Catterina Tasso Silverlake Hipster Cool Photos by Reviewer Rob Formerly of the fine San Francisco band The May Fire, Catterina Tasso is now on her own and living in Los Angeles while doing a solo project called Tasso wherein she adds a partner for stage performances. Her first CD/EP is now out and called Gower, named after the street in […]
Tasso Cat
Mutually Assured Debt Destruction
[Let’s get happy!] ‘Buy farmland and gold,’ advises Dr Doom “The next war will be a dirty war…” [From business.timesonline.co.uk.] The world’s most powerful investors have been advised to buy farmland, stock up on gold and prepare for a “dirty war” by Marc Faber, the notoriously bearish market pundit, who predicted the 1987 stock market crash. The bleak warning of […]
Evangenitalia
Urban Hillbilly Y’alt-Punk The Evangenitals, Introducing A New Americana by Reviewer Rob “… a unique presence in the neo-folk/freak-folk movement…” The Evangenitals are an LA alternative-country rock band (or y’alt-punk rock) that resists firm description. Upon first appraisal they appear to draw inspiration from country, hillbilly music, Southern spirituals/gospel and early 19th-century ship song as well as traditional Klezmer music […]
Aloha to you ALOHA fans…
Aloha Home Acres Polyvinyl Records, 2010 Reviewed by Kent Manthie Well this is a nice surprise. Aloha has finally come into their own, so to speak. Home Acres is the third CD I’ve reviewed, which is when I got hip to the band. On previous CDs, Aloha seemed to be searching for a niche, a subgenre they could settle into […]
Is Obama Going to Get Re-Elected? Find out…
POLITICAL ANALYSIS by KENT MANTHIE What do you think? In 2012 what are the chances that Barack Obama gets re-elected? Well, it depends on several factors that, ironically, he has from zero to very little control over. Remember when George Bush I was ousted in the 1992 election and Bill Clinton’s saxophone-playing-ass got in the White House? That was, for […]
Oscars 2010
Will Academy Award nominees include San Diego’s Destin Cretton? By Scott Marks emulsioncompulsion.com When the Motion Picture Academy announces its nominees on Feb. 2, don’t be surprised if San Diego’s “Sundance Kid,” Destin Cretton, turns out to be an Oscar contender. The 31-year-old director of the dramatic short “Short Term 12″ could soon go down in history as South Park’s […]
Dream: 5 minutes. 3 producers. 2 main cast members
[Film] “Dream”: In the Making Read the whole article first, then see video embed at the bottom … 😀 Interviews by Lisa Gregory This will be short, though not as short as the film. “Dream” is a short film by Broken Wings Productions. Inspired by a short story by Jaiden Frost. Length: five minutes. Three producers. Two main cast members. […]
Sacred Temple Harlots
[Opinion & History] “Night Moths” … “Girls Who Earn” PROSTITUTION: FROM SACRED TEMPLE HARLOTSTO SIDEWALK CRACK WHORES by Jim Goad (Originally entitled Cash4Gash, this article is reprinted here, with gentle permission, from JimGoad.net.) In our old, battered, ugly English language, the word ‘prostitute’ signifies someone who sells both their body and their soul. To study the array of unsavory nuances […]