Since today is my birthday, you can take this opportunity to purchase a limited edition cassette of a crappy lo-fi EP I released in 1996, (which has been re-released by a label in Eugene, Oregon without my knowledge or permission.) I guess I’ve finally reached the age as an artist where young people take up […]
Month: June 2018
“American” Apparel Returns to Insult Everyone’s Intelligence
American Apparel is back (under new ownership!) Now made in China, Mexico and well, pretty much everywhere but America. From The Guardian: One big change is the Made in the USA tag. Its commitment to producing all of its collections in downtown LA factories – Charney refused to outsource from the US – defined its […]
Robert Stark Talks to Brandon Adamson About Skytrain to Nowhere
Interview is available here – The book is made up of poems resulting from the author’s experiences riding the skytrain at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport – How the book was loosely inspired by Keith Gunderson’s A Continual Interest in the Sun and Sea – Brandon’s style and method of writing poetry – How there is […]
“Buddy Holly” and the Crickets of Weezereaction
What’s with these homies, dissing my girl? Why do they gotta front? What did we ever do to these guys That made them so violent? “Why do you like this song?” my girlfriend asked one time while we were driving somewhere. She had her iPhone plugged into the stereo, and I had been asking her […]
The Truth About “Mystery Shoppers”
“Mystery shopper” has to be one of the scummiest occupations. The mystery shopper is basically a low level informant, spying on underpaid retail employees and helping big corporations enforce compliance with all kinds of pointless rules and tedious protocol (which smart employees often ignore to maintain efficiency and prioritize the achievement of broader goals.) A […]