throughsilver

My Comic Book Guy Moment, vol. 2Anyway, if The O.C. this week jumped the shark, Lost seems to have given the shark a pair of legs, a tuxedo, and taught it to do a soft shoe routine while reciting the complete works of Shakespeare, backwards. [Insert disclaimer here about how I love Lost, and thatContinue reading

Welcome (Back) to the Jungle

Apologies for interrupting the scheduled programming like this, and I know I don’t normally make news-based posts, but I am making an exception here. See, the new Guns N’ Roses song has ‘leaked’ and, being a big GNR fan, I have been listening to it. A lot. Let me preface this by saying I amContinue reading “Welcome (Back) to the Jungle”

Twenty-seven

LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem (Rough Trade) A confession: I like to write about albums that do not get major press. This is partly due to a slightly obscurist tendency to which I will gladly cop, but also because what I write is unaffected by what others have written before me. Therefore when writing onContinue reading “Twenty-seven”

Twenty-eight

Jackson And His Computer Band – Smash (Warp) I was initially turned off this album because of the first song. Not that it was a bad first song, but rather because I’m sure it’s from an advert. And not a particularly good one either; I picture a long camera shot with suited people walking intoContinue reading “Twenty-eight”