Seoul in Matthews
Kitchen Witch 62Corkscrew 64Good Eats 6662
Karma Cleanser
Dear Karma Cleanser: Eight months after closing on my house, I still receive mail for the previous owner, who, during his tenure there, stole cable, water (yes, water: the meter had to be removed), AC unit components and who knows what else. He was also in bankruptcy. He did not work, was an avid gardener…
Shadow Boxer
Anthony David 76Cee-Lo 78Magnolia Electric Co. 8276
Letters
Chronic behavior In response to Ms. Woodard’s comments in last week’s letter titled, “Gone to Pot” (Sept. 6) I would like to submit the following: Ms. Woodard, you sound like a very reasonable and human member of the county commission with good intentions, but I hate to inform you that the “community” you keep referring…
Rocks Off
Aerosmith v. 06 is virtually the last classic rock & roll party band standing — that doesn’t require a metaphoric walker to get its show on, anyhow. Steven Tyler and his boys came of age musically as the Aquarian Age 1960s faded into the hard-rockin’ ’70s, the time when albums became unified statements of an…
Sept. 20-26, 2006
LIBRA The Scales: (Sept 22 — Oct. 22) Changes may be occurring in your primary relationship. One or the other of you is probably trying to hang onto what is familiar. Transformation must be allowed to happen or the relationship will become stale. Let things flow naturally. For All Signs: The times are tense and…
Something to Hide?
Don’t Panic 17Citizen Servatius 23Boomer with Attitude 2423
Groping For More
GROPING FOR MORE My fiancée and I have been together for two years and living together since December, but around March, her libido took a nose dive. Otherwise, our relationship is ideal: We’re mutually respectful, affectionate, supportive, understanding, generous, and our trust is rock solid. I’m completely baffled about her sudden lack of desire for…
See & Do
Wednesday, September 20 Davidson College will be holding its annual Reynolds Lecture, featuring British-novelist Zadie Smith. Smith’s first novel, White Teeth, won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Guardian First Award, and the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize, among others. Her second novel, The Autograph Man, won the 2003 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize, proving…
An Inevitable Collision
Citizen Servatius
Blues, Brews and BBQ
Something pungent comes swiftly through downtown, wafting in from the general direction of … Historic SouthEnd?! That’s right. It’s time once again for the best thing since man discovered beer … what goes best with beer? The answer is unanimously barbeque. That wonderful Southern delicacy of pork tenderly grilled until it’s falling off the bones…
Boobs and Wiener
Moodswing
Whatever happened to Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani?
America’s favorite ayatollah is bowing out of politics. “Pat Robertson is retiring?” you ask. No. I’m talking about America’s other favorite ayatollah, Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. On Sept. 3, London’s the Sunday Telegraph reported that he’s giving up trying to influence Iraqi politics. “I will not be a political leader any more,” is what…
1-50
1 Funkadelic America Eats Its Young Sandwiched between the freak-o-delia of 1971’s Maggot Brain and the tightly-wound funk of 1973’s Cosmic Slop, the sprawling, free-wheeling fourth Funkadelic platter had more bounce to the ounce than any double LP of its era. Damn stanky too — as the down-low, musk-laden grooves of “Pussy” and the title…
Mashup
It takes a while to adjust to regular life after coming back from Burning Man. I’m still not adjusted, so here’s a bunch of random linx from my goodie bag. Be sure to visit Uchronia. Destination: Out www.destination-out.com Glover Microcinema www.glovermicrocinema.blogspot.com Huh? www.5nak.com Uchronia www.uchronians.org Mudra www.mudra.com
51-108
51. Mountain — Climbing 52. Alice Cooper — Love It To Death 53. Beach Boys — Surf’s Up 54. Dwight Twilley Band — Sincerely 55. MC5 — Back In The USA 56. Big Star — #1 Record 57. Bruce Springsteen — Born To Run 58. Joy Division — Unknown Pleasures 59. John Cale — Slow…
Zin Is In
Corkscrew
109-200
109. John Lennon — Imagine 110. The Congos — Heart Of The Congos 111. Leonard Cohen — New Skin For The Old Ceremony 112. Bob Dylan — Blood On The Tracks 113. The Who — Who’s Next 114. Brian Eno — Another Green World 115. Ramones — Rocket To Russia 116. Toots & Maytals –…
Charlotte Idol
In Charlotte, sports bars may outnumber all other genres of nightlife venues, but Charlotte has a lively selection of karaoke bars. There’s the Yellow Rose, Monster Karaoke at both Dixie’s and Stool Pigeons, the Gin Mill, Jackalope Jack’s and Fairview Grill, where I watched country star Blake Shelton sing his own songs and many, many…
View From The Couch
GOJIRA (GODZILLA) (1954). This two-disc DVD edition is notable for a pair of reasons: It not only includes the original, uncut version of the immortal monster movie (not released in the United States until 2004), it also contains the more familiar American re-edit, thus allowing viewers the opportunity to see how and why drastic changes…
Chronicling Soul
You’d think Atlanta-based soulman Anthony David would be sick of people telling him he sounds like Bill Withers. The resemblance is so uncanny that at first you wonder if what you’re hearing isn’t some recently dug up lost Withers outtakes. But after a few bars go by, you realize the style, a blend of hip-hop…
Wok Much?
Kitchen Witch
Black Bard
If I were president, Cee-Lo Green would be the national Poet Laureate. With apologies to Donald Hall, the current Poet Laureate of the United States (whose poetry, incidentally, is not too shabby), I’m thinking it might be time to have a Poet Laureate who is kinda, sorta hip hop … but smoothed out on the…
Rockin’ the Joint
Okay, I admit it — as a rock critic, I feel conflicted about Aerosmith. In fact, whenever someone asks me what I think about these Beantown boys, I have a standard one-liner reply: “I feel the same way about Aerosmith that I feel about the Rolling Stones: I like the guitarists a lot better than…
The Gun Club
In the fall of 1981, I found myself drinking at Carrboro, NC’s Cat’s Cradle with the Gun Club’s charismatic, Bukowskian frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce. His group’s subsequent performance that evening left me so gobsmacked that I hit the road the next day for Charlotte, where a modest Viceroy Park audience was alternately thrilled and offended…
The Enemy is Osama
My People
Just Beat It
See & Do 10Moodswing 1212
Road Warriors
Maybe the best way to experience Jason Molina’s music is from the driver’s seat of a car headed out of town. As the songwriting force behind Magnolia Electric Co., Molina crafts urgent, minor-key country rock and sparse gothic ballads whose heartbeat is the pavement passing beneath your tires. Even his lyrics are road-ready, a mix…
Cheap Thrills
ELIZABETH BILLIARDS If you haven’t discovered the coolest watering hole south of the Square, it’s time for a trip to EB’s (hip, regional lingo). Voted best pool hall as well as best first date place, it’s also dirt cheap. Pool is free. Darts are free. Card tables can be set up to start a poker…
My Antihero, Zero
Arts Agenda 40Hot Linx 44The Advice Goddess 4640
Homemade Ecstasy
Boomer With Attitude
Film Clips
New Releases FLYBOYS Long before cultural divisions involving “freedom fries,” there was the Lafayette Escadrille, the World War I squadron of young American flyers who gladly lent a helping hand to the French before the US officially entered the conflict. Flyboys is supposedly inspired by true events, though its veracity often makes the film seem…
Love, American Style
Film Clips 32View From The Couch 34Films In A Flash 3632
The Blotter
Vocabulary 101: A man called his estranged wife to speak to his children. She wouldn’t let him. He responded by using every possible tense of the “F” word. The man said: “I’m going to make you weep, bitch. I’m going to f***ing kill you. I’m going to f*** you up. You f***ed up, I’m going…
