We Have The Fakes And We're Voting Yes
by Joe Berkowitz Death Cab for Cutie’s sixth LP, Narrow Stairs, inadvertently changed the way I think about music. For 16 months, I played it often and recommended it to at least a dozen people. In...
View ArticleJust How Fashionably Detached Do You Need To Be?
by Joe Berkowitz This has happened too many times: you pretend not to know anything about some item of zeitgeisty detritus that you, in fact, know plenty about. Whatever subject your friends or...
View Article79 Recording Artists Named After Things That Can Kill You
by Joe Berkowitz 1. Mastodon 2. T-Rex 3. Dinosaur Jr 4. Fine Young Cannibals 5. Anthrax 6. Madness 7. Suicidal Tendencies 8. Fishbone 9. 30 Seconds to Mars 10. Jets to Brazil 11. British Sea Power 12....
View ArticleHow To End A Conversation
by Joe Berkowitz We live in a social hellscape littered with talking heads, salesmen at the quota crisis point and acquaintances whose names we can’t remember. We recognize that the exchange of...
View ArticleWhat Kind Of 'I Don't Own A TV' People Do You Have In Your Life?
by Joe Berkowitz You know the tone people employ when announcing that they don’t own a TV. Casually tossed off, yet firmly resolute; it’s the same tone that might be used to dispel any other...
View ArticleGo Ahead and Try to Title This Book; It Cannot Be Done
The quest for the titular pun “When you know, you know.” That’s the muddled advice marrieds offer — often unprompted — when single friends consider joining their ranks. The greatest trick the devil...
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