So I’ve been thinking about writing a review of I Heart Huckabees. I’m trendy, right? And I’m capable of making rational, free choices, right?
If I wrote it, I would probably have to think of some good references to The Guest-era Phantom Planet to talk about Jason Schwartzman’s role. Maybe “Nobody’s Fault” would [...]

Here are the five best concerts I saw in 2004, since you asked:

Ted Leo (Grinnell College)
Yo La Tengo (Grinnell College)
The Last Poets (Midwest Summit of the Hip-Hop Congress)
Le Tigre (Grinnell College)
The Decemberists (Grinnell College)

Iowa is weird. In some places, there are cool things; in most places there aren’t. Tonight, a cool thing was in Iowa City (at the University of Iowa): Modest Mouse played. And, as long-time readers might have already known, I was there.
They were pretty good. They played an interesting set of [...]

Some of the more devoted readers might know that I’m a DJ on Grinnell College’s radio station, KDIC. My friend and I share a show called “These Colours Don’t Run,” which attempts to reflect good Republican values, and usually fails. On this week’s show, while we weren’t saying interesting things on the air, [...]

A Pitchfork writer likes Devo! And you don’t know who that is! And you don’t get the references in the piece! And I’m as cultured as they are, so I can relate to it!
Some people post quizzes to their blogs, so let’s make it this. How many of William Bowers’s references [...]

Let’s face it: odds are you aren’t going to get to see Modest Mouse tomorrow night. That’s just not in the cards for you. You probably don’t have the money to buy scalped tickets on eBay; you probably don’t have friends who happened to be in Iowa City on the day the tickets [...]

I have toyed with the idea of having a blog for a while now. I’ve been an Internet person since, well, almost as early as the Vice President invented it. I’ve had web sites (and, in fact, I still have web sites), but the prospect of having a blog (or an online journal, [...]