Required Reading
- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Category Archives: The Weeklings
A Song Shall Lead (and Annoy) Them: “Let It Go” from Frozen
“Let It Go” crystallizes something intense and very real but otherwise formless, and little kids, who, bless them, do not know from “cool,” love it more than any other song, ever. Even boys. For the first time in history, boys do not categorically run from a Disney princess. They are drawn to Elsa. I am fortunate to bear witness to all of this, and so are you. At the risk of overstating it, it feels historic. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, The Arts, The Weeklings
Tagged avenue q, Disney, DreamWorks, frozen, idina menzel, Kristen Bell, let it go, olaf, Pixar, robert lopez, Wicked
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My Night with Nico
What does one do when Fellini movie star, Warhol icon, former bedmate of Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop, and Jackson Browne, and frontwoman of The Velvet Underground leaves the methadone clinic and walks in to your waitressing gig? Holly George-Warren, eminent rock scribe and esteemed guest at The Weeklings, was still slinging hash when she crossed paths with the chanteuse/muse in late seventies Manhattan, but she did not let the opportunity pass her by. Continue reading
In Defense of Disco
At its height, the “Disco Sucks” movement drew fifty-nine thousand people to a Chicago stadium to watch a shock jock explode LPs, inciting a full-on riot of mostly white dudes. WTF? Our Robert Burke Warren, who became enamored of disco in the lusty confines of a Catholic school broom closet, writes about the music that arrived at the same time as his teens, and how it inspired him. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Philosophy, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, Religion, Sex, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged Atlanta, Bee Gees, catholic school, catholicism, Disco, disco demolition night, disco sucks, homophobia, Madonna, memoir, queer, racism, robert burke warren, saturday night fever, travolta
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Lo Fi Luv
Sometimes songs shine brightest under less-than-ideal sonic conditions. i.e. LO FI. Why is that? Robert Burke Warren has a few ideas, and some lo fi fare to share. No extra charge for authentic tape hiss. Continue reading
Posted in Music, Popped Culture, The Arts, The Weeklings
Tagged atlantic city, Beck, Bruce Springsteen, daniel johnston, dum dum girls, elliot smith, Guided By Voices, karen o, lo fi, lo fidelity, mountain goats, panasonic boombox, paul westerberg, peter case, robert burke warren, Robert Pollard, sanyo boombox, sebadoh, tascam porta 5, Ween
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Elvis Presley’s Shining Moment: the ’68 Comeback Special
Although most folks don’t know it, Black Leather Elvis was the best Elvis, and Robert Burke Warren explains why. Black Leather Elvis, who rose briefly in 1968 before drugs and despair ruined him, will steal your rock and roll heart. Continue reading
The Weeklings Tarot Forecast Benefit for 2015
Ten bucks buys you a Tarot forecast for 2015, AND support of this website. Continue reading
