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Stop Making Sense
Nonsense--like fear, sex and heavy metal--is a principle in life. At the very top of things, above all more »
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The Horror, The Horror
Much as it might suit my obscure and inhuman agenda to sling a brickbat in the direction of more »
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End of an Era
No one rolls in their own excrement for nothing. GG Allin, or Jesus Christ Allin, as he was more »
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Return of the Elves
Magic—or more precisely, the “magical”—was one of the first casualties of punk rock. As guitar solos more »
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Appeal to Unreason
Pity poor Tom DeLay. Not only must the House Majority Leader suffer the snipings of Democrats hot to more »
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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 »
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Pan-tastic
What the hell? That P.J. Hogan’s splendid Peter Pan appears to be vanishing, unicorn-like, from our more »
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Gleaming the Rubes
I was duped into seeing Grind. Duped! I heard that it featured Bam Margera, pro skater and one more »
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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 »
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