With thanks to the “Surf in Oregon”…blog.
Sit back, relax, and do what we all do..fantasize.

here’s Jim White wondering not so much what Jesus would buy…rather, how would he drive?
damn good question.

A nice Sunday feel.
Enjoy.

If Jesus lived today, I’m sure he’d buy somethings. But what would it be? Could he pass up on the amazing “Black Friday” deals? Would he stay home and meditate? Would he join with the other celebration on the day after Thanksgiving…“Buy Nothing Day”.
Personally, I don’t know how Jesus would […]

wondering where Gravel’s been…

Back in the late 50’s, a
record company gave Merle Travis 2 weeks to come up with an album comprised entirely of mining songs.
He did so, and and in that batch were at least 3 classic’s: “Nine pound Hammer”,”Dark as a Dungeon”, and one of my favorites, “Sixteen tons” (which became a signature song […]

United Hollywood
The WGA strike going on right now is not just about money, it’s about control. It’s a struggle between the creative class and the corporate class. Whatever deal the writers work out with the big media companies, individually they aren’t going to make that much more . But as a whole, […]

a hypothetical question was posed about which..artist..you would most like to surf with…and of course, who you would like to have photograph this historic event.
(thank you Patchies Hideout)!
on the first count, my thought was Marcel Duchamp… Da-da through and through, a cool guy and indifferent to style….. he’d be fun and definitely no shoulder hopper.
and […]

A notable new book in the seemingly endless stream of socio-political-foreign-policy fair is Susan Faludi’s “The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America”. She offers up a unique (some calling feminist) perspective which casts the roles of gender and myth into our current national climate of fear and paranoia.
From Truthdig:
“The enemy that […]

One of my favorite bands by far musically, sonically, conceptually and politically. The Young Marble Giants were a Cardiff, Wales post-punk band formed in 1978. Their music was constructed around the powerful and minimal instrumentation of brothers Philip and Stuart Moxham supporting the naive untrained voice of Alison Statton.
The LP to get is “Collosal […]