Yesterday I pointed to cannibalism in Africa as a sign of America’s cultural superiority, but it just so happens a friend e-mailed me yesterday to tell of his own small indulgence in cannibalism here in the U.S., which came to have certain spiritual overtones, much like the African cannibalism.
Apparently, during couples therapy, his wife used […]
Last night’s debate went well, and Christian rock prevailed, according to the audience vote. Much of the debate hinged on definitional questions (What is rock? What is Christianity? What is suck?).
Much as I like to think of myself as a guy who likes to err on the side of expansive, inclusive definitions […]
The week is shaping up to be more rock-oriented than I anticipated:
•Tonight, of course, is our epic debate at Lolita Bar (8pm, 266 Broome St. at Allen St. near the Delancey St. subway stop) between Brian McCarter and Daniel Radosh on Christian rock. (Note: Daniel’s certainly no paleoconservative, but in addition to defending Christian […]
“Does Christian Rock Suck?” — with former rock singer Brian McCarter (yes) vs. Rapture Ready! author Daniel Radosh (no). Michel Evanchik moderates, and Todd Seavey hosts. Wed., April 2, at 8pm.
Just to keep things interesting, you’ll note we have a rocker and God-believer from South Carolina arguing yes, it does suck and arguing no, it […]
10. I’m out of town and likely doing some karaoke while I’m at, but other items on this list will certainly be on my mind while I’m at it.
9. I finally saw the drum set of my friend Hannah Meyers — who recently created the amusing New Wave-parodying song “Emoticons Turn Me Off” (which you […]
The virtuosic violinist with the classic-rock repertoire I mentioned yesterday also does “Separate Ways” by Journey, which is, I must say, the only Journey song I like — and predictably, it’s their fastest and most dire-sounding one, since that’s how we alternative rock fans normally roll when not listening to Journey (similarly, as noted in […]
I wonder sometimes if classical music would have such a reputation for moral and cultural superiority among some conservatives if it hadn’t happened to have been the case that William F. Buckley loved Bach.
In any case, it was in part out of a traditionalistic desire to edify myself that I listened to the virtuosic violin-playing […]
Well, last night “Thirsty” Dave Hansen, having spoken to us between sets, dedicated his song “A Power Tool Is Not a Toy” to me and Scott Nybakken, the two guys in the audience at the Rodeo Bar who knew of him from our days in Rhode Island when he was with the novelty rock act […]
“How are you even a conservative?” my rock-band-promoting friend Heather Lowe once asked, back around 1995, when it seemed obvious to me conservatism was turning its attention to the important things, like economics and reducing government waste — and equally obvious to a lot of South Carolinians like Heather that conservatism pivoted […]
I think the Vegas vibe — like Frank Sinatra — holds greater and greater appeal as one ages because it is an aesthetic that does not demand youth and energy and athleticism, only the ability to slouch, look bleary-eyed, hold your liquor with expertise born of experience, and have enough money in the bank to […]
Hey, as it happens, the morning after blogging about TMZ mocking the homeless, I was awakened by my alarm clock radio playing another reference to the homeless that always makes me laugh, simply because it’s so intensely dated: Canadian Neil Young’s lines “We’ve got a thousand points of light/ For the homeless man/ We got […]
While collecting my thoughts about Michel Onfray’s Atheist Manifesto, it crossed my mind that, given his undisguised animosity toward religion, he probably wasn’t surprised to hear about the recent al Qaeda bombings that employed mentally retarded or Down Syndrome suicide bombers.
Al Qaeda is built in the first place upon a recruitment drive to attract those […]
While looking for a picture of a bear to put with my prior blog entry about DC Comics, I found a picture of a DC character whose name makes her sound like a bear but isn’t one: Ursa, the Kryptonian villain played in Superman II by Sarah Douglas. And the thing is: I remember […]
A few musical notes, so to speak:
•A friend asks what exactly “The Sweetest Taboo” that Sade Adu (one of the three most attractive women in the world, as I’ve noted before) sings about is, and I have to admit I don’t know. It sounds like it’s just love (or, vaguely, sex), but that’s not […]
As corrected in my Terminator post, Lisa Loeb plays at the Columbus Circle Borders, not the Park Avenue one, this Tuesday (7pm), the day after Martin Luther King Day is observed.
And an afterthought on the important post before that, about utilitarianism: I did not have Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama in mind when […]
