“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.”
– Mel Brooks
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Season 3 of The Office Debuts Tonight!
Hotness!
What happened after Jim and Pam kissed at the end of last season’s cliffhanger? I can’t wait to find out! Oh, and Happy Birthday Mom!
Rebuilding After My Website’s Own Personal “Katrina”
Where Did My Archives Go?
At some point last year, the Modern Drummer Website crashed for a number of months. It actually seemed like the site was down for a million billion years, but it was probably not that long. When the site finally made a come back, most of the archived Drummer Update articles had either mysteriously “gone missing” or had moved to new and unknown URLs. Exciting!
I am only just now finding the time to rebuild my Modern Drummer website archive by meticulously tracking down each article via Google and re-entering the correct URL, where available. I’m about half way through the sludge right now. Soon all — or maybe most — of those links will once again lead to actual articles! It’s not a very pretty job, but who else is going to do that for you?
God’s Idea of a Cruel Joke: Lukas Rossi wins Rock Star, SuperNova
Lukas Rossi with Tommy Lee on Rock Star: SuperNova
Please do rush right over to this awesome, deliciously scathing editorial in the Village Voice that wraps up last night’s uber lame finale of Rock Star: Supernova — the worst show on television since the first season of Big Brother. My favorite parts are where author Tom Breihan refers to winner Lukas Rossi (the guy I pegged as the suckiest of the bunch right from the start!) as “an angry Canadian goth dwarf with creative facial hair” and later offers that, “Rossi is like what would happen if Orgy’s cover of “Blue Monday” somehow took human form.” Sweet! Continue reading God’s Idea of a Cruel Joke: Lukas Rossi wins Rock Star, SuperNova
An Interview with James Powers of Defcon 4
Having just dropped its brutal sophomore disc, File Under F**k – a CD whose punishing, first wave LA-Hardcore-influenced songs could excoriate the earth – Boston-based hardcore punks Defcon 4 are already finishing up their next aural assault; an as-yet-untitled, experimental hardcore epic consisting of one 25-minute song. “We’ve been recording with (producer/engineer) Steve Austin,” says drummer James Powers, a veteran of the hardcore punk scene who drummed for the now-legendary Last Rites when he was just fifteen.
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