you, METAL SUCKS, for alerting me to one of the greatest travesties in human existence.

Not since the holocaust has history been raped so hard. Appetite For Destruction is one of the greatest rock records of all time, and Slash is my favorite guitar player, but this is just unforgivable. Cypress Hill were cool in the 90′s, but FERGIE?!?!? Really, Slash? I know you spent all your Gn’R money on heroin, but come on! You’ve just made Chinese Democracy look like a Beethoven sonata. Axl is laughing all the way to the braid store.

I don’t even think a full-on reunion of the original members of Gn’R could make this one up to me. Fuck you, Slash, for raping my childhood in the butt.

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A Metalhead, An Accountant and A Wizard Walk Into A Bar…

…and proceed to rock my balls off. But Dysrhythmia don’t rock balls in the typical fashion- for there is nothing typical about this band. What they do is swim up your urethra like the dreaded candiru, gestate in your testicles, and then burst forth from your scrotum like a chest-hugger, splattering blood and seminal fluid all over the unsuspecting hipsters inhabiting Brooklyn’s Union Pool. That’s how they rock balls.

Dysrhythmia are one of the most technically proficient live bands I’ve ever seen. Colin Marston wields the six-stringed bass like a dwarf wields a battle axe, drummer Jeff Eber crunches rhythms like he probably crunches numbers in his day job, and Kevin Hufnagel’s hands move so fast and with such economy of motion, they look like they are vibrating. When the man shreds, he makes faces like he is simultaneously taking a shit and  traveling through time. Dysrhythmia is a band that demands your respect.

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