I’ve been to a few events over the past year that required tickets through Ticketmaster. I remember Pearl Jam’s big battle with that company. And, at first, I thought they were just rock stars in search of something to be morally indignant about. But only takes a few experiences with this king of middle man [...]

UbuWeb is something Archive.org but geared entirely toward avant-garde works. They have a huge film and video archive as well as audio and text/print documents of various kinds (even criticism). It’s a strange landscape, worth getting lost in. I’ve barely put my toe in the shallow end of the pool, but this 60s video of [...]

Lately, The Stingy Scholar has been turning me on to cool things including, most recently, artfaceoff.com. It strikes me as what you get when you combine a voting site (think hotornot.com or kittenwar.com) with a discovery site (think pandora.com or any of the gnod.net sites). So, what you get is way to discover new art [...]

Happy Turkey Day! Pretend that there’s some silly bouncing animated gif of a turkey here. Okay? Or enjoy browsing some of the quarter million or so already posted a flickr. Seriously, though. Enjoy the holiday. I hope you all have some time off work. And I hope you all gain more weight than I do. [...]

Once in a while, my ever-waning faith in rock and roll is restored. The My Morning Jacket show has brought me back into the fold. I had heard good things about their live performances, but I wasn’t prepared for just how good they would be and just how hard they would rock. I went into [...]