Man, this is so good.

It's made me fully realize that Fugazi are like the Beatles for me, in the sense that I will happily listen to anything they recorded. I just get excited hearing the sound of the instruments and their chemistry. It's not even critical for me anymore--just thrilled it exists ...

Marcella Hazan’s Essentials of Italian cooking is really great. It’s old, it’s tested, there’s no bullshit.

For newer styles, Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden is really good.

I’ve been enjoying Samin Nosrat’s newest book, Good Things. It’s in the lineage of Joy of Cooking and all that—she meets ...

I saw them open for Neurosis at the Cat's Cradle in 2015. It was kinda okay (compared to Isis) but got extremely boring as it progressed. Sludge with busy drums. One note vocals. "Experimental Guitar." """"jazz""". There was part of one song where the drum part sounded like a progressively misfiring ...

I remember bands of that era really talking up their lyrics and their concepts. Isis did that a lot. "This one is based on Don Quixote." Okay guys, you've incorporated the worst of Alice in Chains into your sound, but at least you read a good book? Who gives a shit.


Isis was the worst at ...

I am really glad I could bring attention to the atrocious lyrics. Those, combined with the "imposing unknowable woman w/ splatter paint" cover art always seemed like a gross package.

I remember bands of that era really talking up their lyrics and their concepts. Isis did that a lot. "This one is ...

I saw them in 2005. The show was kind of awful, mostly due to the audience. Lots of "ATL hardcore" posturing and violence spread all around. I remember being stunned that the band didn't address it. Big fat dorks in skinny jeans and Straight Edge Letterman Jackets crushing high schoolers. The first ...

Yeah sure man I like that!

Plenty of great music in the "hot" 20's, but it'd be odd to prefer that to the later evolutions of the quintet etc. I remember being astounded by Louis Armstrong's playing in the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings, especially having grown up knowing his vocal stuff (which is great music, but ...

As a guy who spent the better part of a decade in kitchens of varying degrees of fancy, I can't stand this show. Maybe I'm too close.

There are guys as fucked up and handsome as the main guy out there, though.

I hope to go too one day. The more I read about China the more bad ass it seems.


It's chilling.

That dead fucker's face is plastered EVERYWHERE. And so many people there seem to worship him as their god. I saw people leaving the mausoleum overwhelmed with emotion, bawling their eyes out ...