After having successfully ripped off the "I, Anonymous" column in The Stranger of Seattle and renaming it "Hey, You!", OC Weekly editor Will Swaim set about pilfering The Stranger's week-in-review column, "Last Days." Matt Coker drew the short straw to compile the thing, and "A Clockwork Orange" was born on Sept. 20, 1996. Actually, a Coker column called "The Week in Review" appeared a week earlier, in the first issue of the Weekly's second year, but since that sounded so boring, Coker decided t
Check out this video for Richie Hawtin's “The Tunnel” and get a glimpse of the future as envisioned by this techno innovator: Austere, minimalistic bloops; warped bleeps; mechanized, spaceship door sounds; brisk, no-nonsense 4/4 beats; sterile room; animated geometric shapes doing enigmatic things; emotionless, fainting Hawtin. It's as if somebody totally enamored of 2001: A Space Odyssey created this video. Rather quaint, really.
Unfortunately, Stanley Kubrick is unavailable for comment.
Gordon Dillow is best known as the barely readable OC Register columnist and professional boot-licker who's never seen an officer-involved shooting or excessive use of taser on an unarmed suspect he didn't like. But did you know Dillow isn't just a tool of law enforcement--he's also a stooge of the international commie conspiracy to pollute our precious bodily fluids with fluoridation?
That's right, America: Gordon Dillow may seem like a patriotic citizen but when it comes to oral hygiene he's
The lead-off track from his 1973 solo LP A Wizard, A True Star, “International Feel” is my favorite Todd Rundgren solo work. It's a concise demonstration of the era's state-of-the-art psychedelia (Todd was always ahead of the curve with regard to recording technology/gadgetry).
“International Feel” is a rococo glam ballad that eventually blasts off into outer space in a vaportrail of weirdly modulated vocals, phased guitars, filtered drums and glittery space dust. (Rundgren applies a
Kirby Dick is coming to Irvine to screen "Outrage," his documentary on closeted gay politicians.UC Irvine's Film and Video Center was late in releasing details of its fall program because the FVC's tiny and tireless staff was unsure whether there would even be a program. (Thank you, UC system across-the-board budget cuts!)Not only will the show go on, it will feature an impressive lineup of new, classic and experimental fare. Included are a 41st anniversary screening of the late, great Stanle
