Posts from August, 2004
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Aug8End Hits
Adbusters’ Comminque # 5 asks readers to time travel to a radical, terrifying future. “Imagine this… you wake up tomorrow morning and find out that the Dow Jones has just plunged 2,000 points. Trading has been halted. ” Soon banks are closed, major world stock markets crash, and gasoline is hard to find. It gets [...]
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Aug4E-Town
Driving to work yesterday I was so distracted by the strange of sight of students wearing Catholic school uniforms that I almost ran over a woman holding a walkie-talkie. First there was The Ringer, starring Johnny Knoxville, and now another movie is being shot across the street at the Texas School for the Deaf. The [...]
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Aug0Zykos
Until yesterday if someone said “Zykos” I would have visualized an obscure Greek Island. Is that near Santorini? Zykos is actually a Houston-bred, Austin-based pop outfit that Tyler promised would blow my mind. He’s been very successful at introducing me to bands I’ve come to love, such as the Decemberists. Tyler came through once again. [...]
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