Kevin Seal’s getting punchy. “On this date, exactly ten years ago,” he says, “it was December 31, 1978.” Continuing onward: “Okay, enough of the past. Let’s look at the future. Last year, I mean to say.” He introduces Belinda Carlisle’s “I Get Weak” video, mentions that it was directed by Diane Keaton, and adds […]
posted 4 November 2009 in 1988. 2 comments
I have another feature article in Rolling Stone that’s not available online: this time, it’s a profile of Rivers Cuomo, who I’ve known on-and-off for about fifteen years (I edited two pieces he wrote for Details about life on the road; you can read them here and here). If you’re interested in my 1997 article […]
posted 2 November 2009 in Articles. no comments yet
Taken last Saturday at the Day of the Dead festival in the Hollywood Forever cemetery. This is an altar to dead musicians: skeletal faces have been painted over the ones who are no longer with us.
posted 30 October 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
I suspect you’re not keeping up with comments on posts from a year and a half ago, but let me share a recent one that was interesting: responding to my rundown of commercial break #4 in the MTV 1988 countdown, “CheezNapkin” informs us that the great animated spot featuring a scientist getting the MTV logo […]
I didn’t want to write this Depeche Mode article. It was spring 1997, and I had recently profiled Everclear, Nirvana, and Sublime–I wanted to get off the heroin beat, which I found sad and monotonous (albeit reliably good copy). Joe Dolce, then the Details editor-in-chief, talked me into it, saying I could use the article […]
posted 26 October 2009 in Archives, Articles. no comments yet
Taken yesterday at the Leo Carrillo State Beach in Malibu. I believe the birds are cormorants.
posted 23 October 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
A shockingly young Colin Quinn, lean of gut and fulsome in hair, is singing U2’s “Pride (In the Name of Love).” On a clear day, from a sufficiently high vantage point, he might be able to spot the melody from where he’s standing. He interrupts himself: “Steve! Steve! You’re out of tune, buddy.” Yes, this […]
posted 21 October 2009 in 1988. 4 comments
It took me a long time to notice this lyric, from Depeche Mode’s “Just Can’t Get Enough”: Just like a rainbow, you know you set me free Now, Vince Clarke has always been a goofy guy, but this is extra-silly. This is not one of the things that rainbows are traditionally good for! “Just like […]
posted 19 October 2009 in Tasty Bits. 1 comment
Marching forward! (If you’re not familiar with the flipwalk project: while living in New York City, I took walks of exactly one hour in duration, my route determined along the way by flipping a coin. Then I would take a photograph of whatever block I was on when the hour was up.) This week’s teaser […]
posted 16 October 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
Another excerpt from The Andy Warhol Diaries: Thursday, July 7, 1977 Cabbed up to the Iranian embassy ($2.50). There were no demonstrators out front. Inside I saw Otto Preminger again and it was the second or third time in a few days, so he asked me what we were going to do tomorrow. I posed […]
posted 15 October 2009 in Excerpts. no comments yet
