The Bigfellas Chubbed Up Bigfellas Productions (DIY) 2009 Reviewed by Kent Manthie From the absurd to the sublime is not that thick of a line. With that in mind, consider the new album from San Diego’s own Bigfellas, a quartet of dudes: Shay, Tim, Shaun and Charlie. With Chubbed Up, their latest full-length CD, the fellas show off a varied […]
New Music: Chubbed Up
PDX busking
[First Person] Not An Englishman In New York, An Australian In Portland. By Kent Parkstreet. About seventeen years ago I was at a sound check at The Punter’s Club, a groovy inner city music pub in Melbourne, Australia. To get away from the noise I slipped next door to the public bar. It was unusually quiet. I looked up to […]
Palm Reading By Remote
[Cyber Psychic] PALM and TAROT READING BY DAME DARCY, KNOW YOUR FUTURE NOW $20 for palm readings or tarot readings By Dame Darcy [Our favorite pagan takes the ancient art into the computer age. ~Editor] For palm readings, please scan and send the palm, fist with pink side down, and back of your predominant hand. Email it to damedarcy@damedarcy.com and […]
Book Review: Caitlin Rother’s Naked Addiction
[New Books] Caitlin Rother Review Excerpt Leisure Books, New York 2007 Reviewed by Kent Manthie … After filtering all that reporting into a very readable and compelling book, Ms Rother next turned herself to writing a novel. In this case a novel called Naked Addiction, which was a real page-turner. Naked Addiction is a tale of murder, drugs, obsession and […]
Garrido’s Aggressive Stalking on Google Maps?
Jaycee Lee Dugard: did Phillip Garrido trail a Google Street View camera van? From telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/jaycee-lee-dugard/6120878/Jaycee-Lee-Dugard-did-Phillip-Garrido-trail-a-Google-Street-View-camera-van.html Phillip Garrido, the man charged with the abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard, may have followed a Google Street View van after noticing it photographing his street, it has been claimed. [Editor’s Note: It’s true and pretty damn creeeee-peeeeeeee. I went to Google Maps last night […]
Vagina Dentata
Jose Sinatra Interview Winstons, OB, 8.30.09 Click the pic below this YouTube post for the Quicktime version of the whole interview unedited…
CD review: Somewhere Gone
Exene Cervenka Somewhere Gone review By J. Darren Lee Rarely does a musical artist come by who experiments in more than one type of musical genre, much less more than one type of medium and still be great at every one. Exene Cervenka, formerly of the L.A. punk band X, is one such artist, whose creativity seemingly knows no bounds. […]
Clare Means sings “Georgette”
[Reviewer TV] Open Air Acoustic With Clare Means Clare Means is a singer/songwriter originally from New Jersey who is currently living in Los Angeles. On the night of August 19th, 2009, she came to San Diego to play a 9pm set at Lestat’s in North Park, but stopped by the beach first to perform her song “Georgette” and do a […]