Big thanks to Ben Harvey for interviewing me about my book, Tired of California: The Beach Boys' Holland Revisited on his show, The Broken Records Radio Hour. Here's the interview (minus the music):
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Music
“The Darkest Moon”
Here's something I've been working on... It's a new video from my band, Plush Gordon. The song is called "The Darkest Moon." Musically, it has hints of Pink Floyd, the Jesus and Mary Chain ("Just Like Honey," in particular) and Joy Division ("Atmosphere"). It has also drawn positive comparisons to The Church ("Under the Milky…Read more “The Darkest Moon”
A New Venture
As longtime readers of my blog have probably noticed, I'm love all aspects of music -- making it, listening to it, reading about it, writing about it -- so it may come as little surprise that I've decided to take my interest in music to a new level by starting a label. It's called Hungry…Read more A New Venture
Plush Gordon debut now available!
This one's a little odd, particularly the first track, but my new band's debut EP is now available on BandCamp. The EP is called Fits and Starts. Contained therein are: A brief song (25 seconds) about a rubber-band ball A song about a man who works at a grocery store A song about Gregor Samsa…Read more Plush Gordon debut now available!
Field Report
Longtime readers of my blog may recall that I started recording electronic music with Android Invasion back in 2012. Recently, several events transpired that led me to return to that on-again-off-again project. For one thing, I read a lot of books about filmmakers over the summer, and I started thinking about how I wanted to…Read more Field Report
Star Wars Is Dead
It all started going downhill after this...
Polly the Glot
A while back, I mentioned that when I was in grade school, I always looked forward to reading Doctor Who Magazine. One of the coolest things about that magazine was the comic strip version of the Doctor's adventures. As much as I loved the TV show, it had fallen on somewhat hard times by the…Read more Polly the Glot
