Jimi, Jim, Janice, Brian Jones and Kurt Cobain — all members of the 27 club. At one point it was an idiotic belief that I\’d be joining them: thank god that didn\’t work out. I can sing but I don\’t Read more…
Author: skullcull
How big might Blind Melon have become if Shannon Hoon their frontman hadn\’t died? Change group name and change singer name and it seems you have to ask this question too much. I feel like I got in on the Read more…
I don\’t know if this just me but Dilbert is starting to feel like a fizzy drink that has been left out to go flat? I used to get the joke — do I still have to be an office Read more…
If there is such a thing as an under-rated Tarantino film then I would posit that this is it. Not a favourite among many Tarantino fans that I know (my sources are as reliable as any Gallup poll, I assure Read more…
I am so glad that I read this book before I watched the film because if not I wouldn\’t have bothered and I would have denied myself an entrance into the work of a wonderful writer. The film stripped away Read more…
You really have to fight sometimes to maintain how cool The Doors are, and that sometimes strikes me as odd. But then you have to consider that they hardly have an unsullied reputation — Morrison did as much to damage Read more…
From every relationship that I have ever had I have taken away something at the end of it that has become an integral part of who I am. It can be a book, a film, or some music. I got Read more…
You could maybe say that it was the kid\’s version of Twin Peaks but that wouldn\’t really be true; it wasn\’t that serious. Maybe it had something of Northern Exposure about it. Or you could just drop the comparisons and Read more…
Whilst I was traveling around the US I stayed in Ohio, and while I was in Youngstown, Ohio I went to the Butler Institute for art. One of the exhibitions that I went to when we were walking around the Read more…
This story gets better and better — the characters already seem to possess so much soul. I remember how by the end of Transmetropolitan, or rather from the beginning, you felt Spider\’s reality: it is the same here. Thus far Read more…