Archive for July, 2008

Letters To No One: AT&T

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Dear AT&T,
I recently purchased a new two-year contract to join your wireless network. After leaving AT&T for Verizon during my freshman year of college, my rejoining your network made me feel like a soldier returning from war. To that end, the first thing I wanted to do was get laid. So, I did. The second [...]

Treasures From The Collector’s Slum 074

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Heavy, menacing instrumental rock (maybe it’s metal? maybe it’s punk?) from The Netherlands. Strangely, this one has a lyric insert…and its an instrumental album! A quick web search enabled me to discover that they are a thematic background for the music. There was another band who copied this technique more recently, but I don’t quite [...]

The Michael Ian Blacklash

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I’m not proficient at performing Google searches, so you’ll have to excuse my ignorance if somebody else has already been elected official torchbearer of the Michael Ian Black (née Michael Schwartz) backlash club. As far as I can tell (that is, without doing a single web search for “Michael Ian Black sucks” or “Michael Ian [...]

This Flea Problem Of Mine (And An Earthquake!)

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Just as Nicci and I were opening a can of whoop-ass on some fleas that may or may not be nesting in my bedroom, the walls and floor of my apartment began to rumble. It was an earthquake! The quake itself and the aftershocks were much stronger and more-easily felt than the one I experienced [...]

Treasures From The Collector’s Slum 073

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

“Keiji Haino’s Fushitsusha, a group that redefined the possibilities of the classic “power trio”, reached its ultimate heights in this release. His unique combination of rock-like frameworks with the ecstatic, virtually profligate abandon of his guitar playing created a tension and release structure rarely equaled in rock. Here, the first and third tracks use a [...]

Monday’s Sunday Mix Tape 103

Monday, July 28th, 2008

This week, loyal Swan Fungus reader Stephen from Japan has curated a mix tape for the rest of you. Not only that, he and his friend John apparently started a Facebook group for Swan Fungus readers! And there are already fifteen members! What the hell is this world coming to? I think you should all [...]

Harvey Milk @ Loft 6

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Let it not go unsaid that I fucking love Harvey Milk. I’ve become enamored of them somewhat late in life, because I was not even ten years old when the band originally formed, and was a freshman in high school when they went on hiatus in 1998. Whatever, I guess at the age of 15 [...]