Entries Tagged as ‘Uncategorized’

September 22, 2008

Podcast, part deux

Here is the second installment of the UtahFM.org podcast I produced, and as I have moved out of Salt Lake City for good, it will be my last. It is much more hilarious than the first. Stay tuned.

September 5, 2008

The complete and utter history of Vile Blue Shades

This article originally appeared in SLUG magazine. If it’s a sample of John Thursday she’s after, his head is already up. I lay her skirt up to her belly and slip her pants down … — Henry Miller, in Under the Roofs of Paris Around the time the U.S. army dragged a Unibomber-esque Saddam Hussein [...]

September 4, 2008

Podcast!

When Salt Lake City’s cool independent radio station decided to get not so cool and fire all its volunteer DJs in an attempt to streamline its programming, all the cool volunteer DJs went and started their own online radio station called UtahFM.org. I produce an art and culture podcast for the station called Pinpoint SLC, [...]

September 1, 2008

Found text from years ago

Intermittent gardeners dance at fronds and bridesmaids. Out of humming comes boy-fault and head colds come from pills. If you take apart my eyes you can never sneak, pearling, from humps. Turnkeys watch locusts in low-cut denim eat, feel, and breathe across shoe and shot. Up, up ground, up tin brackish boardroom dedications in pollen [...]

August 26, 2008

The War of the End of the World

This review originally appeared on Stop Smiling Online. The War of the End of the World By Mario Vargas Llosa Translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane (Picador) Reviewed by Nate Martin “What the reference to democracy involves is the rejection of radical attempts to ‘step outside,’ to risk a radical break, to pursue [...]

August 20, 2008

Maniqui Lazer Learns Everything on TV

This CD review originally appeared in SLUG Magazine. Maniqui Lazer I Learn Everything on TV Soundsister ML = Chinese Stars + Agape + XBXRX The modern sound of punk that has been festering for years in San Diego inside the likes of The Locust, The Plot to Blow Up The Eiffel Tower, and 31G Records’ [...]

August 14, 2008

Goreteños

GORE-TEÑOS* INVADE CHICAGO!!!!!!! Buenos Aires artists DIENTE, PIRAÑA, and AUGUSTIN CROXATTO, alongside Chicago artists ROLLIN HUNT and PUTRID present an exhibit of frighteningly fantastic multicontinental strangeness. *people from Buenos Aires are called “porteños” A PEOPLE PROJECTS SHOW 2129 N. Milwaukee Ave. in CHICAGO Opening: This Friday, Aug. 15 at 7PM Closing: Sept. 1 Bands that [...]

July 8, 2008

Stop Smiling roundup

Stop Smiling is my favorite magazine (it’s Jack Shafer‘s, too). I was lucky enough to do a bitchin’ internship there in the summer of 2006 and have been writing periodically for its Web site since. Below are links to some of the stuff I’ve published there, all in a neat little list. BOOK STUFF –Interview: [...]

May 27, 2008

Today is my birthday

Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me.  Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to [...]

April 29, 2008

Dispatch from Drew

The absence of new posts on Grating Space can be explained by two things: the fact that I have been working seven days a week at the BA Herald because everyone else in my department quit (more on this later) and because my brother, Drew, has been in town and I’ve been busy entertaining him. [...]