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PUBLISHED
LA
and OC WEEKLY ARTICLES
Articles I wrote from 1997-2000,
when I wrote for these two papers
in Los Angeles and Orange County.
LA
and OC WEEKLY REVIEWS
CD reviews and show previews.
DAILY
BRUIN (UCLA)
Interviews, columns and reviews from
when I was a writer and the Art and
Music Editor at the UCLA paper from
1994-1997.
OTHER
MAGAZINES
Stuff for other magazines
I'm not even sure exist anymore.
ACADEMIC Masters Paper
An Evaluation of Online Museum Databases (August 2004).
Music Paper
The Impact of Communist Ideology on the Folk and Gypsy Music of Eastern Europe (May 2004).
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ESSAYS
Rants about how I would change things
if I were Queen of Everything... or
just creative blurbs no magazine would
probably buy, so I put them here.
Sing
Your Life - When it comes
to belting the blues or celebrating
existence, Americans have a sad case
of laryngitis.
Jumping
the Picket Fence - Waking
up from the American Dream.
An
Open Letter to Advertisers
- I'm not above auctioning off my
body to the highest bidder.
Quantum
and Mangum: Science, god and a flying
victrola - This is an
essay I put on my Neutral
Milk Hotel site, which most visitors
here may not see, so I added it here.
Women's
Magazines: The New Pornography
- The most misogynistic thing in Hugh
Hefner's mansion is his girlfriend's
copy of Cosmo.
No
Irony - Wipe that damned
smirk off your face.
An
Ode to the Puppet King
- Why the Flaming Lips are the bestest
live band ever... in 300 words or
less.
Beauty's
Where You Find It - Defining Art
- If a painting falls in the forest
and no one is there to throw a gala,
does it make a sound?
Car
Commercials - If you
think you are what you drive, your
mind needs to be rotated and realigned.
Fight
Club - The Search for an Authentic
Life - "We are the
all-singing, all-dancing crap of the
world." Throw out your Hammacher
Schlemmer catalog and start painting
your face.
Christmas
Consumerism - "All
I want for Christmas is... on my Amazon
wishlist."
Men
and Violence - It's time
to define what "being a real
man" is all about.
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