A friend mentioned that they’d bookmarked my blog so I’ve decided to start updating it again. So what’s been up you ask? I’ve been doing a lot of metal journalism for Invisible Oranges, the metal blog edited by Cosmo Lee. Here’s a link to my entries. I used to write a MySpace blog called The [...]
If you attended the Mastodon/Dethklok/Converge/High On Fire show and you were paying very close attention, you could see the quiet journey of a bright soul led into the black. Basically, I think it’s a case of the proverbial bottom line butting up most obnoxiously against the art of the thing. Now don’t get me wrong [...]
Read it below or visit speed, glue and music to check it out all pretty-like there. “My co-writer here at Speed, Glue and Music tells me that there are people in San Francisco that actually read this blog!! Is this true? Feel free to leave some comments or share your blogs with us! Anyway since [...]
{this story began circa 2005-6, perhaps. finished just the other day (July 2009)} Brothers Two men met in the hallway of their work and shook hands. Speaking to each other in slow cigarette-burned morning voices, they exchanged pleasantries. “Pleasure to meet you. Name’s Jim.”“Howdy…George. George Welles.”“Taverner. Jim Taverner. It’s good to meet you.”“Good to meet [...]
{from December 17, 2007} Trey Azagthoth used to scare the shit out of me. As a young boy of 15, I came across an interview with Morbid Angel’s guitarist and sonic visionary in one of the many guitar magazines I was inhaling at the time. He described with complete candor and lucidity his belief in [...]
{from August 23, 2007} Well, being bored and wired at work are, I think, optimal conditions for posting a new Apologist. Today we harken back to the late 1980s, to England, to the famed seminal death metal label, Earache Records, and to arguably their flagship band, Carcass. What a band were Carcass. Representing a significant [...]
{from June 14, 2007} What do mathematics, the slow complex psychic evolution of humankind, and James Brown have in common? They find a nexus point in Sweden with the arcane metal band Meshuggah. Meshuggah are a REALLY good band. And most people in the metal world know this. But I’m not quite sure to what [...]
{from February 8, 2007} It seems like I’ll be focusing on understanding the depth of lyrical content in otherwise dismissed bands. And I’m not alone in the case of this song. Before me, Kim Deal of the Breeders covered “Fucking Hostile” by Pantera for a compilation to free the “West Memphis 3″ (I’m not an [...]
{My first task here will be to archive select old writings. Here’s the first installment of “The Metal Apologist,” which is exactly what it sounds like, from January 13, 2007} So I’ve unofficially decided to be the biggest fucking dork ever and put up a (semi-)regular series of posts pertinent to exalting the best Metal [...]