Chris Glover - Possibly not a tool, hopefully not a Jesus freak (this photo is a bit Christ-ey, right?)

Last week, in advance of Penguin Prison filming a video for the song “Don’t Fuck With My Money” during an Occupy Wall Street march, I wrote a brief piece in which I that

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The Penguin Prison Dude

It takes a lot to drag me out of my stupor to write these days, but a press release I just got from Penguin Prison’s publicist did it. If you don’t know Penguin Prison, it’s a retro synth-pop band (person?) headed by a dude named Chris Glover that

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My friend Mickie has informed me that she has not heard the infamous Troggs studio spy tape – thus, I make it available to all.

I was given a copy on cassette during a recording session in New York sometime back in 1990 or so. Engineers and producers tend to share these sorts

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Austin, Texas is a great city, and the Alamo Drafthouse theater is just one reason. Besides hosting film festivals like Fantastic Fest, having custom pre-shows instead of comercials at the beginning of films (we saw Roger Allan Wade perform before Mike Judge introduced Jackass Number Two on opening night), and serving hot food and cold beer right

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One of my favorite things about the Starbucks I used to frequent was Brian Weinthal, a (now former) barista there who also happens to be the drummer in Lavola a band I’ve written about extensively (long before they were named 2011′s best band by New Times), and to whom you should really give

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I know the problem: the thought of braving pools of spilled Pabst Blue Ribbon, acres of Salvation Army clothing and the constant yammering of hipsters desperately trying to prove how deck* they are by out-obscuring each other with musical references is pretty awful.

But this spring the original lineup of Guided By Voices

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Maybe I need to listen to this guy more.

It’s been pointed out to me that perhaps my recent work as a columnist and journalist at various legitimate writing outlets (that still use paper and ink, though that’s not what makes them legit) may have taken a bit of the edge off my writing.

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There are plenty of shitty things about the first of every month (housing payments, a reminder that I’m one month closer to dead, etc.), but the list of $5 records available from Amazon isn’t one of them. And despite my recent post complaining about their cloud storage privacy policy, Amazon is still my go-to

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