Monthly Archives: October 2008

Grotesqueries at Random, Vol. 72: Dead Boys/Cold Blood

Today is Halloween…A day maligned by some conspiratorial types as a vestigial remnant of humanity’s Satan-worshiping pre-Christian past at worst, or a superstitious backslide into paganism at best. That is if it’s not just another excuse for people to be afraid of every damn thing including terrorism, sexual predators, kidnappers, vandals, people putting foreign […]

Shuffle Songs, Vol. 3 — Tricks ‘N Treats

Randomer than a Friday Records at Random post, it’s another special “El Keter’s got way too much music and only so many days in the year to write about it all” Shuffle Songs post! First up…New Orleans-via-Hollywood duo The Knux dropped their debut Remind Me In 3 Days this week. I wasn’t sure what to […]

Went Solo On That Ass, But It’s Still the Same (Kinda)

Yesterday I mentioned in passing how André Herman Düne, formerly of the Anti-Folk band Herman Dune, has changed his name to Stanley Brinks and embarked on a solo career. His solo output as Brinks doesn’t represent too big a departure from that of his old group. His songs, like Herman Dune’s, are weird […]

Frank Herbert Would Be Proud

A few weeks ago my Shebrew homegirl Lady Glock called me up and asked “So, are you doing the whole fasting thing for Yom Kippur.” My deadpan response was “Well, there’s no food in the house, so it doesn’t look like I’ll be eating… Does that count?” She didn’t see the humor. […]

You Wanna Listen to This So Bad Your D***’s Hard -OR- Rock-A-Bye Baby!

Astute Blogareaders have probably noted that there’s been an erroneous announcement on the OKP front-page about a post concerning Left Coast indieground Rap duo New Jack Hustle adorning this blog since last week. The even less canny among you should have observed a lack of posts in general during the latter half of last […]