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Garbage Pail – A Few of my Favorite Things… – Column

April 1, 1999

Favorite band name to pronounce when you have a cold: Sebadoh

A Few Of My Favorite Things – There are two kinds of people… – Column

June 1, 1996

…there are guys who ride Harleys, and guys who ride crotch rockets. …there are women who have long fingernails and women who are creative.

A Few Of My Favorite Things – Three Books That’ve Twisted My Views On A Sane Lifestyle – Column

June 1, 1996

London Fields (by Martin Amis). Ladies and Gentlemen… Lenny Bruce (by Albert Goldman). And The Ass Saw The Angel (by Nick Cave).

A Few Of My Favorite Things – Uncharted Desert Island Checklist – Column

June 1, 1996

I there was a chance I’d be caught on an “uncharted desert island” (the stuff I truly can’t live without. I carry a duffel bag instead of a pocket book!)…

A Few Of My Favorite Things – Resurrecting Childhood Favorites – Column

June 1, 1996

Marlo Thomas and Friends – Free To Be.. You and Me – Some of the most blatantly subversive children’s songs ever made.

A Few Of My Favorite Things – Seven Inches Is Sometimes Enough – Column

June 1, 1996

Mission of Burma “Academy Fight Song/Max Ernst” – No Martin Swope tape manipulations yet, but anthemic pop songs are rarely as tightly-wound and angular as these.

A Few of My Favorite Things – Another Band That Changed My Life – Column

May 1, 1996

Nomeansno – Sex Mad/You Kill Me – “Dad” is horrifying, “Self Pity” is gut wrenching, and “Metronome” just plain kicks ass. Play loud and sing along.

A Few of My Favorite Things – Ten CDs You Can’t Live Without – Column

May 1, 1996

Black Flag, Bad Brains, and Dead Kennedys may be better known, but nobody captures the exuberance and sonic recklessness of hardcore like DC’s Minor Threat.

A Few of My Favorite Things – Three Song Lyrics That Convey Tragedy At Its Finest – Column

May 1, 1996

“…and it was cold, and it rained, so I felt like an actor…” David Bowie, “Five Years”

A Few of My Favorite Things – Three Books I’m Reading – Column

May 1, 1996

John Waters, Trash Trio – The scripts for three of Johnny’s finest: Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, and (the sadly never produced) Flamingos Forever.