Kitchen Confidential By Anthony Bourdain

Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by Dallas VonKillbot in Album Review, Literature

Kitchen Confidential
By Anthony Bourdain
Harper Perennial
Written by the modern day Ferlinghetti of the food industry, Kitchen Confidential is a hyper-addicting peek into the decaying backside of the food industry. What starts out as a tale of a passionate young boy finding his first love in raw oysters off the coast of France quickly transforms into quasi-essays about heroin-induced nausea while turning out 300 duck confit a night. Bourdain’s raw, yet always pure words seem to tear into your flesh as we discover the shady hollows that exist in the back of [...]

Son of the 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen By Richard Crouse

Posted on 14. Sep, 2009 by Author in Album Review, Film, Literature

Son of the 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen
By Richard Crouse
ECW
“I chose these movies not with an eye toward impressing other film critics with my depth of knowledge or ability to dig up obscurities, but with the goal of binding together 100 personal choices that I think are worth a second and third look.” With these introductory words, film critic Richard Crouse sets out again to uncover the overlooked gems of cinema in Son of the 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, which is a follow up to his 2003 [...]

Rick Rubin: In The Studio

Posted on 25. Aug, 2009 by Author in Album Review, Literature

Nobody has been more important for creating so many pivotal milestones in popular music while remaining a complete enigma quite like Rick Rubin.

Van’s Warped Tour ‘09

Posted on 05. Aug, 2009 by A. Seals in Apocalypse, Band of the Day, Blog, Crime, Fashion, Film, Food Bites, Hit The Deck, Idiocy, Internet, Lifestyle, Literature, Music, Politics, SXSW, Snowboarding, Sports, Surrounding Areas, Videos, Warped Tour, gaming

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Billy Idol at ‘05 Vans

Vans ‘05

Van’s Pit

Vans ‘05

Vans Warped Tour at Sleep Train Amphitheatre
This show will knock your socks off! Buy your tickets and let’s ROCK!!
Date:
Friday 08/21/09
Door:
11:00am
Show:
12:00 p.m.
Sleep Train Amphitheatre Wheatland
2677 Forty Mile Road
WHEATLAND, CA 95901
Go to Livenation.com for Tickets
Tickets are General Admission Standing Room Only.
Adult $33.00
Adult Day of Show $38.00
News Flash!!
“SORRY FOR GOING BACK TO SCHOOL” PROMO
Tomorrow Only After 4pm All tickets will be $20 dollars for students with their ID. If they [...]

Don’t Try

Posted on 12. May, 2009 by Daniel Taylor in Chico, Literature

A friend of mine recently found himself in the bustling metropolis of San Pedro, California, the whimsically dumpy harbor area of Los Angeles, famous for not really a whole lot else as far as I know other than being where the Great American 20th Century Poet Charles Bukowski is buried, underneath a modest in-ground marker that reads “Don’t Try.”

Synthesis Book Review: “Please God Save Us”

Posted on 09. Jan, 2009 by spencer in Art, Literature

Please God Save Us
By Derek Hess and Kent Smith
Strhess Press
We should all know about the Bush administration recklessly imposing Christian ideology, reconfiguring our tax structure to favor the wealthy, decimating decades worth of environmental protection policies and starting two wars which have proved costly and difficult to escape. But Please God Save Us is a unique piece of rhetoric plainly detailing these trends with the shocking statistics to back up its assertions and capturing the angst of pacifists and earth-lovers with painstaking clarity.
Pairing Kent Smith’s collection of facts and analysis [...]

Tattered and Lost: Vernacular Photography

Posted on 26. Dec, 2008 by dain in Art, Comedy, Literature

Tattered and Lost is about some of the found and/or vernacular photographs in my collection.
Unless you’re an incredibly organized person you probably have a few stray photos tucked away that you’ve forgotten about. No matter how many family members or friends say they love you, sooner or later a photo of you is going to slip through the cracks and end up in the hands of someone who knows nothing about you. Such are the photos at this site.

23 Years Later, Whitley Streiber Is Still Pissed

Posted on 18. Dec, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Blog, Film, Literature, Paranormal, Technology

As he nears the 23 year anniversary of his first contact with “the visitors,” Communion author and famous, if not infamous, paranormal icon Whitley Streiber is still struggling to be taken seriously, and he’s not too happy about it:
It is late here, midnight passing. December has come again, and for the past few months I have been enduring the same demonic nights that I experience every year at this time, as my spirit relives the hard pilgrimage that led to the night of December 26, 1985.
The feelings are so complex, [...]