Picturebox – Saturday, Dec 20

: nightmare brunette

: muchomurta

: pinche gente podrida

: muchomurka

: bebe le strange

STW – Friday, Dec 19

Get thee behind me, week that was!

The holidays. What a racket! Hustle and bustle, throwin’ good simoleons after bad. Where’s Good Time Charlie and his bag full of kicks? Bah! I wax the poetic because I ain’t had no good sleep all week. It’s made me a’ regular armchair Teddy Hughes.

Tonight, I throw caution and my undergarments to the wind and pour on the sauce at the Rendezvous Lounge with the usual cast of regulars. There will be scotches imbibed, cigarettes smoked, and mirth…a’ mirthed. Depending on how the day shapes up, I may even grease the old sobriety machine with an Earthquake or two.

Now, let’s get out there and do something that’ll make Santa add us to his ‘Naughty’ list.

Bauhaus – In The Flat Field

Live performance captured on one of my top five favorite albums of all time, “Press Eject and Hand Me The Tape.” The boys were firing on all cylinders for this one.

Faded Nature

photo by Neil Krug

: nightmare brunette / odinindustries

Elliott Smith – Between The Bars

Since moving back to Colorado, I can’t get through a Winter without listening to Elliott Smith.

UK Decay – Werewolf

Picturebox – Tuesday, Dec 16

: loveless ramblings

: bebe le strange

: the bunny army

: a chymical wedding

: badlands

: suicide blonde

In the Hall

: Bend Me Over

Some random links for yer Monday

Lots of Best Of lists going up. Sean Witzke has given us his picks for the best in music. Drawn! has their list up of the best art and comic books, and Dick Hyacinth and his commenters list their picks for best comics of 2008. As usual, no attempt will be made to give you my Best of, since I’m simply not qualified to do so, but you will see something next week from me that sums up what I dug most over the year.

Stephen Norrington, the man who gave us “Blade” and “the League of the Extraordinary Gentlemen”, is remaking “The Crow.” The original holds a special place in my heart, but I can’t work up much outrage for this – have you seen the last two Crow movies?

Some people think this means we’ll see a Smiths reunion. Which, for some reason, makes me think of Homer Simpson saying “Oh, look at me! I’m making people happy! I’m the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane!” but I don’t know why.

Sunday Under The Covers – Dec 14

Señor Coconut and his Orchestra – Smoke On The Water

Eels – Get Ur Freak On

Placebo (feat. David Bowie) – 20th Century Boy