All 9 articles by James Parker

  • 19 Jul 05

  • Culture

    Stop Making Sense

    Nonsense--like fear, sex and heavy metal--is a principle in life. At the very top of things, above all... MORE »

  • 12 May 05

  • Culture

    The Horror, The Horror

    Much as it might suit my obscure and inhuman agenda to sling a brickbat in the direction of... MORE »

  • 30 Mar 05

  • Culture

    End of an Era

    No one rolls in their own excrement for nothing. GG Allin, or Jesus Christ Allin, as he was... MORE »

  • 23 Feb 05

  • Culture

    Return of the Elves

    Magic—or more precisely, the “magical”—was one of the first casualties of punk rock. As guitar solos... MORE »

  • 30 Dec 04

  • Culture

    Appeal to Unreason

    Pity poor Tom DeLay. Not only must the House Majority Leader suffer the snipings of Democrats hot to... MORE »

  • 06 Apr 04

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    The Weathered Men

    The Motor City Five, from Detroit, were a hell of a ’60s band. Musically they blew minds with... MORE »

  • 11 Feb 04

  • Culture

    Pan-tastic

    What the hell? That P.J. Hogan’s splendid Peter Pan appears to be vanishing, unicorn-like, from our... MORE »

  • 05 Sep 03

  • Culture

    Gleaming the Rubes

    I was duped into seeing Grind. Duped! I heard that it featured Bam Margera, pro skater and one... MORE »

  • 15 Aug 03

  • Culture

    The Naked and the Dead

    Deep in the Babylonian Talmud, heard amid its ancient rustlings and disputings and brain-whorls and coiled insanities, is... MORE »