Peter Gabriel is really important in the music part of my life. In 1986 he released "So", an album that was met with a lot of derision from his hardest core fans, but also introduced him to a wider, more mainstream audience, such as myself.  "So" lead me to his other, darker, works and then to his part in Genesis (the original, cool progressive rock version). Anyway, fast forward to 1993.  Gabriel had released "Up" and went on a tour.  I didn't get to see the tour he did for "So" and when he brought the 'Secret World Tour' to Dallas I was about as excited as I'd ever been in my young...


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I was driving back from a out of office meeting today and listening to the replay of today's Howard Stern show (something I've done a lot lately since getting a free trial of Sirius, and have a 1000 thoughts about Howard that probably aren't of interest to anyone but me).  The show was talking to this kid, KillaKarisma who posted this insane video on YouTube.  You can watch it below.  It is NSFW (language), but with Howard there was a whole discussion about how kids today can do these types of things and suddenly be seen all over the world and have no idea of how it could impact them later...


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This is a story that appeared in the Dallas Observer blog yesterday.  Driven largely by Lana Massey, the owner of the tattoo seen to the right (and according to her Facebook page a manager of a Gas Pipe - a long standing chain of Dallas area head shops)  and her claims that the manager of an area Legoland children's park found her tat offensive enough to ask her to leave and receive a full refund. You can read all the full details on the blog, but essentially Massey is claiming that she was discriminated against because of her looks.  While she insists that she was never told it was a specific...


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I'm well aware that there is now a generation of kids that have grown up discovering music via YouTube, but it's still a foreign idea to me. The forgotten idea of going to a "record" store and sitting/standing and listening to records/CDs while there was my favorite pastime up until those brick & mortar stores evaporated several years ago.  So now, like everyone else, I am digging around the net looking for new tunes.  It can be a good experience, but for some reason it just doesn't bring the romantic results that an outing to Sound Warehouse, Virgin Records, Peaches or my old local mom&pop,...


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The 2012, and 17th, Major League Soccer season begins this weekend.  I will be at FC Dallas Stadium on Sunday as the club takes on New York Red Bulls in the season opener. There are story lines galore to be told: Kenny Cooper -now with his 3rd MLS side - returning to face his original team, can David Ferreira recover from the brutally broken ankle to lead FCD, how can a New York side that is largely star-filled improve from a sad 2011, how can Dallas get any better without adding any depth and there are probably three or four more good stories I've left off. As mentioned above, this is the league's...


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I have recently, officially, been diagnosed with tinnitus.  100% my fault.   I didn't really need a doctor to tell me.  Too many years listening to hi-fi systems at loud volumes, headphones and air horns. So when I go to shows I now take ear plugs, but at last night's stop in Dallas of Radiohead I just couldn't bring myself to insert them.  Ok, I did a couple of times just to see how much it would lessen the experience.  It did.  Too much. Sadly,  i've only seen Radiohead twice.  Last time was three years ago at a local outdoor pavilion, this time inside the barn-like confines of the American...


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**UPDATE #2** - I have found a copy of the video and embedded this onto this page.  Yes, I am going against the wishes of Prince, and probably makes me a new "Kim Dotcom" (minus the kabillions, New Zealand compound, and winning record on Call of Duty), but I think you need to see this.  Yeah, I'm a rebel, Dottie.  **God damn**  Literally minutes after posting this, the video was pulled.  I just watched the whole thing not a half hour ago... Well, I hope some of you got to see it.  Quit being such a priss about this Mr Nelson. This is a terribly fascinating You Tube posting.  I have...


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This aired during the Grammy's last night.  I missed it because I was watching "Luck" and "Walking Dead".  Later I saw lots of mentions of the "Chipotle commercial" on Twitter and today actually saw it for the first time on You Tube. It is marvelous.  For so many reasons. Sure, the message is great and I do admire Chipotle greatly, for working hard to "make a better world" with the way they garner their ingredients.  I love Chipotle, and those of you that know me, know I am a creature of habit and go to particular lunch places on specific days.  Mondays is "Chick-Fil-A Monday's" and Wednesdays...


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After the series of tweets from the recent Tool show I attended, someone asked me about the essay I wrote about the day Maynard appeared on Lex & Terry to promote his vineyard.  I'd forgotten about it until that request and found it the other day on the notes page of my Facebook account.  Here it is in full, with a couple of updated notes.  It is way too long, but at the time I wrote it I was really consumed with trying to figure out why he acted the way he did.  It very much changed my perception of him, both as a person and performer.  Not in a bad way, but sometimes when you realized...


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There was a massive shift in the force when DC Comics announced that it would be producing a collection of miniseries that would act as prequels for Watchmen.  Remember, this is the publisher that earlier this year relaunched 52 different titles with reboots of story lines  and characters to much varied reviews. Watchmen is the legendary 12 issue mega series from 1986-1987 that is generally considered to be a high point in comic publishing.  It won awards, people wrote thesis' about the storyline and it was eventually turned into a movie in 2009. (The full length director's cut on BluRay...


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