February, 1996 | Lollipop Magazine

Graffic Traffic – Back On the Chain Gang – Column

February 1, 1996

I’d like to suggest the pricey (but very worth the price) hardcover graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby. I could do a whole column just on this masterpiece.

A Few of My Favorite Things – Column

February 1, 1996

Favorite Bodily Function: Speech. Shut me up if you’ve heard this one.

A Few of My Favorite Things – My Favorite Record for Sunday Mornings, a Cup of Coffee, My Bathrobe, and Slippers – Column

February 1, 1996

Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) – That so much frantic energy and disjointed lyrics can be so soothing is just another example of Eno’s genius.

A Few of My Favorite Things – Three Albums That I Could Sit in My Room and Consider Suicide To – Column

February 1, 1996

I don’t know how many times I have sat, staring out my window on a rainy morning, wondering if Leonard Cohen was talking to me…

A Few of My Favorite Things – The Album that Will Make Even the Squarest Person Want to Put on Black Eyeliner – Column

February 1, 1996

Dead Can Dance Into The Labyrinth – Soaring Gregorian choral music, Middle Eastern percussion, dripping Goth sentiments: This album crystallizes a lifestyle.

A Few of My Favorite Things – Best Album to Fuck Like Wild Dogs to – Column

February 1, 1996

The Birthday Party – Prayers on Fire – She and I snuck into the empty apartment I had just moved out of with a small tape player, on batteries, cranked to full.

Spacemen 3 – Performance – Review

February 1, 1996

The extended version of their ’88 live opus, recorded in Amsterdam in front of what sounds like an audience of three. Swallow this. It’ll make you fly.

Squirtgun – Review

February 1, 1996

Bassist Mass Giorgini comments, “We wanted something that had an energetic sound, something that captured the brattiness of a little kid.”

A Few of My Favorite Things – Best Movie to Make Someone Willingly Crawl Inside a Bottle – Column

February 1, 1996

Barfly – Mickey Rourke is God. I want to live my life in a sewer.

Skarhead – Drugs, Money, Sex – Review

February 1, 1996

In order to preserve the old-school style, members of Crown of Thornz, Madball, Maximum Penalty, and H2O got together and created Skarhead. Fast and furious.