This website has had me choked up a half-dozen times today. Bring your tissue, girls. Visit StoryCorps . If you're man enough.

When I first got into 'alternative' music, I bought the Smiths Strangeways Here We Come (to go with my obligatory REM, Husker Du, D...

I accidentally wrote a check like that once when I was in college ("5ive and no/100s"). Turns out, there's a website called 5i...

I happened upon the new series from the Wallace and Gromit guy (Nick Parker) on BBCAmurka. Fucking super hilarious, but also amazing animati...

Over the past month, I have experienced a new appreciation for the work of Frank Black. If you guys dropped out of the picture circa Teenage...

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When, Jay, are you going to get into Lego's Mindstorms kits? I know "Ian" would love them. They're big in the ed. tech fie...

Complete your profiles, bitches. Click on your name up there ...

I put up new ones by Neko Case, "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood," and James Hand, "The Truth Will Set You Free." You of ...

Okay guys, sorry I've been neglecting my blog duties, but the wife and I have been looking for a new abode. There's still a lot of t...

This weekend I attended a few screenings at Durham's Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (the largest such festival in the United State...

Man, I went and saw the documentary about Ronnie Lane ("The Passing Show") and it was really good. It's very low-budget, which...

So...I went through the effort of recording Ricky Gervais on the Jon Stewart Show, but forgot I was recording it and ended up with around 2 ...

Finally, some real news we can all be pleased with. The Replacements (or a reasonable facsimilie thereof) have recorded two new tracks for t...

Hey, it's a 2 for Tuesday! Let's just say it's a little slow today. NPR's All Songs Considered podcast hipped me to this a...

When Clerks came out in 1994, I was 25. I lost a lung watching that movie, but I haven't really been a fan of Kevin Smith's subseq...

A friend of mine sent me a link to this site. It's part of the " Music Genome Project " where a bunch of musicians and music-o...

Wow. I just saw this today, courtesy of Download Squad . The good people at rasterwerks have given us Phosphor , a first-person shooter cr...

Okay, here's a list of the bands I've seen since moving to Austin. I've left off some random local bands, but otherwise I think ...

In honor of Superman Returns (which I think premieres on June 30, 2006), I present this HI-larious site that features all the bizarre bai...