by t clair

If that title is provocative it is only because you don’t know me. If we were speaking to one another face to face you would notice some things.

For instance, I don’t wear berets.

I bought one in Canada once. This occurred during a brief and rarely mentioned shaved head period. I was told that berets are fantastic for shaved heads. This, of course, was merely a ploy. In fact, I looked utterly ridiculous. The hysterical laughing that went on behind my back for the rest of the trip helped warm my frigid fellow travelers, I’m sure.

Given my lack of zeal for the beret, not to mention my non-vegan diet, I could hardly be considered an anarchist in any popular sense.

Or in any real sense for that matter.

Nevertheless, calling oneself a quasi-anarchist–thereby juxtaposing radicalism and half-ass non-commitment–strikes me as quite sexy. Read the rest of this entry »

by DAVID KERN

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by BRETT McCRACKEN

It’s not everyday - or week, or month even - that you hear a song that blows your mind. Read the rest of this entry »

by STUART PITMAN

Which up and coming band draws complimentary comparisons to Coldplay and Andrew Bird?
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by DAVID KERN

“…Life is so very fragile. We are all vulnerable. Will will all, at some point in our lives, fall. We will all fall. We must carry this in our hearts. That what we have is special. That it can be taken from us, and when it is taken from us, we will be tested. We will be tested to our very souls. We will all now be tested. It is these times, it this pain, that allows us to look inside ourselves.”
- Eric Taylor
Friday Night Lights
Season One, Pilot
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People come and people go, but there are some who come, leave an impression, and then continue on with their goings. Such was the case The Gunshy during ITH session 13. Read the rest of this entry »