Tag Archives: The Weeklings

SEVEN THINGS WE DON’T CARE ABOUT THIS WEEK: Star-Spangled Edition

Posted on July 4, 2015 by Harold D. Muir

“Not caring about things since 1971, so that you don’t have to.” HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US. As our nation celebrates itself with inimitable fat & ugly elan, it seems like an appropriate time to celebrate some of the things … Continue reading →

Posted in Seven Things We Don't Care About | Tagged Captain Beefheart, Charles Mingus, Don Van Vliet, Herman Melville, Howlin Wolf, James Brown, Junior Kimbrough, Moby Dick, Safe as Milk, The Weeklings, Wayne Shorter | Leave a comment

Monday Rock City: A Conversation with Ed Piskor, Creator of Hip Hop Family Tree

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Jamie Blaine

Acclaimed comic book artist Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree series details originator Kool Herc’s revolutionary rec room parties in the summer of ’73 up to the rise of super stars the Beastie Boys and RUN-DMC. Our own JM Blaine catches up with Piskor straight off the Copenhagen Comics Festival to, uh, rap about the past, present, and future the still-growing Hip Hop Family Tree.
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Posted in Monday Rock City | Tagged 2 Live Crew, beastie boys, Ed Piskor, Fantagraphics, Grandmaster Flash, Hip Hop Family Tree, ice-t, Jamie Blaine, Kool Herc, monday rock city, Nas, NWA, RUN DMC, The Fat Boys, The Weeklings | Leave a comment

Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Before

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Sean Murphy

Question: What’s a writer to do in an era where memoirs are assumed to be fictional and novels are, increasingly, considered thinly-veiled cris de coeur? Answer: Deny Everything. Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir, The Arts | Tagged Anthony Burgess, david foster wallace, fiction, james frey, Jonathan Yardley, Kurt Vonnegut, Literary Theory, memoir, Milan Kundera, Not To Mention a Nice Life, Please Talk about Me When I'm Gone, Sean Murphy, The Things They Carried, The Weeklings, Tim O'Brien | 3 Comments

THE MARTYR WITH A THOUSAND FACES

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Lawrence Benner

Sometimes, the actors are so distractingly famous that latex appliances are required to aid in the suspension of disbelief. Nicole Kidman glues on a prosthetic nose, fills her pockets with rocks, walks into a pond . . . and Oscar history. Continue reading →

Posted in Popular Culture | Tagged Biopic, drugs, Hollywood, Infinite Jest, Jesus, jimi hendrix, Moitley Croyah, Music, Oliver Stone, Patsy Cline, phonies, Sex, the Doors, The End of The Tour, The Weeklings | Leave a comment

Monday Rock City: The Return of Eddie Trunk

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Jamie Blaine

He’s the official ambassador of all things rock and metal; articulate, approachable, the author of not one but two sources of required reading in the form of Eddie Trunk’s Essential Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Vol. I & II. Jamie Blaine catches up with Trunk on the eve of his return to VH1 for the 14th season of That Metal Show, dishing on Axl & Slash, Def Leppard, reunions, and who, but who, is gonna fill the shoes of the rock and metal giants who still walk among us? Continue reading →

Posted in Monday Rock City | Tagged ac/dc, aerosmith, Axl, Eddie Trunk, Guns N' Roses Reunion, Jamie Blaine, Jennifer Gottlieb, KISS, Michael Anthony, monday rock city, Mutt Lange, Punky Meadows, Slash, Starz, Ted Nugent, That Metal Show, The Godz, The Weeklings, Van Halen Reunion, Vh1 | Leave a comment

Metallica Rock City: A Conversation with “Into the Black” Authors Paul Brannigan & Ian Winwood

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Jamie Blaine

Metallica have plowed their way to the top, selling over 100 million records worldwide and becoming quite possibly the most successful heavy metal band of all time. Or have they? Monday Metallica Rock City talks the rise, fall and return of East Bay’s finest with the authors of the comprehensive two volume biography, Birth, School, Metallica, Death and Into the Black. (Da Capo Press) Continue reading →

Posted in Monday Rock City | Tagged Cliff Burton, Death Magnetic, Hammett, Hetfield, Ian Winwood, Into the Black, Jamie Blaine, kill 'em all, Lars, Metallica, monday rock city, Newsted, Paul Brannigan, Slayer, The Weeklings, Through the Never | 5 Comments

Rock & Roll Coffee: A Conversation with Anson Williams

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Jamie Blaine

SECOND GRADE. Every day after school I watch Happy Days reruns with my neighbor, Steffie Dougal. “Fonz is the coolest,” I tell her. “Not even,” she replies. “Fonzie’s always bragging and trying to act tough.” “Pff,” I scoff. “Who’s cooler … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Rock and Roll Coffee | Tagged Anson Williams, Arnold's, Chachi, Elvis, Fonz, Happy Days, Heimlich Manuever, Jamie Blaine, John Lennon, Jump the shark, Mr. C., Potie Weber, Potsie, Ralph Malph, Richie Cunningham, Ron Howard, Sammy Davis Jr., The Weeklings | Leave a comment