Tag Archives: Lightspeed Champion

You Can Describe People, Places and Things…Simply Unpack Your Adjectives

Somehow I managed to submerge myself in P.O.S.’s outstanding new LP Never Better—with its dystopian, Beyond Thunderdome view of mid-economic-collapse America—without getting bummed out, despite the fact that my own life is in a fiduciary tailspin. I figure it must be his rebellious indignance, sensitive optimism and self-motivational stance—not to mention his witty wordplay—that […]

“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Four)

They’re the best around; the fourth and final day of El Keter’s favorites of 2008.

“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Two)

  Out of all the records I enjoyed during 2008 I chose 20 of them as my favorites. I put them all in alphabetical order and wrote about them. Here are five more… Last week I got an e-mail from Asthmatic Kitty Records announcing that a certain website gave Ropechain, the sophomore album from Indianapolis, Indiana’s Grampall Jookabox a […]

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. […]

Shuffle Songs, Vol. 2 — Happy Jew Year!

For those not “in the know,” it will be Rosh Hashanah, or “Jewish New Year” as it’s known to the Gentiles, until sundown tomorrow. Since I don’t currently have the cash to serve the usual meal of BBQ beef brisket, roasted red potatoes, carrot tzimmes and challah that my family has historically partaken in to celebrate […]