Follow Wow Cool goings on (as well as random musings and my own occasional family nonsense and all the other sort of usual twittery stuff) over at http://twitter.com/gritboy. Been doing all sorts of everything at once. It’ll all come...
Read moreMust Read Commentary “Artists’ Jobs Aren’t Jobs?” on Create Digital Music
It’s no joke that those of us who work in ‘creative’ fields are seriously undervalued in society. Hey, you like that album! Don’t you think that took some work? I’m convinced that most Americans if asked what is the...
Read moreOffset Needle Radius Live Dates
Wow Cool is pleased to announce it’s affiliation with Kittery, Maine sound machine Offset Needle Radius (ONR MySpace). ONR is the sound system of Joshua Baker – late of Portland, Oregon punk and doom legends God Hates Computers...
Read moreWeird Alien Plant Thing
Found this strange pair taking root in my front yard. What the hell are they?
Read moreTintin in Cambodia
OK, maybe I was a bit more psyched that my 2 year old son to see his grandmother come back from Cambodia with a 2 dollar bootleg Tintin shirt, but he seems to dig it pretty well. Thankfully it wasn’t the well-travelled landmine awareness...
Read moreLet’s Go Bowling!!!
It’s true, I just can’t stop thinking about bowling! Found in the archives, circa Feb. 1995, a portrait of yours truly by Kieron Dwyer! Complete with my beloved old DeKalb hat rendered a little differently. I ditched the hat after I...
Read moreBe Seeing You…
In my declining years I have chosen to perpetually exist in a virtual Portmeirion, where no. 6 still longs for escape (but to what?), Stephen Fry is no. 2 and Siouxsie and The Banshees play Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger” on a patio...
Read moreS. Clay Wilson Benefit Show SF CA – Sun., Jan. 11
Underground comic book legend S. Clay Wilson (Zap, Checkered Demon) suffered a severe brain injury back in November on his way home from the APE ahow. He’s making progress towards a recovery, but he needs much expensive therapy. Tomorrow, Sunday...
Read moreUnderground Sound Series #2 – House of Goings On – Manchester, NH – 01/03/09
God Hates Computers on You Tube
At the Loft in Sacramento, California. Some visitors here may have seen GHC at Albany, New York’s Loft… a venue much missed. More on this later…
Read moreBrilliant Programming choice on BBC One Christmas Day
Christmas Day in the UK must be something special. There, like nowhere else, it seems to revolve around the day’s television programming. This year is truly something special, for along with the Queens address, Eastenders, Strictly Come...
Read morenickname: Rebel Listen To Me 2008 finalist on Dandelion Radio
Genius DJ Mark Whitby has placed my band nickname: Rebel in the list of the final 10 nominees in his “Listen To Me 2008“. Tune in to his show on Dandelion Radio to hear who came out on top. Be sure to also check out the nine other...
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