Lester Bangs gone 41 years now

Leslie Conway “Lester” Bangs (December 14, 1948 – April 30, 1982) The 41st anniversary of the death of rock’s greatest critic passed today, one born in Escondido and raised in El Cajon. On this day in 1982 San Diego native Lester Bangs died of overdose, leaving a huge literary legacy as a rock-and-roll journalist, critic, author, in Rolling Stone and […]

skeleton email — Danger Factory

[Verbatim] Rex Edhlund (Danger Factory, Industry Showroom, Hypno, Kulture Magazine) Responds To An Enemy Well-Wisher Rex Edhlund, a public post [This is a reprint from his Facebook. Check out Rex Edhlund’s newest project, SuperLiterateProgect.org. ~Editor] Got a weird email from a person a zillion years ago. I suppose it’s cool to get me remembering things for a possible memoir. “Ha […]

R.I.P. Filmmaker Bruce Brown

[dig a hole] Filmmaker Bruce Brown A legendary Independent Film Maker has died by Reviewer Rob According to a post first seen last night on The Intertia and this afternoon being reported everywhere, the filmmaker who gave us Endless Summer and the motocross flick On Any Sunday has died. I met Bruce Brown at the Action Sports Retailer show in […]

A New Blog Called PROSPECTOR

[Development] The Future [This repost is from a new venue that I’ve opened up and I’d like to formally introduce. Prospector will be a place where we’ll discuss the strange and complicated shifts that are occurring in our society regarding an often taboo subject, making money. Writers, bloggers, and analysts are invited to join in the discussion. But what I […]